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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER CHAPTER 9

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER CHAPTER 9 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER CHAPTER 9 AT half-past nine that night Tom and Sid were sent to bed as usual. They said their prayers and Sid was soon asleep. Tom lay awake and waited in restless impatience. When it seemed to him that it must be nearly daylight he heard the clock strike ten This was despair. He would have tossed and fidgeted as his nerves demanded but he was afraid he might wake Sid. So he lay still and stared up into the dark. Everything was dismally still. By and by out of the stillness little scarcely preceptible noises began to emphasize themselves. The ticking of the clock began to bring itself into notice. Old beams began to crack mysteriously. The stairs creaked faintly. Evidently spirits were abroad. A measured muffled snore issued from Aunt Polly s chamber. And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate began. Next the ghastly ticking of a death-watch in the wall at the bed s head made Tom shudder -- it meant that somebody s days were numbered. Then the howl of a far-off dog rose on the -100- night air and was answered by a fainter howl from a remoter distance. Tom was in an agony. At last he was satisfied that time had ceased and eternity begun he began to doze in spite of himself the clock chimed eleven but he did not hear it. And then there came mingling with his half-formed dreams a most melancholy caterwauling. The raising of a neighboring window disturbed him. A cry of Scat you devil and the crash of an empty bottle against the back of his aunt s woodshed brought him wide awake and a single minute later he was dressed and out of the window and creeping along the roof of the ell on all fours. He meow d with caution once or twice as he went then jumped to the roof of the woodshed and thence to the ground. Huckleberry Finn was there with his dead cat. The boys moved off and disappeared in the gloom. At the end of half an hour they were wading through the tall grass of the graveyard. It was a graveyard of .