Question

'Mending the health of a crack' means repairing a crack in the sitting-room floor looking after his health pouring the medicine into a crack in the sitting-room floor giving the medicine to the cat

Answer 1

Answer:

The above question has been framed from the story " The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain.

'Mending the health of a crack' means:

Pouring the medicine into a crack in the sitting-room floor.

The above act was done by Tom in order to save himself from the torture of his Aunt Polly's medicine. Tom was not ill, he was depressed because Becky was not coming to school, so he did not want to take the medicine.