Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 7)

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1> ADVENTURES<br/> <br/> OF<br/> <br/> HUCKLEBERRY FINN </h1> <h3> (Tom Sawyer&rsquo;s Comrade) </h3> <h2> By Mark Twain </h2> <p><br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/></p> <p>EXPLANATORY</p> <p>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 &ldquo;Pike County&rdquo; 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>THE AUTHOR.</p> <p><br/> <br/></p> <hr /> <p><br/> <br/></p> <h2> HUCKLEBERRY FINN </h2> <p><br/> <br/></p> <p>Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago</p> <p><br/></p> <div class="fig"> <ANTIMG alt="frontispiece2.jpg (72K)" src="images/frontispiece2.jpg" style="width:100%;" /><br/> </div> <p><br/> <SPAN name="c01-02" id="c01-02"></SPAN><br/> <br/> <SPAN name="c1" id="c1"></SPAN></p> <div class="fig"> <ANTIMG alt="c01-02.jpg (182K)" src="images/c01-02.jpg" style="width:100%;" /><br/> </div> <p><br/> <br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />