THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER CHAPTER 33 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 33 WITHIN a few minutes the news had spread and a dozen skiff-loads of men were on their way to McDougal s cave and the ferryboat well filled with passengers soon followed. Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher. When the cave door was unlocked a sorrowful sight presented itself in the dim twilight of the place. Injun Joe lay stretched upon the ground dead with his face close to the crack of the door as if his longing eyes had been fixed to the latest moment upon the light and the cheer of the free world outside. Tom was touched for he knew by his own experience how this wretch had suffered. His pity was moved but nevertheless he felt an abounding sense of relief and security now which revealed to him in a degree which he had not fully appreciated before how vast a weight of dread had been lying upon him since the day he lifted his voice against this bloody-minded outcast. Injun Joe s bowie-knife lay close by its blade broken in two. The great foundation-beam of the door had been chipped and hacked through with -302- tedious labor useless labor too it was for the native rock formed a sill outside it and upon that stubborn material the knife had wrought no effect the only damage done was to the knife itself. But if there had been no stony obstruction there the labor would have been useless still for if the beam had been wholly cut away Injun Joe could not have squeezed his body under the door and he knew it. So he had only hacked that place in order to be doing something -- in order to pass the weary time -- in order to employ his tortured faculties. Ordinarily one could find half a dozen bits of candle stuck around in the crevices of this vestibule left there by tourists but there were none now. The prisoner had searched them out and eaten them. He had also contrived to catch a few bats and these also he had eaten leaving only their claws. The poor unfortunate had starved to death. In one place near at hand a .
