Tom Sawyer Abroad - Mark Twain - Books -  - 9798689394886 - December 24, 2020
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Tom Sawyer Abroad

Book Excerpt: ...as I can remember: He come a-loping into Washington, and put up his horse and shoved out to the President's house with his letter, and they told him the President was up to the Capitol, and just going to start for Philadelphia -- not a minute to lose if he wanted to catch him. Nat 'most dropped, it made him so sick. His horse was put up, and he didn't know what to do. But just then along comes a darky driving an old ramshackly hack, and he see his chance. He rushes out and shouts: "A half a dollar if you git me to the Capitol in half an hour, and a quarter extra if you do it in twenty minutes!""Done!" says the darky. Nat he jumped in and slammed the door, and away they went a-ripping and a-tearing over the roughest road a body ever see, and the racket of it was some- thing awful. Nat passed his arms through the loops and hung on for life and death, but pretty soon the hack hit a rock and flew up in the air, and the bottom fell out, and when it come down Nat's feet was on the ground, and...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 24, 2020
ISBN13 9798689394886
Pages 84
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 4 mm   ·   122 g
Language English  

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