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Bedtime Reading
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
----CHAPTER 1 Aunt Polly Keeps her Promise
"Tom! ... TOM!" There was no reply.
"Now, where could that boy be?" the old woman said as she looked around the room.
"You had better hope I don't find you, because when I do..."
Without finishing her sentence she searched the room and found only the catunder the bed. Then she thought he might be in the garden. Looking out of the window, she shouted "Thomas Sawyer!"
And suddenly she heard something behind her. Quickly turning around, she was just in time to catch a young boy trying to run out of the room.
" What were you doing just now? Why didn't you come when you heard me calling you?"
"I wasn't doing anything. Really, I wasn't."
"Well, how can I believe that when all I have to do is to look at you and see your dirty hands and face? How did you get so dirty?"
"I don't know, Aunt Polly."
" Well, I know. You've been eating junk food again, haven't you! How many times have I had to tell you not to eat sweets?!"
She raised her hand to hit Tom, but just before she brought it down on him he shouted: "Hey, there's something behind you!" And when his aunt turned to look, he ran away as fast as he could out of the house and quickly disappeared from Aunt Polly's sight. Even though she had been so angry with Tom, she couldn't help laughing and saying to herself, "That boy! He's always getting into trouble. I hate to punish him so often, and I really hate to hit him, but sometimes there's nothing else an old woman can do.He doesn't like to work and he doesn't like to go to school. He doesn't like to do anything but play. But I promised my sister before she died that I would take care of her son and make sure he grows up to be a good man, and I plan to keep that promise. If I find out he hasn't gone to school today, I'll make him work all day Saturday."
