文档介绍：The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer
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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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’l