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Упражнения

1. Ответь на вопросы:

1) Who did Tom live with?

2) In what room did she find Tom?

3) How did Tom manage to escape?

4) Was Aunt Polly strict?

5) Who is Sid?

2. Поставь предложения в правильном порядке:

1) Each of the boys said he was going to beat the other one.

2) Tom chased him home, and waited at the gate for some time, inviting the enemy to come outside.

3) Aunt Polly asked him difficult questions about his classes – she wanted to make him tell her the truth.

4) Tom forgot his girlfriend, Amy Lawrence right at once.

05) Mary had collected two Bibles in this way – it cost her two years of work.

06) Mary took care of the process.

07) Tom’s mouth watered for the apple, but he continued working.

08) The visitors were: Judge Thatcher, brother of the village lawyer and a well-dressed lady, his wife.

09) The teacher gave Tom the prize.

10) On his way to school Tom met Huckleberry Finn, the local drunkard’s son.

3. Выскажи свое мнение о:

1) Tom Sawyer

2) Aunt Polly

3) Sid

4) Huckleberry

5) Becky

4. Что обозначают выделенные слова?

1) The drawing was ugly but the girl liked it.

2) ‘I say, Becky, have you ever been engaged?’

3) All mothers forbade their children to approach him.

4) He doubted that the boy knew a dozen verses, not to speak of two thousand.

5. Поставь глаголы, встречающиеся в тексте, в прошедшее время:

1) Know – ________________

2) See – __________________

3) Meet – _________________

6. Вставь правильную форму глагола to be в прошедшем времени: was или were.

1) Anyway, Mr. Walters was glad that there _____ a prize-winner in his class.

2) Monday mornings _____ always like that because they began another week’s suffering in school.

3) You take your cat and go to the graveyard about midnight when somebody who _____ bad has just been buried.

4) He even had shoes on – and it _____ only Friday.

7. Выбери правильный вариант в соответствии с текстом: true или false (правда/ложь).

1) Huck and Tom went to the same school.

2) Tom and Huck were friends.

3) Tom and Huck went to the graveyard to bury the dead cat.

4) Becky was angry with Tom because he kissed her.

5) Tom painted the fence by himself.

8. Ответь, о ком идет речь:

1) _______________ told aunt Polly that Tom hadn’t been to school.

2) _______________ threw a flower to Tom.

3) _______________ gave Tom a knife as an award.

4) _______________ were the important guests in the Sunday school.

5) _______________ was going to the graveyard with Tom.

6) _______________ was Tom’s new love.

9. Вставь подходящее слово:

bright great happy depressed

1) Saturday morning came, and all the summer world was _____ and fresh.

2) When he looked at the fence, so long and high, he felt_____.

3) Tom’s army won a _____ victory, after a long and hard battle.

4) Tom was so _____ with his new love that he even wasn’t offended when Aunt Polly accused him of stealing sugar.

10. Объясни, почему:

1) Tom forgot his first love.

2) Aunt Polly was strict to him.

3) Tom got the prize, although he hadn’t learnt the verses.

Charter 2

* * *

He entered a dense wood, went as far as to the centre of it, and sat down under a tree. It seemed to him that all his life was but a trouble. Now, this girl. He had done nothing to her and been treated like a dog. She would be sorry some day!

What if he disappeared mysteriously now? What if he went away and never came back any more! How would she feel then!

He would be a pirate! His name would fill the world, and make people tremble! ‘It’s Tom Sawyer the Pirate! – the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main!’ everybody would say.

Yes, his career was determined. He would run away from home and become a pirate. He would start the next morning.

* * *

At half-past nine, that night, Tom and Sid were sent to bed, as usual. Sid was soon asleep. Tom felt sleepy too. The clock struck eleven, but he did not hear it. And then there came a most melancholy caterwauling.

Tom woke and dressed up, ‘meowed’ once or twice, then jumped to the ground. Huckleberry Finn was there, with his dead cat. The boys moved off and at the end of half an hour they were in the graveyard.

The graveyard was old.

They found the new grave they were looking for and hid under a tree within a few feet of the grave.

They waited in silence for what seemed a long time.

‘Hucky, do you believe the dead people like us to be here?’ Tom asked.

Huckleberry whispered: ‘I wish I knew…’

Tom seized his friend’s arm and said:

‘Sh!’

‘What is it, Tom?’

‘Sh! There it is again! Didn’t you hear it?’

‘Lord, Tom, they’re coming! They’re coming for sure. What’ll we do?’

‘I don’t know. Do you think they’ll see us?’

‘Oh, Tom, they can see in the dark, same as cats. I wish I hadn’t come.’

The boys bent their heads together and nearly stopped breathing. A sound of voices could be heard in the far end of the graveyard. Then they saw some lights – and three figures.

‘Look! See there!’ whispered Tom. ‘What is it?’

‘It’s the devils sure enough. Three of them!

Oh, Tom, we’re goners! ‘Sh!’

‘What is it, Huck?’

‘They’re HUMANS! One of them is. I recognize Muff Potter’s voice.

‘I say, Huck, I know another voice; it’s Injun Joe.’

‘What can they be up to?’

The three men had reached the grave and stood within a few feet of the boys’ hiding place.

‘Here it is,’ said the third voice; and the boys saw young Doctor Robinson.

Potter and Injun Joe were carrying a rope and a couple of spades. They began to open the grave. The doctor sat down with his back against one of the trees.

Finally a spade struck upon the coffin, and within another minute or two they took it out, got out the body and threw it on the ground.

‘Now, Doc, give us another five, and he’s yours’ said Muff Potter.

‘Look here, what does this mean?’ said the doctor. ‘I paid you in advance, didn’t I?’

‘Remember, five years ago you drove me away from your father’s kitchen one night, when I come to ask for something to eat,’ said Injun Joe, approaching the doctor, who was now standing. – ‘And your father had me jailed for a vagrant. Did you think I’d forget? I swore I’d revenge.

While he was saying that the doctor struck out Maff Potter suddenly, he dropped his knife, and seemed to faint.

Injun Joe saw his chance. He seized the knife, jumped to his feet and killed the doctor.

‘THAT score is settled – damn you.’ He said to himself.

Then he robbed the body, put the knife in Potter’s open right hand, and sat down on the coffin. After about five minutes Potter began to move and his hand closed upon the knife.

‘Lord, how is this, Joe?’ he said. ‘What did you do it for?’

‘I! I didn’t do it!’

‘Tell me, Joe – HONEST, now, old fellow – did I do it? Joe, I never wanted to do it, I never wanted to, Joe. Tell me how it was, Joe. Oh, it’s terrible!’

‘Why, you two were fighting, he hit you, you fell, then you jumped on your feet and killed him.’

‘Oh, I didn’t know what I was doing! Say you won’t tell anyone, Joe. I always liked you, Joe. Do you remember? You WON’T tell, WILL you, Joe?’ And Muff dropped on his knees before the murderer.

‘No, you’ve always been fair with me, Muff Potter, and I won’t fail you.’

‘Oh, Joe, you’re an angel.’ And Potter began to cry.

After two or three minutes only the moon was looking at the murdered man, the corpse in a blanket, the open coffin, and the open grave.

* * *

The two boys flew on and on, toward the village.

‘If we can only get to the old tannery before we break down!’ whispered Tom, ‘I can’t stand it much longer.’

At last, they burst through the open door and fell on the floor.

Tom whispered:

‘Huckleberry, what do you think will happen next?’

‘If Doctor Robinson dies, the murderer will be hanged.’

‘Shall we report Injun Joe?’

‘What are you talking about? What if they don’t execute Injun Joe? Why, he’d kill us.’

‘That’s just what I was thinking to myself, Huck.’

Tom was deep in thought. Then he said:

‘Hucky, are you sure you can keep silent?’

‘Tom, we’ve GOT to. You know that. Injun would drown us like a couple of cats, if we don’t. Tom, let’s swear to one another – that’s what we got to do – swear to keep silent.’

‘I agree. It’s the best thing. – But swearing should be in writing and in blood.’

He picked up a clean pine shingle that lay in the moonlight, and wrote:

‘Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swears they will keep mum about This and They wish They may Drop down dead if They ever Tell.

So Tom took one of his needles, and each boy pricked his thumb and squeezed out a drop of blood. Tom wrote his name. Then he showed Huckleberry how to write an H and an F. They buried the shingle close to the wall.

Suddenly they heard a dog howling.

The friends were scared. They were sure: if a dog howls, people who are around are going to die.

Then another noise drew their attention.

‘Somebody is snoring, Tom.’

They went to look who it was – and saw Muff Potter. He had crept through a break in the other end of the building, but they hadn’t noticed him.

They walked out.

When Tom crept in at his bedroom window the night was almost over. He undressed quietly, and fell asleep, glad that nobody knew of his adventure. He did not know that Sid who was snoring loud was awake, and had been so for an hour.

When Tom awoke, Sid was dressed and gone. Why had Tom not been called? The family were still at table, but they had finished breakfast. He sat down and tried to seem gay, but it was impossible; he could not smile. He went to school gloomy and sad. Both he and Joe Harper, were punished for playing hookey the day before.

* * *

At noon the whole village was suddenly worried with the news which flew from man to man, from house to house. Of course the schoolmaster gave holiday for that afternoon.

The knife found close to the murdered man was recognized as belonging to Muff Potter. The Sheriff said that he would be caught before night.

All the town went to the graveyard. Tom joined the crowd. Suddenly his eye fell upon the face of Injun Joe. At this moment some voices shouted, ‘It’s him! it’s him! he’s coming himself!’

‘Who? Who?’ twenty voices asked. ‘Muff Potter!’

The crowd fell apart, now, and the Sheriff came through, leading Potter by the arm.

‘I didn’t do it, friends,’ he sobbed. He saw Injun Joe, and exclaimed:

‘Oh, Injun Joe, you promised me you’d never –’

‘Is that your knife?’ asked the Sheriff. Injun Joe made his statement under oath.

He said that Muff Potter had murdered the young Doctor.

Tom’s secret disturbed his sleep for a week after this; and at breakfast one morning Sid said:

‘You talk in your sleep. Last night you said, ‘It’s blood, it’s blood, that’s what it is!’ And then you added, ‘I’ll tell!’

‘What is it you’ll tell?’

Aunt Polly answered instead of Tom: ‘Oh! It’s that horrible murder. I dream about it every night myself. Sometimes I dream that I have done it.’

Every day or two, during this time of sorrow, Tom used to go to where Muff Potter was kept to give him some food through the grated window.

* * *

Though he was still scared to death of Injun Joe, in the next several days Tom had a reason to forget his secret troubles. He was worried. Becky Thatcher had stopped coming to school. She was ill. What if she died! He no longer took an interest in any games, nor even in piracy. The charm of life was gone. Tom sank into a depression. Aunt Polly tried to help Tom. He was given all sorts of diets, treatments, and medicines. None of them helped, of course. In spite of all this, the boy grew sadder and paler. When water treatment, a new method at that time was not a success she decided to try some new thing, a “Pain Killer”. She gave Tom a teaspoonful and watched waiting for the result. The medicine was very hot, simply fire in a liquid form.

By that time Tom had decided to pick himself up; he just put the “Pain Killer” into a crack in the floor every time it was offered.

Once, just before he threw it away, his aunt’s yellow cat Peter came along.

‘Now you’ve asked for it, and I’ll give it to you”, said Tom.

Peter sprang a couple of yards in the air, and then started running round and round the room, banging against furniture, breaking flower-pots, and making general haos.

‘Tom, what troubles that cat?’

‘I don’t know, aunt,’ replied the boy. ‘Aunt Polly, cats always act so when they’re having a good time.’

‘They do, do they?’ There was something in the tone that made Tom afraid.

‘Now, sir, what did you want to treat that poor animal so?’ She hit Tom over the head with her thimble.

Then Aunt Polly saw the situation in a new light. What was cruelty to a cat MIGHT be cruelty to a boy, too. She began to soften; she felt sorry. She put her hand on Tom’s head and said gently:

‘I wanted the best, Tom. And, Tom, it DID do you good.’

Tom ran off to school. Tom reached school ahead of time. He usually was early these days. And now, as usual, he stayed about the gate of the schoolyard. Instead of playing with his friends he was waiting for Becky to appear. At the last moment, when he almost lost hope, she passed into the schoolyard.

The next moment he was out, and ‘going on’ like an Indian; yelling, laughing, chasing boys, jumping over the fence at risk of life, standing on his head – doing all the heroic things he could think of, and trying to see if Becky Thatcher was noticing.

But she was not paying attention at all; she never looked at him. When he fell under Becky’s nose, she turned, with her nose in the air. And he heard her say: ‘Mf! some people think they’re so smart – always showing off!’

Tom’s cheeks burned.

Словарные слова

determined – определена

caterwauling – мяуканье

goners – покойники

in advance – заранее, наперед

jail – посадить в тюрьму

vagrant – бродяжничество

report – донести

pine shingle – сосновая дощечка

prick – проколоть

squeeze out – выдавить

oath – присяга

grated – зарешеченный

charm – очарование

pain-killer – болеутоляющее средство

liquid – жидкий

pick himself up – взять себя в руки

trouble – беспокоить

Упражнения

1. Вставь правильные предлоги:

1) Becky Thatcher had stopped coming _____ school.

2) You talk _____ your sleep.

3) Of course the schoolmaster gave holiday _____ that afternoon.

4) He would run away _____ home and become a pirate.

5) When Tom crept _____ at his bedroom window the night was almost over.

6) Then Aunt Polly saw the situation _____ a new light.

7) Once, just before he threw it _____, his aunt’s yellow cat Peter came along.

8) But she was not paying attention at all; she never looked _____ him.

2. Соедини первую и вторую форму глаголов:

fall came

hear had

go felt

sit went

come bent

feel fell

find heard

bend sat

have found

3. Поставь слова в правильном порядке, чтобы получились предложения:

1) Thought, was, Tom, in, deep

2) Attention, drew, their, then, noise, another

3) Graveyard, the, all, the, went, to, town

4. Что обозначают выделенные слова?

1) At noon the whole village was suddenly worried with the news which flew from man to man, from house to house.

2) The knife found close to the murdered man was recognized as belonging to Muff Potter.

3) The two boys flew on and on, toward the village, speechless with horror.

4) The doctor sat down with his back against one of the trees.

5. Выбери правильный ответ: true или false (правда/ложь).

1) Tom decided to be a pirate.

2) Tom and Huck went to the graveyard to bury the dead cat.

3) The men dug the grave to hide the treasure.

4) Muff Potter demanded 10 dollars from a doctor.

5) Injun Joe killed the doctor because he didn’t pay him for his work.

6) Tom and Huck decided to tell the sheriff who had killed the doctor.

7) Tom visited Muff Potter when he was arrested.

8) Becky Thatcher didn’t come to school because she was ill.

6. Вставь подходящее по смыслу слово:

pain-killer thought graveyard

attention howling

1) Tom was deep in_____.

2) Suddenly they heard a dog_____.

3) All the town went to the_____.

4) But she was not paying _____ at all; she never looked at him.

5) So Tom opened Peter’s mouth and poured down the _____.

7. Найди правильное окончание для каждого предложения:

1) Tom would run away from home and

2) Huckleberry Finn was there,

3) Doc, give us another five,

4) Swearing should be in writing

5) Cats always act so

6) Instead of playing with his friends Tom

a) and he’s yours.

b) was waiting for Becky to appear.

c) when they’re having a good time.

d) become a pirate.

e) and in blood.

f) with his dead cat.

8. Ответь на вопросы:

1) What did Tom decide to do?

2) What did the boys find on the graveyard?

3) Who did they see there?

9. Кто сказал данные фразы?

1) ‘Now you’ve asked for it, and I’ll give it to you’

2) ‘If we can only get to the old tannery before we break down!’

3) ‘Tell me, Joe – HONEST, now, old fellow – did I do it?’

4) ‘I! I didn’t do it!’

10. Переведи фразы:

1) speechless with horror

2) would drown us like a couple of cats

3) swear to keep silent

4) a dense wood

Charter 3

* * *

Tom decided once and for all, to be a criminal.

As he was walking away from the school house, from the town, from society, he began to cry.

Fortunately, he met his friend Joe Harper, who seemed to be as upset as Tom. Joe had just been whipped by his mother for drinking some cream. He hadn’t drunk any cream. So he was also going to leave his old life behind.

The boys decided to be companions for life, and discussed possible plans. Joe wanted to become a hermit, but Tom quickly talked him into becoming a pirate.

So they agreed to go and live on Jackson’s Island, a little piece of land in the middle of the Mississippi.

They found Huck and he joined their team. That night, Tom, Joe, and Huck met up, each bringing with them some stolen food: a boiled ham, some bacon, and various other supplies.

They stole a small boat and made the short trip over to the island.

Once there, they set up a camp, and got down to discussing the rules of the pirates’ life. Tom said that he knew all about them. Pirates, he told his companions, take ships, steal money and bury it, kill people, etc. But they’re nice and generous enough.

When they lied down to sleep, Tom and Joe were filled with guilt for running away, and for stealing. They decided never to steal as long as they’re pirates.

* * *

When Tom awoke in the morning, he wondered where he was. He sat up and looked around. Then he remembered the night events.

Tom woke up the other pirates and in a minute or two they were chasing each other in the shallow water. They did not miss the little village sleeping in the distance.

They came back to camp and soon had the campfire again. The boys made cups of broad oak leaves. While Joe was cutting bacon for breakfast, Tom and Huck caught some fish. They fried the fish with the bacon, and were surprised; for no fish had ever seemed so delicious before.

They took a swim almost every hour, and got back to camp in the middle of the afternoon. They were too hungry to stop to fish. They started missing their families, even Huck Finn did. But they were all ashamed of their weakness, and none was brave enough to say what he thought.

Then they heard the bell ringing at a distance.

They ran to the bank and saw a little steam ferryboat about a mile below the village. It was crowded with people.

‘I know now what’s happened!’ said Tom; ‘somebody’s drowned!’

‘That’s it!’ said Huck.

The boys listened and watched. Then a thought flashed through Tom’s mind, and he exclaimed:

‘Boys, I know who’s drowned – it’s us!’

They felt like heroes. They were missed. This was fine. It was worthwhile to be a pirate, after all.

At night when his friends were asleep Tom went to the beach.

* * *

Tom swam over to the Illinois shore, sneaked on to the ferry boat which travelled to St. Petersburg, then jumped out before it arrived and waded to the bank – not to be seen.

He went to his house. He did not meet anybody.

When he got there, he saw Aunt Polly, Mrs. Harper, Mary, and Sid around the table in the sitting-room.

Tom opened the door quietly, made his way into the room and disappeared under the bed. Then he crept under the table where he could almost touch his aunt’s foot.

‘He wasn’t BAD’, said Aunt Polly. ‘HE never meant any harm, and he was the best-hearted boy that ever was’ – and she began to cry.

‘It was just so with my Joe – he was always unselfish and kind. I went and whipped him for taking that cream. I forgot that I’d thrown it out myself because it was sour.’

‘Yes, yes, yes, I know just how you feel, Mrs. Harper, I know just exactly how you feel. Yesterday, my Tom gave the cat pain-killer, and I thought the creature would tear the house down. And I hit Tom’s head with my thimble, poor boy, poor dead boy.’

Tom heard the whole story of how the towns-people thought he and his companions had drowned and – which was very important – that their funeral was to be on Sunday.

This news gave him an idea… You’ll know what it was later.

So, Tom kissed Aunt Polly when she fell asleep, sneaked out, “borrowed” a boat from a man who was absent at the time – and returned to the island.

In the morning Tom and his companions had a big breakfast and Tom told them the story of his adventure before getting some sleep which he needed so much.

* * *

After dinner all the gang hunted for turtle eggs. There were plenty of eggs: sometimes they would take fifty or sixty eggs out of one hole. They had a wonderful fried-egg dinner that night, and breakfast on Friday morning.

After breakfast they enjoyed themselves swimming and chasing one another, sunbathing and playing marbles and swimming, again, but they were all getting tired and ready to rest. They went apart, fell on the ground looking across the wide river to where the village was. Tom was writing ‘BECKY’ in the sand; erased it and wrote it again. He was angry with himself for his weakness.

All the boys missed their village. Joe was the most depressed of them all. He was so homesick he was nearly crying. Tom was also sad, but tried hard not to show it. He had a secret which he was not ready to tell, yet. But he decided to open it if things went wrong. He said cheerfully:

‘I’m sure, there used to be pirates on this island, boys. Let’s go and explore it again. They’ve hid treasures here somewhere. It’d be great to find a box full of gold and silver, wouldn’t it?’

But his friends remained indifferent. Tom tried one or two other ideas; but they failed, too. Joe sat looking very miserable. Finally he said:

‘Oh, boys, let’s give it up. I want to go home. It’s so lonesome.’

‘Oh no, Joe, we must be patient – and you’ll feel better,’ said Tom. ‘Just think of the fishing that’s here.’

‘I’m not interested in fishing. I want to go home.’

‘But, Joe, there isn’t such a swimming-place anywhere.’

‘Swimming’s no good. I don’t want to swim, when there’s no one around to say that I shouldn’t. I’m going home.’

“All right, we’ll let the cry-baby go home to his mother, won’t we, Huck? You like it here, don’t you, Huck? We’ll stay, won’t we?’

Huck said, ‘Y-e-s’ – which sounded rather like “No.”

Without saying good-bye, Joe began to wade off toward the Illinois shore. Tom’s heart began to sink. He looked at Huck. Huck dropped his eyes. Then he said:

‘I want to go, too, Tom. Let us go, too, Tom.’

‘I won’t! You can all go, if you want to. I’m staying.’

Huck picked up his clothes and turned to Tom.

‘We’ll wait for you when we get to shore.’

‘Wait! Wait! I want to tell you something!’ shouted Tom.

They stopped. When he got to where they were, and told them his secret. When Joe and Huck saw the ‘point’ of Tom’s story they said it was ‘splendid!’

The boys returned. Tom’s plan was a success.

After dinner, Tom said he wanted to learn to smoke, now. Joe said he would like to try, too. So Huck made pipes and filled them.

The smoke had an unpleasant taste, but Tom said:

‘Why, it’s so easy! If I’d known it was so easy, I’d have learnt long ago.’

‘So would I,’ said Joe.

‘It’s just nothing.’

‘I believe I could smoke this pipe all day,’ said Joe. ‘I don’t feel sick’.

‘Neither do I,’ said Tom. ‘I could smoke it all day.’

But soon things started to go wrong. Both boys were looking very pale and miserable, now. Joe’s pipe dropped from his fingers. Tom’s followed. Joe said in a weak voice:

‘I’ve lost my knife. I must go and find it.’

Tom who could hardly speak said: ‘I’ll help you. No, you needn’t come, Huck – we can find it.’

Huck realised that they felt sick.

They were not talkative at supper that night. And when Huck prepared his pipe after the meal and was going to prepare theirs, they said no, they were not feeling very well – something they ate at dinner had disagreed with them.

About midnight Joe awoke, and called the boys. They could feel some danger. Soon, lightning could be seen in the distance, and rain began to fall.

The boys ran from their camp to a tent they set up the first day. The rain was very strong, the thunder was booming. A heavy wind was blowing. They could hear trees falling in the distance…

When the storm passed over, Tom, Huck, and Joe went back to their camp, which they found absolutely destroyed; a huge tree had fallen right onto the spot where they once slept. Fortunately, there was some of their fire left over, and they managed to make it larger.

After drying themselves off and having some very late second supper, they spent the rest of the evening talking; there wasn’t a single place dry enough for them to sleep on.

The next day they returned to their games, pretended to be Indians for a while, smoked the pipe, and had dinner.

* * *

There was no joy in the little town that Saturday afternoon.

In the school yard Becky Thatcher was very sad because of her argument with Tom.

‘He’s gone now; I’ll never, never, never see him any more.’

This thought broke her heart, and she went away in tears. Then a group of boys and girls – Tom’s and Joe’s friends – came by discussing who was the last to see the boys alive, what Tom did, and how Joe said this and that. These things seemed so important now.

The next morning, the bell began to toll, instead of ringing in the usual way. The villagers began to gather discussing the sad event in whispers.

The little church was full. When Aunt Polly, Sid and Mary, and the Harper family appeared, all in deep black, all the people rose.

The priest prayed, and started his speech. He described the boys’ politeness, talents, kind hearts. Most people felt uneasy since they had thought the same boys to be young hooligans.

Sobs could be heard here and there and finally the priest himself burst out crying.

A moment later the church door opened. All the people rose and looked while the three dead boys came in. They had been hiding in the unused gallery observing preparations to their own funeral!

Aunt Polly, Mary, and the Harpers hugged Tom and Joe while poor Huck stood uncomfortable, aside. He was about to leave when Tom took him by the arm and said:

‘Aunt Polly, it isn’t fair. Somebody must be glad to see Huck.’

‘Well, I’m glad to see him, poor motherless thing!’ And Aunt Polly hugged Huck too.

Suddenly the priest shouted at the top of his voice: ‘Praise God! – SING! – and put your hearts in it!’

And they did. Tom Sawyer the Pirate thought that it was the proudest moment of his life.