About noon the next day the boys arrived at the
dead tree. They had come to collect their tools. Tom was impatient to go to the
haunted house. Huck was too, but he suddenly said,
"Hey, Tom, do you know what day it is?"
Tom quickly calculated the days of the week in his head and looked up in
surprise.
"Wow! I never once thought of it, Huck!"
"Well, I didn't either, but all at once it occurred to me that it was Friday."
"We can't be too careful, Huck. We might get into a lot of trouble doing this on
a Friday."
"Might? I think we definitely would! There are some lucky days, maybe, but
Friday is not one of them."
"Any idiot knows that. I don't think you were the first that discovered that,
Huck."
"Well, I never said I was, did I? And it’s not only because it’s Friday, either.
I had a really bad dream last night. I dreamt about rats."
"Really? That’s a sure sign of trouble. Did they fight?"
"No."
"Well, that's good, Huck. When they don't fight it's only a sign that there's
trouble in other places, you know. All we’ve got to do is to be careful and keep
out of any trouble.
Let’s forget about this thing for today and go and play. Do you know Robin Hood,
Huck?"
"No. Who's Robin Hood?"
"He was one of the greatest men that was ever in England, and the best. He was a
thief."
"I wish I was. Who did he rob?"
"Only sheriffs and bishops and rich people and kings, and people like that. But
he never stole from the poor. He loved them. He always gave money he stole to
the poor."
"Well, he must have been a good guy."
"I’m sure he was, Huck. Oh, he was the noblest man that ever lived. There aren’t
many men like him around these days. He could beat any man in England, with one
hand tied behind his back. And he he could hit a ten-cent coin with his bow and
arrow from two kilometres away."
"Let’s play Robin Hood. It’ll be fun. I'll teach you."
"OK. Let’s do it!."
So they played Robin Hood all afternoon. From time to time they looked down at
the haunted house and said something about tomorrow's possibilities there.
As the sun began to set into the west they started to walk home in the long
shadows of the trees and said goodbye for the day.
... to be continued!
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Tom Sawyer – Part
Seventy-four
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