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Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer
Capítulo 2, Página 6
“Oh,
shucks,
I’ll
be
just
as
careful.
Now
lemme
try.
Say—I’ll
give
you
the
core
of
my
apple.”
“Well,
here—No,
Ben,
now
don’t.
I’m
afeard—”
“I’ll
give
you
all
of
it!”
Tom
gave
up
the
brush
with
reluctance
in
his
face,
but
alacrity
in
his
heart.
And
while
the
late
steamer
Big
Missouri
worked
and
sweated
in
the
sun,
the
retired
artist
sat
on
a
barrel
in
the
shade
close
by,
dangled
his
legs,
munched
his
apple,
and
planned
the
slaughter
of
more
innocents.
There
was
no
lack
of
material;
boys
happened
along
every
little
while;
they
came
to
jeer,
but
remained
to
whitewash.
By
the
time
Ben
was
fagged
out,
Tom
had
traded
the
next
chance
to
Billy
Fisher
for
a
kite,
in
good
repair;
and
when
he
played
out,
Johnny
Miller
bought
in
for
a
dead
rat
and
a
string
to
swing
it
with—and
so
on,
and
so
on,
hour
after
hour.
And
when
the
middle
of
the
afternoon
came,
from
being
a
poor
poverty-stricken
boy
in
the
morning,
Tom
was
literally
rolling
in
wealth.
He
had
besides
the
things
before
mentioned,
twelve
marbles,
part
of
a
jews-harp,
a
piece
of
blue
bottle-glass
to
look
through,
a
spool
cannon,
a
key
that
wouldn’t
unlock
anything,
a
fragment
of
chalk,
a
glass
stopper
of
a
decanter,
a
tin
soldier,
a
couple
of
tadpoles,
six
fire-crackers,
a
kitten
with
only
one
eye,
a
brass
door-knob,
a
dog-collar—but
no
dog—the
handle
of
a
knife,
four
pieces
of
orange-peel,
and
a
dilapidated
old
window
sash.
He
had
had
a
nice,
good,
idle
time
all
the
while—plenty
of
company—and
the
fence
had
three
coats
of
whitewash
on
it!
If
he
hadn’t
run
out
of
whitewash
he
would
have
bankrupted
every
boy
in
the
village.
Tom
said
to
himself
that
it
was
not
such
a
hollow
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
boy
covet
a
thing,
it
is
only
necessary
to
make
the
thing
difficult
to
attain.
If
he
had
been
a
great
and
wise
philosopher,
like
the
writer
of
this
book,
he
would
now
have
comprehended
that
Work
consists
of
whatever
a
body
is
obliged
to
do,
and
that
Play
consists
of
whatever
a
body
is
not
obliged
to
do.
And
this
would
help
him
to
understand
why
constructing
artificial
flowers
or
performing
on
a
tread-mill
is
work,
while
rolling
ten-pins
or
climbing
Mont
Blanc
is
only
amusement.
There
are
wealthy
gentlemen
in
England
who
drive
four-horse
passenger-coaches
twenty
or
thirty
miles
on
a
daily
line,
in
the
summer,
because
the
privilege
costs
them
considerable
money;
but
if
they
were
offered
wages
for
the
service,
that
would
turn
it
into
work
and
then
they
would
resign.
The
boy
mused
awhile
over
the
substantial
change
which
had
taken
place
in
his
worldly
circumstances,
and
then
wended
toward
headquarters
to
report.
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