1 Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang.
2 Now she had got a start, and she went on and told me all about the good place.
3 Then he said he must start in and "'terpret" it, because it was sent for a warning.
4 There warn't no way but to wait for dark, and start back in the canoe and take the chances.
5 I was pretty hungry, but it warn't going to do for me to start a fire, because they might see the smoke.
6 I didn't know her face; she was a stranger, for you couldn't start a face in that town that I didn't know.
7 I waited till I reckoned he had got a good start; then I out with my saw, and went to work on that log again.
8 No you wont, you'll start now; and don't you lose any time about it, neither, nor do any gabbling by the way.
9 I took a good gap and a stretch, and was just going to unhitch and start when I heard a sound away over the water.
10 When I start in to steal a nigger, or a watermelon, or a Sunday-school book, I ain't no ways particular how it's done so it's done.
11 You hain't done a thing from the start that had any sense in it, except coming out so cool and cheeky with that imaginary blue-arrow mark.
12 Sometimes a belt of land a quarter of a mile deep will start in and cave along and cave along till it all caves into the river in one summer.
13 I reckoned I better start in on my plan straight off without fooling around, because I wanted to stop Jim's mouth till these fellows could get away.
14 But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable.
15 They gained on the boys, but it didn't do no good, the boys had too good a start; they got to the woodpile that was in front of my tree, and slipped in behind it, and so they had the bulge on the men again.
16 It was beautiful to hear that clock tick; and sometimes when one of these peddlers had been along and scoured her up and got her in good shape, she would start in and strike a hundred and fifty before she got tuckered out.
17 I struck for the light, but as soon as he turned the corner I went back and got into my skiff and bailed her out, and then pulled up shore in the easy water about six hundred yards, and tucked myself in among some woodboats; for I couldn't rest easy till I could see the ferryboat start.
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