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__Summary of The Devil and Tom Walker__ The story took place a few miles outside of Boston, Massachusetts. A character, Tom Walker was a mysterious fellow who had a Wife who always cheated on him and she had a bad temper. They were very poor. Their house was in such bad shape that travlers didn't stop by. One day Tom decided to take a short cut home through the swamp. As Tom wass walking through the swamp he came apon a camp which was one of the strongholds for the Indians when they were at war with the colonists. As he was leaving the camp he dug up a skull and a rusty Indian Tomahawk. A voice yelled, "Let that skull alone!" Tom saw a man with with red eyes and had an axe on his shoulder. The man was the Devil. Since Tom ws not in fear of seeing the Devil, they had a conversation which lead the Devil to talk about a pirates treasure that he was guarding. Tom left and went home and told his wife. His wife was greedy and went to the Indian fort looking for the devil. She found the Devil and never came back. For a couple of days Tom waited for her to come back and she never did. Tom went looking for her and foung her apron in a tree with her heart and liver wrapped up in the apron. Tom saw the Devil again and the Devil offered Tom a job in Boston where he would extort money from people and become rich. So Tom went to Boston and became a broker. In almost no time Tom was very wealth. After a while he realized that what he was doing was wrong and carrried a Bible with him and started to go to church on Sundays. But as was about to forclose a morgage the Devil came and took Tom with him to the swamp where it was said that the forest went up in a blaze.

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