Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15

by Mark Twain

ILLUSTRATIONS.

["Come In"] ["Him and another Man"] [She puts up a Snack] ["Hump Yourself"] [On the Raft] [He sometimes Lifted a Chicken] ["Please don't, Bill"] ["It ain't Good Morals"] ["Oh! Lordy, Lordy!"] [In a Fix] ["Hello, What's Up?"] [The Wreck] [We turned in and Slept] [Turning over the Truck] [Solomon and his Million Wives] [The story of "Sollermun"] ["We Would Sell the Raft"] [Among the Snags] [Asleep on the Raft]

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.