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+Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, steve harris, Josephine
+Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
+http://www.pgdp.net.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+OPTICKS:
+
+OR, A
+
+TREATISE
+
+OF THE
+
+_Reflections_, _Refractions_,
+_Inflections_ and _Colours_
+
+OF
+
+LIGHT.
+
+_The_ FOURTH EDITION, _corrected_.
+
+By Sir _ISAAC NEWTON_, Knt.
+
+LONDON:
+
+Printed for WILLIAM INNYS at the West-End of St. _Paul's_. MDCCXXX.
+
+TITLE PAGE OF THE 1730 EDITION
+
+
+
+
+SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S ADVERTISEMENTS
+
+
+
+
+Advertisement I
+
+
+_Part of the ensuing Discourse about Light was written at the Desire of
+some Gentlemen of the_ Royal-Society, _in the Year 1675, and then sent
+to their Secretary, and read at their Meetings, and the rest was added
+about twelve Years after to complete the Theory; except the third Book,
+and the last Proposition of the Second, which were since put together
+out of scatter'd Papers. To avoid being engaged in Disputes about these
+Matters, I have hitherto delayed the printing, and should still have
+delayed it, had not the Importunity of Friends prevailed upon me. If any
+other Papers writ on this Subject are got out of my Hands they are
+imperfect, and were perhaps written before I had tried all the
+Experiments here set down, and fully satisfied my self about the Laws of
+Refractions and Composition of Colours. I have here publish'd what I
+think proper to come abroad, wishing that it may not be translated into
+another Language without my Consent._
+
+_The Crowns of Colours, which sometimes appear about the Sun and Moon, I
+have endeavoured to give an Account of; but for want of sufficient
+Observations leave that Matter to be farther examined. The Subject of
+the Third Book I have also left imperfect, not having tried all the
+Experiments which I intended when I was about these Matters, nor
+repeated some of those which I did try, until I had satisfied my self
+about all their Circumstances. To communicate what I have tried, and
+leave the rest to others for farther Enquiry, is all my Design in
+publishing these Papers._
+
+_In a Letter written to Mr._ Leibnitz _in the year 1679, and published
+by Dr._ Wallis, _I mention'd a Method by which I had found some general
+Theorems about squaring Curvilinear Figures, or comparing them with the
+Conic Sections, or other the simplest Figures with which they may be
+compared. And some Years ago I lent out a Manuscript containing such
+Theorems, and having since met with some Things copied out of it, I have
+on this Occasion made it publick, prefixing to it an_ Introduction, _and
+subjoining a_ Scholium _concerning that Method. And I have joined with
+it another small Tract concerning the Curvilinear Figures of the Second
+Kind, which was also written many Years ago, and made known to some
+Friends, who have solicited the making it publick._
+
+                                        _I. N._
+
+April 1, 1704.
+
+
+Advertisement II
+
+_In this Second Edition of these Opticks I have omitted the Mathematical
+Tracts publish'd at the End of the former Edition, as not belonging to
+the Subject. And at the End of the Third Book I have added some
+Questions. And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an essential
+Property of Bodies, I have added one Question concerning its Cause,
+chusing to propose it by way of a Question, because I am not yet
+satisfied about it for want of Experiments._
+
+                                        _I. N._
+
+July 16, 1717.
+
+
+Advertisement to this Fourth Edition
+
+_This new Edition of Sir_ Isaac Newton's Opticks _is carefully printed
+from the Third Edition, as it was corrected by the Author's own Hand,
+and left before his Death with the Bookseller. Since Sir_ Isaac's
+Lectiones Opticæ, _which he publickly read in the University of_
+Cambridge _in the Years 1669, 1670, and 1671, are lately printed, it has
+been thought proper to make at the bottom of the Pages several Citations
+from thence, where may be found the Demonstrations, which the Author
+omitted in these_ Opticks.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Note: There are several greek letters used in the
+descriptions of the illustrations. They are signified by [Greek:
+letter]. Square roots are noted by the letters sqrt before the equation.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE FIRST BOOK OF OPTICKS
+
+
+
+
+_PART I._
+
+
+My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by
+Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In
+order to which I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms.
+
+
+
+
+_DEFINITIONS_
+
+
+DEFIN. I.
+
+_By the Rays of Light I understand its least Parts, and those as well
+Successive in the same Lines, as Contemporary in several Lines._ For it
+is manifest that Light consists of Parts, both Successive and
+Contemporary; because in the same place you may stop that which comes
+one moment, and let pass that which comes presently after; and in the
+same time you may stop it in any one place, and let it pass in any
+other. For that part of Light which is stopp'd cannot be the same with
+that which is let pass. The least Light or part of Light, which may be
+stopp'd alone without the rest of the Light, or propagated alone, or do
+or suffer any thing alone, which the rest of the Light doth not or
+suffers not, I call a Ray of Light.
+
+
+DEFIN. II.
+
+_Refrangibility of the Rays of Light, is their Disposition to be
+refracted or turned out of their Way in passing out of one transparent
+Body or Medium into another. And a greater or less Refrangibility of
+Rays, is their Disposition to be turned more or less out of their Way in
+like Incidences on the same Medium._ Mathematicians usually consider the
+Rays of Light to be Lines reaching from the luminous Body to the Body
+illuminated, and the refraction of those Rays to be the bending or
+breaking of those lines in their passing out of one Medium into another.
+And thus may Rays and Refractions be considered, if Light be propagated
+in an instant. But by an Argument taken from the Æquations of the times
+of the Eclipses of _Jupiter's Satellites_, it seems that Light is
+propagated in time, spending in its passage from the Sun to us about
+seven Minutes of time: And therefore I have chosen to define Rays and
+Refractions in such general terms as may agree to Light in both cases.
+
+
+DEFIN. III.
+
+_Reflexibility of Rays, is their Disposition to be reflected or turned
+back into the same Medium from any other Medium upon whose Surface they
+fall. And Rays are more or less reflexible, which are turned back more
+or less easily._ As if Light pass out of a Glass into Air, and by being
+inclined more and more to the common Surface of the Glass and Air,
+begins at length to be totally reflected by that Surface; those sorts of
+Rays which at like Incidences are reflected most copiously, or by
+inclining the Rays begin soonest to be totally reflected, are most
+reflexible.
+
+
+DEFIN. IV.
+
+_The Angle of Incidence is that Angle, which the Line described by the
+incident Ray contains with the Perpendicular to the reflecting or
+refracting Surface at the Point of Incidence._
+
+
+DEFIN. V.
+
+_The Angle of Reflexion or Refraction, is the Angle which the line
+described by the reflected or refracted Ray containeth with the
+Perpendicular to the reflecting or refracting Surface at the Point of
+Incidence._
+
+
+DEFIN. VI.
+
+_The Sines of Incidence, Reflexion, and Refraction, are the Sines of the
+Angles of Incidence, Reflexion, and Refraction._
+
+
+DEFIN. VII
+
+_The Light whose Rays are all alike Refrangible, I call Simple,
+Homogeneal and Similar; and that whose Rays are some more Refrangible
+than others, I call Compound, Heterogeneal and Dissimilar._ The former
+Light I call Homogeneal, not because I would affirm it so in all
+respects, but because the Rays which agree in Refrangibility, agree at
+least in all those their other Properties which I consider in the
+following Discourse.
+
+
+DEFIN. VIII.
+
+_The Colours of Homogeneal Lights, I call Primary, Homogeneal and
+Simple; and those of Heterogeneal Lights, Heterogeneal and Compound._
+For these are always compounded of the colours of Homogeneal Lights; as
+will appear in the following Discourse.
+
+
+
+
+_AXIOMS._
+
+
+AX. I.
+
+_The Angles of Reflexion and Refraction, lie in one and the same Plane
+with the Angle of Incidence._
+
+
+AX. II.
+
+_The Angle of Reflexion is equal to the Angle of Incidence._
+
+
+AX. III.
+
+_If the refracted Ray be returned directly back to the Point of
+Incidence, it shall be refracted into the Line before described by the
+incident Ray._
+
+
+AX. IV.
+
+_Refraction out of the rarer Medium into the denser, is made towards the
+Perpendicular; that is, so that the Angle of Refraction be less than the
+Angle of Incidence._
+
+
+AX. V.
+
+_The Sine of Incidence is either accurately or very nearly in a given
+Ratio to the Sine of Refraction._
+
+Whence if that Proportion be known in any one Inclination of the
+incident Ray, 'tis known in all the Inclinations, and thereby the
+Refraction in all cases of Incidence on the same refracting Body may be
+determined. Thus if the Refraction be made out of Air into Water, the
+Sine of Incidence of the red Light is to the Sine of its Refraction as 4
+to 3. If out of Air into Glass, the Sines are as 17 to 11. In Light of
+other Colours the Sines have other Proportions: but the difference is so
+little that it need seldom be considered.
+
+[Illustration: FIG. 1]
+
+Suppose therefore, that RS [in _Fig._ 1.] represents the Surface of
+stagnating Water, and that C is the point of Incidence in which any Ray
+coming in the Air from A in the Line AC is reflected or refracted, and I
+would know whither this Ray shall go after Reflexion or Refraction: I
+erect upon the Surface of the Water from the point of Incidence the
+Perpendicular CP and produce it downwards to Q, and conclude by the
+first Axiom, that the Ray after Reflexion and Refraction, shall be
+found somewhere in the Plane of the Angle of Incidence ACP produced. I
+let fall therefore upon the Perpendicular CP the Sine of Incidence AD;
+and if the reflected Ray be desired, I produce AD to B so that DB be
+equal to AD, and draw CB. For this Line CB shall be the reflected Ray;
+the Angle of Reflexion BCP and its Sine BD being equal to the Angle and
+Sine of Incidence, as they ought to be by the second Axiom, But if the
+refracted Ray be desired, I produce AD to H, so that DH may be to AD as
+the Sine of Refraction to the Sine of Incidence, that is, (if the Light
+be red) as 3 to 4; and about the Center C and in the Plane ACP with the
+Radius CA describing a Circle ABE, I draw a parallel to the
+Perpendicular CPQ, the Line HE cutting the Circumference in E, and
+joining CE, this Line CE shall be the Line of the refracted Ray. For if
+EF be let fall perpendicularly on the Line PQ, this Line EF shall be the
+Sine of Refraction of the Ray CE, the Angle of Refraction being ECQ; and
+this Sine EF is equal to DH, and consequently in Proportion to the Sine
+of Incidence AD as 3 to 4.
+
+In like manner, if there be a Prism of Glass (that is, a Glass bounded
+with two Equal and Parallel Triangular ends, and three plain and well
+polished Sides, which meet in three Parallel Lines running from the
+three Angles of one end to the three Angles of the other end) and if the
+Refraction of the Light in passing cross this Prism be desired: Let ACB
+[in _Fig._ 2.] represent a Plane cutting this Prism transversly to its
+three Parallel lines or edges there where the Light passeth through it,
+and let DE be the Ray incident upon the first side of the Prism AC where
+the Light goes into the Glass; and by putting the Proportion of the Sine
+of Incidence to the Sine of Refraction as 17 to 11 find EF the first
+refracted Ray. Then taking this Ray for the Incident Ray upon the second
+side of the Glass BC where the Light goes out, find the next refracted
+Ray FG by putting the Proportion of the Sine of Incidence to the Sine of
+Refraction as 11 to 17. For if the Sine of Incidence out of Air into
+Glass be to the Sine of Refraction as 17 to 11, the Sine of Incidence
+out of Glass into Air must on the contrary be to the Sine of Refraction
+as 11 to 17, by the third Axiom.
+
+[Illustration: FIG. 2.]
+
+Much after the same manner, if ACBD [in _Fig._ 3.] represent a Glass
+spherically convex on both sides (usually called a _Lens_, such as is a
+Burning-glass, or Spectacle-glass, or an Object-glass of a Telescope)
+and it be required to know how Light falling upon it from any lucid
+point Q shall be refracted, let QM represent a Ray falling upon any
+point M of its first spherical Surface ACB, and by erecting a
+Perpendicular to the Glass at the point M, find the first refracted Ray
+MN by the Proportion of the Sines 17 to 11. Let that Ray in going out of
+the Glass be incident upon N, and then find the second refracted Ray
+N_q_ by the Proportion of the Sines 11 to 17. And after the same manner
+may the Refraction be found when the Lens is convex on one side and
+plane or concave on the other, or concave on both sides.
+
+[Illustration: FIG. 3.]
+
+
+AX. VI.
+
+_Homogeneal Rays which flow from several Points of any Object, and fall
+perpendicularly or almost perpendicularly on any reflecting or
+refracting Plane or spherical Surface, shall afterwards diverge from so
+many other Points, or be parallel to so many other Lines, or converge to
+so many other Points, either accurately or without any sensible Error.
+And the same thing will happen, if the Rays be reflected or refracted
+successively by two or three or more Plane or Spherical Surfaces._
+
+The Point from which Rays diverge or to which they converge may be
+called their _Focus_. And the Focus of the incident Rays being given,
+that of the reflected or refracted ones may be found by finding the
+Refraction of any two Rays, as above; or more readily thus.
+
+_Cas._ 1. Let ACB [in _Fig._ 4.] be a reflecting or refracting Plane,
+and Q the Focus of the incident Rays, and Q_q_C a Perpendicular to that
+Plane. And if this Perpendicular be produced to _q_, so that _q_C be
+equal to QC, the Point _q_ shall be the Focus of the reflected Rays: Or
+if _q_C be taken on the same side of the Plane with QC, and in
+proportion to QC as the Sine of Incidence to the Sine of Refraction, the
+Point _q_ shall be the Focus of the refracted Rays.
+
+[Illustration: FIG. 4.]
+
+_Cas._ 2. Let ACB [in _Fig._ 5.] be the reflecting Surface of any Sphere
+whose Centre is E. Bisect any Radius thereof, (suppose EC) in T, and if
+in that Radius on the same side the Point T you take the Points Q and
+_q_, so that TQ, TE, and T_q_, be continual Proportionals, and the Point
+Q be the Focus of the incident Rays, the Point _q_ shall be the Focus of
+the reflected ones.
+
+[Illustration: FIG. 5.]
+
+_Cas._ 3. Let ACB [in _Fig._ 6.] be the refracting Surface of any Sphere
+whose Centre is E. In any Radius thereof EC produced both ways take ET
+and C_t_ equal to one another and severally in such Proportion to that
+Radius as the lesser of the Sines of Incidence and Refraction hath to
+the difference of those Sines. And then if in the same Line you find any
+two Points Q and _q_, so that TQ be to ET as E_t_ to _tq_, taking _tq_
+the contrary way from _t_ which TQ lieth from T, and if the Point Q be
+the Focus of any incident Rays, the Point _q_ shall be the Focus of the
+refracted ones.
+
+[Illustration: FIG. 6.]
+
+And by the same means the Focus of the Rays after two or more Reflexions
+or Refractions may be found.
+
+[Illustration: FIG. 7.]
+
+_Cas._ 4. Let ACBD [in _Fig._ 7.] be any refracting Lens, spherically
+Convex or Concave or Plane on either side, and let CD be its Axis (that
+is, the Line which cuts both its Surfaces perpendicularly, and passes
+through the Centres of the Spheres,) and in this Axis produced let F and
+_f_ be the Foci of the refracted Rays found as above, when the incident
+Rays on both sides the Lens are parallel to the same Axis; and upon the
+Diameter F_f_ bisected in E, describe a Circle. Suppose now that any
+Point Q be the Focus of any incident Rays. Draw QE cutting the said
+Circle in T and _t_, and therein take _tq_ in such proportion to _t_E as
+_t_E or TE hath to TQ. Let _tq_ lie the contrary way from _t_ which TQ
+doth from T, and _q_ shall be the Focus of the refracted Rays without
+any sensible Error, provided the Point Q be not so remote from the Axis,
+nor the Lens so broad as to make any of the Rays fall too obliquely on
+the refracting Surfaces.[A]
+
+And by the like Operations may the reflecting or refracting Surfaces be
+found when the two Foci are given, and thereby a Lens be formed, which
+shall make the Rays flow towards or from what Place you please.[B]

testdata/Mark.Twain-Tom.Sawyer.txt

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-Produced by David Widger. The previous edition was updated by Jose
-Menendez.
-
-
-
-
-
-                   THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
-                                BY
-                            MARK TWAIN
-                     (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
-
-
-
-
-                           P R E F A C E
-
-MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or
-two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were
-schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but
-not from an individual--he is a combination of the characteristics of
-three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of
-architecture.
-
-The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children
-and slaves in the West at the period of this story--that is to say,
-thirty or forty years ago.
-
-Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and
-girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account,
-for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what
-they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked,
-and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.
-
-                                                            THE AUTHOR.
-
-HARTFORD, 1876.
-
-
-
-                          T O M   S A W Y E R
-
-
-
-CHAPTER I
-
-"TOM!"
-
-No answer.
-
-"TOM!"
-
-No answer.
-
-"What's gone with that boy,  I wonder? You TOM!"
-
-No answer.
-
-The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the
-room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or
-never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her
-state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not
-service--she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well.
-She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but
-still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
-
-"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll--"
-
-She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching
-under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the
-punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat.
-
-"I never did see the beat of that boy!"
-
-She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the
-tomato vines and "jimpson" weeds that constituted the garden. No Tom.
-So she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and
-shouted:
-
-"Y-o-u-u TOM!"
-
-There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to
-seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.
-
-"There! I might 'a' thought of that closet. What you been doing in
-there?"
-
-"Nothing."
-
-"Nothing! Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What IS that
-truck?"
-
-"I don't know, aunt."
-
-"Well, I know. It's jam--that's what it is. Forty times I've said if
-you didn't let that jam alone I'd skin you. Hand me that switch."
-
-The switch hovered in the air--the peril was desperate--
-
-"My! Look behind you, aunt!"
-
-The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger. The
-lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board-fence, and
-disappeared over it.
-
-His aunt Polly stood surprised a moment, and then broke into a gentle
-laugh.
-
-"Hang the boy, can't I never learn anything? Ain't he played me tricks
-enough like that for me to be looking out for him by this time? But old
-fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks,
-as the saying is. But my goodness, he never plays them alike, two days,
-and how is a body to know what's coming? He 'pears to know just how
-long he can torment me before I get my dander up, and he knows if he
-can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it's all down
-again and I can't hit him a lick. I ain't doing my duty by that boy,
-and that's the Lord's truth, goodness knows. Spare the rod and spile
-the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for
-us both, I know. He's full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he's my
-own dead sister's boy, poor thing, and I ain't got the heart to lash
-him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so,
-and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks. Well-a-well, man
-that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the
-Scripture says, and I reckon it's so. He'll play hookey this evening, *
-and [* Southwestern for "afternoon"] I'll just be obleeged to make him
-work, to-morrow, to punish him. It's mighty hard to make him work
-Saturdays, when all the boys is having holiday, but he hates work more
-than he hates anything else, and I've GOT to do some of my duty by him,
-or I'll be the ruination of the child."
-
-Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time. He got back home
-barely in season to help Jim, the small colored boy, saw next-day's
-wood and split the kindlings before supper--at least he was there in
-time to tell his adventures to Jim while Jim did three-fourths of the
-work. Tom's younger brother (or rather half-brother) Sid was already
-through with his part of the work (picking up chips), for he was a
-quiet boy, and had no adventurous, troublesome ways.
-
-While Tom was eating his supper, and stealing sugar as opportunity
-offered, Aunt Polly asked him questions that were full of guile, and
-very deep--for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments. Like
-many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she
-was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she
-loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low
-cunning. Said she:
-
-"Tom, it was middling warm in school, warn't it?"
-
-"Yes'm."
-
-"Powerful warm, warn't it?"
-
-"Yes'm."
-
-"Didn't you want to go in a-swimming, Tom?"
-
-A bit of a scare shot through Tom--a touch of uncomfortable suspicion.
-He searched Aunt Polly's face, but it told him nothing. So he said:
-
-"No'm--well, not very much."
-
-The old lady reached out her hand and felt Tom's shirt, and said:
-
-"But you ain't too warm now, though." And it flattered her to reflect
-that she had discovered that the shirt was dry without anybody knowing
-that that was what she had in her mind. But in spite of her, Tom knew
-where the wind lay, now. So he forestalled what might be the next move:
-
-"Some of us pumped on our heads--mine's damp yet. See?"
-
-Aunt Polly was vexed to think she had overlooked that bit of
-circumstantial evidence, and missed a trick. Then she had a new
-inspiration:
-
-"Tom, you didn't have to undo your shirt collar where I sewed it, to
-pump on your head, did you? Unbutton your jacket!"
-
-The trouble vanished out of Tom's face. He opened his jacket. His
-shirt collar was securely sewed.
-
-"Bother! Well, go 'long with you. I'd made sure you'd played hookey
-and been a-swimming. But I forgive ye, Tom. I reckon you're a kind of a
-singed cat, as the saying is--better'n you look. THIS time."
-
-She was half sorry her sagacity had miscarried, and half glad that Tom
-had stumbled into obedient conduct for once.
-
-But Sidney said:
-
-"Well, now, if I didn't think you sewed his collar with white thread,
-but it's black."
-
-"Why, I did sew it with white! Tom!"
-
-But Tom did not wait for the rest. As he went out at the door he said:
-
-"Siddy, I'll lick you for that."
-
-In a safe place Tom examined two large needles which were thrust into
-the lapels of his jacket, and had thread bound about them--one needle
-carried white thread and the other black. He said:
-
-"She'd never noticed if it hadn't been for Sid. Confound it! sometimes
-she sews it with white, and sometimes she sews it with black. I wish to
-geeminy she'd stick to one or t'other--I can't keep the run of 'em. But
-I bet you I'll lam Sid for that. I'll learn him!"
-
-He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very
-well though--and loathed him.
-
-Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles.
-Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him
-than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore
-them down and drove them out of his mind for the time--just as men's
-misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This
-new interest was a valued novelty in whistling, which he had just
-acquired from a negro, and he was suffering to practise it undisturbed.
-It consisted in a peculiar bird-like turn, a sort of liquid warble,
-produced by touching the tongue to the roof of the mouth at short
-intervals in the midst of the music--the reader probably remembers how
-to do it, if he has ever been a boy. Diligence and attention soon gave
-him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full
-of harmony and his soul full of gratitude. He felt much as an
-astronomer feels who has discovered a new planet--no doubt, as far as
-strong, deep, unalloyed pleasure is concerned, the advantage was with
-the boy, not the astronomer.
-
-The summer evenings were long. It was not dark, yet. Presently Tom
-checked his whistle. A stranger was before him--a boy a shade larger
-than himself. A new-comer of any age or either sex was an impressive
-curiosity in the poor little shabby village of St. Petersburg. This boy
-was well dressed, too--well dressed on a week-day. This was simply
-astounding. His cap was a dainty thing, his close-buttoned blue cloth
-roundabout was new and natty, and so were his pantaloons. He had shoes
-on--and it was only Friday. He even wore a necktie, a bright bit of
-ribbon. He had a citified air about him that ate into Tom's vitals. The
-more Tom stared at the splendid marvel, the higher he turned up his
-nose at his finery and the shabbier and shabbier his own outfit seemed
-to him to grow. Neither boy spoke. If one moved, the other moved--but
-only sidewise, in a circle; they kept face to face and eye to eye all
-the time. Finally Tom said:
-
-"I can lick you!"
-
-"I'd like to see you try it."
-
-"Well, I can do it."
-
-"No you can't, either."
-
-"Yes I can."
-
-"No you can't."
-
-"I can."
-
-"You can't."
-
-"Can!"
-
-"Can't!"
-
-An uncomfortable pause. Then Tom said:
-
-"What's your name?"
-
-"'Tisn't any of your business, maybe."
-
-"Well I 'low I'll MAKE it my business."
-
-"Well why don't you?"
-
-"If you say much, I will."
-
-"Much--much--MUCH. There now."
-
-"Oh, you think you're mighty smart, DON'T you? I could lick you with
-one hand tied behind me, if I wanted to."
-
-"Well why don't you DO it? You SAY you can do it."
-
-"Well I WILL, if you fool with me."
-
-"Oh yes--I've seen whole families in the same fix."
-
-"Smarty! You think you're SOME, now, DON'T you? Oh, what a hat!"
-
-"You can lump that hat if you don't like it. I dare you to knock it
-off--and anybody that'll take a dare will suck eggs."
-
-"You're a liar!"
-
-"You're another."
-
-"You're a fighting liar and dasn't take it up."
-
-"Aw--take a walk!"
-
-"Say--if you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a
-rock off'n your head."
-
-"Oh, of COURSE you will."
-
-"Well I WILL."
-
-"Well why don't you DO it then? What do you keep SAYING you will for?
-Why don't you DO it? It's because you're afraid."
-
-"I AIN'T afraid."
-
-"You are."
-
-"I ain't."
-
-"You are."
-
-Another pause, and more eying and sidling around each other. Presently
-they were shoulder to shoulder. Tom said:
-
-"Get away from here!"
-
-"Go away yourself!"
-
-"I won't."
-
-"I won't either."
-
-So they stood, each with a foot placed at an angle as a brace, and
-both shoving with might and main, and glowering at each other with
-hate. But neither could get an advantage. After struggling till both
-were hot and flushed, each relaxed his strain with watchful caution,
-and Tom said:
-
-"You're a coward and a pup. I'll tell my big brother on you, and he
-can thrash you with his little finger, and I'll make him do it, too."
-
-"What do I care for your big brother? I've got a brother that's bigger
-than he is--and what's more, he can throw him over that fence, too."
-[Both brothers were imaginary.]
-
-"That's a lie."
-
-"YOUR saying so don't make it so."
-
-Tom drew a line in the dust with his big toe, and said:
-
-"I dare you to step over that, and I'll lick you till you can't stand
-up. Anybody that'll take a dare will steal sheep."
-
-The new boy stepped over promptly, and said:
-
-"Now you said you'd do it, now let's see you do it."
-
-"Don't you crowd me now; you better look out."
-
-"Well, you SAID you'd do it--why don't you do it?"
-
-"By jingo! for two cents I WILL do it."
-
-The new boy took two broad coppers out of his pocket and held them out
-with derision. Tom struck them to the ground. In an instant both boys
-were rolling and tumbling in the dirt, gripped together like cats; and
-for the space of a minute they tugged and tore at each other's hair and
-clothes, punched and scratched each other's nose, and covered
-themselves with dust and glory. Presently the confusion took form, and
-through the fog of battle Tom appeared, seated astride the new boy, and
-pounding him with his fists. "Holler 'nuff!" said he.
-
-The boy only struggled to free himself. He was crying--mainly from rage.
-
-"Holler 'nuff!"--and the pounding went on.
-
-At last the stranger got out a smothered "'Nuff!" and Tom let him up
-and said:
-
-"Now that'll learn you. Better look out who you're fooling with next
-time."
-
-The new boy went off brushing the dust from his clothes, sobbing,
-snuffling, and occasionally looking back and shaking his head and
-threatening what he would do to Tom the "next time he caught him out."
-To which Tom responded with jeers, and started off in high feather, and
-as soon as his back was turned the new boy snatched up a stone, threw
-it and hit him between the shoulders and then turned tail and ran like
-an antelope. Tom chased the traitor home, and thus found out where he
-lived. He then held a position at the gate for some time, daring the
-enemy to come outside, but the enemy only made faces at him through the
-window and declined. At last the enemy's mother appeared, and called
-Tom a bad, vicious, vulgar child, and ordered him away. So he went
-away; but he said he "'lowed" to "lay" for that boy.
-
-He got home pretty late that night, and when he climbed cautiously in
-at the window, he uncovered an ambuscade, in the person of his aunt;
-and when she saw the state his clothes were in her resolution to turn
-his Saturday holiday into captivity at hard labor became adamantine in
-its firmness.