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Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face

but alacrity in his heart

And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun

the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by

dangled his legs

munched his apple

and planned the slaughter of more innocents

There was no lack of material； boys happened along every little while； they came to jeer

but remained to whitewash

By the time Ben was fagged out15

Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite

in good repair； and when he played out

Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with -- and so on

and so on

hour after hour

And when the middle of the afternoon came

from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning

Tom was literally rolling in wealth

He had besides the things before mentioned

twelve marbles

part of a jews-harp

a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through

a spool cannon

a key that wouldn't unlock anything

a fragment of chalk

a glass stopper of a decanter

a tin soldier

a couple of tadpoles

six fire-crackers

a kitten with only one eye

a brass door-knob

a dog-collar -- but no dog -- the handle of a knife

four pieces of orange-peel

and a dilapidated old window sash

He had had a nice

good

idle time all the while -- plenty of company -- and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it

If he hadn't run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in the village

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world

after all

He had discovered a great law of human action

without knowing it -- namely

that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing

it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain

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