Tom lives with his Aunt Polly, his cousin Mary and brother Sid. One of the first things to happen in the book is the painting of the fence. Polly made Tom whitewash the fence on a Saturday as punishment. Instead of him paying people to work for him, he made people pay him to paint. Tom did this by telling people that it isn't every day that you get a chance to paint a fence and he thought it was fun. He had people begging him to paint by the time that he was finished his story. He would have fooled every boy in town if he didn't run out of paint.

On June 17th about the hour of midnight, Tom had his best friend Huckleberry Finn were out in the grave yard trying to get rid of warts, when they witnessed a murder by Injun Joe. At the time Muff Potter was drunk and asleep so Injun Joe blamed the murder on Muff Potter. They knew if crazy Injun Joe found out they knew he would for sure kill them. Tom wrote on a wooden board "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swear to keep mum about this and they wish they may d

The next big event in the town was the trial of Muff Potter for the murder in the graveyard. The whole town believed Injun Joe, and poor Muff was sent to a temporary jail cell for a week. At the end of the week he was to be hung unless some one in court had proved him innocent. While Muff was in jail temporarily he wasn't alone. Every day Tom and Huck would go and talk to him through the jail cell bars and on occasion bring him food. On the last day of court, to everyone's surprise they called Tom Sawyer to the stand. Then the man asked him where he was on the 17th of June Tom said "In the graveyard". Then when he asked who he saw do it he said with all his strength he said, "Muff didn't do it. It was Injun Joe!" and with that Injun Joe jumped out the window and ran away.

rop down dead in their tracks if they ever tell and rot", then signed their initials on the board with their blood.

A few days later Tom was allowed to see Huck once again and he brought him up to date on his adventures. Tom told Huck that he knew where the treasure was and now all they had to do was go and get it. Tom took Huck to where he and Becky got out of the cave and went into the cave to go treasure hunting. They started to look for the number two and the found it. On the wall there was the Roman numeral two written in smoke, under the number two there was a cross. Both the boys were ecstatic; they started to dig until the reached a ditch. They crawled in the ditch until the reached a cave with the money and some supplies with guns and blankets. They filled the bags that they brought with them and got out of the cave. They paddled home and put their money in a wagon. Tom and Huck then pulled the wagon into Widow Douglas' house. They were ushered inside and were told to get cleaned up and dressed nicely. They were told that the party was for Huck for save Widow Douglas' life. During the party Widow Douglas told Huck that he was going to live with her and he was going to grow up the way that he should. Then Tom exploded and said that Huck didn't need her, because he was rich. After he said that the room burst into laughter. Both the boys said that they would prove it and went outside. They returned with two big sacks full of money. They dumped it on the table. Everyone was shocked, Tom and Huck explained their latest adventure

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