Frontispiece from the first edition of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' 1876 ... was green with vegetation and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.

“The next day I met Mark down by the old Call office,” Sawyer continued. “He walks up to me and puts both hands on my shoulders. ‘Tom,’ he ... when prosperity lay upon the land.