THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER - online book

Original Illustrated Version By Mark Twain

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	i68	TOM SAWYER.
	smalier boys Spent their days in terror and suffering and their nights in plot­ting revenge. They threw away no opportunity to do the master a mischief. But he kept ahead all the time. The retribution that followed every vengeful success was so sweeping and majestic that the boys always retired from the field badly worsted. At last they conspired together and hit upon a plan that promised a dazzling victory. They" swore-in the sign-painter's boy, told him the scheme, and asked his help. He had his own reasons for being delighted, for the master boarded in his father's family and had given the boy ample
	EXAMINATION EVENING.
	cause to hate him. The master's wife would go on a visit to the country in a few days, and there would be nothing to interfere with the plan; the master . always prepared himself for great occasions by getting pretty well fuddled, and the sign-painter's boy said that when the dominie had reached the proper con­dition on Examination Evening he would " manage the thing " while he napped