Chapter 17..

The day of the funeral everyone was talking about the boys. Many children at the funeral began to remember the day when Tom and Joe had predicted that something bad would happen, while Becky was very sad because she had nothing that reminded her of Tom. She also realized that she had rejected Tom and regrets it. The next morning, everyone in town came to church, and as the minister began speaking, the three boys entered the church. Everyone was very happy, and began to hug Tom and Joe. But no one was happy to see Huck, so Tom told Aunt Polly to hug Huck, and so she did. Tom's outcome was that he was proud of being in church because he had a great time. "Tom got more cuffs and kisses that day-according to Aunt Polly's varying moods-than he had earned before in a year; and he hardly knew which expressed the most gratefulness to God and affection for himself" The last line of the chapter (which is the one above) to me means that Tom had received more cuffs and kisses than any other day of the year, and that he didn't know which showed more gratefulness to God, ether the cuffs or the kisses.