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
just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it
had. You see, once we three came back up the river
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
made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had
always been yen to be.

For a piece he WAS satisfied. Everybody made
much of him, and he atilt up his nose and stepped
around the town as although he closely held it. Several called
him Tom Sawyer the Traveler,