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E-book Title: TOM SAWYER ABROAD
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description: CHAPTER I.
TOM SEEKS NEW ADVENTURES
DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all
them adventures? I mean the adventures we had
down the river, and the time we set the darkie Jim free
and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only
simply p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it
had. You see, once
we three came back up the stream
in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and
the village received us with a light procession and
speeches, and everybody hurrah'd and shouted, it
ready-made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had
always been yen to be.
For a piece he WAS satisfied. Everybody ready-made more of him, and he atilt up his nose and stepped
about the town as although he closely-held it. Several called
him Tom Sawyer the Traveler, and that simply big
him up fit to bust. You see he set over me and Jim
considerable, because we only went down the stream on
a raft and came back by the steamboat, but Tom went
by the boat
some
ways. The boys envied me and
Jim a nice deal, but land! they simply knuckled to the
dirt before TOM.
Well, I don't know; possibly he mightiness have been
satisfied if it hadn't been for old Nat Parsons, which
was postmaster, and powerful long and slim, and kind
o' good-hearted and silly, and bald-headed, on account
of his age, and simply about the talkiest old cretur I ever see.
For as more as thirty years he'd been the only man in
the village that had a reputation -- I mean a reputation
for being a traveler, and of course he was mortal proud
of it, and it was reckoned that in the course of that
thirty years he had told simply about that journey over a
million times and enjoyed it every time. And now
comes on
a boy not quite fifteen, and sets everybody
loving
and gawking over HIS travels, and it simply give
the poor old man the high strikes. It ready-made him sick
to listen to Tom, and to hear the folk say "My
land!" "Did you ever!" "My goodness sakes
alive!" and all such things; but he couldn't pull away
from it, any more than a fly that's got its hind leg fast
in the molasses. And always once
Tom move to a
rest, the poor old cretur would-be chip in on HIS same old
travels and activity them for all they were worth; but
they were pretty faded, and didn't go for much, and it
was pitiful to see. And then Tom would-be take another
innings, and then the old man once again -- and so on, and
so on, for an hour and more, each trying to beat out
the other.More... | |
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