文档介绍：THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
THE ADVENTURES OF
TOM SAWYER
BY MARK TWAIN
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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
PREFACE
MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or
two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were
schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but
not from an individual -- he is bina- tion of the characteristics of
three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to posite order of
archi- tecture.
The odd superstitions touched upon were all preva- lent among
children and slaves in the West at the period of this story -- that is to say,
thirty or forty years ago.
Although my book is intended mainly for the en- tertainment of boys
and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account,
for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they
once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and
what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.
THE AUTHOR.
HARTFORD, 1876.
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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
CHAPTER I
"TOM!"
No answer.
"TOM!"
No answer.
"What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!"
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about
the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or
never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were
her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service
-- she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked
perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough
for the furniture to hear:
"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll --"
She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and
punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to
punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat.
"I never did see the beat of that boy!"
She went to the open door and stood in it and looked