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Tom Sawyer’s Biography
Tom’s parents died when he was a young boy.
He lived with his Aunt Polly and his stepbrother, Sid. Tom did not like
school so he played hooky a lot. He was a sly boy and an adventurer. Tom’s best friend was Huckleberry Finn. Tom and Huck shared many fun filled and dangerous adventures
filled with murder and betrayal.
Tom's Superstitions
Tom and his friends had strange superstitions. They thought that if they talked too loudly
in a graveyard that the dead people would hear them. If they heard a rustle in
the wind or a saw a tree branch moving they thought it was devils. They had several
superstitions that they thought would help them get rid of warts. If they would
bring a dead cat to a graveyard at midnight so that when they heard a devil talking to a corpse they would say "devil follow
corpse, cat follow devil, warts follow cat, I am done with ye." while throwing the dead cat. If the dead cat trick did not
get rid of the warts they would stick the warty hand into the rainwater in an old tree stump at midday and say "barley corn,
barley corn, injun-meal shorts, spunk water, spunk water swaller these warts!" If
that wart remedy did not work they could draw blood from the wart and smear it on a bean which they would then bury at the
crossroad at midnight. They thought that the buried bean would try to fetch the wart and draw more blood which would weaken
the wart which would "pop right off."
Tom's Whitewash Saturday Treasures
Tom's punishment for skipping school was whitewashing the fence on a Saturday. Tom talked some kids into doing this job for him by convincing them that it would be fun. He even persuaded the kids to give him something for the privilege of whitewashing the fence.
He acquired 12 marbles, part
of a jew's harp, a piece of blue bottle glass to look through and spool cannon. He
also got a useless key, a fragment of chalk, a glass stopper from a decanter, a tin soldier and a couple of tadpoles. Tom's other treasures he got from the kids included six firecrackers, a one-eyed kitten
a brass doorknob, a dog collar, a knife handle, four pieces of orange peel and a dilapidated window sash. Even though it was
mostly junk, Tom thought he was rich! Enter supporting content here
| Mark Twain |
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| Author of Tom Sawyer |
By Robbie Burkey
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