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Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer
Capítulo 22, Página 1
Tom
joined
the
new
order
of
Cadets
of
Temperance,
being
attracted
by
the
showy
character
of
their
“regalia.”
He
promised
to
abstain
from
smoking,
chewing,
and
profanity
as
long
as
he
remained
a
member.
Now
he
found
out
a
new
thing—namely,
that
to
promise
not
to
do
a
thing
is
the
surest
way
in
the
world
to
make
a
body
want
to
go
and
do
that
very
thing.
Tom
soon
found
himself
tormented
with
a
desire
to
drink
and
swear;
the
desire
grew
to
be
so
intense
that
nothing
but
the
hope
of
a
chance
to
display
himself
in
his
red
sash
kept
him
from
withdrawing
from
the
order.
Fourth
of
July
was
coming;
but
he
soon
gave
that
up—gave
it
up
before
he
had
worn
his
shackles
over
forty-eight
hours—and
fixed
his
hopes
upon
old
Judge
Frazer,
justice
of
the
peace,
who
was
apparently
on
his
deathbed
and
would
have
a
big
public
funeral,
since
he
was
so
high
an
official.
During
three
days
Tom
was
deeply
concerned
about
the
Judge’s
condition
and
hungry
for
news
of
it.
Sometimes
his
hopes
ran
high—so
high
that
he
would
venture
to
get
out
his
regalia
and
practise
before
the
looking-glass.
But
the
Judge
had
a
most
discouraging
way
of
fluctuating.
At
last
he
was
pronounced
upon
the
mend—and
then
convalescent.
Tom
was
disgusted;
and
felt
a
sense
of
injury,
too.
He
handed
in
his
resignation
at
once—and
that
night
the
Judge
suffered
a
relapse
and
died.
Tom
resolved
that
he
would
never
trust
a
man
like
that
again.
The
funeral
was
a
fine
thing.
The
Cadets
paraded
in
a
style
calculated
to
kill
the
late
member
with
envy.
Tom
was
a
free
boy
again,
however—there
was
something
in
that.
He
could
drink
and
swear,
now—but
found
to
his
surprise
that
he
did
not
want
to.
The
simple
fact
that
he
could,
took
the
desire
away,
and
the
charm
of
it.
Tom
presently
wondered
to
find
that
his
coveted
vacation
was
beginning
to
hang
a
little
heavily
on
his
hands.
He
attempted
a
diary—but
nothing
happened
during
three
days,
and
so
he
abandoned
it.
The
first
of
all
the
negro
minstrel
shows
came
to
town,
and
made
a
sensation.
Tom
and
Joe
Harper
got
up
a
band
of
performers
and
were
happy
for
two
days.
Even
the
Glorious
Fourth
was
in
some
sense
a
failure,
for
it
rained
hard,
there
was
no
procession
in
consequence,
and
the
greatest
man
in
the
world
(as
Tom
supposed),
Mr.
Benton,
an
actual
United
States
Senator,
proved
an
overwhelming
disappointment—for
he
was
not
twenty-five
feet
high,
nor
even
anywhere
in
the
neighborhood
of
it.
A
circus
came.
The
boys
played
circus
for
three
days
afterward
in
tents
made
of
rag
carpeting—admission,
three
pins
for
boys,
two
for
girls—and
then
circusing
was
abandoned.
A
phrenologist
and
a
mesmerizer
came—and
went
again
and
left
the
village
duller
and
drearier
than
ever.
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