The Devil And Tom Walker Summary

In the story of “The Devil and Tom Walker” we first learn of the notorious pirate, Captain Kidd, and of his rumored hidden treasure in a swamp in north america near boston and about how he was hung before he could retrieve it. it than goes to talk about the couple of tom walker and his wife. it also goes to talk about tom and is continually clash and fighting. later it talks about how one day toms how tom goes on a walk out into the woods and eventually goes to an old indian fort where he sees a skull with a tomahawk though it he goes to kick it when the devil appears and offers tom the treasure in exchange for his soul presumably. tom declines this offer and goes home to tell his wife of the supernatural occurrence that he just encountered inturn she goes and makes the deal with the devil and conclusively we can assume that she dies due to the fact that when tom goes to look for her he only finds her apron and a heart and liver. he than goes back to agree to the deal which makes him a wealth money loaner but on the inside he's dead.
one day though he is going to foreclose this poor man's house when he accidentally says “The devil take me if I have made a farthing!” and instantly there's three knocks at the door, and standing in the street is Old Scratch and a black horse. having forgot his small bible in his coat he is put and the black horse and is taken