The Great Brain at the Academy [antikvár]

CHAPTER ONE Tom Spots a Card Shark WHEN MY BROTHER TOM began telling people in Adenville, Utah, that he had a great brain everybody laughed at him, including his own family. We all thought he was trying to play some kind of a kid's joke on us. But after he had used his great brain to swindle all the kids in town and make fools of a lot of grownups nobody laughed at my brother anymore. I think that was why just about everybody in town except his own family was glad to see Tom leave Adenville on September 1, 1897. And I couldn't help thinking that Papa must have felt kind of relieved too, although he didn't show it. Papa was editor and publisher of the Aden-