, 1876-07-03
listened to, and that Daniel Webster himself might

listened TO- and that Daniel Webster himself might
Landseer gave grandeur to donkey, and
Mark Twain paints scene between dog and a
pinch-bug with such true perception of uni
yersai laws that it is quite worthy to OCCUR, it
does, In church, and to extinguish the Parsons
sermon, which is not half so important That
Mark is philosopher is amply proved BY tho
following Incident:
Aunt Polly, is byf Tint sternly -adectionsie dame
punished By being set to whltewash the fence in
day, and who knew that be would be the laughing
stock Of all the boys Us they came past and saw
inspiration bnrst upon lin, aad be- vent traaqaly
to work. What that Inspiration was will appear
from what follows One Of the boys, Ben Rogers,
apple: Tom does MT see him. Ban stared a
moment, and then said:
.Hl-yil You're up stump, amt your':
, NO answer. Tom surveyed his last touch with
the eye OF IN artist, then he gave another gentle
sweep. and surveyed the result, a. before. Ben
{{angsd ;s up alopgsido of @ Tome mouth ateFsd
Hello, old chap: yop got to work, hey?'
'....why, it's you, Ben; fwasn't noticing"
,on Say, Say; I'm going IN a-swimming, I am; Don't
work, wouldn't you: Course you wouldr'
Ten On, contemplated the boy . Bit and said:
What do you call work1'
t'Why, amt that work.'
Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered
carelcssly:
] wei; maybe i is; md maybe it Amt. All
nhs f9e i4t now you don't mean to let On that
The brush continued to move.
Like 1t? Well, don't see why pughn' to1ike
It. Does h boy get chance to whitcwash fence
P s app@e @ sa e. oa:a n:R staRRaS aRR
back and forth-eteppcd back to note the effect
added touch here and there-critlciscd the effect
and moT fsdty 9'e ana gshs
aorbed. Presently he said:
Say, Tom, let me whitewash little"
altered bis mind: NE no; reckon It wouldn't l It
hardly do, Ben You see, Aunt Pol1y's awful par
ticnlar about this fence.-ght here On the street,
mind, and she wouldn't, Yes, she's awful partic-
ular abont this fence it's got to be done very care
ful; I reckon there amt one boy in > thousand,
maybe & two thousand that can do it the way it's got
"No,-ls that SO! Oh, come now; 1emme just
try, only just little. I'd let you If you was me,
..Dcn, I'd like to, honest 1njun; but Aunt
Polly-sSell, Jim wanted to do it. but she wouldn't
sd nm Now see low I'm zeas
was to tackle this fence and anything IVES to hap
pea soS 5S shucks! I'll be justa CAREFUL Now 1emmo
try; sa}y-rll give you the core Of my epple.
.ts..efG. awsla, here No. Bon; now don't; I'm
. asei;H ssI'1i cvc von nj, of,t
Tom gave up tho brush with reluctance In his
face, but alacrity in his heart. AND. while Ben
worked and sycatcl in the sun. the retired artist
legs, munchcd his apple, and planned the slaughter
OF more innocents. There was no lack OF material;
boys happened along every little while; they came
Ben was fagged out, Tom had traded the next
chance to Billy Fisher for a kite in good repair:
and. xhe9 he played eu1 johnny MilSFer bought il,
on, and 50 on, hour after hour And. when the
middle Of the afternoon came, from being poor,
poverty stricken boy in the morning, Tom was lit
things have mentioned, twelve marbles, part Of q
jewsharp, piece OF blue bottle glass to look
through, spool,cannon key that wouldn't un-
Of q dccanter, tin soldier, couple Of tadpolcs,
SIX fire Crackers, kitten with only one eye, a
brass door knob, dog collar,--but no dos:-thee
handle OF knife, four pieces Of orange-pcel, and
q dilapidated old window-sash. He had had nice,
good, idle time all the whfle,-pIenty Of company
and the fence had three coats Of w6ttevssh On til
II he hadn't run ont OF whitewash, he would have
Tom laid 70 hiinself thatit was not such hollow
human action without knowing it, namely: that, IN
order to make man Or boy covet thing, 1t is on
y necessary to make the thing difficult TO attain.
the ~ writer Of tbs book, he woala now have COM ON
pretended that work consists OF whatever body is
obliged to do and that play consists OF whatever
UUuy 10 u0t oUu5C0 W uO Auu LQ15 WOulu Qelp
him to understand why constructing artificial fow-
c1s or performing on tread-mill is work, whilst
rolling nine-pins or climbing. Mont Blanc is only
gland who drive four-hor.c passenger-coaches 20
OF 30 miles on daily 1ine In the summer, be-
cause the privilege costs them considerable money;
but il they were offered wages for the service,
that would turn it into work, and then they would
resign
In brief preface the author tells us that most
of the adventures recorded in his book really oc-
cured with himself or his school-mates; that
Huck Finn is drawn from life, and others are
composite characters; that the odd superstitions
touched upon are such as prevailed among chill
dren and slaves In the West thirty years ago.
" Although" he says, st my book is intended
mainly for the entertainment Of boys and girls,
hope it will not be Stunned By men and worn-
en- on that account, for part Of my plan has
been to try pleasantly to remind adults Of what
they once were themselves, and OF how they
felt, aud thought, and talked, and what queer