William Desmond Taylor

“ I'm Tom, when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?"
I Love You
DONKEY
At noon, every one goes home to dinner — except Tom and Becky
"Say, Becky, how'd you like to be engaged?"
"I don't know. What's it like?"
"'Tain't like anything! You only — tell a boy you'll marry him; then you kiss, an' that's all. Anybody can do it!"
"Do you remember what I wrote on the slate?"
"I — love — you!"
"Being engaged's ever so gay! Why, when me and Amy Lawrence —"
His most cherished possession — a brass door-knob
Supper-time the same day
"Now, that pet model, Sid, is going to catch it!" ”

“ And — the free boys are going fishing —
— while Joe Harper pretends he is a Mississippi river steamboat
. . . . . . . Antrim Short
At this dark and hopeless moment, Tom has a great and magnificent inspiration!
"Hi-yi! You got to work, ain't you?"
"Do you mean to let on you like it?"
"Like it? I ought to like it! Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
"Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little?"
"Aunt Polly's awful particular about this fence. There ain't one boy in a thousand — maybe a hun'red thousand — can do it the way it's got to be done!" ”

“ Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene!
"My — sore — toe's — mortified!"
"It seemed mortified. It hurt so I didn't mind my tooth at all!"
"Thomas Sawyer, why are you late?"
And the schoolmaster punishes bad boys by making them sit with the girls! ”