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ADVENTURES
OF
HUCKLEBERRY FINN
(Tom Sawyer'rade)
By Mark Twain
Part 1
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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 eeding.
THE AUTHOR.
CHAPTER I.
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. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told
the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but
mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen
anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt
Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom's Aunt
Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told
about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some
stretchers, as I said before.
Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me
found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made
us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece—all gold. It was
an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge
Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us
a dollar a day apiece all the year round—more than a body
could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me
for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was
rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal
regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when