The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my...

She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and jimpson weeds...

While Tom was eating his supper, and stealing sugar as opportunity offered, Aunt Polly asked him...

Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were...

The new boy took two broad coppers out of his pocket and held them out with derision. Tom struck...

Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life....

She. She never licks anybody whacks em over the head with her thimble and who cares for that, Id...

He took up his brush and went tranquilly to work. Ben Rogers hove in sight presently the very boy,...

That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintily...

Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late...

Tom presented himself before Aunt Polly, who was sitting by an open window in a pleasant rearward...

She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and...

As he was passing by the house where Jeff Thatcher lived, he saw a new girl in the garden a lovely...

He returned, now, and hung about the fence till nightfall, showing off, as before; but the girl...

Then her conscience reproached her, and she yearned to say something kind and loving; but she...

The strangling hero sprang up with a relieving snort. There was a whiz as of a missile in the air,...

Then Tom girded up his loins, so to speak, and went to work to get his verses. Sid had learned his...

And he did tackle it again and under the double pressure of curiosity and prospective gain he did...

Sabbath school hours were from nine to half past ten; and then church service. Two of the children...

Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your...

The visitors were given the highest seat of honor, and as soon as Mr. Walters speech was finished,...

And now at this moment, when hope was dead, Tom Sawyer came forward with nine yellow tickets, nine...

Tom was introduced to the Judge; but his tongue was tied, his breath would hardly come, his heart...

About half past ten the cracked bell of the small church began to ring, and presently the people...

He was regarded as a wonderful reader. At church sociables he was always called upon to read...

There was a rustling of dresses, and the standing congregation sat down. The boy whose history this...

By this time the whole church was red faced and suffocating with suppressed laughter, and the...

Tom lay thinking. Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home...

But all trials bring their compensations. As Tom wended to school after breakfast, he was the envy...

Aha. Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk water such a blame fool way as that. Why, that aint...

Yes, thats it, Huck thats it; though when youre burying it if you say Down bean; off wart; come no...

Yes and you meow back, if you get a chance. Last time, you kep me a meowing around till old Hays...

The titter that rippled around the room appeared to abash the boy, but in reality that result was...

Now that you treat me so, I will see. And she put her small hand upon his and a little scuffle...

The harder Tom tried to fasten his mind on his book, the more his ideas wandered. So at last, with...

The tick escaped from Tom, presently, and crossed the equator. Joe harassed him awhile, and then he...

So the one went off with one group of scholars, and the other with another. In a little while the...

Certainly. Of course. Thats part of it. And always coming to school or when were going home, youre...

She listened intently, but there was no answer. She had no companions but silence and loneliness....

Yes, it was settled; his career was determined. He would run away from home and enter upon it. He...

He well knew the futility of trying to contend against witches, so he gave up discouraged. But it...

Why, that aint anything. I cant fall; that aint the way it is in the book. The book says, Then with...

At half past nine, that night, Tom and Sid were sent to bed, as usual. They said their prayers, and...

Then they waited in silence for what seemed a long time. The hooting of a distant owl was all the...

They growled a response and went on digging. For some time there was no noise but the grating sound...

Then he robbed the body. After which he put the fatal knife in Potters open right hand, and sat...

Oh, I didnt know what I was a doing. I wish I may die this minute if I did. It was all on account...

Huckleberrys hard pantings were his only reply, and the boys fixed their eyes on the goal of their...

Oh no, that wouldnt do for this. Thats good enough for little rubbishy common things specially with...

Dad fetch it. This comes of playing hookey and doing everything a fellers told not to do. I might a...

Say, Tom they say a stray dog come howling around Johnny Millers house, bout midnight, as much as...

After breakfast his aunt took him aside, and Tom almost brightened in the hope that he was going to...

A gory knife had been found close to the murdered man, and it had been recognized by somebody as...

The crowd fell apart, now, and the Sheriff came through, ostentatiously leading Potter by the arm....

Injun Joe helped to raise the body of the murdered man and put it in a wagon for removal; and it...

It seemed to Tom that his schoolmates never would get done holding inquests on dead cats, and thus...

One of the reasons why Toms mind had drifted away from its secret troubles was, that it had found a...

Tom had become indifferent to persecution by this time. This phase filled the old ladys heart with...

The old lady was bending down, Tom watching, with interest emphasized by anxiety. Too late he...

Toms mind was made up now. He was gloomy and desperate. He was a forsaken, friendless boy, he said;...

But it transpired that this was a request which Joe had just been going to make of Tom, and had...

About midnight Tom arrived with a boiled ham and a few trifles, and stopped in a dense undergrowth...

The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on...

Its just the life for me, said Tom. You dont have to get up, mornings, and you dont have to go to...

Oh, they have just a bully time take ships and burn them, and get the money and bury it in awful...

When Tom awoke in the morning, he wondered where he was. He sat up and rubbed his eyes and looked...

They came back to camp wonderfully refreshed, glad hearted, and ravenous; and they soon had the...

For some time, now, the boys had been dully conscious of a peculiar sound in the distance, just as...

They felt like heroes in an instant. Here was a gorgeous triumph; they were missed; they were...

As the night deepened, Huck began to nod, and presently to snore. Joe followed next. Tom lay upon...

He flew along unfrequented alleys, and shortly found himself at his aunts back fence. He climbed...

Sid. Tom felt the glare of the old ladys eye, though he could not see it. Not a word against my...

But this memory was too much for the old lady, and she broke entirely down. Tom was snuffling, now,...

He had to keep still long after she went to bed, for she kept making broken hearted ejaculations...

No, Toms true blue, Huck, and hell come back. He wont desert. He knows that would be a disgrace to...

After breakfast they went whooping and prancing out on the bar, and chased each other round and...

But Joes spirits had gone down almost beyond resurrection. He was so homesick that he could hardly...

But Tom was uneasy, nevertheless, and was alarmed to see Joe go sullenly on with his dressing. And...

The lads came gayly back and went at their sports again with a will, chattering all the time about...

So the talk ran on. But presently it began to flag a trifle, and grow disjointed. The silences...

About midnight Joe awoke, and called the boys. There was a brooding oppressiveness in the air that...

Everything in camp was drenched, the campfire as well; for they were but heedless lads, like their...

And behold, they were glad they had gone into savagery, for they had gained something; they found...

Then there was a dispute about who saw the dead boys last in life, and many claimed that dismal...

There was a rustle in the gallery, which nobody noticed; a moment later the church door creaked;...

That was Toms great secret the scheme to return home with his brother pirates and attend their own...

Well, for the lands sake. I never heard the beat of that in all my days. Dont tell me there aint...

The children left for school, and the old lady to call on Mrs. Harper and vanquish her realism with...

Tom decided that he could be independent of Becky Thatcher now. Glory was sufficient. He would live...

At recess Tom continued his flirtation with Amy with jubilant self satisfaction. And he kept...

And he went through the motions of thrashing an imaginary boy pummelling the air, and kicking and...

Becky, glancing in at a window behind him at the moment, saw the act, and moved on, without...

Oh, child, you never think. You never think of anything but your own selfishness. You could think...

She put the jacket away, and stood by musing a minute. Twice she put out her hand to take the...

Poor girl, she did not know how fast she was nearing trouble herself. The master, Mr. Dobbins, had...

Tom took his whipping and went back to his seat not at all broken hearted, for he thought it was...

Tom went to bed that night planning vengeance against Alfred Temple; for with shame and repentance...

The exercises began. A very little boy stood up and sheepishly recited, Youd scarce expect one of...

A prevalent feature in these compositions was a nursed and petted melancholy; another was a...

And so forth and so on. There was a buzz of gratification from time to time during the reading,...

Dark and tempestuous was night. Around the throne on high not a single star quivered; but the deep...

Now the master, mellow almost to the verge of geniality, put his chair aside, turned his back to...

The funeral was a fine thing. The Cadets paraded in a style calculated to kill the late member with...

And that night there came on a terrific storm, with driving rain, awful claps of thunder and...

Most always most always. He aint no account; but then he haint ever done anything to hurt anybody....

Tom went home miserable, and his dreams that night were full of horrors. The next day and the day...

Every detail of the damaging circumstances that occurred in the graveyard upon that morning which...

A puzzled amazement awoke in every face in the house, not even excepting Potters. Every eye...

Tom was a glittering hero once more the pet of the old, the envy of the young. His name even went...

Half the time Tom was afraid Injun Joe would never be captured; the other half he was afraid he...

No, indeed it aint. Its hid in mighty particular places, Huck sometimes on islands, sometimes in...

Shucks, I only meant youd see em not hopping, of course what do they want to hop for. but I mean...

Well, thats so. I didnt think of that. Oh, I know what the matter is. What a blamed lot of fools we...

Blame it, I dont like hanted houses, Tom. Why, theyre a dern sight worsen dead people. Dead people...

I bet you he was, Huck. Oh, he was the noblest man that ever was. They aint any such men now, I can...

On Saturday, shortly after noon, the boys were at the dead tree again. They had a smoke and a chat...

Tother was a ragged, unkempt creature, with nothing very pleasant in his face. The Spaniard was...

Look here, lad you go back up the river where you belong. Wait there till you hear from me. Ill...

Good idea, said the comrade, who walked across the room, knelt down, raised one of the rearward...

You dont know me. Least you dont know all about that thing. Taint robbery altogether its revenge....

Now whats the use of all that. If its anybody, and theyre up there, let them stay there who cares....

They resolved to keep a lookout for that Spaniard when he should come to town spying out for...

Huck was sitting on the gunwale of a flatboat, listlessly dangling his feet in the water and...

That night Tom and Huck were ready for their adventure. They hung about the neighborhood of the...

He neednt have repeated it; once was enough; Huck was making thirty or forty miles an hour before...

Lookyhere, Huck, less not try that thing any more till we know Injun Joes not in there. Its too...

Morning came, eventually, and by ten or eleven oclock a giddy and rollicking company were gathered...

Three miles below town the ferryboat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up. The crowd...

By and by, one group after another came straggling back to the mouth of the cave, panting,...

They moved up the river street three blocks, then turned to the left up a crossstreet. They went...

Kill. Who said anything about killing. I would kill him if he was here; but not her. When you want...

Please dont ever tell I told you, were Hucks first words when he got in. Please dont Id be killed,...

These were strange words to the vagabond boys ears, and the pleasantest he had ever heard. He could...

Well, poor chap, you do look as if youd had a hard night of it but theres a bed here for you when...

Follered em yes. That was it. I wanted to see what was up they sneaked along so. I dogged em to the...

During breakfast the talk went on, and in the course of it the old man said that the last thing...

Poor Huck was too distressed to smile, but the old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the...

Dont say a word about it, madam. Theres another that youre more beholden to than you are to me and...

There was no Sabbath school during day school vacation, but everybody was early at church. The...

The alarm swept from lip to lip, from group to group, from street to street, and within five...

Early in the forenoon parties of jaded men began to straggle into the village, but the strongest of...

Now to return to Tom and Beckys share in the picnic. They tripped along the murky aisles with the...

But he felt less and less hopeful with each failure, and presently began to turn off into diverging...

She sank to the ground and burst into such a frenzy of crying that Tom was appalled with the idea...

By and by, fatigue began to assert its claims; the children tried to pay attention, for it was...

She dropped the sentence where it was. Tom divided the cake and Becky ate with good appetite, while...

How long afterward it was that Becky came to a slow consciousness that she was crying in Toms arms,...

The joy of the prisoners was almost overwhelming. Their speed was slow, however, because pitfalls...

Tom kissed her, with a choking sensation in his throat, and made a show of being confident of...

The village was illuminated; nobody went to bed again; it was the greatest night the little town...