Tom Sawyer (1973)

Joshua Hill Lewis: Cousin Sidney

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Quotes 

• [after Tom Sawyer in the house, Sid heard a noise] 

  Cousin Sidney : Tom's home!

  Cousin Mary : You little beast!

• [after Tom comes home, Aunt Polly grabs his ear, takes him outside to the laundry with Cousin Sidney and Mary] 

  Aunt Polly : Whiskey! The stinking smell of whiskey in my house! Now, give me that shirt.

  [He gives the shirt to her] 

  Tom Sawyer : But, it saved Muff's leg! You see this snake? It was... It was just jumped out from under the rock, bit Muff's part of a leg and slithered away. Left him lying in the dirt, writhing and screaming, close to death!

  Aunt Polly : Lies, lies and more lies!

  Cousin Sidney : What kind of snake?

  Aunt Polly : Sidney, you stay out of this. Mary?

  Tom Sawyer : But, this stranger came along with this snake bite remedy and he was pouring on Muff's leg. He was kicking so that some of it just happened to splash on my shirt and it was just healed up like magic. Can't you see the fang marks.

  Aunt Polly : Fang marks?

  [grabs him, slap him] 

  Aunt Polly : Upstairs, no supper. Upstairs.

  Tom Sawyer : But, Aunt Polly...

  [sighs, he goes back inside, upstairs to bed, She washes the shirt in the laundry] 

  Cousin Sidney : Snakebite remedy. That's a good one.

  Aunt Polly : Yes, it was.

• [Tom Sawyer was sitting on the bed, breaking the bed that Aunt Polly, Cousin Sidney and Mary are heard] 

  Cousin Sidney : Tom's home.

  Cousin Mary : Beast!

  [Aunt Polly, Cousin Sidney and Mary began to walking upstairs to Tom's Room] 

  Tom Sawyer : Aunt Polly, honest, I didn't have nothing to do with it!

  Aunt Polly : What happened to you, boy? Look at you!

  Tom Sawyer : Well, there was this runaway horse, you see. And this poor old woman was in the buggy screaming for help. So I grabbed the reins and was drug nearly half a mile down the street before I could stop it. Then, he kicked me!

  Aunt Polly : You were with Huckleberry Finn. Why don't you tell the truth for once?

  Cousin Mary : He does tell the truth! He did it in court and saved an innocent man's life!

  Aunt Polly : A drunkard. Hanging around with murderers and grave robbers... what's to become of you, boy?

  [to Cousin Sidney and Mary] 

  Aunt Polly : You two, downstairs.

  Cousin Mary : Tom, you did a brave thing.

  Aunt Polly : Mary, don't you disobey me too.

  [Cousin Sidney and Mary began to downstairs. Aunt Polly closes the door and turns back to Tom Sawyer] 

  Aunt Polly : Now, you listen to me. Your mother was my favorite sister. We were very close. When she was dying, I promised her that I would raise you as if you were my own. Now, God knows I have tried. But you continue to disobey me, to lie to me, to cavort with the trash in this town. I'm afraid you're gonna grow up to be a wastrel like your father was, God forbid.

  Tom Sawyer : Don't you talk about my father like that.

  Aunt Polly : Well, that's what he was, a no-good, irresponsible bum, leaving your mother and you, a tiny baby. No use lying to yourself about him, too. I am not gonna let you turn into what he was, as God is my witness.

  Tom Sawyer : Well, If'n I was God -

  [Aunt Polly slap Tom Sawyer's face] 

  Aunt Polly : Don't you dare to take the name of the Lord in vain! May God forgive you.

  [Aunt Polly walks away from him, closes the door]