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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
CHAPTER 2
SATURDAY morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and
fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the ...
heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face
and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom and the fragrance
of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff ... pocket, and gave up the
idea of trying
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offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they
would resign.
The boy mused awhile over the substantial change...
... falls at the feet of an
army officer.They are finally rescued, but Ralph can only weep "for the
end of innocence, the darknessof man's heart, and the fall through the air
of the true, ... to the pig's head.
In Simon's hallucination the head becomes the "Lordof the Flies& quot;. Then
Simon, terrified and sickened, starts back to where the other boys areto
tell them ... boy. He appears in thenovel as the
leader ofthe boys' choir. During the first blowing ofthe conch and the
firstassembly, Jack loses the election for chief. He and Ralph, the
protagonist,...
... back we cut along the path, around the garden fence,
and by and by fetched up on the steep top ofthe hill the other side ofthe
house. Tom said he slipped Jim's hat off of his head and ...
We went to a clump of bushes, and Tom made everybody swear to keep the
secret, and then showed them a hole in the hill, right in the thickest part of
the bushes. Then we lit the candles, and ... second captain ofthe Gang, and so started home.
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
CHAPTER 2
WE went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of
the widow's...
... "Then art thou indeed that famous outlaw? Right gladly will I dispute with
thee the passes ofthe merry wood. Have at thee!"
They took their lath swords, dumped their other traps on the ... for their loss. They said
they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President ofthe
United States forever.
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TOM dodged hither ... and then opened the
place with the incantation he had just used, you would find that all the
marbles you had ever lost had gathered themselves together there, meantime,
no matter how widely they...
... was there, with his dead cat. The boys moved off and
disappeared in the gloom. At the end of half an hour they were wading
through the tall grass ofthe graveyard.
It was a graveyard ofthe ... another minute or two the men had
hoisted it out on the ground. They pried off the lid with their shovels, got out
the body and dumped it rudely on the ground. The moon drifted from behind
the ... creeping along
the roof ofthe "ell" on all fours. He "meow'd" with caution once or twice, as
he went; then jumped to the roof ofthe woodshed and thence to the ground....
... floor for the wigwam, and raised it a foot or more above the level ofthe
raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of reach of steamboat
waves. Right in the middle ofthe wigwam ... in the
upper berth, cornered, and sorry I come. Then they stood there, with their
hands on the ledge ofthe berth, and talked. I couldn't see them, but I could
tell where they was by the ... of them. Pretty soon we struck the forward end ofthe
skylight, and clumb on to it; and the next step fetched us in front ofthe
over him, and one of them had a dim lantern in his hand, and the...
... truck the gang had stole off
of the wreck, and found boots, and blankets, and clothes, and all sorts of
other things, and a lot of books, and a spyglass, and three boxes of seegars.
We hadn't ... flutter of a
steamboat's wheel away down, coming around the point; so we come back.
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BY and by, when we got up, we turned over the truck the ... hadn't ever been this rich before in neither of our lives. The seegars was
prime. We laid off all the afternoon in the woods talking, and me reading the
books, and having a general good time....
... interest in it.
Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowing
much science. Some ofthe best of them do, but some of the
best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to learn sci-
ence, be ... one way or the
other, sitting beside her at her desk, the manuscript on the
sliding desk tray between us, I learned.
I can attest to the wisdom ofthe writerly injunctions
you’ll find in these pages ... intelligent
questions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of a
dense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings ofthe National Acad-
emy of Sciences. Elise was a member of this breed; she was...
... mellow. Three rows of benches on each side and six rows in front
of him were occupied by the dignitaries ofthe town and by the parents ofthe
pupils. To his left, back ofthe rows of citizens, was ... punctuation.
The themes were the same that had been illuminated upon similar occasions
by their mothers before them, their grandmothers, and doubtless all their
ancestors in the female line ... destructive of all hope to non-Presbyterians that it took the first
prize. This composition was considered to be the very finest effort ofthe
evening. The mayor ofthe village, in delivering the prize...