... has a lot of money!” Tom said.
He went to the bedroom and came back with the bags of
money. “We have this money from the cave There’s a lot
of money in them, and it’s ours now.”
There was ... because they wanted to get food
for their adventure.
Chapter 4 Across the River
Tom, Joe, and Huck went to the river. There was a small
boat there. The boys went across the river in the small ...
In the afternoon, they played near the river again.
Suddenly, there was a noise from a big boat on the river.
The boys stopped playing and watched the boat.
“Listen,” Tom said. The men on the...
... its big door sheathed with boiler
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TUESDAY afternoon came, and waned to the twilight. The village of St.
Petersburg still mourned. The lost children ... Thatcher and the handful of searchers with him
were tracked out, in the cave, bythe twine clews they had strung behind
them, and informed ofthe great news.
Three days and nights of toil and ... saw the blue speck of daylight;
how he pushed his way out at the hole and then helped her out; how they sat
there and cried for gladness; how some men came along in a skiff and Tom
hailed them...
... You make them raise all they can, off'n their friends; and after
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... and
all that."
By this time everything was ready and the boys entered the hole, Tom in
the lead. They toiled their way to the farther end ofthe tunnel, then made
their spliced kite-strings ... left the wagon near the door and followed.
The place was grandly lighted, and everybody that was of any
consequence in the village was there. The Thatchers were there, the Harpers,
the Rogerses,...
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HUCK said: " ;Tom, we can slope, if we can find a rope. The window ain't
high from the ground."
"Shucks! ... that she's always having. This time it's for
the Welshman and his sons, on account of that scrape they helped her out of
the other night. And say I can tell you something, if you want ... little side-tables in the same room, after the fashion of that country and
that day. At the proper time Mr. Jones made his little speech, in which he
thanked the widow for the honor she was doing...
... to see Tom a great lawyer or a great soldier some
day. He said he meant to look to it that Tom should be admitted to the
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THE reader ... over, glorified,
until the reason of many ofthe citizens tottered under the strain ofthe
unhealthy excitement. Every "haunted" house in St. Petersburg and the
neighboring villages ... as remarkable; they had evidently lost the power of doing and
saying commonplace things; moreover, their past history was raked up and
discovered to bear marks of conspicuous originality. The...
... a peculiar bird-like
turn, a sort of liquid warble, produced by touching the tongue to the roof of
the mouth at short intervals in the midst ofthe music the reader probably
remembers how ... caution, and Tom said:
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" ;TOM! "
No answer.
" ;TOM! "
No answer.
"What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM! " ...
soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth
full of harmony
between the shoulders and then turned tail and ran like an antelope. Tom
chased the traitor home,...
...
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SATURDAY morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and
fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the ...
heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face
and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom and the fragrance
of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff ... pocket, and gave up the
idea of trying
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offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they
would resign.
The boy mused awhile over the substantial change...
... in, all alive with the joy of seeing home again after an
age-long visit of one week to the country, he got up and moved in clouds
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TOM presented himself ... doughnut.
Then he skipped out, and saw Sid just starting up the outside stairway that
led to the back rooms on the second floor. Clods were handy and the air was
full of them in a twinkling. They ... snort. There was a whiz as
of a missile in the air, mingled with the murmur of a curse, a sound as of
shivering glass followed, and a small, vague form went over the fence and
shot away in the...
... are the poor in spirit, for they they "
"Theirs "
"For theirs . Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven. Blessed are they that mourn, for they ... face. Tom was therefore elevated to a place with the Judge and the
other elect, and the great news was announced from head-quarters. It was the
most stunning surprise ofthe decade, and so profound ... world these very eyes had looked upon the
county court-house which was said to have a tin roof. The awe which
these reflections inspired was attested bythe impressive silence and the
ranks of...
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ABOUT half-past ten the cracked bell ofthe small church began to ring,
and presently the people ... the church;
for the other churches ofthe village; for the village itself; for the county; for
the State; for the State officers; for the United States; for the churches ofthe
United States; ... should lead them. But the pathos, the lesson, the
moral ofthe great spectacle were lost upon the boy; he only thought ofthe
conspicuousness ofthe principal character before the on-looking...
...
outrageousness." By this time the dental instruments were ready. The old
lady made one end ofthe silk thread fast to Tom& apos;s tooth with a loop and tied
the other to the bedpost. Then she seized the ... crossroads in the dark ofthe moon, and then
you burn up the rest ofthe bean. You see that piece that's got the blood on it
will keep drawing and drawing, trying to fetch the other piece to it, ... like Tom Sawyer; but another boy said, "Sour
grapes!" and he wandered away a dismantled hero.
Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah ofthe village, Huckleberry
Finn, son of the...
... group of scholars, and the other with another.
In a little while the two met at the bottom ofthe lane, and when they reached
the school they had it all to themselves. Then they sat together, ... to the
corner, give the rest of 'em the slip, and turn down through the lane and
come back. I'll go the other way and come it over 'em the same way."
So the one went off ... soothed the soul like the
spell that is in the murmur of bees. Away off in the flaming sunshine,
Cardiff Hill lifted its soft green sides through a shimmering veil of heat,
tinted with the...
... President ofthe
United States forever.
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TOM dodged hither and thither through lanes until he was well out ofthe
track of returning scholars, and then ... "Then art thou indeed that famous outlaw? Right gladly will I dispute with
thee the passes ofthe merry wood. Have at thee!"
They took their lath swords, dumped their other traps on the ... and then opened the
place with the incantation he had just used, you would find that all the
marbles you had ever lost had gathered themselves together there, meantime,
no matter how widely they...
... was there, with his dead cat. The boys moved off and
disappeared in the gloom. At the end of half an hour they were wading
through the tall grass ofthe graveyard.
It was a graveyard ofthe ... another minute or two the men had
hoisted it out on the ground. They pried off the lid with their shovels, got out
the body and dumped it rudely on the ground. The moon drifted from behind
the ... creeping along
the roof ofthe "ell" on all fours. He "meow'd" with caution once or twice, as
he went; then jumped to the roof ofthe woodshed and thence to the ground....
... This final feather broke the camel's back.
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THE two boys flew on and on, toward the village, speechless with horror.
They glanced ... stealthily down, the one
behind the other. When they had got to within five steps ofthe snorer, Tom
stepped on a stick, and it broke with a sharp snap. The man moaned, writhed
a little, and ... breath; and as they sped by some outlying cottages that lay near the
village, the barking ofthe aroused watch-dogs seemed to give wings to their
feet.
"If we can only get to the old tannery...