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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN:THE PATRIOT¶S EDITION
BY
Mark Twain
 PATRIOT¶S EDITION EDITED BY
E. Wylie
Published by EvilReads
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Patriot's Edition
byMark Twain and E. Wylie is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.www.evilreads.com.
 
 
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CENE: The Mississippi ValleyTIME: Forty to Fifty Years Ago NOTICEPersons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; personsattempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in itwill be shot.By Order of the Author,Per G. G., Chief of Ordnance.EXPLANATORYIn this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; theextremest form of the backwoods
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outhwestern dialect; the ordinary "Pike County"dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in ahaphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthyguidance 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 thatall these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.The Author.
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