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One morning aunt Polly kissed tom and apparently it mad tom feel light hearted and happy. he felt so good he ran up to becky thatcher and and told her he was sorry and he'd never act like that again. She she told him to keep it to himself and she'd never talk to him again. in a rage tom yells back at her and stomps off to school. Becky was apparently going to be delighted to see tom get whipped for injuring a spelling book. she was passing a desk when she saw the key was in the lock. she opend it and saw some kind of "anatamy" book. she opend it and started flipping through the pages she heard some one coming so she jumped to put the book back and close the desk and boom she ripped one of the pages halfway down the middle. The person she heard was tom, and of course she starts crying. while shes crying she says, "your going to tell on me and I'll get whipped and I've never been whipped in school before." of course tom was thinking whats getting whipped. of course hes been whipped plenty of times. later the school master finds out the book was ripped and started asking people if they ripped it. of course everybody denied it. when all of a sudden for some reason tom jumps up and say "I done it" and becky looked at him so greatfully he said it was worth 100 floggings.

the PROMPT is, would you have jumped up and taken the floging like tom did. why or why not.