TABLE OF CONTENTS
P R E F A C E
THE AUTHOR.
HARTFORD, 1876.
"TOM!"
"TOM!"
Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good...
Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all...
"Well why don't you DO it then? What do you...
He got home pretty late that night, and when he...
CHAPTER II
But Tom's energy did not last. He began to think...
The brush continued to move.
The boy mused awhile over the substantial change which had...
CHAPTER III
As he was passing by the house where Jeff Thatcher...
Presently she stepped into the kitchen, and Sid, happy in...
He wandered far from the accustomed haunts of boys, and...
CHAPTER IV
"THEIRS--"
"SHALL!"
"Please, Tom--that's a good boy."
In due course the superintendent stood up in front of...
The visitors were given the highest seat of honor, and...
The prize was delivered to Tom with as much effusion...
"DAVID AND GOLIAH!"
CHAPTER V
After the hymn had been sung, the Rev. Mr. Sprague...
Now he lapsed into suffering again, as the dry argument...
Tom Sawyer went home quite cheerful, thinking to himself that...
CHAPTER VI
"Oh, Aunt Polly, come! Tom's dying!"
Huckleberry came and went, at his own free will. He...
"Have you? What's your way?"
"Sho, there's ticks a plenty. I could have a thousand...
"I STOPPED TO TALK WITH HUCKLEBERRY FINN!"
"That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when...
CHAPTER VII
"Tom, you let him alone."
"Kiss? What do you kiss for?"
"Becky, I--I don't care for anybody but you."
CHAPTER VIII
Yes, it was settled; his career was determined. He would...
"Hold, my merry men! Keep hid till I blow."
CHAPTER IX
Then they waited in silence for what seemed a long...
"I--"
"That's the talk!" said Injun Joe.
"Oh, I didn't know what I was a-doing. I wish...
CHAPTER X
"Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swears they...
--ALWAYS?"
"Oh, geeminy, it's HIM!" exclaimed both boys, in a breath.
This final feather broke the camel's back.
CHAPTER XI
"Is that your knife?" and it was thrust before him...
It seemed to Tom that his schoolmates never would get...
CHAPTER XII
Tom felt that it was time to wake up; this...
Aunt Polly felt a sudden pang of remorse. This was...
CHAPTER XIII
About midnight Tom arrived with a boiled ham and a...
"BLOOD!"
They built a fire against the side of a great...
"And they carry the women to the island," said Joe;...
CHAPTER XIV
Tom stirred up the other pirates and they all clattered...
"What is it!" exclaimed Joe, under his breath.
Tom withered him with derision! Huck, being uncommitted as yet,...
CHAPTER XV
"I hope Tom's better off where he is," said Sid,...
Aunt Polly knelt down and prayed for Tom so touchingly,...
CHAPTER XVI
"I bet there's been pirates on this island before, boys....
The lads came gayly back and went at their sports...
"I've lost my knife. I reckon I better go and...
But at last the battle was done, and the forces...
CHAPTER XVII
As the service proceeded, the clergyman drew such pictures of...
CHAPTER XVIII
"As I'm sitting here, I did! Didn't I, Mary! Go...
The children left for school, and the old lady to...
"I did come--didn't you see me?"
Amy's happy prattle became intolerable. Tom hinted at things he...
CHAPTER XIX
The words sounded like truth. The old lady could not...
CHAPTER XX
"How could I know you was looking at anything?"
There was not a sound. One could have heard a...
CHAPTER XXI
A little shamefaced girl lisped, "Mary had a little lamb,"...
"In such delicious fancies time quickly glides by, ...
"A MISSOURI MAIDEN'S FAREWELL TO ALABAMA
"A VISION
That broke up the meeting. The boys were avenged. Vacation...
CHAPTER XXII
Then came the measles.
CHAPTER XXIII
The boys did as they had often done before--went to...
Now a witness was called who testified that he found...
"Wait--wait a moment. Never mind mentioning your companion's name. We...
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
"Richard? What's his other name?"
That was satisfactory. The work went on. By and by...
"What'll it be?"
CHAPTER XXVI
When they reached the haunted house there was something so...
"Those infernal boys" quaked again under the inspiration of this...
Joe's knife struck upon something.
Joe grumbled awhile; then he agreed with his friend that...
CHAPTER XXVII
"Oh, that's the trick! They ain't only two taverns. We...
CHAPTER XXVIII
"No!"
CHAPTER XXIX
Three miles below town the ferryboat stopped at the mouth...
Huck was already upon his watch when the ferryboat's lights...
Now there was a voice--a very low voice--Injun Joe's:
"What's the row there? Who's banging? What do you want?"
CHAPTER XXX
"That's enough, lad, we know the men! Happened on them...
Huck looked into the old man's honest eyes a moment,...
"Don't say a word about it, madam. There's another that...
All the long afternoon the village seemed empty and dead....
"Only tell me just one thing--only just one--please! Was it...
CHAPTER XXXI
"Come to think, Becky, we are away down below them--and...
So they moved on again--aimlessly--simply at random--all they could do...
Becky almost smiled.
"It's them!" said Tom; "they're coming! Come along, Becky--we're all...
Tom kissed her, with a choking sensation in his throat,...
CHAPTER XXXII
Before day-dawn, Judge Thatcher and the handful of searchers with...
CHAPTER XXXIII
Injun Joe was buried near the mouth of the cave;...
"Huck, we can do that without the least little bit...
"Why, it's real bully, Tom. I believe it's better'n to...
"That ain't no bad notion, Tom!" said Huck with animation.
"Hallo, who's that?"
CHAPTER XXXIV
"Huck don't need it. Huck's rich."
CHAPTER XXXV
He bravely bore his miseries three weeks, and then one...
"Oh, Huck, you know I can't do that. 'Tain't fair;...
Most of the characters that perform in this book still...
