Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 16 to 20

by Mark Twain

ILLUSTRATIONS.

["Something being Raftsman"] ["Boy, that's a Lie"] ["Here I is, Huck"] [Climbing up the Bank] ["Who's There?"] ["Buck"] ["It made Her look Spidery"] ["They got him out and emptied Him"] [The House] [Col. Grangerford] [Young Harney Shepherdson] [Miss Charlotte] ["And asked me if I Liked Her"] ["Behind the Wood-pile"] [Hiding Day-times] ["And Dogs a-Coming"] ["By rights I am a Duke!"] ["I am the Late Dauphin"] [Tail Piece] [On the Raft] [The King as Juliet] ["Courting on the Sly"] ["A Pirate for Thirty Years"] [Another little Job]

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.