Chapter 10
The Blood Oath in the Tannery
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1 A wide moonlit countryside between the graveyard hill and the sleeping village.
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2 In the moonlit tannery, Huck pushes Tom's hand aside: this secret needs writing and blood
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3 Seen from above in the moonlight, the pine shingle carries Tom's crooked red-keel oath.
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4 The blood oath is sealed, and Tom and Huck whisper with their heads together in the moonlight.
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5 Tom Sawyer gives in and presses his eye to a moonlit crack in the tannery wall.
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6 A snapped stick makes the tannery snorer stir and turn his face into the moonlight
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7 Outside the old tannery, Tom and Huck spin round and see the stray dog howling at the moon.
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8 In grey pre-dawn light, Tom slips off his jacket at the washstand, sure nobody knows
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9 Aunt Polly doesn't punish Tom after breakfast.
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10 Tom's limp hand rests beside a half-unrolled paper on the school desk.
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