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Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer
Capítulo 2, Página 6
“Oh,
shucks,
I’ll
be
just
as
careful.
Now
let
me
try.
Say—I’ll
give
you
the
core
of
my
apple.”
“Well,
here—No,
Ben,
now
don’t.
I’m
afraid—”
“I’ll
give
you
all
of
it!”
Tom
reluctantly
handed
over
the
brush,
although
his
heart
was
eager.
As
the
steamer
Big
Missouri
toiled
under
the
sun,
the
former
painter
sat
comfortably
on
a
barrel
in
the
shade,
swinging
his
legs,
eating
an
apple,
and
plotting
more
innocent
trades.
Plenty
of
boys
passed
by;
they
came
to
mock
but
stayed
to
paint.
By
the
time
Ben
was
exhausted,
Tom
had
exchanged
the
next
turn
with
Billy
Fisher
for
a
kite
in
good
condition.
When
Billy
was
worn
out,
Johnny
Miller
took
over
for
a
dead
rat
and
a
string
to
swing
it.
And
so
it
continued,
hour
after
hour.
By
mid-afternoon,
Tom,
who
had
started
the
day
with
nothing,
was
now
rich
in
treasures.
He
had,
in
addition
to
the
mentioned
items,
twelve
marbles,
part
of
a
jew's-harp,
a
piece
of
blue
glass
to
look
through,
a
spool
cannon,
a
key
that
opened
nothing,
a
piece
of
chalk,
a
glass
stopper
from
a
decanter,
a
tin
soldier,
a
couple
of
tadpoles,
six
firecrackers,
a
one-eyed
kitten,
a
brass
doorknob,
a
dog
collar
without
a
dog,
a
knife
handle,
four
pieces
of
orange
peel,
and
an
old,
broken
window
sash.
He
had
enjoyed
a
pleasant,
leisurely
time
with
plenty
of
company,
and
the
fence
now
had
three
coats
of
whitewash!
If
he
hadn't
run
out
of
whitewash,
he
might
have
emptied
the
pockets
of
every
boy
in
the
village.
Tom
thought
to
himself
that
the
world
wasn't
so
empty
after
all.
Without
realizing
it,
he
had
discovered
an
important
truth
about
human
behavior:
to
make
someone
want
something,
you
just
need
to
make
it
hard
to
get.
If
he
were
a
great
philosopher
like
the
author
of
this
book,
he
would
understand
that
Work
is
whatever
one
has
to
do,
and
Play
is
whatever
one
doesn't
have
to
do.
This
would
explain
why
making
artificial
flowers
or
using
a
treadmill
is
work,
while
bowling
or
climbing
Mont
Blanc
is
just
fun.
There
are
rich
men
in
England
who
drive
four-horse
coaches
for
miles
every
day
in
summer
because
it
costs
them
a
lot.
But
if
they
were
paid
to
do
it,
it
would
become
work,
and
they
would
quit.
The
boy
thought
for
a
while
about
the
big
change
in
his
fortunes
and
then
headed
back
to
report.
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