Tom Sawyer has no affinity for school. He hates work and has trouble getting up early. His leisure activities, however, include swimming, fishing, and having adventures with his friends. The adventures he has are numerous and revealing. One evening, for example, he decides to go to the cemetery with his friend Huck Finn to look for ghosts. To their dismay, they find not ghosts, but something more terrifying than they could ever have imagined...