Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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 varie-ties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustwor-thy 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 th ...