Chapter 18
The Glory of a Pirate and a Spilled Inkpot
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1 Saturday dusk on the Mississippi: Jackson's Island lies dark, and the lit village waits
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2 Aunt Polly half-rises from her chair with her hands raised in awe at Tom's "prophetic dream."
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3 Aunt Polly crushes Tom in a tearful embrace and forgives him everything
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4 Tom swaggers like a pirate through the village, a flock of small boys at his heels
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5 In the sunlit schoolyard, the girls clap around Becky over her picnic invitations.
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6 Tom has walked off with Amy.
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7 Tom stops short as Becky and Alfred Temple bend close over a picture-book
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8 Behind the schoolhouse at noon, Becky wheels on Alfred in a burst of angry misery.
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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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10 In the empty noon schoolroom, Alfred Temple pours the last of the ink over Tom's spelling-book.
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11 Becky stands outside the schoolhouse window.
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