Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

21. CHAPTER XXI (continued)

That broke up the meeting. The boys were avenged. Vacation had come.

NOTE:-- The pretended "compositions" quoted in this chapter are taken without alteration from a volume entitled "Prose and Poetry, by a Western Lady" -- but they are exactly and precisely after the schoolgirl pattern, and hence are much happier than any mere imitations could be.