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+<h2>ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, By Twain, Part 5.</h2>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5.
+by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5.
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+Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
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+Release Date: June 30, 2004 [EBook #7197]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOM SAWYER ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+<br><br><br><br>
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+<center>
+<h1>THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER </h1>
+<br><br>
+<h2>BY MARK TWAIN</h2>
+<h3>(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)</h3>
+</center>
+<br><br>
+<h2>Part 5.</h2>
+<br>
+<a name="frontispiece"></a>
+<br>
+<center>
+<img alt="frontispiece.jpg (259K)" src="images/frontispiece.jpg" height="1027" width="750">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="titlepage.jpg (72K)" src="images/titlepage.jpg" height="1030" width="843">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="dedication.jpg (10K)" src="images/dedication.jpg" height="245" width="473">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center>
+<center>
+<table summary="">
+<tr><td>
+
+
+<p><a href="#c18">CHAPTER XVIII.</a><br>
+Tom's Feelings Investigated&mdash;Wonderful Dream<br>
+&mdash;Becky Thatcher Overshadowed<br>
+&mdash;Tom Becomes Jealous&mdash;Black Revenge</p>
+<p><a href="#c19">CHAPTER XIX.</a><br>
+Tom Tells the Truth</p>
+<p><a href="#c20">CHAPTER XX.</a><br>
+Becky in a Dilemma<br>&mdash;Tom's Nobility Asserts Itself</p>
+<p><a href="#c21">CHAPTER XXI.</a><br>
+Youthful Eloquence&mdash;Compositions by the <br>Young Ladies&mdash;A Lengthy Vision<br>
+&mdash;The Boy's Vengeance Satisfied</p>
+<p><a href="#c22">CHAPTER XXII.</a><br>
+Tom's Confidence Betrayed<br>&mdash;Expects Signal Punishment</p>
+
+
+</td></tr>
+</table>
+</center>
+
+
+
+<br><br><br><br>
+<h2>ILLUSTRATIONS</h2>
+
+<center>
+<table summary="">
+<tr><td>
+
+
+<a href="#18-148">Amy Lawrence</a><br>
+<a href="#18-150">Tom tries to Remember</a><br>
+<a href="#18-152">The Hero</a><br>
+<a href="#18-154">A Flirtation</a><br>
+<a href="#18-154">Becky Retaliates</a><br>
+<a href="#18-156">A Sudden Frost</a><br>
+<a href="#18-157">Counter-irritation</a><br>
+<a href="#19-158">Aunt Polly</a><br>
+<a href="#19-160">Tom justified</a><br>
+<a href="#20-161">The Discovery</a><br>
+<a href="#20-163">Caught in the Act</a><br>
+<a href="#20-165">Tom Astonishes the School</a><br>
+<a href="#20-166">Literature</a><br>
+<a href="#21-167">Tom Declaims</a><br>
+<a href="#21-168">Examination Evening</a><br>
+<a href="#21-170">On Exhibition</a><br>
+<a href="#21-173">Prize Authors</a><br>
+<a href="#21-174">The Master's Dilemma</a><br>
+<a href="#21-175">The School House</a><br>
+<a href="#22-176">The Cadet</a><br>
+<a href="#22-177">Happy for Two Days</a><br>
+<a href="#22-178">Enjoying the Vacation</a><br>
+<a href="#22-180">The Stolen Melons</a><br>
+
+
+</td></tr>
+</table>
+</center>
+
+
+<p><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<a name="c18"></a></p>
+
+<center>
+<h2>CHAPTER XVIII</h2>
+</center>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="18-148"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="18-148.jpg (179K)" src="images/18-148.jpg" height="880" width="803">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>THAT was Tom's great secret&mdash;the scheme to return home
+with his brother pirates and attend their own funerals. They had
+paddled over to the Missouri shore on a log, at dusk on Saturday,
+landing five or six miles below the village; they had slept in
+the woods at the edge of the town till nearly daylight, and had
+then crept through back lanes and alleys and finished their sleep
+in the gallery of the church among a chaos of invalided
+benches.</p>
+
+<p>At breakfast, Monday morning, Aunt Polly and Mary were very
+loving to Tom, and very attentive to his wants. There was an
+unusual amount of talk. In the course of it Aunt Polly said:</p>
+
+<p>"Well, I don't say it wasn't a fine joke, Tom, to keep
+everybody suffering 'most a week so you boys had a good time, but
+it is a pity you could be so hard-hearted as to let me suffer so.
+If you could come over on a log to go to your funeral, you could
+have come over and give me a hint some way that you warn't dead,
+but only run off."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, you could have done that, Tom," said Mary; "and I
+believe you would if you had thought of it."</p>
+
+<p>"Would you, Tom?" said Aunt Polly, her face lighting
+wistfully. "Say, now, would you, if you'd thought of it?"</p>
+
+<p>"I&mdash;well, I don't know. 'Twould 'a' spoiled
+everything."</p>
+
+<p>"Tom, I hoped you loved me that much," said Aunt Polly, with a
+grieved tone that discomforted the boy. "It would have been
+something if you'd cared enough to THINK of it, even if you
+didn't DO it."</p>
+
+<p>"Now, auntie, that ain't any harm," pleaded Mary; "it's only
+Tom's giddy way&mdash;he is always in such a rush that he never
+thinks of anything."</p>
+
+<p>"More's the pity. Sid would have thought. And Sid would have
+come and DONE it, too. Tom, you'll look back, some day, when it's
+too late, and wish you'd cared a little more for me when it would
+have cost you so little."</p>
+
+<p>"Now, auntie, you know I do care for you," said Tom.</p>
+
+<p>"I'd know it better if you acted more like it."</p>
+
+<p>"I wish now I'd thought," said Tom, with a repentant tone;
+"but I dreamt about you, anyway. That's something, ain't it?"</p>
+
+<p>"It ain't much&mdash;a cat does that much&mdash;but it's
+better than nothing. What did you dream?"</p>
+
+<p>"Why, Wednesday night I dreamt that you was sitting over there
+by the bed, and Sid was sitting by the woodbox, and Mary next to
+him."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, so we did. So we always do. I'm glad your dreams could
+take even that much trouble about us."</p>
+
+<p>"And I dreamt that Joe Harper's mother was here."</p>
+
+<p>"Why, she was here! Did you dream any more?"</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, lots. But it's so dim, now."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, try to recollect&mdash;can't you?"</p>
+
+<p>"Somehow it seems to me that the wind&mdash;the wind blowed
+the&mdash;the&mdash;"</p>
+
+<p>"Try harder, Tom! The wind did blow something. Come!"</p>
+
+<p>Tom pressed his fingers on his forehead an anxious minute, and
+then said:</p>
+
+<p>"I've got it now! I've got it now! It blowed the candle!"</p>
+
+<p>"Mercy on us! Go on, Tom&mdash;go on!"</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="18-150"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="18-150.jpg (60K)" src="images/18-150.jpg" height="383" width="489">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>"And it seems to me that you said, 'Why, I believe that that
+door&mdash;'"</p>
+
+<p>"Go ON, Tom!"</p>
+
+<p>"Just let me study a moment&mdash;just a moment. Oh,
+yes&mdash;you said you believed the door was open."</p>
+
+<p>"As I'm sitting here, I did! Didn't I, Mary! Go on!"</p>
+
+<p>"And then&mdash;and then&mdash;well I won't be certain, but it
+seems like as if you made Sid go and&mdash;and&mdash;"</p>
+
+<p>"Well? Well? What did I make him do, Tom? What did I make him
+do?"</p>
+
+<p>"You made him&mdash;you&mdash;Oh, you made him shut it."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, for the land's sake! I never heard the beat of that in
+all my days! Don't tell ME there ain't anything in dreams, any
+more. Sereny Harper shall know of this before I'm an hour older.
+I'd like to see her get around THIS with her rubbage 'bout
+superstition. Go on, Tom!"</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, it's all getting just as bright as day, now. Next you
+said I warn't BAD, only mischeevous and harum-scarum, and not any
+more responsible than&mdash;than&mdash;I think it was a colt, or
+something."</p>
+
+<p>"And so it was! Well, goodness gracious! Go on, Tom!"</p>
+
+<p>"And then you began to cry."</p>
+
+<p>"So I did. So I did. Not the first time, neither. And
+then&mdash;"</p>
+
+<p>"Then Mrs. Harper she began to cry, and said Joe was just the
+same, and she wished she hadn't whipped him for taking cream when
+she'd throwed it out her own self&mdash;"</p>
+
+<p>"Tom! The sperrit was upon you! You was a
+prophesying&mdash;that's what you was doing! Land alive, go on,
+Tom!"</p>
+
+<p>"Then Sid he said&mdash;he said&mdash;"</p>
+
+<p>"I don't think I said anything," said Sid.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes you did, Sid," said Mary.</p>
+
+<p>"Shut your heads and let Tom go on! What did he say, Tom?"</p>
+
+<p>"He said&mdash;I THINK he said he hoped I was better off where
+I was gone to, but if I'd been better sometimes&mdash;"</p>
+
+<p>"THERE, d'you hear that! It was his very words!"</p>
+
+<p>"And you shut him up sharp."</p>
+
+<p>"I lay I did! There must 'a' been an angel there. There WAS an
+angel there, somewheres!"</p>
+
+<p>"And Mrs. Harper told about Joe scaring her with a
+firecracker, and you told about Peter and the
+Pain-killer&mdash;"</p>
+
+<p>"Just as true as I live!"</p>
+
+<p>"And then there was a whole lot of talk 'bout dragging the
+river for us, and 'bout having the funeral Sunday, and then you
+and old Miss Harper hugged and cried, and she went."</p>
+
+<p>"It happened just so! It happened just so, as sure as I'm
+a-sitting in these very tracks. Tom, you couldn't told it more
+like if you'd 'a' seen it! And then what? Go on, Tom!"</p>
+
+<p>"Then I thought you prayed for me&mdash;and I could see you
+and hear every word you said. And you went to bed, and I was so
+sorry that I took and wrote on a piece of sycamore bark, 'We
+ain't dead&mdash;we are only off being pirates,' and put it on
+the table by the candle; and then you looked so good, laying
+there asleep, that I thought I went and leaned over and kissed
+you on the lips."</p>
+
+<p>"Did you, Tom, DID you! I just forgive you everything for
+that!" And she seized the boy in a crushing embrace that made him
+feel like the guiltiest of villains.</p>
+
+<p>"It was very kind, even though it was only a&mdash;dream," Sid
+soliloquized just audibly.</p>
+
+<p>"Shut up, Sid! A body does just the same in a dream as he'd do
+if he was awake. Here's a big Milum apple I've been saving for
+you, Tom, if you was ever found again&mdash;now go 'long to
+school. I'm thankful to the good God and Father of us all I've
+got you back, that's long-suffering and merciful to them that
+believe on Him and keep His word, though goodness knows I'm
+unworthy of it, but if only the worthy ones got His blessings and
+had His hand to help them over the rough places, there's few
+enough would smile here or ever enter into His rest when the long
+night comes. Go 'long Sid, Mary, Tom&mdash;take yourselves
+off&mdash;you've hendered me long enough."</p>
+
+<p>The children left for school, and the old lady to call on Mrs.
+Harper and vanquish her realism with Tom's marvellous dream. Sid
+had better judgment than to utter the thought that was in his
+mind as he left the house. It was this: "Pretty thin&mdash;as
+long a dream as that, without any mistakes in it!"</p>
+
+<p>What a hero Tom was become, now! He did not go skipping and
+prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate
+who felt that the public eye was on him. And indeed it was; he
+tried not to seem to see the looks or hear the remarks as he
+passed along, but they were food and drink to him. Smaller boys
+than himself flocked at his heels, as proud to be seen with him,
+and tolerated by him, as if he had been the drummer at the head
+of a procession or the elephant leading a menagerie into town.
+Boys of his own size pretended not to know he had been away at
+all; but they were consuming with envy, nevertheless. They would
+have given anything to have that swarthy sun-tanned skin of his,
+and his glittering notoriety; and Tom would not have parted with
+either for a circus.</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="18-152"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="18-152.jpg (59K)" src="images/18-152.jpg" height="495" width="359">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>At school the children made so much of him and of Joe, and
+delivered such eloquent admiration from their eyes, that the two
+heroes were not long in becoming insufferably "stuck-up." They
+began to tell their adventures to hungry listeners&mdash;but
+they only began; it was not a thing likely to have an end, with
+imaginations like theirs to furnish material. And finally, when
+they got out their pipes and went serenely puffing around, the
+very summit of glory was reached.</p>
+
+<p>Tom decided that he could be independent of Becky Thatcher
+now. Glory was sufficient. He would live for glory. Now that he
+was distinguished, maybe she would be wanting to "make up." Well,
+let her&mdash;she should see that he could be as indifferent as
+some other people. Presently she arrived. Tom pretended not to
+see her. He moved away and joined a group of boys and girls and
+began to talk. Soon he observed that she was tripping gayly back
+and forth with flushed face and dancing eyes, pretending to be
+busy chasing schoolmates, and screaming with laughter when she
+made a capture; but he noticed that she always made her captures
+in his vicinity, and that she seemed to cast a conscious
+eye in his direction at such times, too. It gratified all the
+vicious vanity that was in him; and so, instead of winning him,
+it only "set him up" the more and made him the more diligent to
+avoid betraying that he knew she was about. Presently she gave
+over skylarking, and moved irresolutely about, sighing once or
+twice and glancing furtively and wistfully toward Tom. Then she
+observed that now Tom was talking more particularly to Amy
+Lawrence than to any one else. She felt a sharp pang and grew
+disturbed and uneasy at once. She tried to go away, but her feet
+were treacherous, and carried her to the group instead. She said
+to a girl almost at Tom's elbow&mdash;with sham vivacity:</p>
+
+<p>"Why, Mary Austin! you bad girl, why didn't you come to
+Sunday-school?"</p>
+
+<p>"I did come&mdash;didn't you see me?"</p>
+
+<p>"Why, no! Did you? Where did you sit?"</p>
+
+<p>"I was in Miss Peters' class, where I always go. I saw
+YOU."</p>
+
+<p>"Did you? Why, it's funny I didn't see you. I wanted to tell
+you about the picnic."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, that's jolly. Who's going to give it?"</p>
+
+<p>"My ma's going to let me have one."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, goody; I hope she'll let ME come."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, she will. The picnic's for me. She'll let anybody come
+that I want, and I want you."</p>
+
+<p>"That's ever so nice. When is it going to be?"</p>
+
+<p>"By and by. Maybe about vacation."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, won't it be fun! You going to have all the girls and
+boys?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, every one that's friends to me&mdash;or wants to be";
+and she glanced ever so furtively at Tom, but he talked right
+along to Amy Lawrence about the terrible storm on the island, and
+how the lightning tore the great sycamore tree "all to flinders"
+while he was "standing within three feet of it."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, may I come?" said Grace Miller.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes."</p>
+
+<p>"And me?" said Sally Rogers.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes."</p>
+
+<p>"And me, too?" said Susy Harper. "And Joe?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes."</p>
+
+<p>And so on, with clapping of joyful hands till all the group
+had begged for invitations but Tom and Amy. Then Tom turned
+coolly away, still talking, and took Amy with him. Becky's lips
+trembled and the tears came to her eyes; she hid these signs with
+a forced gayety and went on chattering, but the life had gone out
+of the picnic, now, and out of everything else; she got away as
+soon as she could and hid herself and had what her sex call "a
+good cry." Then she sat moody, with wounded pride, till the bell
+rang. She roused up, now, with a vindictive cast in her eye, and
+gave her plaited tails a shake and said she knew what SHE'D
+do.</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="18-154"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="18-154.jpg (54K)" src="images/18-154.jpg" height="490" width="352">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>At recess Tom continued his flirtation with Amy with jubilant
+self-satisfaction. And he kept drifting about to find Becky and
+lacerate her with the performance. At last he spied her, but
+there was a sudden falling of his mercury. She was sitting cosily
+on a little bench behind the schoolhouse looking at a
+picture-book with Alfred Temple&mdash;and so absorbed were they,
+and their heads so close together over the book, that they did
+not seem to be conscious of anything in the world besides.
+Jealousy ran red-hot through Tom's veins. He began to hate
+himself for throwing away the chance Becky had offered for a
+reconciliation. He called himself a fool, and all the hard names
+he could think of. He wanted to cry with vexation. Amy chatted
+happily along, as they walked, for her heart was singing, but
+Tom's tongue had lost its function. He did not hear what Amy was
+saying, and whenever she paused expectantly he could only stammer
+an awkward assent, which was as often misplaced as otherwise. He
+kept drifting to the rear of the schoolhouse, again and again,
+to sear his eyeballs with the hateful spectacle there. He could
+not help it. And it maddened him to see, as he thought he saw,
+that Becky Thatcher never once suspected that he was even in the
+land of the living. But she did see, nevertheless; and she knew
+she was winning her fight, too, and was glad to see him suffer as
+she had suffered.</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="18-155"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="18-155.jpg (57K)" src="images/18-155.jpg" height="523" width="369">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>Amy's happy prattle became intolerable. Tom hinted at things
+he had to attend to; things that must be done; and time was
+fleeting. But in vain&mdash;the girl chirped on. Tom thought,
+"Oh, hang her, ain't I ever going to get rid of her?" At last he
+must be attending to those things&mdash;and she said artlessly
+that she would be "around" when school let out. And he hastened
+away, hating her for it.</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="18-156"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="18-156.jpg (47K)" src="images/18-156.jpg" height="510" width="373">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>"Any other boy!" Tom thought, grating his teeth. "Any boy in
+the whole town but that Saint Louis smarty that thinks he dresses
+so fine and is aristocracy! Oh, all right, I licked you the first
+day you ever saw this town, mister, and I'll lick you again! You
+just wait till I catch you out! I'll just take and&mdash;"</p>
+
+<p>And he went through the motions of thrashing an imaginary
+boy&mdash;pummelling the air, and kicking and gouging. "Oh, you
+do, do you? You holler 'nough, do you? Now, then, let that learn
+you!" And so the imaginary flogging was finished to his
+satisfaction.</p>
+
+<p>Tom fled home at noon. His conscience could not endure any
+more of Amy's grateful happiness, and his jealousy could bear no
+more of the other distress. Becky resumed her picture inspections
+with Alfred, but as the minutes dragged along and no Tom came to
+suffer, her triumph began to cloud and she lost interest;
+gravity and absentmindedness followed, and then melancholy; two
+or three times she pricked up her ear at a footstep, but it was a
+false hope; no Tom came. At last she grew entirely miserable and
+wished she hadn't carried it so far. When poor Alfred, seeing
+that he was losing her, he did not know how, kept exclaiming:
+"Oh, here's a jolly one! look at this!" she lost patience at
+last, and said, "Oh, don't bother me! I don't care for them!" and
+burst into tears, and got up and walked away.</p>
+
+<p>Alfred dropped alongside and was going to try to comfort her,
+but she said:</p>
+
+<p>"Go away and leave me alone, can't you! I hate you!"</p>
+
+<p>So the boy halted, wondering what he could have done&mdash;for
+she had said she would look at pictures all through the
+nooning&mdash;and she walked on, crying. Then Alfred went musing
+into the deserted schoolhouse. He was humiliated and angry. He
+easily guessed his way to the truth&mdash;the girl had simply
+made a convenience of him to vent her spite upon Tom Sawyer. He
+was far from hating Tom the less when this thought occurred to
+him. He wished there was some way to get that boy into trouble
+without much risk to himself. Tom's spelling-book fell under his
+eye. Here was his opportunity. He gratefully opened to the lesson
+for the afternoon and poured ink upon the page.</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="18-157"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="18-157.jpg (54K)" src="images/18-157.jpg" height="496" width="353">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>Becky, glancing in at a window behind him at the moment, saw
+the act, and moved on, without discovering herself. She started
+homeward, now, intending to find Tom and tell him; Tom would be
+thankful and their troubles would be healed. Before she was half
+way home, however, she had changed her mind. The thought of Tom's
+treatment of her when she was talking about her picnic came
+scorching back and filled her with shame. She resolved to let him
+get whipped on the damaged spelling-book's account, and to hate
+him forever, into the bargain.</p>
+
+<p><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<a name="c19"></a></p>
+
+<center>
+<h2>CHAPTER XIX</h2>
+</center>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="19-158"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="19-158.jpg (168K)" src="images/19-158.jpg" height="877" width="800">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>TOM arrived at home in a dreary mood, and the first thing his
+aunt said to him showed him that he had brought his sorrows to an
+unpromising market:</p>
+
+<p>"Tom, I've a notion to skin you alive!"</p>
+
+<p>"Auntie, what have I done?"</p>
+
+<p>"Well, you've done enough. Here I go over to Sereny Harper,
+like an old softy, expecting I'm going to make her believe all
+that rubbage about that dream, when lo and behold you she'd found
+out from Joe that you was over here and heard all the talk we had
+that night. Tom, I don't know what is to become of a boy that
+will act like that. It makes me feel so bad to think you could
+let me go to Sereny Harper and make such a fool of myself and
+never say a word."</p>
+
+<p>This was a new aspect of the thing. His smartness of the
+morning had seemed to Tom a good joke before, and very
+ingenious. It merely looked mean and shabby now. He hung his head
+and could not think of anything to say for a moment. Then he
+said:</p>
+
+<p>"Auntie, I wish I hadn't done it&mdash;but I didn't
+think."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, child, you never think. You never think of anything but
+your own selfishness. You could think to come all the way over
+here from Jackson's Island in the night to laugh at our troubles,
+and you could think to fool me with a lie about a dream; but you
+couldn't ever think to pity us and save us from sorrow."</p>
+
+<p>"Auntie, I know now it was mean, but I didn't mean to be mean.
+I didn't, honest. And besides, I didn't come over here to laugh
+at you that night."</p>
+
+<p>"What did you come for, then?"</p>
+
+<p>"It was to tell you not to be uneasy about us, because we
+hadn't got drownded."</p>
+
+<p>"Tom, Tom, I would be the thankfullest soul in this world if I
+could believe you ever had as good a thought as that, but you
+know you never did&mdash;and I know it, Tom."</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed and 'deed I did, auntie&mdash;I wish I may never stir
+if I didn't."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, Tom, don't lie&mdash;don't do it. It only makes things a
+hundred times worse."</p>
+
+<p>"It ain't a lie, auntie; it's the truth. I wanted to keep you
+from grieving&mdash;that was all that made me come."</p>
+
+<p>"I'd give the whole world to believe that&mdash;it would cover
+up a power of sins, Tom. I'd 'most be glad you'd run off and
+acted so bad. But it ain't reasonable; because, why didn't you
+tell me, child?"</p>
+
+<p>"Why, you see, when you got to talking about the funeral, I
+just got all full of the idea of our coming and hiding in the
+church, and I couldn't somehow bear to spoil it. So I just put
+the bark back in my pocket and kept mum."</p>
+
+<p>"What bark?"</p>
+
+<p>"The bark I had wrote on to tell you we'd gone pirating. I
+wish, now, you'd waked up when I kissed you&mdash;I do,
+honest."</p>
+
+<p>The hard lines in his aunt's face relaxed and a sudden
+tenderness dawned in her eyes.</p>
+
+<p>"DID you kiss me, Tom?"</p>
+
+<p>"Why, yes, I did."</p>
+
+<p>"Are you sure you did, Tom?"</p>
+
+<p>"Why, yes, I did, auntie&mdash;certain sure."</p>
+
+<p>"What did you kiss me for, Tom?"</p>
+
+<p>"Because I loved you so, and you laid there moaning and I was
+so sorry."</p>
+
+<p>The words sounded like truth. The old lady could not hide a
+tremor in her voice when she said:</p>
+
+<p>"Kiss me again, Tom!&mdash;and be off with you to school, now,
+and don't bother me any more."</p>
+
+<p>The moment he was gone, she ran to a closet and got out the
+ruin of a jacket which Tom had gone pirating in. Then she
+stopped, with it in her hand, and said to herself:</p>
+
+<p>"No, I don't dare. Poor boy, I reckon he's lied about
+it&mdash;but it's a blessed, blessed lie, there's such a comfort
+come from it. I hope the Lord&mdash;I KNOW the Lord will forgive
+him, because it was such good-heartedness in him to tell it. But
+I don't want to find out it's a lie. I won't look."</p>
+
+<p>She put the jacket away, and stood by musing a minute. Twice
+she put out her hand to take the garment again, and twice she
+refrained. Once more she ventured, and this time she fortified
+herself with the thought: "It's a good lie&mdash;it's a good
+lie&mdash;I won't let it grieve me." So she sought the jacket
+pocket. A moment later she was reading Tom's piece of bark
+through flowing tears and saying: "I could forgive the boy, now,
+if he'd committed a million sins!"</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="19-160"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="19-160.jpg (63K)" src="images/19-160.jpg" height="519" width="363">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<a name="c20"></a></p>
+
+<center>
+<h2>CHAPTER XX</h2>
+</center>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="20-161"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="20-161.jpg (178K)" src="images/20-161.jpg" height="942" width="797">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>THERE was something about Aunt Polly's manner, when she kissed
+Tom, that swept away his low spirits and made him lighthearted
+and happy again. He started to school and had the luck of coming
+upon Becky Thatcher at the head of Meadow Lane. His mood always
+determined his manner. Without a moment's hesitation he ran to
+her and said:</p>
+
+<p>"I acted mighty mean today, Becky, and I'm so sorry. I won't
+ever, ever do that way again, as long as ever I live&mdash;please
+make up, won't you?"</p>
+
+<p>The girl stopped and looked him scornfully in the face:</p>
+
+<p>"I'll thank you to keep yourself TO yourself, Mr. Thomas
+Sawyer. I'll never speak to you again."</p>
+
+<p>She tossed her head and passed on. Tom was so stunned that he
+had not even presence of mind enough to say "Who cares, Miss
+Smarty?" until the right time to say it had gone by. So he said
+nothing. But he was in a fine rage, nevertheless. He moped into
+the schoolyard wishing she were a boy, and imagining how he would
+trounce her if she were. He presently encountered her and
+delivered a stinging remark as he passed. She hurled one in
+return, and the angry breach was complete. It seemed to Becky, in
+her hot resentment, that she could hardly wait for school to
+"take in," she was so impatient to see Tom flogged for the
+injured spelling-book. If she had had any lingering notion of
+exposing Alfred Temple, Tom's offensive fling had driven it
+entirely away.</p>
+
+<p>Poor girl, she did not know how fast she was nearing trouble
+herself. The master, Mr. Dobbins, had reached middle age with an
+unsatisfied ambition. The darling of his desires was, to be a
+doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher
+than a village schoolmaster. Every day he took a mysterious book
+out of his desk and absorbed himself in it at times when no
+classes were reciting. He kept that book under lock and key.
+There was not an urchin in school but was perishing to have a
+glimpse of it, but the chance never came. Every boy and girl had
+a theory about the nature of that book; but no two theories were
+alike, and there was no way of getting at the facts in the case.
+Now, as Becky was passing by the desk, which stood near the door,
+she noticed that the key was in the lock! It was a precious
+moment. She glanced around; found herself alone, and the next
+instant she had the book in her hands. The
+titlepage&mdash;Professor Somebody's ANATOMY&mdash;carried no
+information to her mind; so she began to turn the leaves. She
+came at once upon a handsomely engraved and colored
+frontispiece&mdash;a human figure, stark naked. At that moment a
+shadow fell on the page and Tom Sawyer stepped in at the door and
+caught a glimpse of the picture. Becky snatched at the book to
+close it, and had the hard luck to tear the pictured page half
+down the middle. She thrust the volume into the desk, turned the
+key, and burst out crying with shame and vexation.</p>
+
+<p>"Tom Sawyer, you are just as mean as you can be, to sneak up
+on a person and look at what they're looking at."</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="20-163"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="20-163.jpg (54K)" src="images/20-163.jpg" height="490" width="361">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>"How could I know you was looking at anything?"</p>
+
+<p>"You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Tom Sawyer; you know
+you're going to tell on me, and oh, what shall I do, what shall I
+do! I'll be whipped, and I never was whipped in school."</p>
+
+<p>Then she stamped her little foot and said:</p>
+
+<p>"BE so mean if you want to! I know something that's going to
+happen. You just wait and you'll see! Hateful, hateful,
+hateful!"&mdash;and she flung out of the house with a new
+explosion of crying.</p>
+
+<p>Tom stood still, rather flustered by this onslaught. Presently
+he said to himself:</p>
+
+<p>"What a curious kind of a fool a girl is! Never been licked in
+school! Shucks! What's a licking! That's just like a
+girl&mdash;they're so thin-skinned and chicken-hearted. Well, of
+course I ain't going to tell old Dobbins on this little fool,
+because there's other ways of getting even on her, that ain't so
+mean; but what of it? Old Dobbins will ask who it was tore his
+book. Nobody'll answer. Then he'll do just the way he always
+does&mdash;ask first one and then t'other, and when he comes to
+the right girl he'll know it, without any telling. Girls' faces
+always tell on them. They ain't got any backbone. She'll get
+licked. Well, it's a kind of a tight place for Becky Thatcher,
+because there ain't any way out of it." Tom conned the thing a
+moment longer, and then added: "All right, though; she'd like to
+see me in just such a fix&mdash;let her sweat it out!"</p>
+
+<p>Tom joined the mob of skylarking scholars outside. In a few
+moments the master arrived and school "took in." Tom did not feel
+a strong interest in his studies. Every time he stole a glance at
+the girls' side of the room Becky's face troubled him.
+Considering all things, he did not want to pity her, and yet it
+was all he could do to help it. He could get up no exultation
+that was really worthy the name. Presently the spelling-book
+discovery was made, and Tom's mind was entirely full of his own
+matters for a while after that. Becky roused up from her lethargy
+of distress and showed good interest in the proceedings. She did
+not expect that Tom could get out of his trouble by denying that
+he spilt the ink on the book himself; and she was right. The
+denial only seemed to make the thing worse for Tom. Becky
+supposed she would be glad of that, and she tried to believe she
+was glad of it, but she found she was not certain. When the worst
+came to the worst, she had an impulse to get up and tell on
+Alfred Temple, but she made an effort and forced herself to keep
+still&mdash;because, said she to herself, "he'll tell about me
+tearing the picture sure. I wouldn't say a word, not to save his
+life!"</p>
+
+<p>Tom took his whipping and went back to his seat not at all
+broken-hearted, for he thought it was possible that he had
+unknowingly upset the ink on the spelling-book himself, in some
+skylarking bout&mdash;he had denied it for form's sake and
+because it was custom, and had stuck to the denial from
+principle.</p>
+
+<p>A whole hour drifted by, the master sat nodding in his throne,
+the air was drowsy with the hum of study. By and by, Mr. Dobbins
+straightened himself up, yawned, then unlocked his desk, and
+reached for his book, but seemed undecided whether to take it out
+or leave it. Most of the pupils glanced up languidly, but there
+were two among them that watched his movements with intent eyes.
+Mr. Dobbins fingered his book absently for a while, then took it
+out and settled himself in his chair to read! Tom shot a glance
+at Becky. He had seen a hunted and helpless rabbit look as she
+did, with a gun levelled at its head. Instantly he forgot his
+quarrel with her. Quick&mdash;something must be done! done in a
+flash, too! But the very imminence of the emergency paralyzed his
+invention. Good!&mdash;he had an inspiration! He would run and
+snatch the book, spring through the door and fly. But his
+resolution shook for one little instant, and the chance was
+lost&mdash;the master opened the volume. If Tom only had the
+wasted opportunity back again! Too late. There was no help for
+Becky now, he said. The next moment the master faced the school.
+Every eye sank under his gaze. There was that in it which smote
+even the innocent with fear. There was silence while one might
+count ten&mdash;the master was gathering his wrath. Then he
+spoke: "Who tore this book?"</p>
+
+<p>There was not a sound. One could have heard a pin drop. The
+stillness continued; the master searched face after face for
+signs of guilt.</p>
+
+<p>"Benjamin Rogers, did you tear this book?"</p>
+
+<p>A denial. Another pause.</p>
+
+<p>"Joseph Harper, did you?"</p>
+
+<p>Another denial. Tom's uneasiness grew more and more intense
+under the slow torture of these proceedings. The master scanned
+the ranks of boys&mdash;considered a while, then turned to the
+girls:</p>
+
+<p>"Amy Lawrence?"</p>
+
+<p>A shake of the head.</p>
+
+<p>"Gracie Miller?"</p>
+
+<p>The same sign.</p>
+
+<p>"Susan Harper, did you do this?"</p>
+
+<p>Another negative. The next girl was Becky Thatcher. Tom was
+trembling from head to foot with excitement and a sense of the
+hopelessness of the situation.</p>
+
+<p>"Rebecca Thatcher" [Tom glanced at her face&mdash;it was white
+with terror]&mdash;"did you tear&mdash;no, look me in the face"
+[her hands rose in appeal]&mdash;"did you tear this book?"</p>
+
+<p>A thought shot like lightning through Tom's brain. He sprang
+to his feet and shouted&mdash;"I done it!"</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="20-165"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="20-165.jpg (54K)" src="images/20-165.jpg" height="490" width="352">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly. Tom
+stood a moment, to gather his dismembered faculties; and when he
+stepped forward to go to his punishment the surprise, the
+gratitude, the adoration that shone upon him out of poor Becky's
+eyes seemed pay enough for a hundred floggings. Inspired by the
+splendor of his own act, he took without an outcry the most
+merciless flaying that even Mr. Dobbins had ever administered;
+and also received with indifference the added cruelty of a
+command to remain two hours after school should be
+dismissed&mdash;for he knew who would wait for him outside till
+his captivity was done, and not count the tedious time as loss,
+either.</p>
+
+<p>Tom went to bed that night planning vengeance against Alfred
+Temple; for with shame and repentance Becky had told him all, not
+forgetting her own treachery; but even the longing for vengeance
+had to give way, soon, to pleasanter musings, and he fell asleep
+at last with Becky's latest words lingering dreamily in his
+ear&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"Tom, how COULD you be so noble!"</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="20-166"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="20-166.jpg (28K)" src="images/20-166.jpg" height="275" width="569">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<a name="c21"></a></p>
+
+<center>
+<h2>CHAPTER XXI</h2>
+</center>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="21-167"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="21-167.jpg (178K)" src="images/21-167.jpg" height="905" width="792">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>VACATION was approaching. The schoolmaster, always severe,
+grew severer and more exacting than ever, for he wanted the
+school to make a good showing on "Examination" day. His rod and
+his ferule were seldom idle now&mdash;at least among the smaller
+pupils. Only the biggest boys, and young ladies of eighteen and
+twenty, escaped lashing. Mr. Dobbins' lashings were very vigorous
+ones, too; for although he carried, under his wig, a perfectly
+bald and shiny head, he had only reached middle age, and there
+was no sign of feebleness in his muscle. As the great day
+approached, all the tyranny that was in him came to the surface;
+he seemed to take a vindictive pleasure in punishing the least
+shortcomings. The consequence was, that the smaller boys spent
+their days in terror and suffering and their nights in plotting
+revenge. They threw away no opportunity to do the master a
+mischief. But he kept ahead all the time. The retribution that
+followed every vengeful success was so sweeping and majestic that
+the boys always retired from the field badly worsted. At last
+they conspired together and hit upon a plan that promised a
+dazzling victory. They swore in the signpainter's boy, told him
+the scheme, and asked his help. He had his own reasons for being
+delighted, for the master boarded in his father's family and had
+given the boy ample cause to hate him. The master's wife would go
+on a visit to the country in a few days, and there would be
+nothing to interfere with the plan; the master always prepared
+himself for great occasions by getting pretty well fuddled, and
+the signpainter's boy said that when the dominie had reached the
+proper condition on Examination Evening he would "manage the
+thing" while he napped in his chair; then he would have him
+awakened at the right time and hurried away to school.</p>
+
+<p>In the fulness of time the interesting occasion arrived. At
+eight in the evening the schoolhouse was brilliantly lighted, and
+adorned with wreaths and festoons of foliage and flowers. The
+master sat throned in his great chair upon a raised platform,
+with his blackboard behind him. He was looking tolerably mellow.
+Three rows of benches on each side and six rows in front of him
+were occupied by the dignitaries of the town and by the parents
+of the pupils. To his left, back of the rows of citizens, was a
+spacious temporary platform upon which were seated the scholars
+who were to take part in the exercises of the evening; rows of
+small boys, washed and dressed to an intolerable state of
+discomfort; rows of gawky big boys; snowbanks of girls and young
+ladies clad in lawn and muslin and conspicuously conscious of
+their bare arms, their grandmothers' ancient trinkets, their
+bits of pink and blue ribbon and the flowers in their hair. All
+the rest of the house was filled with non-participating
+scholars.</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="21-168"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="21-168.jpg (103K)" src="images/21-168.jpg" height="516" width="712">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>The exercises began. A very little boy stood up and sheepishly
+recited, "You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on
+the stage," etc.&mdash;accompanying himself with the painfully
+exact and spasmodic gestures which a machine might have
+used&mdash;supposing the machine to be a trifle out of order. But
+he got through safely, though cruelly scared, and got a fine
+round of applause when he made his manufactured bow and
+retired.</p>
+
+<p>A little shamefaced girl lisped, "Mary had a little lamb,"
+etc., performed a compassion-inspiring curtsy, got her meed of
+applause, and sat down flushed and happy.</p>
+
+<p>Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceited confidence and
+soared into the unquenchable and indestructible "Give me liberty
+or give me death" speech, with fine fury and frantic
+gesticulation, and broke down in the middle of it. A ghastly
+stage-fright seized him, his legs quaked under him and he was
+like to choke. True, he had the manifest sympathy of the house
+but he had the house's silence, too, which was even worse than
+its sympathy. The master frowned, and this completed the
+disaster. Tom struggled awhile and then retired, utterly
+defeated. There was a weak attempt at applause, but it died
+early.</p>
+
+<p>"The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck" followed; also "The
+Assyrian Came Down," and other declamatory gems. Then there were
+reading exercises, and a spelling fight. The meagre Latin class
+recited with honor. The prime feature of the evening was in
+order, now&mdash;original "compositions" by the young ladies.
+Each in her turn stepped forward to the edge of the platform,
+cleared her throat, held up her manuscript (tied with dainty
+ribbon), and proceeded to read, with labored attention to
+"expression" and punctuation. The themes were the same that had
+been illuminated upon similar occasions by their mothers before
+them, their grandmothers, and doubtless all their ancestors in
+the female line clear back to the Crusades. "Friendship" was
+one; "Memories of Other Days"; "Religion in History"; "Dream
+Land"; "The Advantages of Culture"; "Forms of Political
+Government Compared and Contrasted"; "Melancholy"; "Filial Love";
+"Heart Longings," etc., etc.</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="21-170"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="21-170.jpg (87K)" src="images/21-170.jpg" height="496" width="677">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>A prevalent feature in these compositions was a nursed and
+petted melancholy; another was a wasteful and opulent gush of
+"fine language"; another was a tendency to lug in by the ears
+particularly prized words and phrases until they were worn
+entirely out; and a peculiarity that conspicuously marked and
+marred them was the inveterate and intolerable sermon that wagged
+its crippled tail at the end of each and every one of them. No
+matter what the subject might be, a brainracking effort was made
+to squirm it into some aspect or other that the moral and
+religious mind could contemplate with edification. The glaring
+insincerity of these sermons was not sufficient to compass the
+banishment of the fashion from the schools, and it is not
+sufficient today; it never will be sufficient while the world
+stands, perhaps. There is no school in all our land where the
+young ladies do not feel obliged to close their compositions with
+a sermon; and you will find that the sermon of the most frivolous
+and the least religious girl in the school is always the longest
+and the most relentlessly pious. But enough of this. Homely truth
+is unpalatable.</p>
+
+<p>Let us return to the "Examination." The first composition that
+was read was one entitled "Is this, then, Life?" Perhaps the
+reader can endure an extract from it:</p>
+
+<blockquote><blockquote>
+<p>"In the common walks of life, with what delightful emotions
+does the youthful mind look forward to some anticipated scene of
+festivity! Imagination is busy sketching rose-tinted pictures of
+joy. In fancy, the voluptuous votary of fashion sees herself amid
+the festive throng, 'the observed of all observers.' Her graceful
+form, arrayed in snowy robes, is whirling through the mazes of
+the joyous dance; her eye is brightest, her step is lightest in
+the gay assembly.</p>
+
+<p>"In such delicious fancies time quickly glides by, and the
+welcome hour arrives for her entrance into the Elysian world, of
+which she has had such bright dreams. How fairy-like does
+everything appear to her enchanted vision! Each new scene is more
+charming than the last. But after a while she finds that beneath
+this goodly exterior, all is vanity, the flattery which once
+charmed her soul, now grates harshly upon her ear; the ballroom
+has lost its charms; and with wasted health and imbittered heart,
+she turns away with the conviction that earthly pleasures cannot
+satisfy the longings of the soul!"</p>
+</blockquote></blockquote>
+
+<p>And so forth and so on. There was a buzz of gratification
+from time to time during the reading, accompanied by whispered
+ejaculations of "How sweet!" "How eloquent!" "So true!" etc., and
+after the thing had closed with a peculiarly afflicting sermon
+the applause was enthusiastic.</p>
+
+<p>Then arose a slim, melancholy girl, whose face had the
+"interesting" paleness that comes of pills and indigestion, and
+read a "poem." Two stanzas of it will do:</p>
+
+<h4>"A MISSOURI MAIDEN'S FAREWELL TO ALABAMA</h4>
+<center>
+<table summary="">
+<tr><td>
+"Alabama, goodbye! I love thee well!<br>
+But yet for a while do I leave thee now!<br>
+Sad, yes, sad thoughts of thee my heart doth swell,<br>
+And burning recollections throng my brow!<br>
+For I have wandered through thy flowery woods;<br>
+Have roamed and read near Tallapoosa's stream;<br>
+Have listened to Tallassee's warring floods,<br>
+And wooed on Coosa's side Aurora's beam.<br>
+<br>
+"Yet shame I not to bear an o'erfull heart,<br>
+Nor blush to turn behind my tearful eyes; <br>
+'Tis from no stranger land I now must part, <br>
+'Tis to no strangers left I yield these sighs.<br>
+Welcome and home were mine within this State,<br>
+Whose vales I leave&mdash;whose spires fade fast from me<br>
+And cold must be mine eyes, and heart, and tete,<br>
+When, dear Alabama! they turn cold on thee!"
+
+
+</td></tr>
+</table>
+</center>
+
+
+
+<p>There were very few there who knew what "tete" meant, but the
+poem was very satisfactory, nevertheless.</p>
+
+<p>Next appeared a dark-complexioned, black-eyed, black-haired
+young lady, who paused an impressive moment, assumed a tragic
+expression, and began to read in a measured, solemn tone:</p>
+
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="21-173"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="21-173.jpg (87K)" src="images/21-173.jpg" height="505" width="683">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+
+<blockquote><blockquote>
+<p>"A VISION</p>
+
+<p>"Dark and tempestuous was night. Around the throne on high not
+a single star quivered; but the deep intonations of the heavy
+thunder constantly vibrated upon the ear; whilst the terrific
+lightning revelled in angry mood through the cloudy chambers of
+heaven, seeming to scorn the power exerted over its terror by the
+illustrious Franklin! Even the boisterous winds unanimously came
+forth from their mystic homes, and blustered about as if to
+enhance by their aid the wildness of the scene.</p>
+
+<p>"At such a time, so dark,so dreary, for human sympathy my very
+spirit sighed; but instead thereof,</p>
+
+<p>"'My dearest friend, my counsellor, my comforter and
+guide&mdash;My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy,' came to my
+side. She moved like one of those bright beings pictured in the
+sunny walks of fancy's Eden by the romantic and young, a queen of
+beauty unadorned save by her own transcendent loveliness. So soft
+was her step, it failed to make even a sound, and but for the
+magical thrill imparted by her genial touch, as other unobtrusive
+beauties, she would have glided away
+unperceived&mdash;unsought. A strange sadness rested upon her features, like icy
+tears upon the robe of December, as she pointed to the contending
+elements without, and bade me contemplate the two beings
+presented."</p>
+</blockquote></blockquote>
+
+<p>This nightmare occupied some ten pages of manuscript and
+wound up with a sermon so destructive of all hope to
+non-Presbyterians that it took the first prize. This composition
+was considered to be the very finest effort of the evening. The
+mayor of the village, in delivering the prize to the author of
+it, made a warm speech in which he said that it was by far the
+most "eloquent" thing he had ever listened to, and that Daniel
+Webster himself might well be proud of it.</p>
+
+<p>It may be remarked, in passing, that the number of
+compositions in which the word "beauteous" was over-fondled, and
+human experience referred to as "life's page," was up to the
+usual average.</p>
+
+<p>Now the master, mellow almost to the verge of geniality, put
+his chair aside, turned his back to the audience, and began to
+draw a map of America on the blackboard, to exercise the
+geography class upon. But he made a sad business of it with his
+unsteady hand, and a smothered titter rippled over the house. He
+knew what the matter was, and set himself to right it. He sponged
+out lines and remade them; but he only distorted them more than
+ever, and the tittering was more pronounced. He threw his entire
+attention upon his work, now, as if determined not to be put down
+by the mirth. He felt that all eyes were fastened upon him; he
+imagined he was succeeding, and yet the tittering continued; it
+even manifestly increased. And well it might. There was a garret
+above, pierced with a scuttle over his head; and down through
+this scuttle came a cat, suspended around the haunches by a
+string; she had a rag tied about her head and jaws to keep her
+from mewing; as she slowly descended she curved upward and clawed
+at the string, she swung downward and clawed at the intangible
+air. The tittering rose higher and higher&mdash;the cat was
+within six inches of the absorbed teacher's head&mdash;down,
+down, a little lower, and she grabbed his wig with her desperate
+claws, clung to it, and was snatched up into the garret in an
+instant with her trophy still in her possession! And how the
+light did blaze abroad from the master's bald pate&mdash;for the
+signpainter's boy had GILDED it!</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="21-174"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="21-174.jpg (110K)" src="images/21-174.jpg" height="945" width="356">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>That broke up the meeting. The boys were avenged. Vacation had
+come.</p>
+
+<p>NOTE:&mdash;The pretended "compositions" quoted in this
+chapter are taken without alteration from a volume entitled
+"Prose and Poetry, by a Western Lady"&mdash;but they are exactly
+and precisely after the schoolgirl pattern, and hence are much
+happier than any mere imitations could be.</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="21-175"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="21-175.jpg (52K)" src="images/21-175.jpg" height="376" width="778">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<a name="c22"></a></p>
+
+<center>
+<h2>CHAPTER XXII</h2>
+</center>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="22-176"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="22-176.jpg (178K)" src="images/22-176.jpg" height="926" width="778">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>TOM joined the new order of Cadets of Temperance, being
+attracted by the showy character of their "regalia." He promised
+to abstain from smoking, chewing, and profanity as long as he
+remained a member. Now he found out a new thing&mdash;namely,
+that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world
+to make a body want to go and do that very thing. Tom soon found
+himself tormented with a desire to drink and swear; the desire
+grew to be so intense that nothing but the hope of a chance to
+display himself in his red sash kept him from withdrawing from
+the order. Fourth of July was coming; but he soon gave that
+up&mdash;gave it up before he had worn his shackles over
+forty-eight hours&mdash;and fixed his hopes upon old Judge
+Frazer, justice of the peace, who was apparently on his deathbed
+and would have a big public funeral, since he was so high an
+official. During three days Tom was deeply concerned about the
+Judge's condition and hungry for news of it. Sometimes his hopes
+ran high&mdash;so high that he would venture to get out his
+regalia and practise before the looking-glass. But the Judge had
+a most discouraging way of fluctuating. At last he was pronounced
+upon the mend&mdash;and then convalescent. Tom was disgusted;
+and felt a sense of injury, too. He handed in his resignation at
+once&mdash;and that night the Judge suffered a relapse and died.
+Tom resolved that he would never trust a man like that again.</p>
+
+<p>The funeral was a fine thing. The Cadets paraded in a style
+calculated to kill the late member with envy. Tom was a free boy
+again, however&mdash;there was something in that. He could
+drink and swear, now&mdash;but found to his surprise that he did
+not want to. The simple fact that he could, took the desire away,
+and the charm of it.</p>
+
+<p>Tom presently wondered to find that his coveted vacation was
+beginning to hang a little heavily on his hands.</p>
+
+<p>He attempted a diary&mdash;but nothing happened during three
+days, and so he abandoned it.</p>
+
+<p>The first of all the negro minstrel shows came to town, and
+made a sensation. Tom and Joe Harper got up a band of performers
+and were happy for two days.</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="22-177"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="22-177.jpg (110K)" src="images/22-177.jpg" height="525" width="690">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>Even the Glorious Fourth was in some sense a failure, for it
+rained hard, there was no procession in consequence, and the
+greatest man in the world (as Tom supposed), Mr. Benton, an
+actual United States Senator, proved an overwhelming
+disappointment&mdash;for he was not twenty-five feet high, nor
+even anywhere in the neighborhood of it.</p>
+
+<p>A circus came. The boys played circus for three days afterward
+in tents made of rag carpeting&mdash;admission, three pins for
+boys, two for girls&mdash;and then circusing was abandoned.</p>
+
+<p>A phrenologist and a mesmerizer came&mdash;and went again and
+left the village duller and drearier than ever.</p>
+
+<p>There were some boys-and-girls' parties, but they were so few
+and so delightful that they only made the aching voids between
+ache the harder.</p>
+
+<p>Becky Thatcher was gone to her Constantinople home to stay
+with her parents during vacation&mdash;so there was no bright
+side to life anywhere.</p>
+
+<p>The dreadful secret of the murder was a chronic misery. It was
+a very cancer for permanency and pain.</p>
+
+<p>Then came the measles.</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="22-178"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="22-178.jpg (51K)" src="images/22-178.jpg" height="482" width="363">
+</center>
+<br><br><br><br>
+
+<p>During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world
+and its happenings. He was very ill, he was interested in
+nothing. When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly
+downtown, a melancholy change had come over everything and every
+creature. There had been a "revival," and everybody had "got
+religion," not only the adults, but even the boys and girls. Tom
+went about, hoping against hope for the sight of one blessed
+sinful face, but disappointment crossed him everywhere. He found
+Joe Harper studying a Testament, and turned sadly away from the
+depressing spectacle. He sought Ben Rogers, and found him
+visiting the poor with a basket of tracts. He hunted up Jim
+Hollis, who called his attention to the precious blessing of his
+late measles as a warning. Every boy he encountered added another
+ton to his depression; and when, in desperation, he flew for
+refuge at last to the bosom of Huckleberry Finn and was received
+with a Scriptural quotation, his heart broke and he crept home
+and to bed realizing that he alone of all the town was lost,
+forever and forever.</p>
+
+<p>And that night there came on a terrific storm, with driving
+rain, awful claps of thunder and blinding sheets of lightning. He
+covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of
+suspense for his doom; for he had not the shadow of a doubt that
+all this hubbub was about him. He believed he had taxed the
+forbearance of the powers above to the extremity of endurance and
+that this was the result. It might have seemed to him a waste of
+pomp and ammunition to kill a bug with a battery of artillery,
+but there seemed nothing incongruous about the getting up such
+an expensive thunderstorm as this to knock the turf from under
+an insect like himself.</p>
+
+<p>By and by the tempest spent itself and died without
+accomplishing its object. The boy's first impulse was to be
+grateful, and reform. His second was to wait&mdash;for there
+might not be any more storms.</p>
+
+<p>The next day the doctors were back; Tom had relapsed. The
+three weeks he spent on his back this time seemed an entire age.
+When he got abroad at last he was hardly grateful that he had
+been spared, remembering how lonely was his estate, how
+companionless and forlorn he was. He drifted listlessly down the
+street and found Jim Hollis acting as judge in a juvenile court
+that was trying a cat for murder, in the presence of her victim,
+a bird. He found Joe Harper and Huck Finn up an alley eating a
+stolen melon. Poor lads! they&mdash;like Tom&mdash;had suffered a
+relapse.</p>
+
+<br><br>
+<a name="22-180"></a>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="22-180.jpg (56K)" src="images/22-180.jpg" height="508" width="415">
+</center>
+<br><br>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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