THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER -CHAPTER 2 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 2 SATURDAY morning was come and all the summer world was bright and fresh and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill beyond the village and above it was green with vegetation and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land dreamy reposeful and inviting. Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a longhandled brush. He surveyed the fence and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow and existence but a burden. Sighing he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank repeated the operation did it again compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence and sat down on a treebox discouraged. Jim came skipping out at the gate with -27- a tin pail and singing Buffalo Gals. Bringing water from the town pump had always been hateful work in Tom s eyes before but now it did not strike him so. He remembered that there was company at the pump. White mulatto and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns resting trading playthings quarrelling fighting skylarking. And he remembered that although the pump was only a hundred and fifty yards off Jim never got back with a bucket of water under an hour -- and even then somebody generally had to go after him. Tom said Say Jim I ll fetch the water if you ll whitewash some. Jim shook his head and said Can t Mars Tom. Ole missis she tole me I got to go an git dis water an not stop foolin roun wid anybody. She say she spec Mars Tom gwine to ax me to whitewash an so she tole me go long an tend to my own business -she lowed she d tend to de whitewashin . Oh never you mind what she .
