Black-and-white engraving of two boys at a long wooden fence, one dipping a brush into a bucket of whitewash, a house and trees behind.
Quote in serif type: Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. Mark Twain, 1876.
Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

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Pictures by True W. WilliamsWords by Mark Twain

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Tom Sawyer leans over his bucket at the famous fence in True W. Williams's engraving, paired with Mark Twain's line that play is whatever a body is not obliged to do. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain's tale of a mischievous boy on the Mississippi, was first printed with drawings by Williams in 1876. For someone who deserves a day off.

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Inside, it says

Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. Mark Twain, 1876

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is Mark Twain's tale of a mischievous boy on the Mississippi, first printed with drawings by True W. Williams.

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