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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2.
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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2.

    By Mark Twain

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, novelist, and lecturer. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, a setting which would serve as inspiration for some of his most famous works. After an apprenticeship at a local printer’s shop, he worked as a typesetter and contributor for a newspaper run by his brother Orion. Before embarking on a career as a professional writer, Twain spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi and as a miner in Nevada. In 1865, inspired by a story he heard at Angels Camp, California, he published “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” earning him international acclaim for his abundant wit and mastery of American English. He spent the next decade publishing works of travel literature, satirical stories and essays, and his first novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873). In 1876, he published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a novel about a mischievous young boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River. In 1884 he released a direct sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which follows one of Tom’s friends on an epic adventure through the heart of the American South. Addressing themes of race, class, history, and politics, Twain captures the joys and sorrows of boyhood while exposing and condemning American racism. Despite his immense success as a writer and popular lecturer, Twain struggled with debt and bankruptcy toward the end of his life, but managed to repay his creditors in full by the time of his passing at age 74. Curiously, Twain’s birth and death coincided with the appearance of Halley’s Comet, a fitting tribute to a visionary writer whose steady sense of morality survived some of the darkest periods of American history.

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      The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2. - Mark Twain

      ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, By Twain, Part 2.

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2.

      by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2.

      Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

      Release Date: June 29, 2004 [EBook #7194]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOM SAWYER, PART 2. ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

      BY MARK TWAIN

      (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

      Part 2.

      CONTENTS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      CHAPTER IV

      THE sun rose upon a tranquil world, and beamed down upon the peaceful village like a benediction. Breakfast over, Aunt Polly had family worship: it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai.

      Then Tom girded up his loins, so to speak, and went to work to get his verses. Sid had learned his lesson days before. Tom bent all his energies to the memorizing of five verses, and he chose part of the Sermon on the Mount, because he could find no verses that were shorter. At the end of half an hour Tom had a vague general idea of his lesson, but no more, for his mind was traversing the whole field of human thought, and his hands were busy with distracting recreations. Mary took his book to hear him recite, and he tried to find his way through the fog:

      Blessed are the—a—a—

      Poor—

      Yes—poor; blessed are the poor—a—a—

      In spirit—

      In spirit; blessed are the poor in spirit, for they—they—

      THEIRS—

      For THEIRS. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn, for they—they—

      Sh—

      For they—a—

      S, H, A—

      For they S, H—Oh, I don't know what it is!

      SHALL!

      Oh, SHALL! for they shall—for they shall—a—a—shall mourn—a—a—blessed are they that shall—they that—a—they that shall mourn, for they shall—a—shall WHAT? Why don't you tell me, Mary?—what do you want to be so mean for?

      Oh, Tom, you poor thick-headed thing, I'm not teasing you. I wouldn't do that. You must go and learn it again. Don't you be discouraged, Tom, you'll manage it—and if you do, I'll give you something ever so nice. There, now, that's a good boy.

      All right! What is it, Mary, tell me what it is.

      Never you mind, Tom. You know if I say it's nice, it is nice.

      You bet you that's so, Mary. All right, I'll tackle it again.

      And he did tackle it again—and under the double pressure of curiosity and prospective gain he did it with such spirit that he accomplished a shining success. Mary gave him a brand-new Barlow knife worth twelve and a half cents; and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations. True, the

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