Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 21 to 25

by Mark Twain

ILLUSTRATIONS.

[Practizing] [Hamlet's Soliloquy] ["Gimme a Chaw"] [A Little Monthly Drunk] [The Death of Boggs] [Sherburn steps out] [A Dead Head] [He shed Seventeen Suits] [Tragedy] [Their Pockets Bulged] [Henry the Eighth in Boston Harbor] [Harmless] [Adolphus] [He fairly emptied that Young Fellow] ["Alas, our Poor Brother"] ["You Bet it is"] [Leaking] [Making up the "Deffisit"] [Going for him] [The Doctor] [The Bag of Money]

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.