Page 35 - Adventures of Tom Sawyer

school. Then the master stood over him during a few awful moments, and finally moved away to his throne
without saying a word. But although Tom's ear tingled, his heart was jubilant.

As the school quieted down Tom made an honest effort to study, but the turmoil within him was too great. In
turn he took his place in the reading class and made a botch of it; then in the geography class and turned lakes
into mountains, mountains into rivers, and rivers into continents, till chaos was come again; then in the
spelling class, and got "turned down," by a succession of mere baby words, till he brought up at the foot and
yielded up the pewter medal which he had worn with ostentation for months.