title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
author:  Mark Twain 
description: Well over a century has passed since the publication of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in 1876, but time has done little to diminish the appeal and enjoyment of this classic story of growing up in midwestern America.
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  # TOM SAWYER ABROAD
  
  
  ### MARK TWAIN
  
  
  
  
  
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  CHAPTER I. TOM SEEKS NEW ADVENTURES
  
  
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  DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all
  
  
  them adventures? I mean the adventures we had
  
  
  down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free
  
  
  and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only
  
  
  just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it
  
  
  had. You see, when we three came back up the river
  
  
  in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and
  
  
  the village received us with a torchlight procession and
  
  
  speeches, and everybody hurrah'd and shouted, it
  
  
  made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had
  
  
  always been hankering to be.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For a while he WAS satisfied. Everybody made
  
  
  much of him, and he tilted up his nose and stepped
  
  
  around the town as though he owned it. Some called
  
  
  him Tom Sawyer the Traveler, and that just swelled
  
  
  him up fit to bust. You see he laid over me and Jim
  
  
  considerable, because we only went do