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$Pretitle{}
$Title{Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, The
Notice And Explanation}
$Subtitle{}
$Author{Twain, Mark}
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Title: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, The
Author: Twain, Mark
Notice And Explanation
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 be shot.
By Order of the Author,
Per G. G., Chief of Ordnance.
Explanation
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.