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...res of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an indi vidual — he is a combi... ...s new interest was a valued novelty in whistling, which he had just acquired from a negro, and he was suffering to practise it undisturbed. It consis... ... aged man turned out to be a pro digious personage — no less a one than the county judge — altogether the most august creation these children had eve... ...o he had travelled, and seen the world — these very eyes had looked upon the county court house — which was said to have a tin roof. The awe which the... ...t ten the cracked bell of the small church began to ring, and presently the people began to gather for the morning sermon. The Sunday school children... ...ver. Tom eyed it, and longed for it; but it was safe out of his reach. Other people uninter ested in the sermon found relief in the beetle, and they ... ...interested in the exhibition; and one that had cut his finger and had been a centre of fascina tion and homage up to this time, now found himself sud... ...e valley behind him. He entered a dense wood, picked his pathless way to the centre of it, and sat down on a mossy spot under a spreading oak. There w...

Excerpt: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).