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<h1> ADVENTURES<br/> <br/> OF<br/> <br/> HUCKLEBERRY FINN </h1>
<h3> (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) </h3>
<h2> By Mark Twain </h2>
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<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 “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.</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>
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