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Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer
Capítulo 29, Página 1
The
first
thing
Tom
heard
on
Friday
morning
was
a
glad
piece
of
news—Judge
Thatcher’s
family
had
come
back
to
town
the
night
before.
Both
Injun
Joe
and
the
treasure
sunk
into
secondary
importance
for
a
moment,
and
Becky
took
the
chief
place
in
the
boy’s
interest.
He
saw
her
and
they
had
an
exhausting
good
time
playing
“hispy”
and
“gully-keeper”
with
a
crowd
of
their
schoolmates.
The
day
was
completed
and
crowned
in
a
peculiarly
satisfactory
way:
Becky
teased
her
mother
to
appoint
the
next
day
for
the
long-promised
and
long-delayed
picnic,
and
she
consented.
The
child’s
delight
was
boundless;
and
Tom’s
not
more
moderate.
The
invitations
were
sent
out
before
sunset,
and
straightway
the
young
folks
of
the
village
were
thrown
into
a
fever
of
preparation
and
pleasurable
anticipation.
Tom’s
excitement
enabled
him
to
keep
awake
until
a
pretty
late
hour,
and
he
had
good
hopes
of
hearing
Huck’s
“maow,”
and
of
having
his
treasure
to
astonish
Becky
and
the
picnickers
with,
next
day;
but
he
was
disappointed.
No
signal
came
that
night.
Morning
came,
eventually,
and
by
ten
or
eleven
o’clock
a
giddy
and
rollicking
company
were
gathered
at
Judge
Thatcher’s,
and
everything
was
ready
for
a
start.
It
was
not
the
custom
for
elderly
people
to
mar
the
picnics
with
their
presence.
The
children
were
considered
safe
enough
under
the
wings
of
a
few
young
ladies
of
eighteen
and
a
few
young
gentlemen
of
twenty-three
or
thereabouts.
The
old
steam
ferry-boat
was
chartered
for
the
occasion;
presently
the
gay
throng
filed
up
the
main
street
laden
with
provision-baskets.
Sid
was
sick
and
had
to
miss
the
fun;
Mary
remained
at
home
to
entertain
him.
The
last
thing
Mrs.
Thatcher
said
to
Becky,
was:
“You’ll
not
get
back
till
late.
Perhaps
you’d
better
stay
all
night
with
some
of
the
girls
that
live
near
the
ferry-landing,
child.”
“Then
I’ll
stay
with
Susy
Harper,
mamma.”
“Very
well.
And
mind
and
behave
yourself
and
don’t
be
any
trouble.”
Presently,
as
they
tripped
along,
Tom
said
to
Becky:
“Say—I’ll
tell
you
what
we’ll
do.
’Stead
of
going
to
Joe
Harper’s
we’ll
climb
right
up
the
hill
and
stop
at
the
Widow
Douglas’.
She’ll
have
ice-cream!
She
has
it
most
every
day—dead
loads
of
it.
And
she’ll
be
awful
glad
to
have
us.”
“Oh,
that
will
be
fun!”
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