The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer"

It was the meanest kind of luck! I tried to keep it back, but no use- 'twas bound to come, and it did come! I was in the lead with my pistol raised, and when the sneeze started those scoundrels a-rustling to get out of the path, I sung out, 'Fire, boys!' and blazed away at the place where the rustling was. So did the boys. But they were off in a jiffy, those villains, and we after them, down through the woods. I judge we never touched them. They fired a shot apiece as they started, but their bullets whizzed by and didn't do us any harm. As soon as we lost the sound of their feet we quit chasing, and went down and stirred up the constables. They got a posse together, and went off to guard the river bank, and as soon as it is light the sheriff and a gang are going to beat up the woods. My boys will be with them presently. I wish we had some sort of description of those rascals- 'twould help a good deal. But you couldn't see what they were like, in the dark, lad, I suppose?"

? ? ? ? "O, yes, I saw them down town and follered them."

? ? ? ? "Splendid! Describe them- describe them, my boy!"

? ? ? ? "One's the old deaf and dumb Spaniard that's ben around here once or twice, and t'other's a mean looking ragged-"

? ? ? ? "That's enough, lad, we know the men! Happened on them in the woods back of the widow's one day, and they slunk away.

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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer"