1 The boys all hated him, he was so good.
2 He was not the Model Boy of the village.
3 That is the way good little boys and girls should do.
4 Tom had no handkerchief, and he looked upon boys who had as snobs.
5 So he returned his straitened means to his pocket, and gave up the idea of trying to buy the boys.
6 "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck" followed; also "The Assyrian Came Down," and other declamatory gems.
7 He waylaid other boys as they came, and went on buying tickets of various colors ten or fifteen minutes longer.
8 There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash.
9 He wandered far from the accustomed haunts of boys, and sought desolate places that were in harmony with his spirit.
10 White, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns, resting, trading playthings, quarrelling, fighting, skylarking.
11 Tom enclosed the tick in the percussion-cap box that had lately been the pinchbug's prison, and the boys separated, each feeling wealthier than before.
12 He entered the church, now, with a swarm of clean and noisy boys and girls, proceeded to his seat and started a quarrel with the first boy that came handy.
13 Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not to play with him.
14 The little girls "showed off" in various ways, and the little boys "showed off" with such diligence that the air was thick with paper wads and the murmur of scufflings.
15 He presently got safely beyond the reach of capture and punishment, and hastened toward the public square of the village, where two "military" companies of boys had met for conflict, according to previous appointment.
16 In an instant both boys were rolling and tumbling in the dirt, gripped together like cats; and for the space of a minute they tugged and tore at each other's hair and clothes, punched and scratched each other's nose, and covered themselves with dust and glory.
17 The latter third of the speech was marred by the resumption of fights and other recreations among certain of the bad boys, and by fidgetings and whisperings that extended far and wide, washing even to the bases of isolated and incorruptible rocks like Sid and Mary.
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