Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 / 2008-05-16 00:00:00

EBOOK HUCKLEBERRY FINN, PART 1 ***


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HUCKLEBERRY FINN
By Mark Twain
Part 1.

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.


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.


HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago

CHAPTER I.
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