The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Saturday morning has come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh,
and brimming with life. There was cheer in every face and a spring in
every step. The locust trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossoms filled
the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with vegetation,
and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful
and inviting.
Tom Sawyer appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush, He
surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep
melancholy settled down upon his spirit. He had been caught sneaking in late
last evening, and now Aunt Polly was determined to punish him by turning
his Saturday into captivity at hard labour, whitewashing a fence. Thirty yards of
board fence nine feet high. Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the
topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant
whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of the unwhitewashed fence,
and sat down discouraged.
Soon the free boys would come tripping along on all sorts of delicious
expeditions, and they would make a world of fun of him for having to work
the very thought burnt him like fire. At this dark and hopeless moment, an
inspiration burst upon him!

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Nouns: village, vegetation, bucket

Verbs: surveyed, dipped, tripping

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