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Show T h e S t o r y of T h o m a s The S e c o n d* l i m r> b v» J g Dear friends": ; in America* * £;-,'. /-•:•- ,* You are^of course familiar with **$$ 'st3ry& of Thomas the ffirot ? His familiar name was I neliev* f Tom Sawyer and his l i f e lias been written up by that great chronicler of 0*HrtS§* Ma i* «wain* I r i o r l y "summaif'ierf the event in question^ w&§ a a s roJ*~ 1 * ~ (lOWS* Tern l i v e d with his mother s/who by the wate was a s t r i c t diseS » l i a * * i u * « in one of the flatest towns in a^ f l a t state -pro-telly Kansas , but it may have been Indiana, or Miascvri* • _• The- cnieir and onlv source of amusement to a growing boy w»e fca £ e b a ll Hinl 5* T t r y ©•citing- goae had been scheduled for one warm summer 'afternoon, when at cTinr:er Ton's mother spake as Wllovs ; "Thomas ,i have obtained a bucket of whitewash from deaccn P e t t i n g i l l and the foan of his brush and this afternoon yov must whitewash the garden fence clear across the lot facing the s t r e et i n vain did Tom plead for a *©»t*©iie»ot*t of 1 he job on the ground a previous engagement .That fence musi be Onltevaonea before sundown and he was the 099 to do it * From prfcrious encounters Tom knew that n e i t h e r i M M lt nor special f a d i n g would prevail .So after i &***J» *£f t he whitewash and the brush and slowly . s u l l e n l y » set about his t e r r i b l e afternoons work* ^ :_;, LM^mmmm *>+ ^*** •*&. I n half an hour he had whitewashed three pickets at jMefi *^ rate he calculated ,with e a t i o f a c t i o n , . i t would take him j u s t lb hours to complete his ***** ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ n _ }n i i f M oni tei|a Wa with Ike off******* useless ******** **** ' yVF d C i n ?%he n o W r «M ****** l o t s of ^ Question WMiio op 2n« B Ai imn i*tt ".nvul ^co1in- t-o' Uifc^B aset h ios ajLl«r " preceding to Lswer Number 2 " Hot much * e n t ^ d o ^ h i - ^ P g j M ^ „ # applv the ormom • waix*3 •»«• * **. v o u ei ^ Question Number 3. Let me do a few^ won^t f - J• ^ y o « ^ 2 ^ ^~ Answer Number threw . • TShat _ * * " • * » B„ - . to --d•gx^---*^<'>Sh»^»eV''• r e s u l t of the bartering **•« «•% • • • . -Sf one agate S c o r n s 0 S U " 2 S S for their n» Being member,. ^ ^ ^ i t t h a t , - diFf»»n* Woe*, of the s ^ n t ' ^ ^ " ^ f e n c e stood B a s e b a l l was forgotten and when the sur*ent aown that night f o r t h in ghostly whiteness and when he vent to i},fc f S l o w f n f ' a r ^ " t i l * £ » & * , & « • < * VS2 agaV es 3 fish hooks and a short fishline & broken jack-knife ens n i & « i i | y only partly tucked a poeker compass with i t s nand gone CPVPPRI nieces of kite s t r i n g • a poctet Pmatchs a fe with the spring very weak 2 brass hiinges and an old key v , a wad of chewing gum,-used but once a cosb with fully half i t s te*th intact a l i t t l e t i n c i g a r e t t e boar and two one cent pieces « / |
