Mark Twain Quote

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and grovelling around you when you've got an apple, and beg the core off of you; but when they've got one, and you beg for the core and remind them how you give them a core one time, they say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't-a-going to be no core.


Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)


There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and grovelling around you when you've got an apple, and beg the core off of you; but when they've got ...

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and grovelling around you when you've got an apple, and beg the core off of you; but when they've got ...

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and grovelling around you when you've got an apple, and beg the core off of you; but when they've got ...

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and grovelling around you when you've got an apple, and beg the core off of you; but when they've got ...