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"Hello, old chap, you got to work, hey?"Tom wheeled suddenly and said:"Why, it's you, Ben! I warn't noticing.""Say -- I'm going in a-swimming, I am. Don'tyou wish you could? But of course you'd drutherWORK -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said:"What do you call work?""Why, ain't THAT work?"Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered care-lessly:"Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain't. All I know,is, it suits Tom Sawyer.""Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that youLIKE it?"The brush continued to move."Like it? Well, I don't see why I oughtn't to like it.Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"That put the thing in a new light. Ben stoppednibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintilyback and forth -- stepped back to note the effect --added a touch here and there -- criticised the effectagain -- Ben watching every move and getting moreand more interested, more and more absorbed. Pres-ently he said:"Say, Tom, let ME whitewash a little."Tom considered, was about to consent; but healtered his mind:"No -- no -- I reckon it wouldn't hardly do, Ben.You see, Aunt Polly's awful particular about thisfence -- right here on the street, you know -- but if itwas the back fence I wouldn't mind and SHE wouldn't.Yes, she's awful particular about this fence; it's got tobe done very careful; I reckon there ain't one boy in athousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it the wayit's got to be done.""No -- is that so? Oh come, now -- lemme justtry. Only just a little -- I'd let YOU, if you was me,Tom.""Ben, I'd like to, honest injun; but Aunt Polly-- well, Jim wanted to do it, but she wouldn't let him;Sid wanted to do it, and she wouldn't let Sid. Nowdon't you see how I'm fixed? If you was to tackle thisfence and anything was to happen to it --""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 steamerBig Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, theretired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by,dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned theslaughter of more innocents. There was no lackof material; boys happened along every little while;they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash. Bythe time Ben was fagged out, Tom had traded the nextchance to Billy Fisher for a kite, in good repair; andwhen he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for adead rat and a string to swing it with -- and so on, andso on, hour after hour. And when the middle of theafternoon came, from being a poor poverty-strickenboy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth.He had besides the things before mentioned, twelvemarbles, part of a jews-harp, a piece of blue bottle-glassto look through, a spool cannon, a key that wouldn'tunlock anything, a fragment of chalk, a glass stopperof a decanter, a tin soldier, a couple of tadpoles, sixfire-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 windowsash.
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