Tom Sawyer, Detective

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Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer, Detective

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Now I never would ‘a’ thought of that. But he was right. Tom Sawyer was always right–the levelest head I ever see, and always AT himself and ready for anything you might spring on him. By this time his aunt Polly was all straight again, and she let fly. She says:

“You’ll be excused! YOU will! Well, I never heard the like of it in all my days! The idea of you talking like that to ME! Now take yourself off and pack your traps; and if I hear another word out of you about what you’ll be excused from and what you won’t, I lay I’LL excuse you–with a hickory!”

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