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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Chapter 1 · 9 illustrations Jam, the Sewn Collar and the New Boy
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1·1 A small, sleepy river village seen from the green hill above it on a bright summer morning.
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1·2 Aunt Polly whirls round in the doorway and hikes up her skirts at an imaginary danger
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1·3 Tom holds his jacket open across the supper table and shows the shirt collar still stitched shut.
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1·4 At supper, Sid calmly points out that Tom's collar is sewn with black thread instead of white.
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1·5 Tom first sees the new boy, a stranger in city clothes and shoes on an ordinary Friday.
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1·6 The new boy takes Tom's dare and steps over the line in the dust.
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1·7 Tom Sawyer sits astride the new boy in the dusty village street as the dust thins
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1·8 Tom struts off down the dusty street at dusk, proud of his win.
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1·9 Tom comes home late and climbs in at the window, and finds his aunt waiting for him in the dark.
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Chapter 2 · 8 illustrations The Fence Whitewashed by Other Hands
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2·1 Saturday morning breaks over the small village under blooming locust trees.
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2·2 Jim bends over Tom's bandaged toe as Aunt Polly slips out of the gate, slipper raised
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2·3 In this extreme close-up, Tom's eyes fly open.
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2·4 Tom whitewashes the fence as Ben Rogers bounds down the street with an apple, whooping
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2·5 Ben Rogers reaches for the brush and asks to whitewash a little.
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2·6 Traded treasures lie heaped at Tom's barrel: a kite, a dead rat, marbles, a tin soldier
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2·7 By mid-afternoon the whole fence shines under three coats of whitewash.
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2·8 Tom sits in the shade on his barrel after a day of trading.
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Chapter 3 · 11 illustrations The Fence Repaid and the New Girl's Pansy
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3·1 On a drowsy summer afternoon, Aunt Polly nods over her knitting with the cat in her lap
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3·2 Aunt Polly stops dead before the whole thirty-yard fence, whitewashed coat over coat
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3·3 Aunt Polly lifts her finger to Heaven as she ends her lecture on virtuous effort.
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3·4 Tom stops mid-stride in the street at the sight of a new girl in the Thatcher garden
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3·5 Tom leans on the Thatcher fence and thinks he has lost the new girl.
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3·6 At the supper table, Aunt Polly raises her hand to strike Tom a second time.
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3·7 At dusk, Tom sits alone at the edge of a weathered log raft before the vast river
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3·8 Tom lies under the window of the Adored Unknown, hands clasped over her wilted pansy
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3·9 A maid throws up the sash and empties a basin of water onto Tom lying under the window
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3·10 Soaked by the maid's basin of water, Tom springs up from the pansy bed under the Thatcher window.
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3·11 Tom stands by the tallow dip in his nightshirt, holding up his soaked clothes.
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Chapter 4 · 8 illustrations Tom buys a Bible and fails the Judge's question
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4·1 The sun rises over the river village as churchgoers walk toward the little white church
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4·2 Tom is overjoyed with his new "sure-enough" Barlow knife.
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4·3 Scrubbed and buttoned into Sunday clothes, Tom stands stiff as a post in the kitchen
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4·4 The Thatcher visitors walk up the church aisle as every child turns to stare
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4·5 The Sunday-school shows off for the visitors as teachers fuss and paper wads fly
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4·6 Tom holds up a thick wad of tickets and asks for a Bible as the superintendent freezes
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4·7 Judge Thatcher smiles and holds out a hand as he asks Tom to name the first two disciples
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4·8 Tom proudly holds his new Bible and shouts the wrong answer to the Judge's question.
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Chapter 5 · 8 illustrations The Pinchbug and the Poodle in Church
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5·1 The cracked bell rings on a bright Sunday morning and the small plain church fills pew by pew.
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5·2 The Rev. Mr. Sprague reads out the hymn with solemn relish from the white box pulpit
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5·3 The prayer is almost over.
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5·4 During the dull sermon, Tom's face lights up.
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5·5 The pinchbug that nipped Tom's finger lies on its back on the aisle boards
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5·6 A bored poodle stops over the upturned pinchbug in the aisle, his tail starting to wag
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5·7 The sleepy poodle's head sinks lower and lower toward the upturned pinchbug in the church aisle.
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5·8 A startled man flings the frantic poodle out of the open window as neighbours shrink back
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Chapter 6 · 9 illustrations The Tooth, the Tick and Becky Thatcher
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6·1 A quiet, sleeping village at dawn, seen from Cardiff Hill.
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6·2 Tom plays the dying martyr, forgiving everybody, as a frightened Sid grabs his clothes
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6·3 Aunt Polly suddenly thrusts a glowing chunk of fire at Tom's face.
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6·4 On the morning road to school, Tom comes upon Huckleberry Finn, the village outcast.
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6·5 By the whitewashed fence, Tom eagerly asks to join Huck's midnight graveyard trip
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6·6 Tom arrives late, hangs his hat on the peg and drops onto the back bench
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6·7 Tom shouts to the schoolmaster that he stopped to talk with Huckleberry Finn
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6·8 Becky shyly whispers her name to Tom at the girls' bench.
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6·9 Tom is still beaming at Becky when the schoolmaster's big fingers close on his ear from behind.
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Chapter 7 · 8 illustrations The tick, the engagement and the quarrel
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7·1 At the noon recess, Tom and Becky have the empty schoolroom to themselves.
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7·2 In the empty noon schoolroom, Tom turns his face away and squeezes his eyes shut.
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7·3 In the empty schoolroom at noon, Becky drops her hands and lifts her glowing face to Tom
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7·4 Becky's happiness breaks off in the middle of the word "Amy."
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7·5 Tom shows the sobbing Becky his most precious treasure, a brass andiron knob
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7·6 Becky knocks Tom's brass andiron knob from his hand, and it rolls across the floor
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7·7 Becky stands alone in the noon play-yard, calling after Tom toward the fence
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7·8 Becky sits very straight at the girls' bench, hiding her tear-reddened face after recess
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Chapter 8 · 6 illustrations Tom plans to be a pirate; Robin Hood in the wood
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8·1 A high view of wooded Cardiff Hill and the white Douglas mansion above a hazy valley
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8·2 Tom has run away from school and from Becky into the middle of a pathless wood.
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8·3 Deep in the silent noonday wood, Tom's sulk breaks.
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8·4 A shingle-lined hiding place under a rotten log holds just one glass marble
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8·5 At the faint tin trumpet, Tom runs barelegged through the forest toward the great elm
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8·6 On Cardiff Hill, Tom as Robin Hood stops Joe Harper, playing Guy of Guisborne
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Chapter 9 · 10 illustrations Murder in the Graveyard
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9·1 St. Petersburg sleeps under a moon hidden by clouds.
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9·2 Tom has dropped from the woodshed roof, and Huck waits with a dead cat held by its tail
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9·3 Tom and Huck wade through rank grass into the neglected hilltop graveyard at night.
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9·4 Tom and Huck crouch by the three elms as three dark figures cross the night graveyard
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9·5 Three men stop by the fresh grave, a few feet from Tom and Huck lying flat in the grass
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9·6 Injun Joe finally has the doctor who shamed him five years ago.
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9·7 By the open grave, Doctor Robinson brings Williams's heavy headboard down on Muff Potter
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9·8 The moon comes out again over the graveyard.
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9·9 Under moonlight, Injun Joe folds Muff Potter's limp fingers around the bloody knife
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9·10 Muff Potter, blood on his shirt, kneels and raises clasped hands to Injun Joe
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Chapter 10 · 10 illustrations The Blood Oath in the Tannery
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10·1 A wide moonlit countryside between the graveyard hill and the sleeping village.
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10·2 In the moonlit tannery, Huck pushes Tom's hand aside: this secret needs writing and blood
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10·3 Seen from above in the moonlight, the pine shingle carries Tom's crooked red-keel oath.
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10·4 The blood oath is sealed, and Tom and Huck whisper with their heads together in the moonlight.
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10·5 Tom Sawyer gives in and presses his eye to a moonlit crack in the tannery wall.
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10·6 A snapped stick makes the tannery snorer stir and turn his face into the moonlight
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10·7 Outside the old tannery, Tom and Huck spin round and see the stray dog howling at the moon.
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10·8 In grey pre-dawn light, Tom slips off his jacket at the washstand, sure nobody knows
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10·9 Aunt Polly doesn't punish Tom after breakfast.
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10·10 Tom's limp hand rests beside a half-unrolled paper on the school desk.
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Chapter 11 · 11 illustrations Potter Accused, Tom's Conscience Gnaws
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11·1 At noon the small river village lies quiet between the green hill and the brown Mississippi.
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11·2 In the noon crowd at the graveyard, someone pinches Tom's arm.
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11·3 Tom's eye falls on Injun Joe in the middle of the talking, pitying crowd at the graveyard.
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11·4 At noon in the graveyard, the Sheriff leads Muff Potter toward the murdered doctor
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11·5 The Sheriff pushes the gory spring-knife a hand's breadth from Muff Potter's chest.
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11·6 Tom and Huck stand frozen in the noon crowd and watch the liar stand unharmed under a clear sky.
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11·7 Tom stares at Injun Joe's face and cannot look away.
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11·8 Tom sits frozen at the breakfast table, gripping its edge as the room swims around him
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11·9 Tom mutters in his sleep while Sid loosens his bandage and listens at his lips
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11·10 A boy's hand passes tobacco and matches through the jail grating to a big, rough hand
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11·11 Injun Joe walks slowly and alone down the middle of the dusty village street.
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Chapter 12 · 11 illustrations Pain-killer, the Cat, and Becky's Snub
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12·1 The little river town sleeps under the summer moon; one upstairs window glows
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12·2 Night after night, Tom hangs around Judge Thatcher's silent house, feeling very miserable.
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12·3 At dawn in the woodshed, Aunt Polly raises a bucket of cold water over lovesick Tom
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12·4 Peter hangs in the air, fur on end, letting out a war-whoop after his Pain-killer
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12·5 Aunt Polly freezes in the doorway as the frenzied cat sails out the window
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12·6 Aunt Polly reaches for a pewter teaspoon handle sticking out from under the bed
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12·7 Tom's answer about the cat that "hadn't any aunt" hits home.
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12·8 Tom looks up at Aunt Polly, grave and repentant, with a spark of mischief in his eyes
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12·9 Tom has come to school early again.
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12·10 Tom lies sprawled in the schoolyard dust at Becky's feet after all his showing off.
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12·11 Snubbed by Becky, Tom gets up from the schoolyard dust with burning cheeks
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Chapter 13 · 10 illustrations The pirates run away to Jackson's Island
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13·1 A long country lane winds from the village across summer meadows toward the river
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13·2 Tom walks alone down empty Meadow Lane, head hung, fists in his pockets
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13·3 Far down Meadow Lane, Tom wipes his tears on his sleeve and starts his sad farewell.
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13·4 At midnight Tom crouches with his stolen ham on a bluff above the starlit Mississippi
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13·5 Two boys on the starlit shore whisper the dreadful word Blood! up into the night
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13·6 Under the stars, three runaway pirates push their log raft onto the dark Mississippi
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13·7 The Black Avenger stands with folded arms, looking his last at the sleeping town
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13·8 On their first night on Jackson's Island, three runaway pirates feast by a fire
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13·9 By the campfire, Joe's talk of pirates in gold and silver makes Huck look at his rags
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13·10 Tom lies awake by the dying campfire on Jackson's Island, his eyes wide open in the dark.
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Chapter 14 · 10 illustrations The pirates learn they are thought drowned
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14·1 Tom wakes first in the cool grey dawn on the pirates' island.
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14·2 Three tiny pirates splash and tumble in the clear shallows of a white sandbar
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14·3 A second muffled boom breaks the hush, and the three pirates jump up from the log
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14·4 Hidden in the island bushes, the three pirates part the leaves to watch the river
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14·5 From the island bushes, three boys watch a crowded ferry ringed by skiffs on the river
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14·6 In an extreme close-up, Tom's eyes open wide as he works out who has "drownded".
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14·7 Tom, Huck and Joe grin as they realise the town is searching the river for their bodies
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14·8 By the night campfire, Tom mocks Joe's timid hint about going home, and Huck smirks along with him.
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14·9 Tom kneels by the dying fire, writing on sycamore bark with his red keel
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14·10 Joe's straw hat lies upside down on the dark grass by the campfire.
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Chapter 15 · 10 illustrations Tom's secret night visit home
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15·1 Under a starry sky, Tom wades waist-deep off Jackson's Island toward the Illinois shore
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15·2 Tom is still wet from the river.
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15·3 Tom's soaked head appears in the crack of the back door as the candle flame bends
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15·4 Tom lies hidden under the bed in tears, just short of his grieving aunt's slipper
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15·5 Tom lies hidden under the bed and hears that his funeral will be preached on Sunday.
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15·6 Aunt Polly kneels alone by candlelight and prays for the boy she thinks has drowned.
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15·7 Tom lays the white sycamore scroll by his sleeping aunt's candle, shading the flame
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15·8 Tom, soaked from the river and believed drowned, kisses his sleeping Aunt Polly
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15·9 Tom dives into the sunlit Mississippi from the Illinois bank, heading for the island
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15·10 Tom, still dripping from the river, strides into the island camp: Which he is!
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Chapter 16 · 9 illustrations Homesickness, a pipe, and the storm on the island
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16·1 The fun on the island is over.
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16·2 Joe Harper wades silently off through the glittering shallows toward the Illinois shore.
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16·3 Tom stands alone on the wide white sandbar, held still by his pride.
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16·4 Alone on the sandbar, Tom dashes after Huck and Joe, shouting for them to wait
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16·5 Joe's limp hand lies in the grass as his first corncob pipe slips from his fingers
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16·7 At the height of the storm, lightning lights up the whole foaming river and the distant bluffs.
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16·8 At the height of the storm, three soaked boys hold hands against the great oak on the riverbank.
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16·9 Three drenched boys find the great sycamore above their beds split by lightning
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16·10 After supper by the campfire, the three pirates sit against the great log with their corncob pipes.
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Chapter 17 · 10 illustrations The boys attend their own funeral
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17·1 From Cardiff Hill, St. Petersburg lies still on a quiet Saturday beside a calm river
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17·2 Becky Thatcher stands alone in the empty schoolyard where she quarrelled with Tom
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17·3 Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary and the Harpers walk up the aisle in black as the church stands
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17·4 The old minister weeps behind the pulpit at the funeral sermon as the church sobs
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17·5 The three "dead" boys crouch in the dim, unused gallery among broken benches.
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17·6 The weeping old minister lifts his eyes above his handkerchief and freezes
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17·7 The congregation rises in stunned silence as the three "dead" boys march up the aisle
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17·8 The funeral turns into a joyful reunion as two families smother their "drowned" boys with kisses.
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17·9 The funeral turns into a celebration: the whole packed church stands and sings Old Hundred.
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17·10 As Old Hundred shakes the rafters, Tom glances sideways at the envious boys
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Chapter 18 · 11 illustrations The Glory of a Pirate and a Spilled Inkpot
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18·1 Saturday dusk on the Mississippi: Jackson's Island lies dark, and the lit village waits
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18·2 Aunt Polly half-rises from her chair with her hands raised in awe at Tom's "prophetic dream."
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18·3 Aunt Polly crushes Tom in a tearful embrace and forgives him everything
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18·4 Tom swaggers like a pirate through the village, a flock of small boys at his heels
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18·5 In the sunlit schoolyard, the girls clap around Becky over her picnic invitations.
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18·6 Tom has walked off with Amy.
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18·7 Tom stops short as Becky and Alfred Temple bend close over a picture-book
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18·8 Behind the schoolhouse at noon, Becky wheels on Alfred in a burst of angry misery.
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18·9 In the empty schoolroom at noon, a boy's neat hand tips an inkpot over Tom's open spelling-book.
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18·10 In the empty noon schoolroom, Alfred Temple pours the last of the ink over Tom's spelling-book.
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18·11 Becky stands outside the schoolhouse window.
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Chapter 19 · 11 illustrations The blessed lie and Tom's noble flogging
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19·1 At noon Tom trudges home down the dusty street toward Aunt Polly's whitewashed fence
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19·2 Across the worn pine table, Tom tells his aunt why he kissed her, and his face is open and sincere.
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19·3 Aunt Polly cries as she reads Tom's piece of sycamore bark at the open closet
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19·4 Becky is alone at the master's desk with his secret Anatomy book.
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19·5 Becky snaps the master's Anatomy shut, and the coloured plate rips down the middle
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19·6 The master opens his book as Becky sits frozen, fingers pressed to her lips
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19·7 The drowsy afternoon hum has died into a dead hush.
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19·8 Becky lifts a chalk-white face to the master and raises her trembling hands
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19·9 In the silent schoolroom Tom leaps to his feet and takes the blame for the torn book to save Becky.
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19·10 Tom walks up to take the flogging meant for Becky, and she watches him from the girls' bench.
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19·11 In bed, Tom hears Becky's grateful words again and falls asleep with a happy smile
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Chapter 20 · 10 illustrations Examination Evening and the Gilded Head
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20·1 On a hot morning before vacation, small children trudge up a lane to the schoolhouse
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20·2 On the boys' bench, the smaller boys swear in the signpainter's boy, who grins
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20·3 At eight in the evening the schoolhouse is lit and hung with garlands.
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20·4 Tom Sawyer freezes mid-speech on the edge of the performers' platform
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20·5 A dark-haired young lady stands still at the edge of the platform on Examination Evening.
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20·6 The mayor hands the first prize to the dark-haired young lady for her Vision
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20·7 A gagged cat sinks from the ceiling scuttle, clawing the air above Mr. Dobbins's wig
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20·8 A gagged grey tabby cat hangs on a string just above the schoolmaster's neat brown wig.
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20·9 The cat whisks the wig away, and the schoolmaster's gilded bald head blazes like a lamp
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20·10 The wig is gone, and the master's gilded bald head blazes in the lamplight
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Chapter 21 · 9 illustrations Tom's dreary vacation, measles and the revival
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21·1 St. Petersburg drowses in the midsummer noon heat beside the wide brown Mississippi
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21·2 The Judge has recovered, so there will be no grand funeral.
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21·3 At old Judge Frazer's funeral, the Cadets of Temperance march in their red sashes behind the hearse.
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21·4 On a rainy Fourth of July, a soaked Tom Sawyer stares across the street at the Senator
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21·5 Tom lies flat and limp in his sickbed, pale and feverish, with the measles rash on his face.
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21·6 Tom, still weak from the measles, runs to Huck Finn as his last hope for a fellow sinner.
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21·7 A storm breaks over the village at night.
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21·8 Tom lies with the quilt pulled to his nose, eyes wide open, lightning glinting in them
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21·9 Pale and thin after the measles, Tom stops at the mouth of a back alley.
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Chapter 22 · 9 illustrations Tom testifies, Injun Joe escapes
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22·1 The sleepy river village lies still in the summer noon heat.
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22·2 At twilight, Muff Potter reaches through the jail bars and touches Tom's cheek in thanks.
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22·3 On the morning of the trial the whole village packs into the courthouse.
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22·4 Muff Potter's lawyer, silent until now, rises at the defence table and calls a surprise witness.
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22·5 The packed courtroom turns in amazement to a scared Tom Sawyer on the witness stand
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22·6 When Tom says "behind the elms," Injun Joe's iron calm cracks for a moment.
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22·7 At the height of his testimony, Tom flings out his arm and points at Injun Joe across the courtroom.
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22·8 At the height of the trial, Injun Joe crashes through the tall courtroom window in a spray of glass.
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22·9 At night, the boy who was a hero by day lies in bed with the quilt pulled up to his eyes.
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Chapter 23 · 10 illustrations Tom and Huck's first treasure hunt
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23·1 St. Petersburg in midsummer, seen from Cardiff Hill, with the Mississippi shining beyond
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23·2 In a weedy spot at the village edge, Tom leans in to share his treasure plan with Huck
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23·3 At the mention of a brass pot of a hundred dollars, Huck's grey eyes light up
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23·4 Kneeling in the weeds, Tom points to a lone dead tree on the far hill, and Huck nods
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23·5 Under the elm, Huck jerks bolt upright, pipe held out in the air, and stares at Tom.
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23·6 Waist-deep in the hole, Tom slaps his forehead and stares at the dead tree's bare limb
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23·7 Tom and Huck sit in the dead tree's shadow on the moonlit hill, waiting for midnight
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23·8 At midnight, Tom crouches over the treasure hole, imagining a dead man's skull rising
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23·9 Under the midnight moon, Tom's eyes light up with a new idea: the haunted house
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23·10 From the moonlit slope, Tom and Huck stare down at the haunted house in the valley
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Chapter 24 · 12 illustrations The Haunted House and Injun Joe's Gold
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24·1 At still noon, the lone dead tree on the hilltop reaches its limb over a green valley
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24·2 At noon, under a baking sun, Tom and Huck stop at the weed-smothered doorsteps of the haunted house.
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24·3 Tom and Huck peer through knotholes as two strangers enter the haunted house below
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24·4 Two boys lie pressed to a gap in the planks of the haunted house.
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24·5 In the loft of the haunted house, Tom rises to slip away alone.
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24·6 Deep in the haunted house, Injun Joe lifts a handful of gold coins from the rotten box
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24·7 Kneeling over the unearthed gold, Injun Joe tells his comrade the job is revenge
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24·8 Injun Joe's hand turns over the boys' rusty pick and his thumb presses into the damp red clay on it.
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24·9 Disguised as the Spaniard, Injun Joe climbs the rotten stairs, hand on his bowie knife
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24·10 The rotten stairs collapse under Injun Joe, and he struggles up cursing from the timbers
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24·11 In the dusk woods, Tom realises Injun Joe's revenge may be meant for him and Huck
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24·12 At dusk, Huck ambles down Cardiff Hill toward the lit windows of the village, relieved
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Chapter 25 · 8 illustrations Number Two turns out to be a tavern room
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25·1 Before sunrise, St. Petersburg sleeps above the wide, still Mississippi.
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25·2 At dawn Tom throws off the quilt, sits on the bed's edge and reaches for his clothes
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25·3 On a lazy morning, Huck sits slumped on an old flatboat with his feet in the Mississippi
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25·4 On a flatboat gunwale, Tom grabs Huck's sleeve, realising yesterday's treasure was real
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25·5 Squatting on the flatboat deck, Tom suddenly cracks the riddle: "Number Two" is a room in a tavern.
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25·6 Room No. 2 of the less ostentatious tavern is shuttered tight in broad morning daylight.
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25·7 On the flatboat, Huck clenches his fist and vows to follow Injun Joe alone in the dark
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25·8 On the sunny flatboat deck, Tom thrusts out his hand to seal the pact and Huck meets it
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Chapter 26 · 8 illustrations The unlocked door and the sleeping Injun Joe
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26·1 St. Petersburg sleeps on a clear summer night beside the wide Mississippi.
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26·2 An hour before midnight, the tavern's lamps go out and its alley sinks into darkness
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26·3 A lantern flash breaks the darkness of the alley as Tom tears out shouting "Run!
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26·4 The locked door gives way, and the unwrapped lantern floods the forbidden Room No. 2 with light.
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26·5 Tom's bare foot freezes just above Injun Joe's sleeping hand in the harsh lantern light
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26·6 Injun Joe lies dead drunk on the floor of Room No. 2, a bottle and tin cup beside him
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26·7 In the old slaughter-house shed, Huck grips Tom's hand and agrees to watch every night
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26·8 Under the slaughter-house shed, Huck vows to haunt the tavern every night for a year
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Chapter 27 · 11 illustrations Picnic, cave, and Huck's night pursuit
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27·1 On a bright summer morning the sleepy river village lies quiet along its bank.
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27·2 Becky is back in town.
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27·3 Tom walks on with the picnic crowd but glances back toward the tavern end of town
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27·4 In the cave's cold vestibule, the hushed children gaze out at the sunlit green valley
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27·5 The picnic party files down the main avenue of McDougal's cave by candlelight
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27·6 On a cloudy night, Huck squats by the old brick store and watches a silent ferry pass
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27·7 In a pitch-dark alley, Huck presses against the bricks as two men slip past with a bundle
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27·8 Huck Finn freezes on the black sumac path.
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27·9 By the widow's stile in the dark sumac lane, Injun Joe says his revenge is aimed at her
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27·10 Deep in the dark sumac lane, Huck freezes mid-step as a twig cracks under his foot.
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27·11 On Cardiff Hill, Huck recoils from the boulder as gunfire flashes in the sumac thicket
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Chapter 28 · 9 illustrations Huck's secret and the children lost in the cave
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28·1 Cardiff Hill lies silent in the first grey light of Sunday morning.
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28·2 Before dawn, the old Welshman leans from his upper window to welcome the boy at his door
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28·3 In the Welshman's kitchen, Huck whispers his deadliest secret into the old man's ear
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28·4 In an extreme close-up, Huck stares wide-eyed across the breakfast table without breathing.
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28·5 The congregation stops on its way out of the church.
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28·6 Mrs. Thatcher faints into Mrs. Harper's arms in her pew as Aunt Polly weeps
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28·7 The whole town of St. Petersburg rushes toward the cave.
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28·8 Deep in McDougal's cave, a searcher's candle lights up BECKY & TOM smoked on the rock
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28·9 At Huck's sickbed, Widow Douglas suddenly bursts into tears when she hears Tom's name.
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Chapter 29 · 10 illustrations Lost in the cave
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29·1 From a high crack in McDougal's cave, tiny candle flames move along the avenue
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29·2 Tom squeezes behind the stone Niagara and finds a steep secret stairway going down into the dark.
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29·3 Tom and Becky rest on a low boulder at the edge of an endless underground lake.
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29·4 Deep in the cave, Tom admits they're lost and Becky cries out in despair by a blank wall
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29·5 Deep in the cave, Tom silently blows out Becky's candle to save light.
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29·6 A short tallow stub stuck in clay on the wet cave wall is Tom and Becky's last light
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29·7 The last instant before total darkness in the cave.
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29·8 At the dead end of the passage, the candle Tom took for rescue shows Injun Joe's face.
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29·9 In the cave's total darkness, Tom kisses Becky's forehead as she lies still on the ledge
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29·10 Tom crawls into a low side passage with the kite-line as Becky watches from the ledge
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Chapter 30 · 7 illustrations Rescue, and Injun Joe sealed in the cave
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30·1 At Tuesday dusk, St. Petersburg lies hushed and grieving as searchers walk slowly home
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30·2 At midnight, St. Petersburg fills the main street and carries the lost children home
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30·3 In the black passage, Tom guides the exhausted Becky toward a tiny speck of daylight
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30·4 In McDougal's cave, a messenger follows the twine to the exhausted Judge Thatcher
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30·5 Judge Thatcher holds up the three iron keys that lock the cave door on Injun Joe
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30·6 Tom goes chalk-white as he realizes Injun Joe is locked inside the sealed cave
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30·7 Tom has just had a glass of water thrown in his face.
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Chapter 31 · 12 illustrations Injun Joe's death and the treasure found
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31·1 Chapter 31 opens on a quiet afternoon above the Missouri shore.
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31·2 The cave door opens on Injun Joe, lying dead with his face pressed to the crack
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31·3 In the cave vestibule, barefoot Tom stands by the broken stalagmite and hollowed stone
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31·4 Behind a shed, Tom crouches by Huck and whispers that the treasure is in the cave
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31·5 Tom whispers that the treasure is in the cave, and hope flares in Huck's fever-pale face.
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31·6 Deep in McDougal's cave, a cross smeared in candle-smoke shows on the great rock
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31·7 In McDougal's cave, Tom's Barlow knife digs four inches under the cross and hits wood
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31·8 Tom's candle opens a hidden cavern at the end of the winding rift.
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31·9 Deep in McDougal's cave, Huck plunges his hand into the gold as Tom holds up the candle
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31·10 At the Widow Douglas's, a clay-smeared Tom cuffs tattling Sid and kicks him to the door
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31·11 At the Widow Douglas's supper, Tom half-rises and stuns the room: Huck don't need it
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31·12 Tom pours a stream of gold onto the Widow Douglas's supper-table: half Huck's, half his
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Chapter 32 · 8 illustrations Huck flees riches, is lured back by the gang
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32·1 St. Petersburg sits low along the calm Mississippi, with Cardiff Hill green above it
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32·2 The whole village of St. Petersburg crowds the main street to admire Tom and Huck
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32·3 Becky gazes up proudly as Judge Thatcher paces the parlour, praising Tom's noble lie
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32·4 On the third morning Tom finds the missing Huck behind the abandoned slaughter-house.
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32·5 Huck leans out of his hogshead and pushes his palm toward Tom, refusing his fortune
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32·6 Huck sits on the rim of his hogshead behind the slaughter-house.
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32·7 Huck lifts his head and says he will go back to the widow for a place in Tom's gang
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32·8 Behind the slaughter-house, Huck leaps into the air and flings his ruined hat skyward
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