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1Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri
2worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his
3apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little
4while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash. By the time Ben was fagged out, Tom had traded the next chance to
5Billy Fisher for a kite, in good repair; and when he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to
6swing it with--and so on, and so on, hour after hour. And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor
7poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth. He had besides the things before mentioned,
8twelve marbles, part of a jews-harp, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through, a spool cannon, a key that wouldn't
9unlock anything, a fragment of chalk, a glass stopper of a decanter, a tin soldier, a couple of tadpoles, six
10fire-crackers, a kitten with only one eye, a brass door-knob, a dog-collar--but no dog--the handle of a knife, four
11pieces of orange-peel, and a dilapidated old window sash. He had had a nice, good, idle time all the while--plenty of
12company--and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it! If he hadn't run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted
13every boy in the village. Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great
14law of human action, without knowing it--namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only
15necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this
16book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of
17whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or
18performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy
19gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer,
20because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it
21into work and then they would resign. The boy mused awhile over the substantial change which had taken place in his
22worldly circumstances, and then wended toward headquarters to report.
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