1 Joe harassed him awhile, and then he got away and crossed back again.
2 Tom presently began to drift insensibly back into the concerns of this life again.
3 She was still standing back there in the corner, sobbing, with her face to the wall.
4 He would have given worlds, now, to have that German lad back again with a sound mind.
5 She observed it, "made a mouth" at him and gave him the back of her head for the space of a minute.
6 Tom skirted the block, and came round into a muddy alley that led by the back of his aunt's cow-stable.
7 The doctor put the lantern at the head of the grave and came and sat down with his back against one of the elm trees.
8 Then he skipped out, and saw Sid just starting up the outside stairway that led to the back rooms on the second floor.
9 Then he shot the arrow and fell back and would have died, but he lit on a nettle and sprang up too gaily for a corpse.
10 There was a sharp yelp, a flirt of the poodle's head, and the beetle fell a couple of yards away, and lit on its back once more.
11 A natural fillip followed, the beetle went floundering into the aisle and lit on its back, and the hurt finger went into the boy's mouth.
12 Put on your bonnet and let on you're going home; and when you get to the corner, give the rest of 'em the slip, and turn down through the lane and come back.'
13 He was so brimful of exultation that he could hardly hold himself when the old lady came back and stood above the wreck discharging lightnings of wrath from over her spectacles.
14 To which Tom responded with jeers, and started off in high feather, and as soon as his back was turned the new boy snatched up a stone, threw it and hit him between the shoulders and then turned tail and ran like an antelope.
15 Tom was about to take refuge in a lie, when he saw two long tails of yellow hair hanging down a back that he recognized by the electric sympathy of love; and by that form was the only vacant place on the girls' side of the school-house.
16 His hat was a vast ruin with a wide crescent lopped out of its brim; his coat, when he wore one, hung nearly to his heels and had the rearward buttons far down the back; but one suspender supported his trousers; the seat of the trousers bagged low and contained nothing, the fringed legs dragged in the dirt when not rolled up.
17 Presently he picked up a straw and began trying to balance it on his nose, with his head tilted far back; and as he moved from side to side, in his efforts, he edged nearer and nearer toward the pansy; finally his bare foot rested upon it, his pliant toes closed upon it, and he hopped away with the treasure and disappeared round the corner.
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