-Bé, no diré que no fos una bella facecia, Tom, d'anguniar a tothom gairebé una setmana mentre vosaltres us divertíeu; pero és llastima que fóssiu tan dur de cor que em féssiu patir a mi d'aquesta manera.
In the course of it Aunt Polly said: "Well, I don't say it wasn't a fine joke, Tom, to keep everybody suffering 'most a week so you boys had a good time, but it is a pity you could be so hard-hearted as to let me suffer so.