But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round – more than a body could tell what to do with. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. We got six thousand dollars apiece – all gold. Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. Aunt Polly – Tom’s Aunt Polly, she is – and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary.
There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. YOU don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer but that ain’t no matter. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.
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