The result was , that , after a few struggles struggle , Oliver breathed breathe , sneezed sneeze , and proceeded to advertise advertise to the inmates of the workhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed impose upon the parish , by setting up as loud a cry cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage , a voice , for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter .