Tom Sawyer - Chapters 26, 27, & 28

CHAPTER XXVI, XXVII, & XXVIII

The Haunted House — Sleepy Ghosts — A Box of Gold — Bitter Luck

About noon the next day the boys arrived at the dead tree; they had come for their tools. Tom was impatient to go to the haunted house; Huck was measurably so, also—but suddenly said:

"Lookyhere, Tom, do you know what day it is?"

Tom mentally ran over the days of the week, and then quickly lifted his eyes with a startled look in them—

"My! I never once thought of it, Huck!"

"Well, I didn't neither, but all at once it popped onto me that it was Friday.”