The Adventures of Tom and Sally Book One
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That was Tom's great secret -- the scheme to return home with his brother pirates and attend their own funerals. They had paddled over to the Missouri shore on a log, at dusk on Saturday, landing five or six miles below the village; they had slept in the woods at the edge of the town till nearly daylight, and had then crept through back lanes and alleys and finished their sleep in the gallery of the church among a chaos of invalided benches.
At breakfast, Monday morning, Aunt Polly and Mary were very loving to Tom, and very attentive to his wants. There was an unusual amount of talk. In the course of it Aunt Polly said:. If you could come over on a log to go to your funeral, you could have come over and give me a hint some way that you warn't dead, but only run off. Sid would have thought.
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And Sid would have come and done it, too. Tom, you'll look back, some day, when it's too late, and wish you'd cared a little more for me when it would have cost you so little. That's something, ain't it? So we always do. I'm glad your dreams could take even that much trouble about us.
Oh, yes -- you said you believed the door was open.
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I never heard the beat of that in all my days! Don't tell me there ain't anything in dreams, any more. Sereny Harper shall know of this before I'm an hour older. I'd like to see her get around this with her rubbage 'bout superstition. Next you said I warn't bad, only mischeevous and harum-scarum, and not any more responsible than -- than -- I think it was a colt, or something.
Harper she began to cry, and said Joe was just the same, and she wished she hadn't whipped him for taking cream when she'd throwed it out her own self --". The sperrit was upon you! You was a prophesying -- that's what you was doing! Land alive, go on, Tom! Harper told about Joe scaring her with a firecracker, and you told about Peter and the Painkiller --".
It happened just so, as sure as I'm a-sitting in these very tracks. Tom, you couldn't told it more like if you'd 'a' seen it! And you went to bed, and I was so sorry that I took and wrote on a piece of sycamore bark, 'We ain't dead -- we are only off being pirates,' and put it on the table by the candle; and then you looked so good, laying there asleep, that I thought I went and leaned over and kissed you on the lips.
I just forgive you everything for that! A body does just the same in a dream as he'd do if he was awake.
www.farmersmarketmusic.com: The adventures of Tom Sawyer, complete (): I feel so lucky to have found these books (I got the Tom Sawyer companion book, too.) one becomes so involved in the story, ends up reading Jim's, or Aunt Sally's. Adventures of Tom Sawyer (De Luxe Classics) Hardcover – June 1, Explore our editors' picks for the best kids' books of the month .. that one becomes so involved in the story, ends up reading Jim's, or Aunt Sally's neighbor's accents.
Here's a big Milum apple I've been saving for you, Tom, if you was ever found again -- now go 'long to school. I'm thankful to the good God and Father of us all I've got you back, that's long-suffering and merciful to them that believe on Him and keep His word, though goodness knows I'm unworthy of it, but if only the worthy ones got His blessings and had His hand to help them over the rough places, there's few enough would smile here or ever enter into His rest when the long night comes.
Go 'long Sid, Mary, Tom -- take yourselves off -- you've hendered me long enough. The children left for school, and the old lady to call on Mrs.
The 100 best novels: No 23 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884/5)
Harper and vanquish her realism with Tom's marvellous dream. Sid had better judgment than to utter the thought that was in his mind as he left the house. What a hero Tom was become, now!
So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom. Twain eventually abandoned it following Huck Finn's development into adulthood. Twain wrote the bulk of the story in pen and ink between the year of Tom Sawyer and A later version became the first typewritten manuscript delivered to a printer.
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Ever since the publication of his story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Twain was famous throughout the English-speaking world, and news of the book soon spread outside of the United States. The American edition was delayed thanks to a last-minute change to an illustration plate. Even now, this great novel remains vulnerable to the censoring attentions of provincial reactionaries and classroom bigots, calling for the novel to be banned. In high school student Calista Phair and her grandmother, Beatrice Clark, in the state of Washington, proposed eliminating the book from the Renton school district, because of the frequent use of the word "nigger".
In a Washington state high school teacher called for the removal of the novel from the school curriculum, stating that all "novels that use the 'N-word' repeatedly need to go". I'm happy to report that elsewhere in the world, Huckleberry Finn is still read, and taught, as an American classic. They are compassionate and kind but are also slaveholders.
Huck meets them when he goes to their plantation where the captured Jim is being held. Aunt Sally mistakes him for her nephew Tom Sawyer and takes him in. During Huck's time at the plantation, he gets to know the Phelps. At the end of the book, the Phelpses plan to adopt Huck and 'sivilize' him. Aunt Sally is described as being 'forty-five or fifty years old' and has grey hair. She is very affectionate, always hugging and smiling. She mistakes Huck for her nephew, Tom, and peppers him with questions about the well-being of his family.
Aunt Sally is very loving and forgiving. After Huck tells Aunt Sally how he and Tom sneaked out of the house on the night of Jim's escape, she instantly forgives him. Aunt Sally treats Huck in a motherly way, something Huck has not experienced since his own mother passed away when he was very young. She gives him hugs, kisses, and tucks him in at night. Huck, though he finds it a bit awkward, appreciates her kindness to him. Uncle Silas is the husband of Aunt Polly, described as an 'oldish man. Huck has much respect for him: In reality, he seems to hope to change the boys' behavior through suggestions and loving kindness instead of punishment or harsh words.
When items in the house begin disappearing, the boys hide a nail in Uncle Silas's hat. If Uncle Silas appears to be a forgetful old man, they can use him as a cover for their misdeeds. When Uncle Silas finds the nail, he simply places it on the mantle and walks away. The boys also place a missing spoon in Uncle Silas' pocket. When this is discovered, he takes the blame for the boys.
Feeling guilty for what they have done, the boys fill the rat holes in his cellar for him. When Uncle Silas comes upon Tom and Huck hiding in the cellar, he ignores them, pretending not to know they are there. Instead he says aloud to himself, but for the boys to hear: I could show her now that I warn't to blame on account of the rats. But never mind- let it go. I reckon it wouldn't do no good.
Jul 18, Amy Wilder rated it really liked it. Presently she gave over skylarking, and moved irresolutely about, sighing once or twice and glancing furtively and wistfully toward Tom. During Huck's time at the plantation, he gets to know the Phelps. When poor Alfred, seeing that he was losing her, he did not know how, kept exclaiming: He did not hear what Amy was saying, and whenever she paused expectantly he could only stammer an awkward assent, which was as often misplaced as otherwise. Will her fiance Gerald Foster realize his dream and get a play produced?
The Phelps' keep Jim, whom they have captured and believe is a runaway slave, chained up by his feet and hands. However, considering their era, they treat Jim as well as two slave owners might treat a runaway slave. They allow him in their home as a friend of the boys. Twain uses Silas and Sally to explore the paradox of the 'kind slave-owner.
While some slave-owners were utterly cruel, there were others capable of kindness despite treating their slaves as lesser people.