The Press., 1883-09-06
Issued Every Thursday Evening
HOW TOM SAWYER GOT HIS FENCE WHITE se WASHED.

HOW TOM SAWYER GOT HIS FENCE WHITE ss ts WASHED.
 Tom Sawyer, having. offended his sole guardian, Aunt Polly, is by that sternly taffechonate dame punished by being set stpssMhite-wash the fence in front of her garden. | The world seemed a hollow mock cry to Tom, who had planned fun for that day, and he knew that he would be the langhing- g-stock of all the boys as they came past and saw him set to work like a ssnig- ger, ',g Butt great. inspiration burst upon him, and he went tranquilly to work. What that inspiration was will appear from what follows:
 sA One!of the boys, Ben Rogers, comes by and pauses, eating a particularly fine ap- pie. Tom m~does not see him. Ben stares for moment and then says ,SH r <, ss sssHl-yi you're stump, ain't you ?" r.
 No answer. Tom surveyed his last touch with the eye of an artist, then he gave an other gentle sweep and surveyed the result as before. Ben ranged up alongside oi him, Toms, mouth watered for the ap- pie, but he stuck to his work. Ben said Hello, old chap; you've got to work, hey 9p a.. afa @
 'sWhy, its you, Ben; Iwasn noticing" "
 Say, l am going in a-swimming, am. Don't you wish you could? But of course you'd ruther work, wouldn't you? Course you would 1" ss t1s' -
 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said r.-.
 'sWhat do you call work ?'' s.,. .. ,..
 'tWhy, aint that work ?" ..
 Tom resumed his white-washing, and answered, carelessly: s.ea. ... H
 s'Wel1, maybe it is, and maybe it ain t. All I know is, it suits Tom Sawyer j, "oh, come now, you don't mean to let on that you like it ?'' E.,. E.. ..,;-..~.
 The brush continued to, move"
 ssLike 1t? We'll, I don't see why l oughtn't to like it. Does boy get a chance to whitewash fence every day? ?" stopped nibbling at his apple. Tom swept his brush daintiiIy back and forth-stepped back to note the effect added. touch here and there criticised the effect again, Ben watching every move, and getting more and more absorbed. Presently he said .,,...s...., 4sa..Y;.,..s ....g
 "Say, Tom let me whitezwashaa little ?''
 Tom considered twas about tosconsent but altered his mind
 ''tsNo, no; i; I reckon it wouldn' hardly do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly's awful par hcular about this fence right here on the street, you .know-but if 1t was the back fence I wouldn't mind, and she wouldn't t. Yes s,she's awful particular about this fence it's got to be done very careful I reckon there ain't boy in thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it in the way its got to be done." ... .->s
 sNo-is that 90? Oh, come now, femme just try, only just little. I'd let you, i you was me, Tom"
 ssBen, I'd like to, honest Injun, but Aun Polly-wen, Jim wanted to do it, but sh' wouldn't let him. Sid wanted to do it but she wouldn't let Sid. Now, don't yol see how am fixed? If you was to tackl' 1 this fence, and anything was to happen t, l it."
 s'Oh, shucks I'll be just as careful Now, femme try. Say-Tn give you thu core of my apple"
 "Well, here. No, Ben now don't; Tn afear-"
 ssI'll give you all of it P
 Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. Ant while Ben worked and sweated in the sun the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munchee his apple, and planned the slaughter O more innocents. There was no lack O. material :; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained te white-wash. By the time Ben was fagget out, Tom had traded the next chance tt Billy Fisher for kite in good repair; ant when he played out, John Miller bough it for toy rat and a string to swing i with and so on, and so on, hour afte hour. And when the middle of the after noon came, from being poor, poverty stricken boy in the morning, Tom was lit erally rolling in wealth. He had, beside the things have mentioned, twelve mar bles, part of jew's-harp, piece of blu bottle-glass to look through, spool can non, key that wouldn't unlock anything fragment of chalk, glass stopper of decanter, tin soldier, couple of tad poles, six fre-crackers, kitten with onl one eye, brass door-knob, 8 dog collar but no dog-the handle of 8 knife, fou pieces of orange peel, and dilapidate old window sash. He had nice, good idle time all the while-plenty of compan and the fence had three coats of white wash on it If he had not run out c white-wash, he would have bankrupte every boy in the village.
 Tom said to himself that it was not sue a hollow world after all. He had discover ed great law of human action withou knowing it-namely, that in order to mak man or boy covet thing, it is only neces sary to make it difficult to attain.
 FouR DAYS IN A FREIGHT CAR.AWork men employed at Washington avenu wharf on Monday, says the Philadelphi