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? ? ? ? "Say- I'm going in a-swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of course you'd druther work- wouldn't you? 'Course you would!"

? ? ? ? Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said:

? ? ? ? "What do you call work?"

? ? ? ? "Why ain't that work?"

? ? ? ? Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly:

? ? ? ? "Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain't. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."

? ? ? ? "O, come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"

? ? ? ? The brush continued to move.

? ? ? ? "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"

? ? ? ? That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintily back and forth- stepped back to note the effect- added a touch here and there- criticised the effect again- Ben watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed.


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