Mother said a prayer. The first prayer is completely quoted from the Bible, which is also dotted with new words.
Meaning. The two reluctantly joined together, just as she announced the "Law of Moses" at the top of Sinai.
A paragraph.
Then, Tom seemed to pull himself together and began to recite the Bible paragraph by paragraph. Hideki
He memorized the paragraphs that he should have memorized a few days ago. Tom used all his energy to recite five passages from the Bible.
He chose a part of the Sermon on Mountaineering because it is the shortest part of the whole article. It's been almost half an hour
At that time, he had a vague impression of what he was going to recite. However, that's all, because his heart is not at the moment.
Absent-minded, thinking, hands kept busy with some unimportant things. Mary took his book and wanted to hear him recite it. male
Is trying to retreat in the fog:
"Blessed ... er-er-"
"Poor-"
"Yes, poor; Blessed are the poor ... er-er-"
"Mentally-"
"mentally; Blessed people are poor in spirit because they-they-"
"Their-"
"Because of them. Blessed people are poor in spirit, because the kingdom of heaven is theirs. Blessed are those who mourn.
People, because they-they-"
"Will-"
"Because they ... er-"
"Will-"
"Because they will-I can't remember the following!"
"Will-"
"oh! Will. Because they want-because they want-er-er-er-er-er-er.
Blessed are those who are willing-those who are willing-er-those who will mourn, because they will-er.
-What could it be? Mary, why didn't you remind me? -Why are you so stingy? "
"Oh, Tom, you poor little fool. I'm not kidding you. I don't want to tease you. You must go again.
Recite. Don't lose heart, Tom, you'll memorize it-if you do, I'll give you something interesting.
Oh, yes, what a good boy. "
"all right! Give me what, Mary? Tell me what's interesting. "
"You don't have to ask, Tom. When I say fun, it's fun. "
"You must keep your promise, Mary. Well, then, I'll go back. "
Later, he really "remembered"-he was full of energy under the double temptation of curiosity and the hope of winning the prize.
After a period of hard study, I finally won a brilliant victory. Mary gave him a brand-new "Baru" worth 1.2 and a half cents.
"Knife brand. He was ecstatic and dancing. Seriously, this knife can't cut anything, but it's "true"
"Balu" brand, which means great honor-although western children actually think this knife has it.
It may be a forgery, which will damage its reputation. This mystery is impressive, perhaps forever. Tom put the knife in.
The cupboard was carved for a while, and when I was about to make a wardrobe, I was asked to change clothes and prepare for Sunday school.
Mary handed him a basin of water and a bar of soap. So he went to the door and put the washbasin on the small stool there.
Let's go Then he dipped the soap in water and put it down again; He rolled up his sleeves, gently spilled water on the ground and turned into the kitchen.
Wipe your face with a towel behind the door in the room. However, Mary took the towel and said:
"Hey, aren't you ashamed? Tom. Don't be so desperate. Water won't hurt you. "
Tom is a little under the weather. The washbasin is filled with water again. This time, he made up his mind to bend down and stand by and watch the washbasin for a while.
Then he took a deep breath and began to wash his face. Soon, he went into the kitchen, closed his eyes and reached for a towel, his face
Soap dripped down, which proved that he had washed his face honestly. However, when he took the towel and showed his face, it was still.
It's not satisfactory. Because the clean place is limited to cheeks and chin, it looks like a mask.
Under the chin and on both sides of the cheek, there is a large piece of black, untouched, extending from the neck down to the back.
Exhibition. Mary pulled him up again and helped him clean up. After she washed him, he looked like a man and a brother.
Brother, my face is no longer white and black, my wet hair is neatly combed, and my short curly hair is quite stylish.
Beautiful symmetrical style. With great effort, he secretly pressed curly hair on his head and stuck it tightly to his head. because
He thinks curly hair is always feminine, and he is very annoyed with his natural curly hair. Later, Mary took one of his clothes.
Come out, this suit has been worn for two years, only on Sundays-simply called "that suit"-from which we can
Know how many clothes he wears. After he got dressed, the girl helped him tidy up again.
She buttoned all the buttons of his neat coat under his chin and put down his wide shirt collar.
Next turn, put it on both shoulders, brush him clean, and put a small straw hat on him. Suddenly he appeared.
He looks beautiful and uncomfortable. He doesn't look well at all. Because it is a constraint on him to keep his clothes tidy.
Liang, so he is very upset. He hoped that Mary wouldn't let him wear shoes, but this hope came to nothing. According to her habit at that time,
Put a layer of wax oil on your shoes first, and then take it out. He lost his temper and complained that others always made him do things he didn't want to do.
Things, however, Mary advised him:
"Tom, what a good boy."
So Tom shouted and put on those shoes. Mary was ready soon, and the three children were just.
Let's go to Sunday school together-that place is Tom's deepest hatred; However, Sid and Mary like it very much.
The class time on Sunday is 9: 00-10: 30; After that, go to church. Two of the three of them always
One is to stay there voluntarily to listen to the sermon, and the other is to stay for more important reasons every time. In the church
The back of our seat is very high and there is no cushion. A * * * can seat three hundred people. This church is a humble small building. roof
A box-shaped device made of pine boards was installed as a steeple. At the door, Tom deliberately slowed down and talked to a star.
Period of days said hello to clothing companion:
"Hey, Bailey, do you have a yellow ticket?"
"yes."
"What do you want to change?"
"What do you want to exchange?"
"A piece of sugar and a fishhook."
"Where are the things?"
Tom showed it to him. Bailey was satisfied with both things, so the property of both sides changed hands. Then,
Tom exchanged two white stone heads for three red tickets and some other gadgets for two blue tickets. When other children passed by.
When he came, Tom stopped them again and continued to buy all kinds of tickets. Tom spent more than ten minutes dressing with a group of people.
The neat and noisy boy and girl walked into the church together. Tom walked to his seat, and there was a man nearest to him.
The children quarreled. Their teacher is a serious old man. He told them to stop fooling around and then turned around.
Yes Tom pulled a boy's hair on another bench. When the boy turned his head, he was watching with rapt attention.
Books. Then in order to listen to another boy, he shouted "ouch!" " He stabbed him with a pin again, and the teacher got the result.
Give a scolding. Tom's class is full of the same pattern-noisy, snooping around, endless. Once they
When chanting, no one can fully remember it, and must constantly remind you. However, they are still reluctant.
After going through the customs, everyone won a prize-a small blue paper ticket, and each ticket was printed with a passage from the Bible. Back two paragraphs.
Bible verses can get such a blue paper ticket. Ten blue tickets are equal to one red ticket, which can be exchanged. Ten sheets
Red tickets can be exchanged for yellow tickets. If you get ten yellow tickets, the headmaster will reward the students with an ST.
Classic "(good days at that time, worth 40 cents). How many of my dear readers are willing to use it like this?
Work, struggling to recite 2,000 Bible verses in exchange for a Dole Bible? However, Mary used this method.
Fa got two bibles-the price of two years of patient study-and a boy of German descent.
I bought four or five books. He once recited 3000 passages of the Bible at once. However, due to mental overwork, he was penniless from then on.
What an idiot-this is a great misfortune for Sunday school, because every grand scene, in front of many guests (according to
Tom's way of speaking), the headmaster always lets the boy out to "shine". Only the older students persist in their efforts.
Work, think to get votes, in order to get a Bible. Therefore, every time such an award is awarded, it is a rare sensation.
Things.
The award-winning students were so great and glorious at that time that every student present had a new heart.
Ambition usually lasts a week or two. Tom may have never really longed for this prize in his heart.
However, there is no doubt that for many days, his whole body and mind longed for the glory and glory that accompanied this reward.
Fame.
At a certain moment, the headmaster stood in front of the pulpit with a closed hymn in his hand and his forefinger in the middle.
In the middle of this page, tell everyone to be quiet and listen to his sermon. The headmaster of Sunday school always has few hands at the beginning of a short opening speech.
You don't have to hold a hymn, just like a singer standing on the stage at a concert and starting a solo, with few hands.
There is no need to find a music book-although no one knows why. Because both hymns and music are received on the stage.
Guilty people will never use these. The headmaster is a skinny 35-year-old with a light yellow goatee.
Short hair on the beach; He wore a stiff collar, the collar edge almost reached his ears, and the two sharp collar corners were smooth.
Go around his neck and reach his mouth-like a fence, forcing him to look ahead if he wants.
Edge, you have to turn the whole body; His chin rested on a wide bow tie, which
It's as wide and long as a lattice, with lace around it. His boots were pointed and upturned, and they were very tight at that time.
Fashionable, like a sliding knife tilted under a sled-this fashionable style is that young people have worked patiently and hard for several times in a row.
The result of sitting for hours and sticking your toes to the wall. Mr. Walter has a very serious attitude and a sincere and practical heart. He is against this sect.
Teaching and places are highly respected, which is obviously different from secular things. So even without consciousness,
Yes, but he developed a special tone when he spoke in Sunday school, which is absolutely inaudible at ordinary times.
Yes He began to speak in this tone:
"Now, children, I want you all to sit up straight as seriously as possible and concentrate on listening to me for a minute or two.
Words. Yes.-well done. This is what a good boy should do. I saw a little girl looking out of the window-I think she must be.
Thought I was somewhere outside-maybe thought I was giving a speech to the birds in the tree, (a burst of laughter.
Color sound. I want to tell you that I have seen so many smart and clean faces gathered in such a place, obedient and knowledgeable.
Well, how happy I am. "Wait, wait, wait. I don't have to write down what I will say next.
Anyway, it is something that everyone is familiar with. Mr. Walter's speech was a bit boring in the last third.
Excuse me, because some bad kids are fighting again or doing other little tricks, the whole room is hovering and whispering. Even Mary and Sid.
The "mainstay" that stands firm and is not easy to destroy has also been impacted. When Mr. Walter's voice suddenly stopped,
All the noise in the classroom came to an abrupt end, and everyone suddenly quieted down to express their feelings about the end of the speech.
Excited feelings.
The whispering just now was mainly caused by something rare-just a few people coming.
Interviewer: Lawyer Thatcher, accompanied by a very weak old man; An elegant fat man with iron gray hair.
Middle-aged gentleman; There is another lady who is undoubtedly this gentleman's wife. The lady is still holding a child in her hand. soup
Tim's heart has been very uneasy, and his heart is full of troubles and worries; But also condemned by conscience-he dare not face AI.
Beauty Lawrence's eyes, her affectionate gaze almost made him unbearable. But when he saw the new girl, he
My heart immediately ignited the flame of happiness. Then he tried to show off-slap others in the face, pull their hair, and be a ghost.
Face-in a word, he used up all the tricks that might attract girls' attention and gain her favor and appreciation. Think of here.
The inhuman treatment of the little angel garden cooled his joy, but it was as fast as staying on the beach.
Like a mark, it was washed away by the wave of happiness.
These guests were invited to the top seats. As soon as Mr. Walter finished his speech, he introduced them to the teachers and students of the whole school.
An important person. The middle-aged man turned out to be an extraordinary big shot-turned out to be a county judge-and he was what these children saw.
The most dignified people who have ever lived-they really want to know what he is made of-on the one hand, they really want to hear him yell twice.
On the other hand, I'm afraid of him yelling. He comes from Fort Constanyine, twelve miles away from here-so he has been abroad.
The man who has seen the world from afar-his eyes have seen the county court-is said to have made the roof of that house out of tin.
Yes It's scary to think about it, as can be seen from his unforgettable silence and rows of staring eyes.
Let's go This is the great Justice Thatcher, the brother of their town lawyer. Jeff Thatcher stepped forward immediately.
The closeness of this great man really made the whole school envy and hate. Listening to everyone whispering, he seemed to hear music.
Comfortable.
"Look, Jim! He walked to the platform. Hey-look! He wants to shake hands with him-he really shook hands with him! hey
Gee, don't you wish you were Jeff? "
Mr. Walter began to show off. He is like an adjutant, giving orders everywhere, giving opinions and giving guidance, and he is very busy.
He is very happy. As long as he finds the target, he will inevitably nag a few words. Librarians also show off—
With a lot of books in his hand, he muttered and ran around, busy as a fiddle. His behavior at least made this little authority
The characters are very happy. The young female teacher also "showed off"-bent down and looked at the students who had just been slapped.
Students, point beautiful fingers at those disobedient children as a warning, or pat those good children kindly. year
Young male teachers also "cut a dash". They secretly scold their students and show their authority and attention in other ways.
The expression of school rules-both male and female teachers are looking for something to do in the library next to the podium.
Love. This kind of thing can only be done once, but they have done it two or three times (pretending to be in a hurry on the surface). small
Girls also "show off" in various ways, while boys "show off" more vigorously, so the air is filled with flying papers.
Group, the sound of scuffling with each other in the classroom. Especially the adults sitting on the stage, with a solemn smile, a pair of high above.
Looking at the audience from above, this sense of superiority makes him stand out from the crowd-because he is "showing off" himself.
At this time, there is only one thing that can make Mr. Walter ecstatic to the extreme, and that is that he really wants to have a chance to give it to someone.
A student took out a Bible to show himself. Several students have some yellow tickets, but they are not enough.
Earl, he turned a circle among several star students and asked. If, at this time, you can call out that German descent once.
Students who have passed the color have a sound brain and can perform again. He is really willing to give everything.
Hope is about to die. At this moment, tom sawyer came forward, holding nine yellow tickets and nine.
Red tickets and ten blue tickets, a Bible. This is really a bolt from the blue. In ten years, neither will Mr. Walter.
I hope this baby can apply. But it can't be shirked-coupons are not fake and should be valid according to regulations.
Yes So Tom was lucky enough to sit with the judge and several other distinguished guests and announce this important news from the summit.
Make it public. This is the most surprising thing in ten years. It caused a great sensation among the audience and raised the status of this new hero to the level of a judge.
My Lord is equal. Now people at school are staring at two people instead of a great person. There are more boys.
I gnashed my teeth with jealousy-but what I regret most is that the police who memorized the Bible by heart traded Tom for him to paint the walls.
Children of wealth accumulated during the privileged period. They gave Tom these precious things, which was very helpful.
His great help won him such an irritating honor. However, it is now discovered that it is too late to regret. These children
Now I know that their opponent is a scheming liar, a cunning snake hiding in the grass, while they are on the beach.
They are all ashamed of themselves because they are big fools.
When the headmaster gave Tom an award, he wanted to find some compliments to deal with the occasion. but
From his words, it seems that there is not much heartfelt enthusiasm, because the poor man's instinct tells him that there is something fishy in it.
Maybe there's something to hide. It's amazing that the child can really hold two thousand verses from the holy book in his head.
Laugh off your fangs-because there is no doubt that more than a dozen verses are enough for him.
Amy Lawrence is proud and proud. She tries her best to let Tom see this-but Tom doesn't want to face her.
Look this way. She couldn't figure out what was going on, and then she was a little flustered, and then she suspected vaguely, and soon she suspected.
Eliminate-and then doubt again. She looked at him for a while and found Tom secretly looking at the new girl.
Then it dawned on her-so she was heartbroken, jealous and angry, and then tears came out. She hates everything.
Of all people, I hate Tom the most (she thought).
Tom was introduced to you by the headmaster, but his tongue was tied, he couldn't breathe, and his heart was pounding-
Partly because of the great man's majesty, partly because he is her father. If it is night, it is in the dark.
In the middle, he almost knelt down to worship him. The judge put his hand on Tom's head, said he was a good boy and asked him.
What's your name? The child stammered and had difficulty breathing, and reluctantly answered:
"Tom."
"Oh, no, not Tom-it should be-"
"Thomas."
"Oh, that's right. I think there should be half, maybe there should be, which is good. But I'm sure you have another one.
What's your last name? Tell me, will you? ""Thomas, tell your honor your last name! " Mr Walter said quickly, "too.
Don't forget to be polite when addressing Mr.
"Mr. Thomas Sawyer."
"That's right! What a good boy. Very nice person. Very good, very promising. Two thousand verses of the holy book can
Too many.-enough. You have spent so much energy reciting these poems that you will never regret it.
Yes, because knowledge is precious, more valuable than all the wealth in the world. With knowledge, you can be a great man and a good man.
People; Thomas, one day, when you look back, you will say that I owe everything to Sunday school when I was a child.
The school-thanks to my dear teachers for teaching me knowledge-thanks to my good principal, who encouraged me and urged me.
I also gave me a beautiful Bible-a beautiful and exquisite Bible-for me to keep forever-
Thanks to the teachers for their careful teaching! You will say that in the future, Thomas-don't say your two thousand poems.
You won't sell it, no matter how much money they give you! -You won't sell it. Now tell me what you have learned and this.
Ladies, you won't mind listening-no, I know you won't mind-because we are very grateful.
A knowledgeable child. Then, needless to ask, you must know the names of all the twelve disciples, so take what Jesus first chose.
Can you tell us the names of the two disciples? "
Tom pinched a buttonhole and pulled it hard, looking very shy. His face flushed and his eyelids drooped.
Come down. Mr. Walter's heart sank. He thought to himself that the child couldn't even answer the simplest question.
-Why did the judge insist on asking him? However, he had to say:
"Thomas, answer your honor's question-don't be afraid."
Tom still refuses to speak.
"Well, I know you will tell me," said the lady. "The names of the first two disciples are-"
"David and Goliath-"