Tom Sawyer ejaculates! And when word meanings change

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I was startled to find not one, but two ejaculations on the pages of “Tom Sawyer.”  



And here I wasn’t even sure the 139-year-old Tom has been through puberty.



I wondered if perhaps I’d stumbled onto one of those pornographic parodies. Some of you more worldly types may have heard of those.



They’re where the smut merchants tweak a famous title and turn something