Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 31 to 35

by Mark Twain

ILLUSTRATIONS.

[Spanish Moss] ["Who Nailed Him?"] [Thinking] [He gave him Ten Cents] [Striking for the Back Country] [Still and Sunday-like] [She hugged him tight] ["Who do you reckon it is?"] ["It was Tom Sawyer"] ["Mr. Archibald Nichols, I presume?"] [A pretty long Blessing] [Traveling By Rail] [Vittles] [A Simple Job] [Witches] [Getting Wood] [One of the Best Authorities] [The Breakfast-Horn] [Smouching the Knives]

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.