Act 1 Flashcards
(16 cards)
Cue: “No, I reckon you ain’t, not yet-not you. Nor Him!”
“Tom! Tom! What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You, Tom! Well, I lay, if I get hold of you I’ll- You, Tom-“
Cue: “Your Tom come home yet?”
“Yes, Tom slipped in at the back door not more’n a minute ago. He’s been playing hooky again, going in a swimming with Huckleberry 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 mu consicence 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. He’s mixing the whitewash back o 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 burying this morning.”
Cue: “Well, mebby-lemme see.”
“Go along with you, Sid-“
To Tom “Now Sir!”
Cue: “I wa’n’t 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’s 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 pain-killer, and learn you your bible verses. You going my way, Mary Rogers?”
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 minister’s 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.”
To Sid “Hand me that switch from beside the door!”
Cue: “My! Look behind 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 dander 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.”
