MONDAY MORNING

MONDAY MORNING ± Mark Twain

Mark Twain is a great American novelist. novelist . His real name, before he adopted Mark Twain as his pen name, was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Clemens. His novels the adventures of tom sawyer and the adventure of Huckleberry Finn appeal to children as well as the old alike. This extract is from The adventures of Tom sawyer , which narrates narrate s at length the mischievous mischie vous deeds dee ds of Tom at home, at school and outside. Tom is a boy of eight and lives with his aunt, Aunt Polly. Along with Tom, his brother Sid and sister Mary also live with their aunt. Aunt Polly friend it very difficult to make Tom behave properly. In this account we come across a humorous episode about Tom trying irrelevant excuses to stay at home from school. Still in bed on a Monday Monday morning T om thinks of an idea to cheat his aunty. He complains to her of great pain on a toe, but finally gets exposed foolishly. Then he complains to her that he has trouble with his loose tooth, but Aunt Polly is too clever and outwits Tom. Tom a happy carefree young boy hated Monday morning. He felt miserable when he thought of going to school. sc hool. To him, school was another  week of slow suffering school was like a prison to Tom when he was kept in captivity. Tom wished he was sick, so that he could stay at home. He started inspecting inspectin g himself to see if he could find any ailment. He felt as if he had toe  pain and began to encourage it, but it was in vain, the pain was just imaginary. On further inspection, he discovered that one of his upper front teeth was loose. But he knew if he told Aunt Polly, about it she would at once pull it out. So he decided to keep the tooth in reserve for the present. Tom remembered that his doctor had told him about a man who had lost a finger due to a certain disease. He looked at his sore toe and thought this was his chance. He started to groan his brother Sid who was sleeping near to him was, unconscious of all this Tom wanted to wake him up. So he groaned louder  and louder. Finally Sid woke up and when he saw Tom¶s condition he was frightened. Tom presented that he was dying. Sid ran downstairs downstairs and informed Aunt Polly who came running running along with with Mary. She was really concerned and asked him what was wrong. Tom replied that his sore toes mortified. His aunt understood Tom¶s real sickness and started to laugh. Tom felt foolish and said in his pain he had forgotten his loose tooth. Aunt Polly at once pulled it out she tied one end of the silk thread to Tom¶s teeth and the other end to the bed bed post. She then seized a pen of burning coals and thrust it almost into the boy.