THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER - online book

Original Illustrated Version By Mark Twain

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sun rose upon a tranquil world, and beamed down upon the peaceful village like a benediction. Breakfast over, Aunt Polly had family worship; it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scrip­tural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai.
Then Tom girded up his loins, so to speak, and went to work to " get his with                                   verses." Sid had learned his lesson
                                                          days before. Tom bent all his ener-
gies to the memorizing of five verses, and he chose part of the Sermon on the Mount, because he could find no verses that were shorter. At the end of half an hour Tom had a vague general idea of his lesson* but no more, for his
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