Tom Sawyer
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was a boy, not one of the sort that you read about in good books,
but a little devil, never malicious and always at some trick, and in the course
of years he engaged in a multitude, all of which are here recorded in Twain's
style. He had special aversions for church, Sunday school, pious people, d ....
Middle of paper
.... a chance to show his learning,
so he asked him who were the first two of the twelve Apostles to follow Jesus,
it being presumed that the prize boy knew such things perfectly, for the lesson
of the term had been in the study of the four Gospels. Tom felt the necessity of
giving some answer, and his was "David and Goliath," to the surprise of the
visitor, the consternation of the head teacher and the amusement of the school.
When Tom went to church he took a large snapping bug (which has a grip ....
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