The Adventures of Samuel Sawyer

The Adventures of Samuel Sawyer is a 1952 novel by Looney Tunes voice actor, Mel Blanc. It was inspired by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain and it spawned many sequels.
A year after the novel was published, Blanc had already filed for the copyright of the novel that he wrote clearifying that he is the owner (even creating Sawyer Productions as a copyright holder) but despite Little, Brown and Company learning about this, they never filed a lawsuit under request from one of the employees.
== Plot ==
Samuel Sawyer is an orphaned 13-year old who lives in the town of Califormia (set in the 1950s) with his adoptive aunt Jane (who just so happens to be a bear) and his half-brother Orion where he would frequently cause some mischief and even sometimes trick Jane into doing his cleaning for him along with messing with Orion for being a snitch and frequently skipping school. When aunt Jane learned that Samuel has been in a fight with another kid, she made him paint the fence as punishment.
Samuel then tricked the neighbourhood children into doing the work for him by using reverse psychology to convince them that it's enjoyable (while getting treasures and items for the privilige of doing his work).
Samuel fell in love with Tune Moray, a jewish girl who is new in town, and tried multiple times to impress her. Eventually, he impress her father, Morris Moray, by obtaining a jewish bible he got (actually stolen from one of the neighbourhood kids) and won his approval to be with his daughter (despite showing off his ignorence by being unable to anwser any basic questions). Tune eventually rejected Samuel when he accidently spilled that he is also in a relationship with Bea Belandemet as she believed that being in a relationship with a boy who already has a girlfriend will ruin her reputation (combined with the realization that her father set her up with Samuel without her knowledge).
Samuel, out of sadness, accompanied Olivia Finn, a girl around Samuel's age who has almost no education, to a graveyard to preform rituals intended to cure warts. While there, they witness three bodysnatchers, Morton Ardolson, Mina Watson and Joe Drabill, robbing a grave. A fight broke out, during which Morton knocked out Mina and is then murdered by Joe. When Mina woke up, Joe put a dagger in her hand and said that she killed Morton while drunk. Samuel and Olivia, knowing that Joe will find out and kill them for revenge (as well as the fact that the people in Califormia probably won't believe them due to lack of evidence), swore to not tell anyone what they've saw until the time is right. Mina was arrested and jailed to await trial, not disputing Joe's claim.
Samuel, growing bored of school, ran away to an Island with his friend and classmate Stan Dreferg and Olivia Finn to live their lives as pirates, while enjoying their freedom, they notice the community is scouring the river for their bodies, as they are missing and presumed dead. Samuel sneaked back home one night to observe the commotion and, feeling remorse for his love ones' suffering, concieved a plan to appear at his own funeral. The three carried out their plan, appearing at church in the middle of the joint funeral service, winning the respect of their classmates for the stunt. Back in School, Tune ripped the page of her teacher's anatomy book after Bea startled her, but Bea, out of sympathy for her because her dad allowed Samuel to start a relationship with her without telling her, told the teacher that Samuel ripped the page, to which Samuel claimed responsibility for the damage and recieved the punishment that Tune would've recieved.
During Mina's murder trial, Samuel, knowing that Mina could get a death sentence, broke the oath by coming to her defence and told everyone that it was Joe whk killed Morton while Mina was knocked out by Morton. Joe fled the courtroom before he could be apprehended, leading Mina's to be acquitted but also for Samuel and Olivia to fear for their lives.
Once School left out for the summer, Samuel and Olivia decided to go hunt for some buried treasure in the area. While investigating an abandoned house, they were interrupted by the arrival of two men. One of them is a Spaniard and supposedly deaf-mule, who is actually Joe in disguise and another man named Jeffrey Grahmer. The two men plan to bury some stolen treasure in the house but inadvertly discover a hoard of gold coins while doing so. They decided to move it to a new hiding place, which Samuel and Olivia are determind to find. One night, Olivia followed the men in secret, who plans to break into the house of wealthy Widow Judy so Joe can mutilate her face as an act of revenge for being publicly whipped for vagrancy - a punishment handed down by her late husband, a justice for the peace. Olivia summoned help and prevented the break-in but requested that her name should not be made public to avoid being killed.
Shortly before Olivia stopped the crime, Samuel was out on a picnic to a local cave with Bea as an apology for cheating on her for June along with their classmates with June also tagging along. Samuel, June and Bea got lost and wandered around the cave for days, facing hunger and thirst, Bea and June both got really weak and Samuel's search for a way out became more desperate. He encountered Joe again, but made sure not to be seen, and he and Bea were joyfully welcomed back by the town when they eventually found the exit. Learning that they've been in the cave for three days and traveled five miles from the exit, Morris had the cave reinforced and locked but not before ordering the police to arrest Joe when he turned himself in after he escaped the cave when he heard that it was going to be reinforced and locked, believing that it is better to be in jail than being dead.
A week later, after believing that the stolen treasure was in the cave, Samuel took Olivia there to search for it. They find that the gold totals over $58.000 and invested it on behalf. The Widow Judy adopted Olivia, who finds the restriction of a civilized homelife painful, attempting to escape back to the vagrant life. She reluctantly returned to Judy, presuaded by Samuel's offer to form a high-class robber gang.
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