Analytical Reader

Third  chapter.

1. What was Tom given for doing his work?

2. What's Amy Lawrence look like?

3. Who is Tom in love whit?

4. What prank did Sid do?

5. What do Tom do when he stopped to hear voices on Thatcher's house?

·       As he passed Jeff Thatcher’s house, he saw a new girl in the gar­

den. She had blue eyes and yellow hair. She was beautiful. Tom had 

loved a girl named Amy Lawrence. A week ago she had said that she 

loved him. He had been happy and proud. But now in a moment she 

was gone from his heart.

He watched the new girl until she discovered him. Then he looked 

at other places, as if he had not seen her. And he began to jump, and 

dance, and walk on his hands, so that she would continue to watch 

him.

·       Later that evening his brother Sid was a bad boy. He took some 

sweets. But his aunt did not believe that Sid could be bad. She gave 

Tom the blow that she should have given to Sid. She learned the truth 

later, and was sorry. But she said nothing to Tom.

·       She went to see, and her surprise was very great. “You can work when you want to, Tom. But you do not often want to. Go and play. 

But remember to come home again.” And she gave him a large apple. She did not see him take a piece of cake as he passed through the Kitchen

·       He stopped near the Thatcher house. There was a light in one window. Was that the new girl’s room? He lay down on the ground below the window, with her flower in his hands. He would lie there and die in the cold. In the morning, she would look out the window, and see him.
The window opened suddenly. He heard the voice of a woman who worked for the Thatchers. She threw water out of the window, and it fell on him.
Tom jumped up and ran.