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1Tom presented himself before Aunt Polly, who was sitting by an open window in a pleasant rearward apartment, which was
2bedroom, breakfast-room, dining-room, and library, combined. The balmy summer air, the restful quiet, the odor of the
3flowers, and the drowsing murmur of the bees had had their effect, and she was nodding over her knitting--for she had no
4company but the cat, and it was asleep in her lap. Her spectacles were propped up on her gray head for safety. She had
5thought that of course Tom had deserted long ago, and she wondered at seeing him place himself in her power again in
6this intrepid way. He said: "Mayn't I go and play now, aunt?" "What, a'ready? How much have you done?" "It's all done,
7aunt." "Tom, don't lie to me--I can't bear it." "I ain't, aunt; it is all done." Aunt Polly placed small trust in such
8evidence. She went out to see for herself; and she would have been content to find twenty per cent. of Tom's statement
9true. When she found the entire fence white-washed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and
10even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable. She said: "Well, I never! There's no getting
11round it, you can work when you're a mind to, Tom." And then she diluted the compliment by adding, "But it's powerful
12seldom you're a mind to, I'm bound to say. Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll
13tan you." She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and selected a choice
14apple and delivered it to him, along with an improving lecture upon the added value and flavor a treat took to itself
15when it came without sin through virtuous effort. And while she closed with a happy Scriptural flourish, he "hooked" a
16doughnut. Then he skipped out, and saw Sid just starting up the outside stairway that led to the back rooms on the
17second floor. Clods were handy and the air was full of them in a twinkling. They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and
18before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal
19effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone. There was a gate, but as a general thing he was too crowded for time to
20make use of it. His soul was at peace, now that he had settled with Sid for calling attention to his black thread and
21getting him into trouble. Tom skirted the block, and came round into a muddy alley that led by the back of his aunt's
22cow-stable. He presently got safely beyond the reach of capture and punishment, and hastened toward the public square of
23the village, where two "military" companies of boys had met for conflict, according to previous appointment. Tom was
24General of one of these armies, Joe Harper (a bosom friend) General of the other. These two great commanders did not
25condescend to fight in person--that being better suited to the still smaller fry--but sat together on an eminence and
26conducted the field operations by orders delivered through aides-de-camp. Tom's army won a great victory, after a long
27and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon,
28and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned
29homeward alone. As he was passing by the house where Jeff Thatcher lived, he saw a new girl in the garden--a lovely
30little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair plaited into two long-tails, white summer frock and embroidered pantalettes.
31The fresh-crowned hero fell without firing a shot. A certain Amy Lawrence vanished out of his heart and left not even a
32memory of herself behind. He had thought he loved her to distraction; he had regarded his passion as adoration; and
33behold it was only a poor little evanescent partiality. He had been months winning her; she had confessed hardly a week
34ago; he had been the happiest and the proudest boy in the world only seven short days, and here in one instant of time
35she had gone out of his heart like a casual stranger whose visit is done. He worshipped this new angel with furtive eye,
36till he saw that she had discovered him; then he pretended he did not know she was present, and began to "show off" in
37all sorts of absurd boyish ways, in order to win her admiration. He kept up this grotesque foolishness for some time;
38but by-and-by, while he was in the midst of some dangerous gymnastic performances, he glanced aside and saw that the
39little girl was wending her way toward the house. Tom came up to the fence and leaned on it, grieving, and hoping she
40would tarry yet awhile longer. She halted a moment on the steps and then moved toward the door. Tom heaved a great sigh
41as she put her foot on the threshold. But his face lit up, right away, for she tossed a pansy over the fence a moment
42before she disappeared. The boy ran around and stopped within a foot or two of the flower, and then shaded his eyes with
43his hand and began to look down street as if he had discovered something of interest going on in that direction.
44Presently he picked up a straw and began trying to balance it on his nose, with his head tilted far back; and as he
45moved from side to side, in his efforts, he edged nearer and nearer toward the pansy; finally his bare foot rested upon
46it, his pliant toes closed upon it, and he hopped away with the treasure and disappeared round the corner. But only for
47a minute--only while he could button the flower inside his jacket, next his heart--or next his stomach, possibly, for he
48was not much posted in anatomy, and not hypercritical, anyway. He returned, now, and hung about the fence till
49nightfall, "showing off," as before; but the girl never exhibited herself again, though Tom comforted himself a little
50with the hope that she had been near some window, meantime, and been aware of his attentions. Finally he strode home
51reluctantly, with his poor head full of visions. All through supper his spirits were so high that his aunt wondered
52"what had got into the child." He took a good scolding about clodding Sid, and did not seem to mind it in the least. He
53tried to steal sugar under his aunt's very nose, and got his knuckles rapped for it. He said: "Aunt, you don't whack Sid
54when he takes it." "Well, Sid don't torment a body the way you do. You'd be always into that sugar if I warn't watching
55you." Presently she stepped into the kitchen, and Sid, happy in his immunity, reached for the sugar-bowl--a sort of
56glorying over Tom which was wellnigh unbearable. But Sid's fingers slipped and the bowl dropped and broke. Tom was in
57ecstasies. In such ecstasies that he even controlled his tongue and was silent. He said to himself that he would not
58speak a word, even when his aunt came in, but would sit perfectly still till she asked who did the mischief; and then he
59would tell, and there would be nothing so good in the world as to see that pet model "catch it." He was so brimful of
60exultation that he could hardly hold himself when the old lady came back and stood above the wreck discharging
61lightnings of wrath from over her spectacles. He said to himself, "Now it's coming!" And the next instant he was
62sprawling on the floor! The potent palm was uplifted to strike again when Tom cried out: "Hold on, now, what 'er you
63belting me for?--Sid broke it!" Aunt Polly paused, perplexed, and Tom looked for healing pity. But when she got her
64tongue again, she only said: "Umf! Well, you didn't get a lick amiss, I reckon. You been into some other audacious
65mischief when I wasn't around, like enough."
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