CHAPTER VI
MONDAY morning found Tom Sawyer miserable.

Monday morning always found him so--because it began another week's slow suffering in school.

He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much more odious.
Tom lay thinking.

Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home from school.

Here was a vague possibility.