"I'm going in a-swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of course you'd druther WORK—wouldn't you?"
"What do you call work?"
"Well, I don't see why I oughtn't to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
"Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
Ben (green clothing) tries to shame Tom Sawyer (wearing overalls) for working on the fence all day so Tom Sawyer takes that as an opportunity to gaslight Ben in a way that he will feel tempted to do the work for him.
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it's got to be done very careful; I reckon there ain't one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it the way it's got to be done."
"Say, Tom, let ME whitewash a little."
(gives up brush reluctantly)
I'll give you the core of my apple."
Here, Tom Sawyer intrigued Ben about whitewashing so much that Ben offered his apple for it. We know how Tom is trying to trick Ben mean while Ben is unaware. This is called dramatic irony.
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"boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash."
"the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents."
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