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1Now he lapsed into suffering again, as the dry argument was resumed. Presently he bethought him of a treasure he had and
2got it out. It was a large black beetle with formidable jaws--a "pinchbug," he called it. It was in a percussion-cap
3box. The first thing the beetle did was to take him by the finger. A natural fillip followed, the beetle went
4floundering into the aisle and lit on its back, and the hurt finger went into the boy's mouth. The beetle lay there
5working its helpless legs, unable to turn over. Tom eyed it, and longed for it; but it was safe out of his reach. Other
6people uninterested in the sermon found relief in the beetle, and they eyed it too. Presently a vagrant poodle dog came
7idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change. He
8spied the beetle; the drooping tail lifted and wagged. He surveyed the prize; walked around it; smelt at it from a safe
9distance; walked around it again; grew bolder, and took a closer smell; then lifted his lip and made a gingerly snatch
10at it, just missing it; made another, and another; began to enjoy the diversion; subsided to his stomach with the beetle
11between his paws, and continued his experiments; grew weary at last, and then indifferent and absent-minded. His head
12nodded, and little by little his chin descended and touched the enemy, who seized it. There was a sharp yelp, a flirt of
13the poodle's head, and the beetle fell a couple of yards away, and lit on its back once more. The neighboring spectators
14shook with a gentle inward joy, several faces went behind fans and hand-kerchiefs, and Tom was entirely happy. The dog
15looked foolish, and probably felt so; but there was resentment in his heart, too, and a craving for revenge. So he went
16to the beetle and began a wary attack on it again; jumping at it from every point of a circle, lighting with his
17fore-paws within an inch of the creature, making even closer snatches at it with his teeth, and jerking his head till
18his ears flapped again. But he grew tired once more, after a while; tried to amuse himself with a fly but found no
19relief; followed an ant around, with his nose close to the floor, and quickly wearied of that; yawned, sighed, forgot
20the beetle entirely, and sat down on it. Then there was a wild yelp of agony and the poodle went sailing up the aisle;
21the yelps continued, and so did the dog; he crossed the house in front of the altar; he flew down the other aisle; he
22crossed before the doors; he clamored up the home-stretch; his anguish grew with his progress, till presently he was but
23a woolly comet moving in its orbit with the gleam and the speed of light. At last the frantic sufferer sheered from its
24course, and sprang into its master's lap; he flung it out of the window, and the voice of distress quickly thinned away
25and died in the distance. By this time the whole church was red-faced and suffocating with suppressed laughter, and the
26sermon had come to a dead standstill. The discourse was resumed presently, but it went lame and halting, all possibility
27of impressiveness being at an end; for even the gravest sentiments were constantly being received with a smothered burst
28of unholy mirth, under cover of some remote pew-back, as if the poor parson had said a rarely facetious thing. It was a
29genuine relief to the whole congregation when the ordeal was over and the benediction pronounced. Tom Sawyer went home
30quite cheerful, thinking to himself that there was some satisfaction about divine service when there was a bit of
31variety in it. He had but one marring thought; he was willing that the dog should play with his pinchbug, but he did not
32think it was upright in him to carry it off.
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