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6Under the cross
The day after Injun Joe's funeral, Huck was out of bed. 
He and Tom walked slowly out of the village. 
They had a good, long talk, and Huck heard all about the picnic, the cave, and Injun Joe.
‘We're never going to find the money now,’ said Huck.
‘Huck,’ said Tom. ‘The money isn't in St Petersburg. It's in the cave— I know it is! 
‘Why was Injun Joe in the cave? Because he took the box of money there! Right?’ 
Huck looked excited. ‘Say that again, Tom!’
‘The money's in the cave! And we can get to it easily. Let's go there now! 
‘I've got some candles and a long string. We can take a boat and put it back later.’
Twenty minutes later the boys were in a boat on the Mississippi. 
They went eight miles down the river, and then Tom stopped by some small trees.
‘Here we are!’ he said. Tom's hole was just behind the trees. 
Tom took a candle and climbed in. Huck climbed in after him.
'Injun Joe never found this hole,’ said Tom. 
‘Or he did find it and couldn't get through it. It's very small.’ 
The boys went carefully through the tunnels with their string. Then Tom stopped.
‘I saw Injun Joe about here,’ he said. ‘And look, Huck— there's the cross!’
There was a big smoke cross on the tunnel wall. 
The boys looked up and down the tunnel, but there was no box of money.
‘Injun Joe said under the cross,’ said Tom. ‘Perhaps it's under the ground. 
‘Look, we can move these stones.’ The boys took their knives and began to dig by the tunnel wall. 
Very soon, they found a second, smaller tunnel under the wall. 
They climbed down into it, and came into a small room. 
There was a bed, two whiskey bottles, some old shoes— and the box of money.
When somebody finds treasure, everybody hears about it very quickly. 
The two boys carried the box through the village. 
And when they got to Aunt Polly's house, half the village was with them. 
Everybody went into the house.
‘Oh, Tom, Tom!’ cried Aunt Polly. ‘What is it now? And what have you got there?’
Tom put the box on the table and opened it.
There were twelve thousand dollars in that box. 
And suddenly, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were the richest people in St Petersburg.

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5In the cave
The next Saturday was Becky Thatcher's birthday, 
and all Becky's friends were very excited.
‘It's going to be a wonderful day,’ Becky told Tom. 
‘We're going to have a picnic by the river, and after that, we can visit McDougal's Cave.’
So in the morning, a big boat took Becky, Tom, and all their friends down the river. 
There were some older children on the boat too, but all the mothers and fathers stayed at home. 
Picnics are better without them!
And it was a very happy, noisy picnic.
After the picnic, the children took out their candles, and ran up the hill to the cave. 
The mouth of the cave was dark, and some of the children were afraid at first. 
But caves are exciting, so in the end everybody went in.
McDougal's Cave was very, very big, with hundreds of tunnels and rooms. 
The tunnels went up, down, and into the hill for miles. 
You could walk for days in McDougal's Cave. 
Nobody knew all the cave, but many people knew the tunnels near the door. 
You could play all day in these tunnels. Tom, of course, knew them well.
For hours the children walked and ran through the cave, up and down the tunnels, in and out of the rooms. 
In the evening they came out, and walked down the hill to the boat, tired but happy.
When the boat arrived back in St Petersburg, it was dark. 
Huck Finn saw the boat, but he did not know about the picnic.
He did not go to birthday picnics, of course, because the mothers of St Petersburg did not like him. 
But tonight Huck was only interested in treasure— Injun Joe's treasure. 
Injun Joe was in an old building by the river, and Huck waited in the street near the building.
‘Perhaps,’ he thought, ‘Injun Joe's cross is in there. And the box of money. 
‘I must wait and watch. I can tell Tom about it tomorrow.’
But Injun Joe didn't come out. 
At midnight it began to rain, and Huck waited all night in the cold street. 
In the morning he could not move and he could not speak. 
He felt cold, then hot, then cold, then hot again. 
Mrs Douglas, a woman from the church, found him in the street. 
She took him to her home and put him to bed.
And there he stayed for two weeks. 
He was very ill, and so he did not hear about Tom and Becky.
But on Sunday morning all St Petersburg knew about Tom and Becky— 
because they were not on the boat when it came back to the village. 
Where were they? Were they lost in the cave? And were they alive, or dead?
At first Tom and Becky played with their friends in the cave. 
Then Tom wanted to go down a new tunnel, and Becky went with him.
They walked and talked, and went into a second tunnel, then a third. 
Sometimes Tom put a mark with candle smoke on the tunnel wall— he wanted to find the mouth of the cave again! 
Then they came out of the tunnels into a big room. 
There were hundreds of bats in this room, and the candles woke them up. 
Tom took Becky's hand and they ran into the nearest tunnel, with the bats behind them. 
But one bat hit Becky's candle and it went out. 
The children ran and ran through the tunnels, and at last they got away from the bats. 
They stopped and sat down. Suddenly, it was very, very quiet.
‘Where are we now, Tom?’ Becky whispered, afraid.
‘I don't know,’ said Tom. ‘I think it's time to go back. 
‘But we can't go through that big room because of the bats. Let's go down this tunnel.’
They went down one tunnel, then a second, a third, a fourth... 
Then they wanted to find the big room with the bats again, but they couldn't. 
Becky began to cry: ‘Tom, we can't get out. We're lost, Tom, we're lost!’
They walked, and walked. When they were tired, they sat down. Then they got up and walked again. 
Time went by. Was it day, or night? They didn't know.
Then Tom wanted to find water. They had nothing to eat, and they must have something to drink. 
They found a very small river and sat down next to it.
‘Becky,’ said Tom. ‘We must stay here. Near this river. This is our last candle, and...’
He did not finish, but Becky understood. 
‘Tom?’
‘Yes, Becky.’
‘Are they going to come and look for us?’
‘Of course! When the boat gets to St Petersburg—’
‘But how can they find us, in these hundreds of tunnels? Oh, Tom, Tom, we're going to die in here!’
Becky began to cry again. Then the candle went out and the two children were in the dark. 
They sat for hours and hours. 
They slept a little, then woke up, then slept again. 
Was it Sunday now? Or Monday?
Suddenly Tom sat up. ‘Listen! Somebody's calling!’ 
The two children listened. They heard it again, a little nearer. 
They called back; then they began to walk down the tunnel in the dark, with their hands on the wall. 
They stopped and listened again, but now they couldn't hear anything. 
Slowly, they went back to their river.
They slept again, and woke up very, very hungry.
‘Perhaps it's Tuesday now,’ Tom thought. ‘What can I do? I must do something!’ 
Then he had an idea. ‘Becky, listen. I've got a long string in my pocket. 
‘I can go down some of the small tunnels and get back to you with the string. You wait here.’
Slowly and carefully, Tom went down the first tunnel on his hands and knees. 
Then the tunnel wall on his right finished, and there was nothing. 
Tom put out his hand to feel the floor. 
And just then, away to his right, he saw a hand— a hand with a candle.
At once Tom called out. ‘Help!’ he cried.
The hand moved, and Tom saw an arm and a face. 
It was Injun Joe! Tom was very afraid, but Injun Joe was afraid too, and he quickly ran away down the tunnel.
Tom went back to Becky, but he did not tell her about Injun Joe. 
Tom waited for an hour, then went into a different tunnel with his string. Then a third tunnel...
It was Tuesday evening, and St Petersburg waited. 
Many of the villagers were in the cave, and they looked for the children day and night. 
But they heard nothing, saw nothing, and found nothing.
Then, late that evening, there was a sudden noise in the streets. 
People began to run to the Thatchers’ house. ‘They're here! Becky and Tom are here!’
Most of the village came to listen to Tom's story.
‘It was in the sixth tunnel,’ he told them. ‘I went to the end of my string, 
‘and suddenly, I could see daylight! There was a little hole in the cave wall. 
‘I put my head out, and there was the river, right under my nose! 
‘I went back and got Becky, and we climbed out through the hole. 
‘Then we stopped a boat on the river. 
‘We were five miles from the mouth of the cave!’
Tom was very tired after his three days in the cave, 
and he went to bed and stayed there for two days.
He heard about Huck and went to see him on Sunday, and then every day. 
But Mrs Douglas was always in the room.
‘You can just say hello,’ she told Tom. ‘And then you must go. Huck is very ill, and he needs to sleep.’
So Tom could not talk about anything exciting, and he could not tell Huck about Injun Joe.
One day, about two weeks after the picnic, Tom was in Becky's house, and her father came in.
‘Well, Tom,’ Mr Thatcher said. ‘Would you like to go back to the cave again, one day?’
‘I'm not afraid of that cave,’ said Tom.
Mr Thatcher laughed. ‘There are a lot of people like you, Tom. But nobody's going into the cave again. 
‘There are big doors across the cave mouth now— and nobody can open them!’
Tom's face went white. ‘But Mr Thatcher— Injun Joe's in that cave!’
An hour later, fifty men were at the cave and they opened the doors. 
Injun Joe was on the ground, dead, his face to the door and his knife in his hand.

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4Treasure
There is a time in every boy's life when he wants to go and dig for treasure. 
And that time came for Tom. 
So, one hot summer's day, he went to find Huck. 
Huck liked the idea of treasure. ‘Where are we going to dig?’ he asked.
‘An old dead tree is best.’
‘Who puts the treasure under old trees?’
‘Robbers,’ said Tom. ‘And then they go away, or they forget to come back for the treasure.’
‘There's a dead tree on Cardiff Hill,’ said Huck.
‘Let's go there! I've got an old pick and shovel.’
It was three miles to the old tree, and the boys arrived tired and hot. 
They dug for an hour or two, but they didn't find any treasure. 
Then they stopped, and Tom looked down at an old house at the foot of the hill.
‘Hey, look!’ he said. ‘Nobody lives in that old house. 
‘Let's go there. Old houses are always good for treasure.’ 
‘Good for ghosts, too!’ said Huck.
They took the pick and shovel with them, went down the hill, and into the old house. 
They looked in all the rooms downstairs, and then went upstairs. 
But there was no treasure, and no ghosts. Then they heard a noise.
‘Sh!’ said Tom, suddenly. ‘What's that?’
‘Ghosts!’ whispered Huck.
There were holes in the floor, and through them the boys could see into the rooms downstairs.
‘No,’ Tom whispered. ‘It's two men. One is the old Spaniard. 
‘He came to live in the village last week. I don't know the other man. Sh! Let's listen to them.’
The two men sat down on the floor. 
The Spaniard had a green hat and long white hair; 
the other man was small and dark. He took out a bag and began to open it.
‘It's hot in here,’ the Spaniard said. He took off his green hat— and then he took off his long white hair!
‘Tom!’ Huck whispered upstairs. ‘That's Injun Joe!’  
‘We took six hundred and fifty dollars when we robbed that house,’ said the second man. 
He took some money out of the bag. ‘We can take fifty dollars with us now. 
‘What are we going to do with the six hundred?’
‘Leave it here,’ said Injun Joe. ‘We can come back and get it next week. Here, give me the bag.’
He walked across the room to the fireplace, moved two big stones from the floor, and began to dig with his knife.
Upstairs, the two boys watched excitedly. 
Treasure! Six hundred dollars of wonderful treasure!
Injun Joe stopped digging. ‘Hello, what's this?’ he said. ‘There's something here. It's an old box.’
The two men got the box out and opened it. ‘It's money!’ said Injun Joe's friend.
Injun Joe put his hand into the box. ‘There are thousands of dollars here!’ he said, 
and the two men looked at the money with happy smiles.
‘But who—’ began Injun Joe's friend.
‘Don't ask,’ Injun Joe said. ‘It's our money now.’ 
‘We can't take it with us today,’ said his friend. ‘What can we do with it? Put it back under the floor?’
‘Yes,’ said Injun Joe. (Happy faces upstairs.) 
‘No! (Very unhappy faces upstairs.) 
‘Let's put it under the cross— nobody goes there. We can take it there tonight.’ 
When night came, the two men carried all the money away. 
The boys did not go after them because they were afraid of Injun Joe. 
But they wanted very much to find that ‘cross’.
For a week the two boys thought and thought about the treasure. 
It was ‘under the cross’, but where was the cross? 
In St Petersburg the boys watched the ‘Spaniard’ carefully, 
but they didn't see a cross, and they didn't find the treasure.

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3On Jackson's Island
The summer holidays came, and there was no school.
Tom didn't want to think about Muff Potter and Injun Joe, but it wasn't easy. 
At night, when he was in bed, he saw Injun Joe's face in the dark, and he couldn't sleep. 
But he couldn't talk to anyone about it.
One hot summer's day he and Joe Harper were down by the Mississippi River. 
They sat and watched the boats, and fished and talked.
‘Let's get away from here!’ said Tom, suddenly. ‘Let's go and do something exciting somewhere.’
‘OK,’ said Joe. ‘But what? And where?’
‘I know,’ Tom said. ‘Let's run away. 
‘Let's go and live on Jackson's Island. We can sleep out, under the trees.’
Jackson's Island was in the Mississippi, three miles south of St Petersburg. Nobody lived there.
‘Let's ask Huck Finn, too,’ said Tom. ‘But don't tell your mother or father or anyone. 
‘Go home and get some things to eat, and meet me here at midnight.’
So that night three boys in a small boat went down the river to Jackson's Island. 
They had some bread and some meat, and Huck had his pipe, too. 
When they got there, they carried everything on to the island and made a fire, under a big old tree. 
Then they cooked some of the meat over the fire, 
and oh, that meat was good— the best dinner in the world! 
Soon, they stopped talking, their eyes closed, and they slept.
The next morning Tom woke up with the sun on his head and a smile on his face. 
Then Huck and Joe woke up, and the three boys ran down to the river to swim. 
After that, they fished, and soon they had about six big fish for their breakfast. 
They cooked the fish on their fire and ate them all. They were very hungry.
‘That,’ said Joe happily, ‘was a wonderful breakfast!’
After breakfast they walked through the island, swam some more, talked, fished, and swam again. 
They came back to their fire in the afternoon. 
Suddenly, Tom looked up and said, ‘Listen. Can you hear boats?’
They listened, and then ran across the island to look down the river. 
There were twenty or more boats on the water. Every boat in St Petersburg was out.
‘What are they doing?’ asked Joe.
‘They're looking for a dead body, I think,’ said Buck.
‘They did that last summer when Bill Turner fell in the river and drowned.’
‘Who's dead, do you think?’ asked Joe.
The boys watched the boats. Suddenly, Tom cried, ‘I know who's dead! It's us! They're looking for us!’
This was wonderful. Tom looked at his friends. 
‘We're famous!’ he said. ‘Everybody in St Petersburg is talking about us. And they all feel sorry for us!’
Night came, and the boys went to sleep. 
But Tom did not sleep, and when morning came, he wasn't there!
‘Huck, where's Tom?’ cried Joe.
‘I don't know,’ Huck began, ‘but— Look! There he is. He's swimming across to the island now. 
‘Hey, Tom!’ At breakfast Tom told his story. 
‘I went home last night,’ he said, ‘and listened at the window. 
‘Joe, your mother was there, too, and she and Aunt Polly cried and cried. 
‘I heard some very interesting things. 
‘On Sunday there's going to be a big funeral at the church— for us! 
‘And listen— I’ve got a wonderful idea.’
Huck and Joe listened and laughed, and yes, it was a wonderful idea.
That night the boys cooked some more fish, and after dinner Huck got out his pipe and began to smoke.
‘Can we smoke, too?’ asked Tom. ‘I want to learn.’ 
So Huck made pipes for Tom and Joe, and the three boys sat and smoked.
‘Hey, I like smoking,’ said Tom. ‘It's easy!’
‘It's nothing!’ said Joe. ‘I'm going to smoke every day.’
But after ten minutes Tom and Joe got quieter and quieter and their faces went an interesting colour.
‘I'm going for a little walk now,’ said Tom. He stood up, carefully, and walked away into the trees.
‘Me too,’ said Joe, quickly.
The two boys came back an hour later. But they didn't smoke their pipes again.
On Sunday morning there were no happy faces in St Petersburg. 
Aunt Polly and Joe's mother and father were in the church, and all the boys’ friends. 
The minister said some very nice things about the three boys, and the boys’ families cried and cried. 
Everybody cried. And little Becky Thatcher did not stop crying for one second.
There was a small noise at the back of the church, but at first nobody heard it. 
Then the minister looked up— and suddenly stopped speaking. 
Everybody turned to look. Their mouths opened, and stayed open.
And into the church came the three dead boys— Tom first, Joe next, and then Huck.
For a second nobody moved or spoke, and then the noise began. 
Aunt Polly and Joe's mother ran to the boys, and took them in their arms. 
Aunt Polly cried, and laughed, and cried again.
‘Oh, Tom!’ she said. ‘You're a bad boy, but I love you!’
Suddenly, the minister called out, ‘Oh, happy days! 
‘Sing, good people of St Petersburg! Sing and be happy!’
And everybody sang, and smiled, and laughed for a long time. 
It was St Petersburg's happiest funeral.
The weeks went by, and the judge came to St Petersburg. 
On the day before Muff Potter's trial, Huck and Tom met in the street near Tom's house. 
Huck was unhappy. ‘Tom, you didn't tell anyone about— you know?’
‘No, I didn't. But Huck, what about Muff? People are saying he's the killer. And he's going to die!’
‘But we can't tell anyone about Injun Joe,’ said Huck. ‘I don't want to die, too! Do you?’
No, Tom didn't want to die. 
But he couldn't forget Muff Potter's face in the jail— old, tired, and unhappy. 
And Injun Joe was a free man. It wasn't right.
That night Tom came home late, and very excited. 
He could not sleep for two or three hours.
The next morning all the village was at Muff Potter's trial. Injun Joe was there, too.
Muff waited, a tired old man with a dirty face. 
The judge began the trial.
Questions, questions, questions. Answers, answers, answers. 
And the answers were all bad for Muff Potter.
‘Yes, I found the knife in the graveyard, next to Doctor Robinson's body.’
‘Yes, that's Muff Potter's knife. He always carries it.’ 
‘Yes, I saw Muff Potter in the village that afternoon. He had the knife with him then.’
Muff Potter began to look more and more unhappy. 
Then the judge said: ‘Call Thomas Sawyer!’
St Petersburg sat up. What did young Tom Sawyer know? 
Everybody looked at him, and waited.
‘Thomas Sawyer, where were you on the seventeenth of June, at the hour of midnight?’
‘In the graveyard.’
‘Why?’
‘I went there to see ghosts. With a— a— dead cat.’ 
St Petersburg laughed, and the judge looked angry. 
‘And where were you in the graveyard, Thomas?’
‘Behind the trees near Hoss Williams’ grave.’
Injun Joe's face suddenly went white.
‘Now, my boy,’ said the judge. ‘Tell us your story.’ 
And so Tom told his story, and St Petersburg sat and listened to him with open mouths.
‘...and then Muff Potter fell, and Injun Joe jumped with the knife and—’
Crash! Injun Joe jumped through the window, and was out and away in a second.
St Petersburg loved Tom for a week. But Tom was not happy. 
Injun Joe was not in jail, and he was a dangerous man. 
Tom slept badly for weeks.
The slow summer days went by. 
Injun Joe did not come back to St Petersburg, and Tom began to forget.

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2In the graveyard
That night Tom went to bed at half past nine. 
He waited for Huck's meow, and at eleven o’clock it came. 
He climbed quietly out of the bedroom window, 
and then he and Huck walked out of the village with the dead cat.
The graveyard was on a hill, about a mile from St Petersburg. 
When the boys got there, they put the dead cat on a grave, and sat down behind some trees. 
They watched, and waited. It was very dark, and very quiet.
‘Do you see that new grave there?’ whispered Huck. 
‘That's Hoss Williams’ grave. He died last week.’
‘Perhaps he can hear us,’ Tom whispered back. ‘Do you think he can, Huck?’
‘I don't know, but I—’
‘Sh!’
‘Oh, Tom, what is it?’
‘Sh!’ whispered Tom. ‘I can see something. Look!’ 
Huck moved nearer to Tom. ‘Ghosts!’ he said. 
‘Three of them! They're coming here, Tom! Oh, let's go home!’
‘They can't see us,’ Tom whispered. ‘Not here.’ 
‘Ghosts can see through trees,’ said Huck unhappily. ‘They can see through everything!’
The ghosts moved quietly through the graveyard and came nearer to the trees. 
Huck and Tom watched, very afraid. 
Then, after a minute, Huck said: ‘Tom! They're not ghosts. That's Muff Potter.’
‘So it is. And that's Injun Joe. And the other man is Doctor Robinson. What are they doing here?’
‘They're graverobbers, Tom! They're going to rob a grave! My father told me about it. 
‘The doctor wants a dead body, you see. He cuts it up because he wants to learn about—’
‘Sh!’ said Tom. ‘They're getting near.’
The three men stopped at Hoss Williams’ grave and Injun Joe and Muff Potter began to dig. 
Ten minutes later the grave was open.
‘Now, doctor,’ said Muff Potter. ‘You want us to take the body to your house? That's five dollars more.’
‘No!’ said the doctor. ‘I gave you the money this morning. I'm not giving you any more!’
‘Now you listen to me, doctor!’ said Injun Joe. ‘I want that money! 
‘Do you remember a day five years ago? 
‘I came to your house and asked for something to eat. 
‘And you gave me nothing. Nothing! So give me that money!’ 
He took the doctor's arm, but suddenly the doctor hit him, and Injun Joe fell to the ground.
‘Don't hit my friend!’ cried Muff Potter. He jumped on the doctor and the two men began to fight.
It all happened very quickly, and the two boys watched with open mouths. 
Injun Joe got up. He had Muff Potter's knife in his hand now, and he moved behind the doctor. 
Then the doctor hit Muff Potter on the head. Muff fell to the ground, 
and at the same moment the knife in Injun Joe's hand went into the doctor's back. 
The doctor fell to the ground, on top of Muff Potter, and he did not move again.
The two boys could watch no more. 
Very quietly, they moved away from the trees, and then ran out of the graveyard and back to the village.
Injun Joe stood by Hoss Williams’ grave and looked down at the two men. 
Then he put the knife into Muff Potter's hand and sat down. 
Three— four— five minutes went by. 
Potter moved a little and opened his eyes. ‘What— what happened, Joe?’ he asked.
‘This is bad, Muff,’ said Joe. ‘Why did you kill him?’ 
Muff looked at the doctor's dead body, then at the knife in his hand. 
‘Me? Did I kill him?’ His face went white, and the knife fell from his hand. 
‘It's the whiskey, Joe! I never fight with knives usually. 
‘Oh, why did I drink all that whiskey tonight? I don't remember anything!’
‘It's OK, Muff,’ said Joe. ‘I'm not going to tell anyone. You get away quickly. Go on— go now!’
Muff Potter got up and ran away. 
Joe watched him for a minute, then he carefully put the knife next to the doctor's body. 
Then he, too, left the graveyard.
The next day the Sheriff's men found the doctor's body in the graveyard— and Muff Potter's knife. 
That night Muff came to the graveyard to get his knife. 
But the Sheriff's men were there, and they took Muff to St Petersburg's little jail. 
And there Muff sat for four weeks, and waited for his trial.
Tom and Huck could not forget that night in the graveyard. 
They were very unhappy, and very afraid.
‘What're we going to do?’ said Tom. ‘Muff Potter didn't kill the doctor— Injun Joe did. We saw him!’
‘I know,’ Huck said. ‘But what can we do? We can't tell anyone. 
‘I'm afraid of Injun Joe. He's dangerous. And he's a killer. Do you want a knife in your back?’
‘Yes, I'm afraid of him, too,’ Tom said. He thought for a minute. 
‘I'm sorry for Muff Potter, but you're right, Huck. We can't tell anyone about Injun Joe.’

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer汤姆索亚历险记
1Tom and his friends
‘Tom! Tom! Where are you?’ No answer.
‘Where is that boy? When I find him, I'm going to...’
Aunt Polly looked under the bed. 
Then she opened the door and looked out into the garden. ‘Tom!’
She heard something behind her. 
A small boy ran past, but Aunt Polly put out her hand and stopped him.
‘Ah, there you are! And what's that in your pocket?’
‘Nothing, Aunt Polly.’
‘Nothing! It's an apple! I can see it. 
‘Now listen, Tom. Those apples are not for you, and I—’
‘Oh, Aunt Polly! Quick— look behind you!’
So Aunt Polly looked, and Tom was out of the house in a second. 
She laughed quietly. ‘I never learn. 
‘I love that Tom, my dead sister's child, but he isn't an easy boy for an old lady. 
‘Well, it's Saturday tomorrow and there's no school, 
‘but it isn't going to be a holiday for Tom. 
‘Oh no! He's going to work tomorrow!’
Saturday was a beautiful day. 
It was summer and the sun was hot and there were flowers in all the gardens. 
It was a day for everybody to be happy.
Tom came out of his house with a brush and a big pot of white paint in his hand. 
He looked at the fence; it was three metres high and thirty metres long. 
He put his brush in the paint and painted some of the fence. He did it again. 
Then he stopped and looked at the fence, put down his brush and sat down. 
There were hours of work in front of him and he was the unhappiest boy in the village.
After ten minutes Tom had an idea, a wonderful idea. 
He took up the brush again and began work. 
He saw his friend Joe Harper in the street, but he didn't look at him. 
Joe had an apple in his hand. He came up to Tom and looked at the fence. ‘I am sorry, Tom.’
Tom said nothing. The paint brush moved up and down.
‘Working for your aunt?’ said Joe. ‘I'm going down to the river. I'm sorry you can't come with me.’
Tom put down his brush. ‘You call this work?’ he said.
‘Painting a fence?’ said Joe. ‘Of course it's work!’
‘Perhaps it is and perhaps it isn't. But I like it,’ said Tom. 
‘I can go to the river any day. I can't paint a fence very often.’
Joe watched Tom for about five minutes. 
Tom painted very slowly and carefully.
He often stopped, moved back from the fence and looked at his work with a smile. 
Joe began to get very interested, and said: ‘Tom, can I paint a little?’
Tom thought for a second. ‘I'm sorry, Joe. 
‘You see, my aunt wants me to do it because I'm good at painting. 
‘My brother Sid wanted to paint, too, but she said no.’ 
‘Oh, please, Tom, just a little. I'm good at painting, too. Hey, do you want some of my apple?’
‘No, Joe, I can't—’
‘OK, you can have all my apple!’
Tom gave Joe the brush. 
He did not smile, but for the first time that day he was a very happy boy. 
He sat down and ate Joe's apple.
More friends came to laugh at Tom, but soon they all wanted to paint, too. 
By the afternoon Tom had three balls, an old knife, a cat with one eye, 
an old blue bottle, and a lot of Other exciting things. 
He was the richest boy in St Petersburg, 
and the fence— all thirty metres of it—was a beautiful white. 
He went back to the house. ‘Aunt Polly! Can I go and play now?’
Aunt Polly came out of the house to look.
When she saw the beautiful white fence, she was very pleased. 
She took Tom into the house and gave him an apple.
‘Well, you can go and play. But don't come home late.’ 
Tom quickly took a second apple and ran off.
On Monday morning Tom didn't want to go to school, 
but Aunt Polly got him out of bed, and then out of the house.
In the street near the school he met his friend Huckleberry Finn. 
Huck had no mother, and his father drank whiskey all the time, so Huck lived in the streets. 
He didn't go to school, he was always dirty, and he never had a new shirt. But he was happy. 
The mothers of St Petersburg didn't like Huck, but Tom and his friends did.
‘Hello, Huck!’ said Tom.  ‘What have you got there?’
‘A dead cat.’
‘What're you going to do with it?’ asked Tom.
‘I'm going to take it to the graveyard tonight,’ Huck said. 
‘At midnight. A dead cat can call ghosts out of their graves.’
‘I never heard that,’ said Tom. ‘Is it true?’
‘Well, I don't know,’ said Huck. ‘Old Mrs Hopkins told me. 
‘Come with me, and see. Or are you afraid of ghosts?’
‘Of course not!’ said Tom. ‘Come and meow for me at my window at eleven o’clock.’
After this, Tom was late for school, and the teacher looked at him angrily.
‘Thomas Sawyer, why are you late again?’ he said.
Tom began to speak, and then stopped. 
There was a new girl in the schoolroom— a beautiful girl with blue eyes and long yellow hair. 
Tom looked and looked. Oh, how beautiful she was! 
And in two seconds Tom was in love! 
He must sit next to her. But how?
In the girls’ half of the room there was only one empty chair, and it was next to the new girl. 
Tom thought quickly, and then looked at the teacher.
‘I stopped to talk with Huckleberry Finn!’ he said. 
The teacher was very, very angry. 
Boys were often late for school. That was bad, but talking with Huckleberry Finn was worse, much worse! 
The teacher took his stick, and two minutes later Tom's trousers were very hot and the teacher's arm was very tired.
‘Now, Tom Sawyer, you go and sit with the girls!’
Some of the children laughed. 
Tom walked to the chair next to the new girl, sat down and opened his book. 
The other children began to work again.
After ten minutes, the girl looked up. There was an apple on the table in front of her. 
She put it back on Tom's half of the table. 
A minute later the apple was in front of her again. Now it stayed. 
Next, Tom drew a picture of a house and put it in front of her.
‘That's nice,’ the girl said. ‘Now draw a man.’
Tom drew a man next to the house. 
The man was taller than the house, and he had very big hands and very long legs.
But the girl liked him. ‘Can you draw me now?’ she asked.
Tom drew a girl next to the man.
‘You draw beautifully. I can't draw pictures.’
‘I can teach you,’ said Tom. ‘After school.’
‘Oh, please!’
‘What's your name?’ Tom asked.
‘Becky. Becky Thatcher.’
Just then Tom felt a hand on his head. It was the teacher. 
He took Tom by the ear and moved him back to his chair in the boys’ half of the room.

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6 ‘East, west— home's best!’
‘Leave the dog and come quickly!’ shouted the Wizard. ‘The rope's going to break!’
Dorothy picked Toto up and ran. ‘Wait!’ she shouted. 
But before she got there, the rope did break, and the balloon went up, up, up into the sky.
They heard the old man's voice, very far away. ‘Ask the Witch of the So—o—o—outh.’
Then the balloon disappeared. And nobody saw the Wizard of Oz again.
Dorothy began to cry. ‘Oh, how can I get home now?’ 
‘Put on the magic black hat,’ said the Scarecrow, ‘and ask the Magic Monkeys for help. 
‘Perhaps they can find the Witch of the South and bring her here.’
‘Clever Scarecrow!’ said Dorothy. She put on the magic hat and called for the Magic Monkeys. 
When they arrived, she said, ‘Please find the Witch of the South, and bring her here to the Emerald City.’
And five minutes later, a beautiful woman with long red hair arrived. 
‘I am Glinda, the Witch of the South,’ she said. ‘What can I do for you, my child?’
‘I want to go home to Kansas,’ said Dorothy. ‘Please can you help me?’
‘Ask your shoes,’ smiled the good Witch. But Dorothy did not understand.
‘Your red shoes,’ said Glinda, ‘are magic shoes. 
‘They can carry you home. Just close your eyes, and say, “East, west— home's best.” Then jump.’
‘Oh, thank you,’ cried Dorothy happily. She kissed her friends and said goodbye again. 
Then she picked up Toto and closed her eyes. ‘East, west— home's best,’ she said— and jumped. 
There was a noise like a wind, and suddenly Dorothy was in the sky. 
The red shoes fell off her feet, and she never saw them again.
When she opened her eyes, there she was— back in Kansas. 
And there were Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, in a field by a new little house.
‘Dorothy!’ cried Aunt Em. She ran and took Dorothy in her arms. 
‘Oh, Dorothy, what happened to you? And where did you come from?’
‘From the country of Oz,’ said Dorothy. ‘But I'm home again now— and I'm so happy!’

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5 The old man from Kansas
The little green man opened the door. 
He gave them all glasses, then he took them through the city to the Wizard's house. 
There, in the long green room, the friends waited, and waited... and waited.
After three hours the Scarecrow said, ‘I'm tired of waiting.’ He called the green man. 
‘We want to see the Wizard now. Or we're going to call the Magic Monkeys. Please tell the Wizard that.’
The green man went away to speak to the Wizard through the door. 
The Wizard knew about the Magic Monkeys, and he was very afraid of them. 
So he said to the green man, ‘These people can come and see me at nine o’clock tomorrow morning.’
At nine o’clock the green man took the friends to the Wizard's room.
They went in and looked all round, But they could not see anybody. 
Then a voice said, ‘I am the Wizard of Oz. Who are you, and what do you want?’ 
‘Where are you?’ asked Dorothy.
‘I am everywhere, but you can't see me. Now answer me— who are you and what do you want?’
‘You know us all,’ said the Scarecrow. 
‘You said to me, “Help Dorothy to kill the Witch of the West, and you can have some Brains.” 
‘Well, the Witch is dead, and now I want my brains.’
‘And I want my heart,’ said the Tin Man.
‘And I want to be brave,’ said the Cowardly Lion.
‘And I want to go home to Kansas,’ said Dorothy.
‘Is the Witch truly dead?’ asked the Voice.
‘Yes,’ said Dorothy. ‘I threw a bucket of water over her, and she disappeared.’
‘Very well,’ said the Voice. ‘Come again tomorrow. I must think about things first and—’
‘No!’ said the Tin Man. ‘I want my heart now!’
‘I'm not going to wait another minute!’ said the Scarecrow.
‘And I'm going to eat you!’ the Lion shouted very angrily. 
Toto was afraid. He jumped away from the Lion, and hit a screen near the wall. 
The screen fell over, and behind it the friends saw an old man with no hair.
The Tin Man looked angry and picked up his axe. ‘Who are you?’ he said.
‘Please don't hurt me!’ said the old man, in a quiet little voice. ‘I'm the Wizard of Oz.’
‘But the Wizard of Oz is a big head without a body,’ said Dorothy.
‘No, he's a beautiful woman,’ said the Scarecrow.
‘You're wrong,’ said the Tin Man. ‘The Wizard of Oz is a big animal with two heads.’
‘No,’ said the Lion. ‘The Wizard is a ball of fire.’
‘You're all wrong,’ said the old man. ‘I am the Wizard... Well, I'm not a true wizard. 
‘Oh, I know a lot of tricks, But I don't know any true magic. 
‘You see, I'm from Kansas too. I went from town to town and did magic tricks. 
‘And I went up in a big balloon. The balloon was always on a rope, 
‘but one day something went wrong. The rope broke and the balloon blew away. 
‘For a long time the wind carried my balloon across the sky. Then I came down here, in the country of Oz. 
‘The people saw my balloon and said, “This man is a wizard! He comes out of the sky!” 
‘They were afraid of me and wanted to work for me... So they built this city for me, and I called it the Emerald City. 
‘Well, emeralds are green, so I made green glasses for everybody. That's why everything in the city looks green.’
The Scarecrow took off his glasses. ‘Oh,’ he said. ‘Now I understand. 
‘The Emerald City isn't green. It just looks green. It's all a trick.’
‘That's right,’ said the old man. ‘Well, all that happened many years ago. 
‘I never went out because I was afraid of the two Bad Witches. 
‘Now they are dead— thanks to you, Dorothy. But I'm very sorry, I don't know any true magic, so I can't help you.’
‘You're a very bad man,’ said Dorothy.
‘No, my child. I'm a very good man, but I am a very bad wizard, that's true.’
‘What about my brains?’ said the Scarecrow.
‘You don't need brains. You understand things; you can think, you learn quickly. You're very clever.’
‘I want brains,’ said the Scarecrow.
‘Very well,’ said the old man. ‘I can give you some brains tomorrow morning.’
‘What about my heart?’ asked the Tin Man.
‘You don't need a heart,’ said the old man. ‘You laugh, you cry, you love, you feel sorry for people.’
The Tin Man looked angry and picked up his axe.
‘All right— please don't hurt me!’ said the old man. ‘I can give you a heart tomorrow morning.’
‘I want to be brave,’ said the Cowardly Lion.
‘But you are brave. You do a lot of brave things! 
‘No, no— don't eat me! Come here tomorrow morning. I'm going to make you brave.’
‘What about Toto and me?’ asked Dorothy.
‘We can go up in my balloon,’ said the Wizard. ‘The wind blew us here from Kansas— perhaps it can blow us back to Kansas again.’
The next morning the friends came again to the Wizard's room. The old man was ready. 
He took a bottle with BRAINS on it in big green letters, and carefully opened the Scarecrow's head.
‘Don't move. I'm putting your brains in,’ he said. ‘There—now you're the cleverest scarecrow in Oz.’ 
The Scarecrow thanked him.
Next the Wizard gave the Tin Man a small red heart. ‘Wear this always,’ he said.
The Tin Man was very happy and thanked the Wizard again and again.
Then the old man took a bottle with BE BRAVE on it. ‘Drink this,’ he said to the Cowardly Lion.
The Lion drank. ‘Yes. Yes, I feel brave!’ he shouted. ‘Very, very brave! Thank you!’
The Wizard smiled at them. ‘You didn't need my magic,’ he said. ‘But you're all happy now, and that's a good thing. 
‘Now, Dorothy,’ he said, ‘come and see my balloon. It's all ready. I mended it last night.’
They went out into the garden behind the Wizard's house. 
The balloon was very big. There was a small box under it, and the Wizard of Oz jumped into the box.
‘Come on, Dorothy!’ he shouted. ‘We're going to Kansas. Say goodbye to your friends.’
Dorothy kissed the Scarecrow, the Lion, and the Tin Man, and said goodbye. 
‘Come on, Toto,’ she said. ‘We're going home to Kansas. We're going to see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry.’
But just then Toto saw a cat. He jumped out of Dorothy's arms and ran after it.
‘Toto!’ called Dorothy, and she began to run after him.

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4 The witch and the monkeys
The next morning they left the Emerald City. 
The green man took away their glasses and told them the way to the Witch's house. 
‘Everybody is afraid of the Witch of the West,’ he said. ‘So be careful!’
The friends walked for a long time. 
The road was bad, and there were no houses, no fields, no trees.
Now the Witch of the West had a magic eye, and it could see everything. 
She saw the friends on the road, and she was angry. 
She put on her tall black hat and shouted, ‘Magic Monkeys— come!’
In a second forty monkeys arrived at her tall house. ‘What do you want?’ they asked.
‘There are three people, a dog, and a lion on my road,’ she said. 
‘Kill the people and the dog. But bring the lion here to my house. He can work for me.’
‘At once,’ said the Monkeys. And away they went.
They broke the Tin Man's arms and legs. 
They took all the straw out of the Scarecrow and threw his clothes up into a tall tree. 
Then they took the Lion and carried him to a dark cellar under the Witch's house.
But they could not hurt Dorothy and Toto, because of the good Witch's kiss. 
So the Monkeys picked them up very carefully and carried them to the Witch's house. 
The Witch saw the kiss on Dorothy's face, and was afraid. But she did not tell Dorothy that.
‘You must work for me in my house now,’ she said to the child. 
‘All day, and every day. And remember— I am watching you all the time.’
Now Dorothy did not know this, but the red shoes were magic. 
The Witch wanted those shoes very much, but Dorothy never took them off. 
She took them off when she washed, of course, but the Witch never went near water. She was very, very afraid of water.
Then, one morning, Dorothy's left shoe fell off.
The Witch picked up the shoe at once. ‘This is my shoe now!’ she shouted.
‘No, it isn't!’ shouted Dorothy angrily. ‘Give it back to me at once!’
‘No!’ said the Witch. And then she tried to take Dorothy's right shoe too.
Dorothy loved her red shoes, and she was very angry. 
There was a bucket of water near the door. 
Dorothy picked up the bucket and threw the water at the Witch. 
The water hit her in the face, and she cried out, ‘Help! Help! The water is killing me! The— water— is... ’
And then she disappeared! There was only her tall black hat and a long black dress.
Dorothy looked and looked, but the Witch was not there. 
Dorothy picked up her red shoe and put it on.
‘Now, how can I help my friends?’ she said. ‘Can I call the Magic Monkeys?’ 
She picked up the Witch's black hat and looked at it. ‘Perhaps I must wear this magic hat when I speak.’ 
So she put the hat on and called, ‘Magic Monkeys— come!’ 
The Monkeys arrived in a second. ‘Please can you help my friends?’ asked Dorothy.
‘Of course,’ said the Monkeys. ‘We must always help the wearer of the magic black hat.’
They broke open the dark cellar, and the Cowardly Lion came out. ‘Free at last!’ he said. ‘Thank you!’
Then the Monkeys found the Scarecrow's clothes and put some new straw in them. 
The Scarecrow laughed and jumped. ‘Thank you!’ he said.
Next the Monkeys mended the Tin Man and gave him a new oil-can. 
He moved his arms and legs. ‘I feel wonderful!’ he said. ‘Thank you!’
Dorothy told her friends about the Witch and the water, and they were all very happy. 
Toto could not speak, but he jumped up and down very happily.
‘Now,’ said Dorothy, ‘we must go back to the Wizard of Oz. Magic Monkeys— take us to the Emerald City!’ 
‘Don't forget the magic black hat!’ said the Tin Man. 
The Monkeys carried them up into the sky, 
and ten minutes later the friends were once again at the big green door of the Emerald City.

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3 The Emerald City
It was a long day. 
The yellow brick road went past fields and through trees, up hills and down hills. 
In the evening they began to see small green houses by the road. 
Sometimes little people in green clothes came out and looked at the friends. 
But they did not come near them, because they were afraid of the Cowardly Lion.
‘Everything here is green. Perhaps we're near the Emerald City,’ said Dorothy. 
‘Toto and I are hungry. Let's stop at the next house.’
A little woman opened the door, and Dorothy said, ‘Please can we stay the night in your house?’ 
The little woman looked at the Lion, and Dorothy said quickly, ‘The Lion is my friend, and he never hurts anybody.’
‘All right,’ the little woman said. ‘You can all come in.’ 
She put a wonderful dinner on the table. 
Dorothy and Toto ate a lot of it, and the Lion ate some of it. 
But the Scarecrow and the Tin Man ate nothing.
‘Where are you all going?’ asked the little woman.
‘To the Emerald City,’ said Dorothy. ‘We want to see the Wizard of Oz.’
‘That's not easy,’ said the woman. ‘The Wizard never goes out of his house, and nobody sees his face.’
‘Is the Wizard a man?’ asked the Scarecrow.
‘Nobody knows,’ said the woman. ‘He's a wizard, so he can be a man, or an animal— or anything!’
‘How strange!’ said Dorothy. ‘But we need his help, so we must see him.’
The next day they thanked the woman, left the house, and began walking again. 
Soon they saw a beautiful city in front of them— it was the Emerald City at last.
The friends went up the yellow brick road to a big green door, and stopped. 
Slowly, the door opened, and a little man in green clothes stood there.
‘We want to see the Wizard, please,’ said Dorothy. 
‘Nobody sees the Wizard,’ he said. ‘He is a very good and very famous Wizard, but nobody can see him.’
‘We must see him,’ said Dorothy. ‘Please ask him.’ 
‘All right,’ said the green man. ‘I can take you to his house. 
‘But first, you must all put glasses on.’ He opened a big box. In it were lots of glasses.
‘You must wear your glasses all the time,’ he said. ‘Everybody in the city must wear glasses. The Wizard says this.’
So they all put on glasses. The green man put on some glasses too, 
and then he took them through the Emerald City. 
Everything in the city was green— men, women, children, houses, shops, streets...
The green man took them to a very big house, and they went into a long green room. 
‘Wait here,’ he said. After a short time he came back.
‘You can see the Wizard,’ he said. ‘But you must go to him one by one. He wants to see the little girl first.’
Then he went away, and a green girl came in. She took Dorothy to a tall green door.
‘The Wizard is in there,’ said the green girl. ‘He's waiting for you.’
Dorothy went in. On a green chair was a very, very big head. 
There was no body, or arms, or legs— only a head. 
Its mouth opened and the Head said: ‘I am Oz. Who are you, and what do you want?’
‘I am Dorothy,’ said the child bravely.
‘Where did you get those red shoes?’
‘From the bad Witch of the East,’ said Dorothy. ‘My house fell on her and killed her.’
‘What is that thing on your face?’
‘A kiss. The good Witch of the North kissed me,’ said Dorothy. ‘I need help, and she told me about you.’
‘And what do you want?’
‘I want to go home to Kansas,’ answered Dorothy, ‘but I don't know the way. Please help me to get home.’
The big eyes opened and closed, opened and closed. 
Then the mouth opened and the Head spoke again. 
‘Well,’ it said. ‘Perhaps I can help you. But first, you must do something for me.’
‘What do you want me to do?’ asked Dorothy.
‘Kill the bad Witch of the West.’
‘But I don't want to kill anybody!’ said Dorothy.
‘You killed her sister. And you are wearing her shoes. Go now, and kill the Witch of the West.’
The little girl began to cry. ‘But how can I kill the Witch?’ she said. 
The big eyes opened and looked at her, but the Head did not answer. 
Dorothy went away, and then her friends went into the Wizard's room— 
first the Scarecrow, then the Tin Man, and last the Lion.
Later, they all met in the long green room and talked. 
Dorothy told her friends about the Head.
‘That's interesting,’ said the Scarecrow. ‘I didn't see a Head: I saw a beautiful woman. 
‘I asked her for some brains and she said, “Yes, but first you must help Dorothy to kill the Witch of the West.”’
‘I saw a big animal with two heads,’ said the Tin Man. 
‘I asked for a heart. The animal said, “I can give you a heart; but first you must help Dorothy to kill the Witch of the West.” 
‘What did you see Lion?’
‘I saw a ball of fire,’ said the Cowardly Lion. 
‘I said, “I'm a coward; please make me brave.” And the fire said. “When the Witch of the West is dead, I can help you. But not before.” 
‘I was angry then,’ said the Lion, ‘but the ball of fire got bigger and bigger, so I ran away.’
‘Oh, what are we going to do?’ said Dorothy.
‘Well,’ said the Scarecrow. ‘We must find the Witch of the West, and then we must kill her.’