1 Tom was downhearted, but tried hard not to show it.
2 Tom tried one or two other seductions; but they failed, too.
3 But it must have fallen short or gone too far; so he tried twice more.
4 Tom tried again, with soothing words in his mouth, and was repulsed again.
5 THE harder Tom tried to fasten his mind on his book, the more his ideas wandered.
6 He tried to steal sugar under his aunt's very nose, and got his knuckles rapped for it.
7 He well knew the futility of trying to contend against witches, so he gave up discouraged.
8 So he returned his straitened means to his pocket, and gave up the idea of trying to buy the boys.
9 Tom had struggled with his pride a few days, and tried to "whistle her down the wind," but failed.
10 Tom tried to put his arm about her neck, but she pushed him away and turned her face to the wall, and went on crying.
11 It did not occur to him that he had tried it several times before, himself, but could never find the hiding-places afterward.
12 He sat down and tried to seem gay, but it was up-hill work; it roused no smile, no response, and he lapsed into silence and let his heart sink down to the depths.
13 He drifted listlessly down the street and found Jim Hollis acting as judge in a juvenile court that was trying a cat for murder, in the presence of her victim, a bird.
14 At home Tom learned of the Cardiff Hill event; also that the "ragged man's" body had eventually been found in the river near the ferry-landing; he had been drowned while trying to escape, perhaps.
15 But he grew tired once more, after a while; tried to amuse himself with a fly but found no relief; followed an ant around, with his nose close to the floor, and quickly wearied of that; yawned, sighed, forgot the beetle entirely, and sat down on it.
16 The tick tried this, that, and the other course, and got as excited and as anxious as the boys themselves, but time and again just as he would have victory in his very grasp, so to speak, and Tom's fingers would be twitching to begin, Joe's pin would deftly head him off, and keep possession.
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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