The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.

his forgotten mate

There were not many things that I knew much about but pain... Pain I knew. I understood it and its various types. Emotional pain as time dragged by, physical pain I felt when my mate had sex with another woman, when different men had come, nightly beatings, mental pain when he played tricks, when I realized no one fr...