Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05

by Mark Twain

ILLUSTRATIONS.

[The Widows] [Moses and the "Bulrushers"] [Miss Watson] [Huck Stealing Away] [They Tip-toed Along] [Jim] [Tom Sawyer's Band of Robbers] [Huck Creeps into his Window] [Miss Watson's Lecture] [The Robbers Dispersed] [Rubbing the Lamp] [! ! ! !] [Judge Thatcher surprised] [Jim Listening] ["Pap"] [Huck and his Father] [Reforming the Drunkard] [Falling from Grace]

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.

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.