User: M-le-mot-dit
File: Tom Sawyer (1917).webm
Author: William Desmond Taylor
Publisher: Paramount Pictures
Year: 1917
PD: PD/US|1922
Note: A 1917 American silent comedy/adventure film, based on Mark Twain's 1876 novel ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]''.
Cat: Comedy film, Adventure film, Films based on books, Silent film
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{{Center|{{Smaller block|Jesse L. Lasky<br />
{{Smaller|presents}}}}
{{Xx-larger|JACK PICKFORD}}<br />
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{{Smaller block|MARK TWAIN'S<br />
GREAT AMERICAN CLASSIC}}
{{Xx-larger|"TOM SAWYER"}}}}
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{{!}}By arrangement with<br />
Mark Twain Company
{{!}}{{ts|pl2}}{{!}}Copyrighted 1917 by The<br />
Oliver Morosco Photoplay Co.
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{{Block right|{{Smaller|Photoplay by}}
{{X-larger block|JULIA CRAWFORD<br />IVERS}}|style=text-align:center;}}
{{Smaller|From the story by}}<br />
{{X-larger|MARK TWAIN}}
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00:13
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{{Center|''Directed by''<br />
'''William Desmond Taylor'''}}
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00:28
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"Tom Sawyer, who is not the model boy of the village."
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00:36
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{{Center|"My! Look behind you, Aunt!"}}
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00:50
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{{Center|"Hang the boy! Can't I {{Underline|never}} learn anything?"}}
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00:59
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{{" '}}Spare the rod and spile the child!' I ain't doin' my duty by that boy. I'm a-layin' up sin and sufferin' for us both!"
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01:14
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{{Center|Alfred Temple, who {{Underline|is}} the model boy of the village}}
{{Block center|width=15em|{{Right|{{Smaller|{{...|6}} Carl Goetz}}}}}}
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01:44
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The juvenile pariah of the village, with whom Tom is under strict odrers not to play
{{Dotted TOC line||{{Smaller|Huckleberry Finn}}|{{Smaller|Robert Gordon}}|col3-width=7em|textbackground=#ffffec;|width=15em}}
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02:06
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{{Center|"Say, I can lick you!"}}
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02:13
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{{Center|"I'd like to see you try it!"}}
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02:33
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"You think you're {{Underline|some}} now, don't you? {{...}} Oh, what a hat!"
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02:47
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"Say, if you give me any more of your sass, I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head!"
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03:13
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"I dare you to step over that. Anybody that'll take a dare will steal sheep!"
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03:48
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{{Center|"Holler 'nuff!"}}
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04:00
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{{Center|"Holler 'nuff!"}}
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04:06
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{{Center|{{" '}}Nuff!"}}
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05:06
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{{Center|The enemy's mother}}
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05:12
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"You are a bad, vicious child! Go away at once!"
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06:28
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The next day is Saturday, and there is a song in every heart but Tom's
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07:14
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"I dasn't, Marse Tom. Ole missis, she'd t'ar de head off'n me. 'Deed she would!"
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07:42
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{{Center|"If you will — I'll show you my sore toe!"}}
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07:53
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{{Center|Jim is only human; this attraction is too much!}}
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09:21
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{{Center|And — the {{Underline|free}} boys are going fishing —}}
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09:44
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— while Joe Harper pretends he is a Mississippi river steamboat
{{Center block|width=15em|{{Right|{{Smaller|{{...|7}} Antrim Short}}}}}}
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10:12
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At this dark and hopeless moment, Tom has a great and magnificent inspiration!
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10:41
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{{Center|"Hi-yi! You got to work, ain't you?"}}
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10:52
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{{Center|"Do you mean to let on you {{Underline|like}} it?"}}
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10:58
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"Like it? I ought to like it! Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
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11:16
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{{Center|"Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little?"}}
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11:24
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"Aunt Polly's awful particular about this fence. There ain't one boy in a thousand — maybe a hun'red thousand — can do it the way it's got to be done!"
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11:40
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"Lemme try! Say — I'll give you the core of my apple!"
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11:54
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{{Center|"I'll give you all of it!"}}
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12:13
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— and Tom has discovered a great law of human nature; namely, in order to make a {{Underline|man}} or a {{Underline|boy}} covet a thing, it is only necessary to make it difficult to attain!
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13:14
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{{Center|"The fence is all done, aunt."}}
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13:23
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{{Center|"Don't lie to me, Tom. I can't bear to hear it!"}}
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14:21
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"Tom, what you earn by honest effort and without sin has the best flavor."
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15:04
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{{Center|A new girl in the town.}}
{{Dotted TOC line||{{Smaller|Becky Thatcher}}|{{Smaller|Clara Horton}}|col3-width=6em|textbackground=#ffffec;|width=15em}}
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17:24
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{{Center|Sunday dawns upon the peaceful village}}
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17:38
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{{Center|But this day, too brings its trials}}
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19:31
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When Mary finishes with Tom, he is a man and a brother — and fully as uncomfortable as he looks!
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20:40
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Inspired by Becky's presence, Tom finds a use for this ill-gotten wealth
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21:00
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{{Center|{{Smaller|BIBLE PRIZE}}}}
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22:23
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The Widow Douglas, a lady of wealth and distinction, in whose class Tom is a disturbing element
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23:26
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{{Center|The children begin to show off}}
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23:49
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{{Center|The superintendent is also showing off}}
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23:57
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{{Center|"Has any little boy or girl won a Bible prize this week?"}}
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24:08
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{{Center|It's Tom's turn now to show off}}
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25:03
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Is it possible that the learned Judge is showing off, too?
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25:15
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"No doubt, you know the names of the twelve disciples. Tell us the names of the first two who were appointed."
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25:45
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{{Center|"Answer the gentleman, Thomas."}}
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26:05
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{{Center|"David and Goliath!"}}
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26:17
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Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene!
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26:26
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{{Center|"My — sore — toe's — mortified!"}}
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26:46
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"It {{Underline|seemed}} mortified. It hurt so I didn't mind my tooth at all!"
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29:16
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{{Center|"Thomas Sawyer, why are you late?"}}
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29:33
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And the schoolmaster punishes bad boys by making them sit with the girls!
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29:49
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{{Center|"I stopped — to — talk with Huckleberry Finn!"}}
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30:11
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{{Center|"Now, sir, you may go and sit with the girls!"}}
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31:23
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{{Block center|{{Cursive block|PLEASE<br />
{{Em}}KEEP IT<br />
I GOT MORE}}}}
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31:37
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{{Center|"I know {{Underline|your}} name. Its Thomas Sawyer."}}
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31:45
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"That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom, when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?"
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32:28
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{{Center|{{Larger|{{Cursive|I Love You}}}}}}
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32:54
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{{Center|{{Smaller|DONKEY}}}}
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33:03
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At noon, every one goes home to dinner — except Tom and Becky
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33:32
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{{Center|"Say, Becky, how'd you like to be engaged?"}}
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33:42
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{{Center|"I don't know. What's it like?"}}
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33:47
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{{" '}}Tain't like anything! You only — tell a boy you'll marry him; then you kiss, an' that's all. Anybody can do it!"
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34:07
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{{Center|"Do you remember what I wrote on the slate?"}}
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34:35
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{{Center|"I — love — you!"}}
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34:54
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"Being engaged's ever so gay! Why, when me and Amy Lawrence —"
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35:29
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His most cherished possession — a brass door-knob
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36:03
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{{Center|Supper-time the same day}}
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36:52
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{{Center|"Now, that pet model, Sid, is going to catch it!"}}
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37:19
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"Hold on! Whatcher belting {{Underline|me}} for? Sid broke it!"
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37:27
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{{Center|"Well! I guess you didn't get a lick amiss!"}}
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37:48
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Far into the night, Tom broods over "man's inhumanity to man"!
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38:01
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If he should die, would SHE be sorry, or would she turn coldly away like all the hollow world?
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38:49
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And thus {{Underline|she}} should see him when she looked out upon the glad morning!
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39:26
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The next morning, Tom's mind is made up. He will lead a life of crime! They have driven him to it!
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39:52
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{{Center|"Two souls with but a single thought —"}}
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40:50
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"We're goin' to be pirates, on a desert island, and start tonight!"
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41:07
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"Sure, we gotta have names! I'll be Tom Sawyer, The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main!"
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41:23
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{{Center|"You'll be Huck Finn, The Red-Handed!"}}
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41:33
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"Your name is Joe Harper, The Terror of the Seas!"
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42:01
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{{Center|That night — the great adventure!}}
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42:23
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{{Center|"Hist! The countersign!"}}
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42:34
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{{Center|"B-l-o-o-d!"}}
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43:51
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{{Center|About 2 A. M.}}
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44:46
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"Who cares? It's bully to be a pirate! You don't have to go to school and wash, and all that blamed foolishness!"
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45:09
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{{Center|The alarm}}
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45:23
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"Oh, Mis' Sawyer, my Joe wasn't home last night, and I'm that scairt!"
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46:09
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"Me an' my pardner saw the boys startin' down the river."
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46:49
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{{Center|Catfish for breakfast — fresh from the Mississippi}}
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47:53
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"Why, it's just as easy! If I'd know'd this was all, I'd have learned long ago!"
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48:16
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"The boys must be drowned! We found the raft drifting five miles down the river!"
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48:45
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{{Center|"Say, I wish the fellows could see us now!"}}
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49:24
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{{Center|"I — I lost my knife. I'm going to find it!"}}
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49:31
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{{Center|"I'll help you!"}}
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50:08
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Something seems to tell Huck that if they have had any trouble they have got rid of it!
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50:44
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{{Block center|{{Cursive block|
Dear aunt Polly<br />
{{Gap|.5em}}dont you worry about<br />
me No more<br />
{{Gap|.5em}}I Aint dead<br />
{{Gap|1em}}I'm allrite<br />
{{Gap|4em}}tom
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51:05
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{{Block center|{{Cursive block|
If I dont come<br />
back by sun-up<br />
these things<br />
{{Gap|.5em}}are yours
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52:04
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{{Center|Tom finds home almost as moist as the Mississippi}}
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52:47
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"As I was sayin', he warn't {{Underline|bad}}, so to say — only mischeevous!"
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53:04
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"The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away, but it's so hard! Only last Saturday my Joe busted a fire-cracker under my nose and I knocked him sprawling!"
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53:28
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"If the bodies ain't found, the funerals will be preached Sunday morning!"
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54:30
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{{Center|With the rising sun —}}
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55:03
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{{Center|"What does this writin' say, Joe?"}}
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55:33
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{{Center|"— and when they get to preaching about us —"}}
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55:47
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{{Center|Then came the day of the funerals}}
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57:39
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{{Center|"Sing!"}}
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57:54
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"Please, Tom, won't you give me the brass door-knob?"
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58:33
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{{Center|The End}}
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