Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective 9780520950610

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THE MARK TWAIN LIBRARY The Library offers for the first time popular editions of Mark Twai n's best works just as he wanted them

to be read. These moderately priced volumes. faithfu lly reproduced {rom the California scholarl y editions and printed on acid-free paper, are sparingly

annotated and include all the original illustrations that Mark Twain commissioned and enjoyed.

"HlKk waile.:! for no particulars. He sprang away and sped down the hill ;10$ fast as his legs could carry him."

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"WE CATCHED A LOT OF THE NICEST FISH YOU EVER SEE"

MARK T WAIN TOM SAWYER ABROAD :: TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE WITH THE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAN BEARD AND A. B. FROST

Foreword and Notes by John C. Gerber Text established by Terry Firkins

A publication of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library

Berkeley

University of California Press Los Angeles

London

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These Mark Twain Library texts of “Tom Sawyer Abroad” and “Tom Sawyer, Detective” are, for the most part, photographic reproductions of the texts published in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Tom Sawyer Abroad; and Tom Sawyer, Detective, ed. John C. Gerber, Paul Baender, and Terry Firkins (University of California Press, 1980), which was approved by the Center for Editions of American Authors (CEAA). Portions of each text have been reset to correct errors and to accommodate the original illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard and A. B. Frost. The reset portions have been proofread in accord with the standards of the CEAA. Mark Twain’s typescript of chapters 1–10 of “Tom Sawyer, Detective” is MS P370A, which was donated to the Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, by the late Milton F. Barlow of Prairie Village, Kansas. On behalf of the Library, permission to make use of this document in editing the text has been graciously extended to the Mark Twain Project by Alexandra Mason, Spencer Librarian. Editorial work on all texts was made possible by generous grants from the United States Office of Education and from the Research Materials Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England The texts of “Tom Sawyer Abroad” and “Tom Sawyer Detective,” correctly established for the first time from the authoritative documents, are © 1980 by The Regents of the University of California. Editorial foreword, explanatory notes and note on the texts are © 1982 by The Regents of the University of California. The Library of Congress has cataloged an earlier edition of this book as follows: Twain, Mark, 1835–1910. Tom Sawyer Abroad; and, Tom Sawyer, Detective. (The Mark Twain Library) I. Gerber, John C. II. Twain, Mark, 1835–1910. Tom Sawyer, Detective. 1982. III. Title. IV. Series: Twain, Mark, 1835–1910. Mark Twain Library. PS1320.A2G47 1982 818⬘.409 81-40325

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CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS

ix

FOREWORD

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TOM SAWYER ABROAD

I. 2. 3. 4.

Tom Seeks New Adventures

The Balloon Ascension Tom Explains Storm

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Land

6. 7. 8. 9.

It's a Caravan Tom Respects the Flea The Disappearing Lake The Discourses on The Desert The Treasure-Hill The Sand·Stann Jim Standing Siege Going for Tom's Pipe

to. 11. 12. 13.

30 37

44 52 63

69 76 87 97

TOM SAWYER. DETECTIVE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

107 112 1lS 124 129 132 138

Chapter 8

143

Chapter 9

149

Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter

Chapter 10 Chapter 11

155 158

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer, Detective NOTE ON THE TEXTS

178 184

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ILLUSTRATIONS TOM SAWYER ABROAD "We tatched it lot of the nicest fish you ever see. ~ (Frontispiece) "We went out in the woods on the hill, and Tom to ld us what it was. II was a Crusade. ~

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"He would a ratS«! a couple of thomand knights and brushw the whole paynim outfit into the sea." "He $;lid he would uil his balloon around thc globe." "And here was night coming on." "The Profasor said he wou ld keep up his hundred·mile gait l ill to-morrow," "You want 10 leave me. Don't try to deny it." "The thunder boomed, and the lightning glared, and the wind scrcamtd in Ihe rigging." "Run! run fo' yo' life!" "Skipping up al the ladder and snarling and snapping al each Olher." "We swooped clown, now, all of a welden." "The last man to go snatched up a child and calTied it off in front of him on

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"We come a.whiuing down and made a swoop, and knoc ked him oU[ of the saddle,

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"And where', your railroad, 'Iongside of a flea?" "Where's your man, now! ~ "'That Rea would be P~siden[ of the United States, and you couldn't prevent it. ~ ~We opened the boll:, and il had gems and jewels in it.M "And all [his time the lions and tigers was $OTting out the c1olhes. M Tailpiece. . The camel driver in the t~asure-cave. In the $Md-Stonn. The wedding procession. "When they danced we joined in and shook a foot up there. H The Pyramids. Jim standing a $i~. Rescue of Jim. Map. Homeward bound. Tailpiece.

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