Tom Sawyer, Detective

captivated in, the time we set him free, and here come the dogs piling around us to say howdy, and there

own here a minu

he matter

onder in the sycamores, and all about them rapscallions that done it, and about the di'monds they've smouched off of th

t such a chance go by. I reckon it ain't going to suffer none for

"what would you say if I was to tell

d to hear him t

e. You ain't in ea

ee. Was the gh

asn't. Wh

w you what. Did it

seen the

ear

I swea

do you know wh

t does i

thieves DIDN'T

at makes you

f? Everything it had on turned, didn't it? It shows that the reason its boots turned too was because it still had them on after it star

but they never meant nothing to me. But Tom Sawyer was different. When Tom Sawyer seen a thing it ju

od Almighty made us all, and some He gives eyes that's blind, and some He gives eyes that can see, and I reckon it ain't none of our lookout what He done it for; it's a

hem other two men before they coul

t looky here, Tom, why ain't

here just in time to not save the stranger. Then the jury'll twaddle and twaddle and twaddle, and finally they'll fetch in a verdict that he got shot or stuck or busted over the head w

oots for t

most took

Tom, WE'LL ge

re. That's our money! Now we'll trot in and see the folks. And mind you we don't kn

'a' SOLD them di'monds-yes, sir-for twelve thousand dollars;

aunt Sally has made us so long getti

ou," he says. "I reckon y

rict and delicate. He neve

faded green baize working-gown with the hood to it, and raggedy white patch between the shoulders that always looked like somebody had hit him with a snowball; and then we lifted the latch and walked in. Aunt Sally she was just a-ripping and a-tearing around, and the children was huddled in one corner, and t

ever so long, and I've had supper cooked fresh about four times so as to have it hot and good when you come, till at last my patience is just plumb

s he peeled off one of his bulliest old-time blessings, with as many layers to it as an onion, and whilst the angels was hauling in the slack of i

u see,-er

u stood in this room and I took you for Tom Sawyer and blessed God for sending you to me, though you told me f

e it. An

un across Lem Beebe and Jim Lane, and they asked us to go with them blackberrying to-night,

an intrust in a little thing like that, his eyes was just burning into me, he was that eager

some ground along with you, t

disappointed way, and didn't take n

n, as I wa

ht into me with her eyes, and very indignant. "Huck Finn," she says, "how'd t

ldn't say a word. She waited, sti

ke that idiot idea of going

-they told us they

at was they going to do with a

k, m'm,

that I don't believe a word of it. You and Huck's been up to something you no business to-I know it perfectly well; I know you, BOTH of you. N

derable hurt, and s

o that way, just for making a little bi

take has

ying blackberries when of co

f you aggravate me a

If you'd 'a' studied natural history the way you ought, you would know that all over the

freshet. That was what Tom Sawyer was after. He allowed to work her up and get her started and then leave her alone and let her burn herself out. Then she would be so aggravated

l the same,

I don't want to hear a

d didn't have no more trouble abou