The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Chapter Three

​The Adventures Tom Sawyer Chapter Three.

Prepositions and Articles

by Waine Evans

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What is the title of chapter three?

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After seeing

freshly painted fence aunt Polly decided to let Tom play outdoors for the rest of the afternoon

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The first thing Tom wanted to do was get revenge

Sid for telling aunt Polly about his collar

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So Tom waited by the fence and ambushed his half brother with balls made of dried

mud

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before aunt Polly could rush _____ Sid's rescue, Tom managed to hit them with six or seven balls, Sid screamed _____ fear and pain, then Tom jumped over the fence and was gone

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when Tom arrived at the town square a few minutes later

group of boys was already there ready to play army games

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Tom and his best friend Joe Harper were appointed

generals and they commanded their armies all afternoon

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as _____ sun began to set _____ boys counted their dead and wounded, and it was determined that Tom had won _____ great battle, Joe and Tom shook hands and agreed to meet next Saturday for another battle

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On his way home Tom spied _____ new girl, he thought _____ new girl was lovely with blue eyes and braided blonde hair

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at the sight of this new angel

love Tom had pledged to a girl named Amy Lawrence instantly vanished

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Tom soon began to show _____ for the new girl, he balanced a stick on his nose and he walked up and down _____ street where they both lived

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when the girl reached her house she halted and looked _____ _____ Tom for only a second but it was enough to encourage Tom

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after she went inside Tom lingered

her house hoping to see her one more time, but the pretty new girl never reappeared

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still, Tom returned home

high spirits, his aunt scolded him for throwing mud balls at Sid but Tom didn't care

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when his aunt hit him for stealing sugar from

sugar bowl Tom didn't care, he just smiled and said you never hit Sid when he takes sugar, Sid doesn't torment me the way you do she reminded him

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that night Tom went to bed with _____ new girl on his mind, he was determined to devise _____ way to get her to notice him

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the next morning aunt Polly forced him to put on his Sunday suit

church

after a quick breakfast she escorted Tom to church to make sure he attended Sunday school

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the day's lesson consisted _____ memorizing five verses _____ the bible, but Tom was having a problem concentrating

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last the lesson ended and Tom and the other students had a 15-minute break before the church service began

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although Tom had not bothered to memorize the five verses he had finally devised a plan to make the new girl interested

him

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the other children had paid Tom to let them paint, so now his pockets overflowed

marbles, candies, fish hooks, and other goodies. Tom decided to use his new wealth to buy verse recitation tickets

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these tickets were rewards for students who correctly recited verses

the bible, for every two lines of verse correctly recited, students were given one blue ticket

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10 blue tickets equalled one red ticket, 10 red tickets equalled one yellow ticket, _____ 10 yellow tickets a student could earn a bible, a bible for reciting 2000 lines _____ verse

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only older students were able to earn a bible because it took years

saving tickets

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Tom didn't want a bible but he did want _____ win _____ new girl's heart, to win her heart he had decided that he must seem like _____ better person than the other boys _____ church, _____ moment to impress the new girl finally came

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first _____ minister asked all the smartest and most studious children how many tickets they had none _____ them had enough _____ _____ bible yet

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does anyone have enough tickets _____ _____ bible asked the minister, _____ _____ shock of everyone Tom stood up then he proudly marched forward to bring his tickets to the minister