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English Reading - Чтение на английском Mark TWAIN - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer


Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)

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Born in Florida, Missouri, USA. He became a printer and then pilot of a Mississippi riverboat. In 1867 he published a book of short stories The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, he also wrote Innocents Abroad (1869), Tom Sawyer (1876), Tramp Abroad (1880), Huckleberry Finn (1884), and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889).

"TOM!"

No answer.

"TOM!"

No answer.

"What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!"

No answer.

The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service — she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:

"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll — "

…His aunt Polly stood surprised a moment, and then broke into a gentle laugh.

"Hang the boy, can't I never learn anything? Ain't he played me tricks enough like that for me to be looking out for him by this time? But old fools is the biggest fools there is…Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks. Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it's so. He'll play hookey this evening [Southwestern for "afternoon"], and I'll just be obleeged to make him work, to-morrow, to punish him. It's mighty hard to make him work Saturdays, when all the boys is having holiday, but he hates work more than he hates anything else, and I've got to do some of my duty by him, or I'll be the ruination of the child."…

"Tom, it was middling warm in school, warn't it?"

"Yes'm."

"Powerful warm, warn't it?"

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