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— 122 TOM SAWYER. sleep and going to work unfolded itself to the musing boy. A little green worm came crawling over a dewy leaf, lifting two-thirds of his body into the air from time to time and " sniffing around," then proceeding again—for he was measuring, Tom said ; and when the worm approached him, of its own accord, he sat as siill as a stone, with his hopes rising and falling, by turns, as the creature still came toward him or seemed inclined to go elsewhere; and when at last it considered a painful moment with its curved body in the air and then came decisively down upon Tom's leg and began a journey over him, his whole heart was glad— for that meant that he was going to have a new suit of clothes—without the shadow of a doubt a gaudy piratical uniform. Now a procession of ants appeared, from nowhere in particular, and went about their labors; one struggled manfully by with a dead spider five times as big as itself in its arms, and lugged it straight up a tree-trunk. A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, " Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations and he had practiced upon its simplicity more than once. A tumble-bug came next, heaving sturdily at its ball, and Tom touched the creature, to see it shut its legs against its body and pretend to be dead. The birds were fairly rioting by this time. A cat-bird, the northern mocker, lit in a tree over Tom's head, and trilled out her imitations of her neighbors in a rapture of enjoyment; then a shrill jay swept down, a flash of blue flame, and stopped on a twig almost within the boy's reach, cocked his head to one side and eyed the strangers with a consuming curiosity; a gray squirrel and a big fellow of the "fox " kind came skurrying along, sitting up at intervals to inspect and chatter at the boys, for the wild things had probably never seen a human being before and scarcely knew whether to be afraid or not. All Nature was wide awake and stirring, now; long lances of sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near, and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene. Tom stirred up the other pirates and they all clattered away with a shout, and in a minute or two were stripped and chasing after and tumbling over each other in the shallow limpid water of the white sand-bar. They felt no longing for the
CAMP-LIFE. 123 little village sleeping in the distance beyond the majestic waste of water. A vagrant current or a slight rise in the river had carried off their raft, but this only gratified them, since its going was something like burning the bridge between them and civilization. They came back to camp wonderfully refreshed, glad-hearted, and ravenous ; and they soon had the camp-fire blazing up again. Huck found a spring of clear cold water close by, and the boys made cups of broad oak or hickory leaves, and felt that water, sweetened with such a wild-wood charm as that, would be a good enough IVJH .:r'
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the university of Connecticut libra
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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER BY MAR
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To MY WIFE This Book IS Affectionat
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— CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Y-o-u-u To
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CON TEA' TS. CHAPTER XXIV. Tom as t
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ILL USTRA TIONS.
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i8 TOAI SAWYER " Well, I lay if I g
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20 TOM SAWYER. Aunt Polly asked him
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7^0M SAWYEK. of ribbon. He had a ci
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24 TOM SAWYER. " Your saying so don
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(!Kc'^ morning was come, and all th
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2S TOM SA WYER. bandage was being u
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3o TOM SAV/YER "Why it's you Ben !
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32 TOM SAWYER. He had had a nice, g
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34 TOM SA IVYEN. " It's all done, a
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36 TOM SAWYER in the garden— a lo
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TOM SAWYER. "Umf! Well, you didn't
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40 TOM SA IV YER. About half past n
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y^\( ia; sun rose upon a tranquil w
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44 TOM SA M'YER. got the idea that
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46 TOM SAWYER. Tom exhibited. They
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48 TOM SAWYER. produced by the youn
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50 TOM SAWYER. There was only one t
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52 TOM SA W YER. Tom was tugging at
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54 TOM SA W YER. Douglass, fair, sm
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56 TOM SAWYER. And now the minister
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58 TOM SAWYER. captivity, sighing f
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Sav/yer miserable. Monday morning a
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62 TOM SA W YER. " O, Tom, you ain'
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64 TOM SAWYER. respectable boys, in
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66 TOM SAW YEJ^. "Well that sounds
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I 68 " TOM SAWYER. " Sho, there's t
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7° TOM SAWYER. " Let me see it." T
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Page 76 and 77: 74 TOM SAWYER. "I only just want to
Page 78 and 79: 7& TOM SA W YER. " No, now." "No, n
Page 80 and 81: 78 TOM SA W YER. began to suspect.
Page 82 and 83: 8o TOM SAWYER. hammering of a woodp
Page 84 and 85: : 82 TOM SAWYER. "Well, that beats
Page 86 and 87: 84 To^r SA irvER " Why that ain't a
Page 88 and 89: "; 86 TOM SAWYER. tiresome chirping
Page 90 and 91: " TOM SAWYER. "I dono. Think they'l
Page 92 and 93: : 90 TOM SAWYER. took a hundred yea
Page 94 and 95: 92 TOM SA W YER. remember? You woti
Page 96 and 97: .'' 9|if TOM SAWYER. and fell grate
Page 98 and 99: — — gS TOM SAWYER. Huckleberry
Page 100 and 101: 98 TOM SAWYER. " " Hucky, do you da
Page 102 and 103: lOO TOM SA U'VEK. He left the prese
Page 104 and 105: I02 TOM SA WYER. circumstances, esp
Page 106 and 107: I04 : " TOM SA W YER. — " O, Inju
Page 108 and 109: io6 TOM SA WYER. that Tom even show
Page 110 and 111: io8 TOM SA IVYER. on him. She was o
Page 112 and 113: TOM SA WYER. Pain-killer. Peter spr
Page 114 and 115: 112 TOM SAWYER Jeiit arrived, Tom a
Page 116 and 117: 114 TOM SAWYER. sound any more— i
Page 118 and 119: Il6 TO^T SA WYER. They made an impo
Page 120 and 121: JX8 TOM SAWYER. belongings consiste
Page 122 and 123: TOM SAWYER. "And don't they wear th
Page 126 and 127: 124 TOM SA WYER. They found plenty
Page 128 and 129: : 126 TOM SA VVYER. the top. Yes, a
Page 130 and 131: l^^i^? FEW minutes later Tom was in
Page 132 and 133: " 13° TOM SAWYER. and laws bless m
Page 134 and 135: ; TOM SA IV YER. mutual impulse the
Page 136 and 137: dinner all the gang turned out to h
Page 138 and 139: 136 TOM SAWYER. himself out of temp
Page 140 and 141: 138 TOM SAIVYER. dainty egg and fis
Page 142 and 143: I40 TOM SA IVYER. and went to find
Page 144 and 145: ; 142 TOM SAWYER. appalling. The st
Page 146 and 147: thing now to there was no hilarit}'
Page 148 and 149: 14^ TOM SAWYER. had been so full be
Page 150 and 151: as Tom's great secret — the schem
Page 152 and 153: — — 15° TOM SA WYER. Tom press
Page 154 and 155: —! 152 TOM SAWYER. *' Did you, To
Page 156 and 157: — 154 TOM SA WYER. "Did you? Why
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Page 160 and 161: " : alive ! ^/o arrived at home in
Page 162 and 163: i6o TOM SA W YER. The hard lines in
Page 164 and 165: l6a TOM SAWYER. She tossed her head
Page 166 and 167: t64 TOM SAWYER. the name. Presently
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: ! 172 TOM SAWYER. Then arose a sl
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174 TOM SA IVYER. Now the master, m
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Thi GXOEr. !f3© joined the new ord
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178 TOM SAWYER. //fffyjthat he did
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i8o TOM SA WYEK.. street and found
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" " l82 TOM SAWYER. ' Huck, have yo
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— iS4 TOM SAWYER. yournll come th
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: i86 TOM SA IV YER. and provoked a
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TOM SAWYER. Crash! Quick as lightni
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190 TOM SA W YER. same state of wre
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192 TOM SA IVYER. "No indeed it ain
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194 TOM SAWYER. only just a given n
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— — 196 rOM SAWYER. That was sa
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198 TOM SAWYER. '' Yes. that's so.
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TOM SAWYER. *^Mig/it! Better say we
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2C2 TOM SAWYER. in "Sh! There! Hear
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" half a dozen boys rich ! Here was
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What 2o6 TOM SAWYER. robbery altoge
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— adventure of the day mightily t
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; 2IO TOM SAWYER. "No, not rot him.
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om and Huck were ready for their ad
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214 TOM SAWYER. village. Just as th
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2 l6 TOM SAWYER. 'That's all right.
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2l8 — TOM SAWYER. village were th
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220 TOM SA WYER. — for JNIcDougal
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— TOM SA IV YEJi. out and glided
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224 TOM SA IV YER. measureless. Now
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—: the earliest suspicion of dawn
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2 28 TOM SAWYER. and t'other's a me
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— — — — : • 230 TOM SAWYE
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^32 rOM SAWYER. There was no Sabbat
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— 234 TOM SA IVYEK. crazed; and A
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^^^^^yX-^^'^^B to return to loin an
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238 TOyr SA IVYER. down by hundreds
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240 rOM SA IVYER. Profound silence
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I " : 242 TOM SA W YER. "We can try
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244 TOM SA W YER. too oppressive, a
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246 TOM SAWYER. fright weakened eve
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248 TOM SAWYER. Away in the middle
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250 TOM SA VVYER. how he labored wi
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a few minutes the news had spread,
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254 TOM SA W YER. leaving only thei
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256 TOM SAWYER. right the Saturday
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— — 258 TOM SAWYER. Huck search
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— 26o TOM SA WYER. ' He said unde
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— " 262 TOM SAWYER. '•Now Huck,
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" J'i;^^::^ 4 Is^ta^ said " Tom, we
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— i66 TOM SA IVYER. pretty fair s
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^ M^ reader may rest satisfied that
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— 2 7° 7VjW SAIVYER. fork; he ha
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— •- 272 TOM SAWYER. don't give
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274 TOM SA IV YEJi. " AVell, midnig
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