<P> The Artful, meantime, who was of a rather saturnine disposition, and seldom gave way to merriment when it interfered with business, rifled Oliver's pockets with steady assiduity . </P> <P> He was a snub - nosed, flat - browed, common - faced boy enough; and as dirty a juvenile as one would wish to see; but he had about him all the airs and manners of a man . He was short of his age: with rather bow - legs, and little, sharp, ugly eyes . His hat was stuck on the top of his head so lightly, that it threatened to fall off every moment--and would have done so, very often, if the wearer had not had a knack of every now and then giving his head a sudden twitch, which brought it back to its old place again . He wore a man's coat, which reached nearly to his heels . He had turned the cuffs back, half - way up his arm, to get his hands out of the sleeves: apparently with the ultimate view of thrusting them into the pockets of his corduroy trousers; for there he kept them . He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers . </P> <P> Ultimately the Dodger is caught with a stolen silver snuff box and presumably sent to a penal colony in Australia (only alluded to in the novel). The absurdity of the master pickpocket being caught over something so small is remarked upon in the book . </P> <P> They've found the gentleman as owns the box; two or three more's a coming to' dentify him; and the Artful's booked for a passage out,' replied Master Bates .' I must have a full suit of mourning, Fagin, and a hatband, to wisit him in, afore he sets out upon his travels . To think of Jack Dawkins--lummy Jack--the Dodger--the Artful Dodger--going abroad for a common twopenny - halfpenny sneeze - box! I never thought he'd a done it under a gold watch, chain, and seals, at the lowest . Oh, why didn't he rob some rich old gentleman of all his valables, and go out as a gentleman, and not like a common prig, without no honour nor glory! </P>

What happens to the artful dodger in oliver twist