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David Autumns
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Android in the starting blocks
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David Autumns
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Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. 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 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. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. 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 unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box discouraged. |
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David Autumns
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The brush continued to move.
----------------------------------------“Like it? Well, I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?” That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintily back and forth – stepped back to note the effect – added a touch here and there – criticised the effect again – Ben watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed. Presently he said: “Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.” Tom considered, was about to consent; but he altered his mind: |
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bjbdbest
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Tom always keeps one step ahead, anticipating reactions and cornering them
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David Autumns
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“No – no – I reckon it wouldn’t hardly do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly’s awful particular about this fence – right here on the street, you know – but if it was the back fence I wouldn’t mind and she wouldn’t. Yes, she’s awful particular about this fence; it’s got to be done very careful; I reckon there ain’t one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it the way it’s got to be done.” |
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David Autumns
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“No – is that so? Oh come, now – lemme, just try. Only just a little – I’d let you, if you was me, Tom.”
----------------------------------------“Ben, I’d like to, honest injun; but Aunt Polly – well, Jim wanted to do it, but she wouldn’t let him; Sid wanted to do it, and she wouldn’t let Sid. Now don’t you see how I’m fixed? If you was to tackle this fence and anything was to happen to it – ” “Oh, shucks, I’ll be just as careful. Now lemme try. Say – I’ll give you “Well, here – No, Ben, now don’t. I’m afeard – ” “I’ll give you all (4 cores) of |
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David Autumns
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Dear IBM
----------------------------------------We'd really like to help paint that "far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence" Yours Samuel Clemens (look me up on Facebook) |
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David Autumns
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(Dear Beverley "If he hadn’t run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in the village."
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When I was growing up, the local movie theater would show Upcoming Attractions right after the Flash Gordon serial:
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