ILLUSTRATIONS.

[Going down the Lightning-Rod]
[Stealing spoons]
[Tom advises a Witch Pie]
[The Rubbage-Pile]
["Missus, dey's a Sheet Gone"]
[In a Tearing Way]
[One of his Ancestors]
[Jim's Coat of Arms]
[A Tough Job]
[Buttons on their Tails]
[Irrigation]
[Keeping off Dull Times]
[Sawdust Diet]
[Trouble is Brewing]
[Fishing]
[Every one had a Gun]
[Tom caught on a Splinter]
[Jim advises a Doctor]
[The Doctor]
[Uncle Silas in Danger]
[Old Mrs. Hotchkiss]
[Aunt Sally talks to Huck]
[Tom Sawyer wounded]
[The Doctor speaks for Jim]
[Tom rose square up in Bed]
["Hand out them Letters"]
[Out of Bondage]
[Tom's Liberality]
[Yours Truly]

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.