Original Paragraph:
"Tom!" No answer. "What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You, TOM!" No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service-she could have seen through a pair of stove lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll--"
She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat.
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I have never read this book, but the first part I read, this paragraph, sounded like the book was going to be funny. Mark Twain's sense of humor is absolutely priceless. The part about the old lady's glasses made me smile when I read it. This beginning part was interesting enough to make me want to finish the book. I plan to read it soon.
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I'm glad you plan to read it. I think it is hilarious still, after reading it perhaps a dozen times. It's important to read it before we read Huck Finn in January.
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