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Том Сойер - обыкновенный американский мальчишка, увлекающийся и, по мнению взрослых, непослушный, неугомонный выдумщик, но и верный друг. Герой Марка Твена подкупает находчивостью и простодушием, предприимчивостью и любопытством. Приключения Тома помогают увидеть врожденную доброту мальчика, неподдельную жажду свободы и справедливости.
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347If he hadn't run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in the village.
348Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all.
349He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it--namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
350If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
351And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement.
352There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.
353The boy mused awhile over the substantial change which had taken place in his worldly circumstances, and then wended toward headquarters to report.
354CHAPTER III
355TOM presented himself before Aunt Polly, who was sitting by an open window in a pleasant rearward apartment, which was bedroom, breakfast-room, dining-room, and library, combined.
356The balmy summer air, the restful quiet, the odor of the flowers, and the drowsing murmur of the bees had had their effect, and she was nodding over her knitting --for she had no company but the cat, and it was asleep in her lap.
357Her spectacles were propped up on her gray head for safety.
358She had thought that of course Tom had deserted long ago, and she wondered at seeing him place himself in her power again in this intrepid way.
359He said:
360"Mayn't I go and play now, aunt?"
361"What, a'ready?
362How much have you done?"
363"It's all done, aunt."
364"Tom, don't lie to me--I can't bear it."
365"I ain't, aunt; it IS all done."
366Aunt Polly placed small trust in such evidence.
367She went out to see for herself; and she would have been content to find twenty per cent. of Tom's statement true.
368When she found the entire fence whitewashed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable.
369She said:
370"Well, I never!
371There's no getting round it, you can work when you're a mind to, Tom."
372And then she diluted the compliment by adding, "But it's powerful seldom you're a mind to, I'm bound to say.
373Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you."
374She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and selected a choice apple and delivered it to him, along with an improving lecture upon the added value and flavor a treat took to itself when it came without sin through virtuous effort.
375And while she closed with a happy Scriptural flourish, he "hooked" a doughnut.
376Then he skipped out, and saw Sid just starting up the outside stairway that led to the back rooms on the second floor.
377Clods were handy and the air was full of them in a twinkling.
378They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone.
379There was a gate, but as a general thing he was too crowded for time to make use of it.
380His soul was at peace, now that he had settled with Sid for calling attention to his black thread and getting him into trouble.
381Tom skirted the block, and came round into a muddy alley that led by the back of his aunt's cow-stable.
382He presently got safely beyond the reach of capture and punishment, and hastened toward the public square of the village, where two "military" companies of boys had met for conflict, according to previous appointment.
383Tom was General of one of these armies, Joe Harper (a bosom friend) General of the other.
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