1 But Tom did not wait for the rest.
2 She resurrected nothing but the cat.
3 He was not the Model Boy of the village.
4 Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is.
5 But in spite of her, Tom knew where the wind lay, now.
6 Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.
7 I ain't doing my duty by that boy, and that's the Lord's truth, goodness knows.
8 The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board-fence, and disappeared over it.
9 A new-comer of any age or either sex was an im-pressive curiosity in the poor little shabby village of St. Petersburg.
10 Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it's so.
11 The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them.
12 She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and "jimpson" weeds that constituted the garden.
13 There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.
14 And it flattered her to reflect that she had discovered that the shirt was dry without anybody knowing that that was what she had in her mind.
15 Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his soul full of gratitude.
16 She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with.
17 The more Tom stared at the splendid marvel, the higher he turned up his nose at his finery and the shabbier and shabbier his own outfit seemed to him to grow.
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