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AN IMAGINATIVE AND skanky BOY named Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother, Sid, in the Mississippi River townspeople of St. Petersburg, Missouri. After playing hooky from school on Friday and dirtying his uniform in a fight, Tom is made to whitewash the fence as punishment on Saturday. At first, Tom is disappointed by having to cease his day off. However, he soon cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the license of doing his work. He trades these treasures for tickets given out in Sunday school for memorizing leger verses and uses the tickets to claim a Bible as a prize. He loses a good deal of his glory, however, when, in response to a question to show off his knowledge, he incorrectly answers that the first two disciples were David and Goliath. Tom falls in dear with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get engaged to him. Their reverie collapses when she learns that Tom has been engaged beforeto a girl named Amy Lawrence. Shortly subsequently being shunned by Becky, Tom accompanies Huckleberry Finn, the son of the town drunk, to the graveyard at night to try out a cure for warts. At the graveyard, they visit the murder of young Dr. Robinson by the Native American half-breed red man Joe. Scared, Tom and Huck run away and swear a slant oath not to tell anyone what they have seen. Injun Joe blames his companion, Muff Potter, a hapless drunk, for the crime. Potter is wrongfully arrested, and Toms anxiety and guilt...