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from the Internet Wiretap production of July 1993

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
BY
MARK TWAIN
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

P R E F A C E

MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or
two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were
schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but
not from an individual--he is a combination of the characteristics of
three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of
architecture.

The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children
and slaves in the West at the period of this story--that is to say,
thirty or forty years ago.

Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and
girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account,
for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what
they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked,
and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.

THE AUTHOR.

HARTFORD, 1876.

T O M S A W Y E R

0. CHAPTER I
1. CHAPTER II
2. CHAPTER III
3. CHAPTER IV
4. CHAPTER V
5. CHAPTER VI
6. CHAPTER VII
7. CHAPTER VIII
8. CHAPTER IX
9. CHAPTER X
10. CHAPTER XI
11. CHAPTER XII
12. CHAPTER XIII
13. CHAPTER XIV
14. CHAPTER XV
15. CHAPTER XVI
16. CHAPTER XVII
17. CHAPTER XVIII
18. CHAPTER XIX
19. CHAPTER XX
20. CHAPTER XXI
21. CHAPTER XXII
22. CHAPTER XXIII
23. CHAPTER XXIV
24. CHAPTER XXV
25. CHAPTER XXVI
26. CHAPTER XXVII
27. CHAPTER XXVIII
28. CHAPTER XXIX
29. CHAPTER XXX
30. CHAPTER XXXI
31. CHAPTER XXXII
32. CHAPTER XXXIII
33. CHAPTER XXXIV
34. CHAPTER XXXV