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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER CHAPTER 15

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER CHAPTER 15 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 15 A FEW minutes later Tom was in the shoal water of the bar wading toward the Illinois shore. Before the depth reached his middle he was half-way over the current would permit no more wading now so he struck out confidently to swim the remaining hundred yards. He swam quartering upstream but still was swept downward rather faster than he had expected. However he reached the shore finally and drifted along till he found a low place and drew himself out. He put his hand on his jacket pocket found his piece of bark safe and then struck through the woods following the shore with streaming garments. Shortly before ten o clock he came out into an open place opposite the village and saw the ferryboat lying in the shadow of the trees and the high bank. Everything was quiet under the blinking stars. He crept down the bank watching with all his eyes slipped into the water swam three or four strokes and climbed into the skiff that did yawl duty at the boat s stern. He laid himself down under the thwarts and waited panting -154- Presently the cracked bell tapped and a voice gave the order to cast off. A minute or two later the skiff s head was standing high up against the boat s swell and the voyage was begun. Tom felt happy in his success for he knew it was the boat s last trip for the night. At the end of a long twelve or fifteen minutes the wheels stopped and Tom slipped overboard and swam ashore in the dusk landing fifty yards downstream out of danger of possible stragglers. He flew along unfrequented alleys and shortly found himself at his aunt s back fence. He climbed over approached the ell and looked in at the sitting-room window for a light was burning there. There sat Aunt Polly Sid Mary and Joe Harper s mother grouped together talking. They were by the bed and the bed was between them and the door. Tom went to the door and began to softly lift the latch then he pressed gently and the door yielded a crack he continued pushing .