He then held a position at the gate for some time, daring the enemy to come outside, but the enemy only made faces at him through the window and declined.

At last the enemy's mother appeared, and called Tom a bad, vicious, vulgar child, and ordered him away.

So he went away; but he said he "'lowed" to "lay" for that boy.
He got home pretty late that night, and when he climbed cautiously in at the window, he uncovered an ambuscade, in the person of his aunt; and when she saw the state his clothes were in her resolution to turn his Saturday holiday into captivity at hard labor became adamantine in its firmness..