Show whitewashing N G As depicted historically byl b ta twain tom tom aP appeared on the sidewalk with abecket a bucket of wilt whitewash and a lone long handled brush he ile surveyed the fence and all gladness left him and a melancholy settled down u upon pon his spirit thirty yards of board fen fence ce nine feet high bight life to him seemed hollow and existence but a burden sighing he be dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank reli repeated the operation i did it again compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far ar reaching continent of fence and sat down on a tree box discouraged he ile began to think of the fun he be had planned for this day arid his ilia sorrows multiplied soon th the 0 free boys would come tripping along on all sorts of delicious expeditions and they would make a world of fum fun of him mill for having to work tho very i thought of ff ft burnt him like fire he ile got out his worldly wealth and examined it bits of toys marble marbles s and trash enough to buy bui an exchange of dvork maybe but not half enough to buy BO so much aa as half halt an hour of pure freedom so he returned his liis straightened means to hi his pocket and gave up the idea of trying to buy the boys at this dark and hopeless moment an all inspiration burst upon him nothing lees less than a great magnificent in spira tion he ile took up his ilia brush and went tranquilly to work ben rogers hove in sight presently the very bobof boy of all boys whose ridi ridic cula uld ho be had bad been dreading bens gait was the hop bop skip and jump proof enough that his heart was light and his an all high ho lie was eating an apple and giving a lone melodious wil whoop cop at intervals followed by a deep toned ding dong dong ding dong dongdong dong for he was personating perso t a steamboat As he drew near he e slackened speed took the tile mildd middle le of the street leaned far over to a starboard stara tara and rounded to ponder ponderously OU sly and with laborious pomp and circum stance for he lie was personating the big missouri and considered himself to bo be drawing nine feet of water he ile was boat and captain and eni ens gine bells combined so ho he hadbo had to imagine himself standing on his own hurricane deck giving g the orders and executing them 6 stop her sir sirl ting a ling ling the headway ran almost out and ho he drew up lip slowly toward the sidewalk ship up to back ting a lings ling ling lingl his arms straightened and stiffened down his sides set her tier back on the starboard stab board boardl ting a ling ling choly ch ell chow chow his right hand band meantime rut iv lt was representing a forty foot wheel let her go back on oil the larboard lab board boardl ting tinga a 1 ling ing 1 ling ing chow ch cli the left hand began to describe circles stop the tile stab boardl ting tinga a ling stop the larboard lab board come ahead on the stab boardl Sto stop pherl herl let your our outside turnover turn over slow ting a ting ieng ling chow ow ow get out that bead hc adlino line lively bowl now C come dine out with your spring line chaver you about there therel take a turn round that stump with ith the bight of it standby 1 that stage now let her go done with the engine engines sir sirl tingling ting a ling ling shill shaf tr arring ring the gauge cocks tom went on whitewashing paid no attention to the steamboat ben stared a moment and then said hl Ili yil youre a stump ain aint you no answer tom surveyed bis his last touch with the eye oran of an artist then tilen lie be gave his brush another another gen lie tic sweep sweet and abd surveyed them result as before ben range ranged dup up alongside of him toms month watered for tha the apple but ho lie stuck to his work ben lien said chap you got to work ork hey tom wheeled suddenly and said evily gitig yau ben I 1 noticing sa siy S iy I 1 im going in id a I 1 am bont you wish you could but of course outlier work t vou u churbe courbe coumbey you ou would ti tom om contemplated the tile boy a bit and SAW what do you call work why aint that work tom resumed hig his white whitewashing kashin I 1 aud and answered carelessly well maybe it Is and maybe it ariit all I 1 know is it suits tom Toul sawyer 11 Y er oh oil corno come now no wYott you dont d ont mean ea to let on that you like it like it well I 1 dont see why f r ought 11 to like it does dues a boy wy get a chance jo to whitewash a fence every day this put the tile tiling in a new light ben beki stopped nibbling his apple tom swept hia ilia brush daintily back and forth stepped back bacle to td note hote t the lie effect added aldel a touch here and there C criticized criticised tho tile effect again ins ing every move and getting etting fe more and more interest interested W marq and more absorbed presently he lie said sav say toma tom let me tile whitewash sh a little 0 tom ton considered was about to consent but lie altered liis his mind no 1 no lo I 1 reckon it would hardly do ben you see aunt hollys awful 9 parti artica cu lar tar about this fence right here ere on the street you know but if it was the back fence I 1 mind and she yes sties awful particular about this fence its got to be done very careful I 1 crecion reckon there aint aln t one boy in a thousand mayba maybe two thousand that can do it in the way its gotto bo be done noia nois no ia Is that so oh 01 come I 1 now lemmo lemine just tr try r only just a little pd id let you yon if you was n as inetor me tom ben id like to honest 1 but aunt PO polly HY well jim wanted to do it U but she alfe let him hill sid bid wanted to 41 do it but she silo let et sid now 0 dont yott see fixed if you was to tackle this fence and anything was to happen to it oil chuckel as care fult now no an try sav say ill give you the tile core of my iny apple I well lVell hero here no NO en now dont im geared ill you all allO ot fitl lit tho the brugh bg with re tom gave U P luchanie luc tanie tance in hi hia face emual eb but ual alacrity worked in hia his heart and while 1 0 ben and sweated in the surf sue the retired artist eat sat on a barrel in the shade close by dangled hia his legs munched his ills apple and planned the slaughter of more or I 1 innocents cents there waa was no lack of mater material ial boya boys happened alona along every little while they came to jeor jeer hut but remained to whitewash by the tile tim time 0 ben den was fagged bagged out tom had traded tho the next chance to billy fisher for a kite in rood good repair and when he played out johnny miller bought in for a ded rat and a string to awing swing it with and so on and so on ho hour U after rafter hour and when the middle of the afternoon came from being a poor poverty stricken boy in the morning tom was lite literally leroll ly rolli roll ing in n wealth he ile bad had besides the things thines before mentioned twelve marbles part of ofa a jews harp a piece of bauo bottle glassco glass to look through a spool pool cannon a ke key y that wouldn t ck anything a fragment of chalk a glass topper of a decanter la a tin soldier a couple of tadpoles six fire firc crackers a kitten with only one eye a brass doorknob door acor knob a doy collar but codog no dog the handle of a knife four pieces of orange peel and a dilapi dated old window eash sash tom had had lad a nicci good idle time all the while plenty ae T t of company pa ny and the fence 1114 had tareo coats of whitewash on if ciflie he run butof out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in ali the village he ile said to himself that it was not such a hollow bollow world after all he had discovered a great law of human action without knowing it namely that in order to make a man or a box boy covet a thing it is only necessary to make it difficult to attain |