Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

 

Author: Mark Twain

 

EXPLANATORY

 

In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect;

the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike

County” dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not

been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with

the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several

forms of speech.

 

I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would

suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.

 

THE AUTHOR.

 

HUCKLEBERRY FINN

 

Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago

 

CHAPTER I.

 

You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The