Huckleberry Finn Hunting

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The adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Published by , 1884. Original from Oxford University. Digitized Jun 13, 2007.

Huckleberry Finn Hunting, NOTICE. Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished ; persons attempting to find a plot in it will te shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR. Per G. O., CHIEF OF OKDNANCE.

EXPLANATORY. In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods South-Western dialect; the ordinary " Pike-County " dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a hap-hazard fashion, or by guess-work; but pains-takingly, 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.

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