“汤姆!”没有应。“汤姆!”又没有应。“奇怪,那孩子干什么去了?喂,汤——姆!”上面这段话原是这样写的:“奇怪,孩子上哪去了?”然而,在《汤姆·索耶历险记》的手写稿里,马克·吐温把它划掉了,而以这句比较土俗、比较严厉的话代替,作为他在发稿给印刷工人之前的最后几处删改之一。乔治敦大学图书馆,自一九三四年以来就保存了《索耶》的原稿,今天是马克·吐 “Tom!” Did not. “Tom!” “Strange, what did that child do?” Tom, Tom-Mu! “The above sentence was originally written:” Strange, where is the child? “However, in the handwriting of” The Tom Sawyer’s Adventures " Mark Twain drew it off and replaced it with more vulgar and harsher remarks as one of the last changes he made before sending it to the press. The Georgetown University Library has preserved the manuscript of Sawyer since 1934,