

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. YOU don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter. Civilizing Huck - Miss Watson - Tom Sawyer Waits.


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 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. 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. 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. "It Amounted to Something being a Raftsman" Learning about Moses and the "Bulrushers"
