Day 2
Joe watched Tom for about five minutes. Tom painted very slowly and carefully. He often stopped, moved back from the fence and looked at his work with a smile. Joe began to get very interested, and said:
'Tom, can I paint a little?'
Tom thought for a second. 'I'm sorry, Joe. You see my aunt wants me to do it because I'm good at painting. My brother Sid wanted to paint, too, but she said no.'
'Oh. please, Tom, just a little. I'm good at painting, too. Hey, do you want some of my apple?'
'No, Joe, I can't --'
'OK, you can have all my apple!'
Tom gave Joe the brush. He did not smile, but for the first time that day he was a very happy boy. He sat down and ate Joe's apple.
More friends came to laugh at Tom, but soon they all wanted to paint, too. By the afternoon Tom had three balls, an old knife, a cat with one eye, an old blue bottle and a lot of other exciting things. He was the richest boy in St Petersburg, and the fence--all thirty metres of it--was a beautiful white. He went back to the house.
'Aunt Polly! Can I go and play now?'
Aunt Polly came out of the house to look. When she saw the beautiful white fence. she was very pleased. She took Tom into the house and gave him an apple.
'Well, you can go and play. But don' t come home late.'
Tom quickly took a second apple and ran off.
On Monday morning Tom didn't want to go to school, but Aunt Polly got him out of bed, and then out of the house. In the street near the school he met his friend Huckleberry Finn. Huck had no mother, and his father drank whiskey all the time, so Huck lived in the streets. He didn't go to school, he was always dirty, and he never had a new shirt. But he was happy. The mothers of St Petersburg didn't like Huck, but Tom and his friends did.
'Hello, Huck!' said Tom. 'What have you got there?'
'A dead cat.'
'What're you going to do with it?' asked Tom.
'I'm going to take it to the graveyard tonight,' Huck said. 'At midnight. a dead cat can call ghosts out of their graves.'
'I never heard that,’ said Tom. 'Is it true?'
'Well, I don't know,' said Huck. 'Old Mrs Hopkins told me. Come with me, and see. Or are you afraid of ghosts?'
'Of course not!' said Tom. 'Come and meow for me at my window at eleven o'clock.'
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