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 succeeding. THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Civilizing Huck-Miss Watson-Tom Sawyer Waits CHAPTER II. The Boys Escape Jim-Tom Sawyer's Gang-Deep-laid Plans CHAPTER III. A Good Going-over-Grace Triumphant-"One of Tom Sawyer's He Went for Judge Thatcher-Huck Decides to Leave-Political CHAPTER VII. 44 Laying for Him— Locked in the Cabin — Sinking the Body - Resting 53 CHAPTER VIII. Sleeping in the Woods - Raising the Dead-Exploring the Island- Finding Jim-Jim's Escape-Signs - Balum 61 |