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- # CHAPTER V
## Overview
This entity is **CHAPTER V** of the novel *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* by Mark Twain. It exists as a structured digital chapter extracted from the full text of the novel, represented in the system as part of a hierarchical text segmentation. The chapter spans lines 1652 to 1827 in the source file and was digitally processed on January 28, 2026, as part of a structured text extraction workflow. It is one of 35 chapters in the novel and falls between [CHAPTER IV](arke:01KG2TRBFY6DY9J80148NVGW48) and [CHAPTER VI](arke:01KG2TRB6MMRBVV8NEDEVFE9B1).
## Context
The chapter is part of the full text of [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer](arke:01KG2TP9MA26GMS73H3R2KPN3R), a classic American novel first published in 1876. The digital version originates from the plain text file [tom_sawyer.txt](arke:01KG2T4RHC4E1XKJ12BJRXE8E8), which was uploaded and processed as part of the [Test Collection](arke:01KG2T49K0H5GDRB0G4YDTPG8H), a curated set of textual materials used for digital archiving and analysis. The chapter was automatically segmented during a text structure extraction process and manually reviewed for accuracy.
## Contents
This chapter depicts a Sunday morning in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, focusing on Tom Sawyer’s experience at church. The narrative begins with the congregation gathering for the morning sermon, including notable townspeople such as the mayor, the widow Douglas, and the “Model Boy,” Willie Mufferson, whom Tom and the other boys resent for his excessive virtue. The minister delivers a long, monotonous sermon, during which Tom grows restless. He amuses himself by capturing a fly, an act his Aunt Polly interrupts. Later, he produces a “pinchbug” from a box, which escapes into the aisle and becomes the center of unintended comic chaos when a stray poodle discovers it, is bitten, and races wildly through the church, disrupting the service. The entire congregation struggles to suppress laughter, rendering the sermon ineffective. The chapter ends with Tom walking home cheerfully, satisfied by the day’s entertainment, though slightly resentful that the dog took his beetle. The episode highlights Tom’s mischievous nature and satirizes the rigidity and solemnity of religious customs.
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