THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER CHAPTER 29 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 29 THE first thing Tom heard on Friday morning was a glad piece of news -Judge Thatcher s family had come back to town the night before. Both Injun Joe and the treasure sunk into secondary importance for a moment and Becky took the chief place in the boy s interest. He saw her and they had an exhausting good time playing hispy and gully-keeper with a crowd of their school-mates. The day was completed and crowned in a peculiarly satisfactory way Becky teased her mother to appoint the next day for the long-promised and long-delayed picnic and she consented. The child s delight was boundless and Tom s not more moderate. The invitations were sent out before sunset and straightway the young folks of the village were thrown into a fever of preparation and pleasurable anticipation. Tom s excitement enabled him to keep awake until a pretty late hour and he had good hopes of hearing Huck s maow and of having his treasure to astonish Becky and the picnickers with next day but he was disappointed. No signal came that night. -260- Morning came eventually and by ten or eleven o clock a giddy and rollicking company were gathered at Judge Thatcher s and everything was ready for a start. It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence. The children were considered safe enough under the wings of a few young ladies of eighteen and a few young gentlemen of twenty-three or thereabouts. The old steam ferry-boat was chartered for the occasion presently the gay throng filed up the main street laden with provision-baskets. Sid was sick and had to miss the fun Mary remained at home to entertain him. The last thing Mrs. Thatcher said to Becky was You ll not get back till late. Perhaps you d better stay all night with some of the girls that live near the ferry-landing child. Then I ll stay with Susy Harper mamma. Very well. And mind and behave yourself and don t be any trouble. Presently as they tripped along Tom said to .
