Act 1 Flashcards
(15 cards)
Cue: “Done with me, are you? No, I reckon you ain’t, not yet-not you. Nor him!
Come to her door, steps to the gate, pushes her glasses back upon her forehead and looks up and down the street. She is a middle-aged woman with a sharp but kindly visage.
“Tom! Tom! What’s wrong with that boy, I wonder? You, Tom! Well, I You, Tom-“
Cue: “Your Tom home yet?”
“Yes, Tom slipped in at the back door nor more’n a minute ago. He’s been playing hooky again, going in a swimming with Huckle-berry Finn. He gets more trifling every day-Tom Sawyer!”
Cue: “Not a sign, and company here, and no kindlings cut!”
“Tom! You, Tom! I ain’t doin’ my duty, Sereny. I’m a-laying up suffering and sorrow for that boy. Every time I let him off my conscience hurts me so, and every time I hit him a lick my old heart ‘most breaks. He hates work more than he hates anything else. So I’d laid out to make him whitewash this fence, but I reckon he’s cut and run. You, Tom!”
Cue: “Tom’s coming right away Auntie. Head mixing the whitewash back of the shed.”
“You tell him to hurry right up or I’ll skin him. I got to put my bonnet on and go over to sit with Mrs. Hoss Williams. She’s so poorly since the burning this morning”
Cue: “well mebby-lemme see.”
“Go along with you,Sid-Now Sir!”
Cue: “I wa’ant doing nothing Aunt. Don’t you whack me”
“Umf! Well, you didn’t get a lick amiss. I reckon you been into some other audacious mischief, like enough.”
Cue: “I don’t reckon I can do much Auntie, but I’ll try. I ain’t real well.”
“Rubbage-what the matter with you?”
Cue: “I don’t reckon I ought to stand up much with my sore toe”
“Sore fiddlesticks! Go ‘long about your work and see you don’t play hooky until it’s finished. When I come back from Mis ‘ Williams, maybe I’ll give you a dose of painkiller, and learn you your Bible verses. You going my way Mary Roger’s?”
Cue: “Mayn’t I go and play now Aunt?”
“How much of that fence have you whitewashed?”
Cue: “It’s all done Aunt”
“Tom don’t lie to me. I can’t bear it”
Cue: “Just you look and see”
“Well I never! There’s no getting round it, you can work when you’ve a mind to. But it’s powerful seldom you’ve a mind to, I’m bound to say.”
Cue: “He just talked to huckleberry Finn and he’s been fighting with the ministers grandson. I seen him from the window”
“Fighting! You, Tom Sawyer”
Cue: “No I ain’t Aunt”
“Oh, Tom, Tom how can you lie so? Forty times I’ve said if you didn’t stop talking to huckleberry Finn I’d skin you. Hand me that switch from beside the door “
Cue: “my! Look being you Aunt!”
“Hang the boy! Can’t i never learn anything? He ‘pears to know just how long he can torment me before I get my sander up, and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute it’s all down again, and i can’t hit him a lick”
Cue: “I never said I done it all Aunt”
“Don’t you stir out of that door again this night or I’ll tan you”
