Donde la tía Polly trata de pillar a Tom en falta, Sid colabora para confirmar la sospecha y Tom escapa justo a tiempo para evitar el castigo.
En vocabulario
played hookey, singed cat
y lam. Más abajo te
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… While Tom was eating his supper, and stealing sugar as opportunity offered, Aunt Polly asked him questions that were full of treachery, 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: