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Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

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• I. Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to
• II. WE went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees
• III. WELL, I got a good going-over in the morning from
• IV. WELL, three or four months run along
• V. I HAD shut the door to
• VI. WELL, pretty soon the old man was up and around
• VII. GIT up! What you 'bout?
• VIII. THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged
• IX. I WANTED to go and look at a place right about
• X. AFTER breakfast I wanted to talk about the dead
• XI. COME in, says the woman
• XII. IT must a been close on to one o'clock when we
• XIII. WELL, I catched my breath and most fainted
• XIV. BY and by, when we got up
• XV. WE judged that three nights more would fetch us
• XVI. WE slept most all day, and started out at night
• XVII. IN about a minute somebody spoke out of a window
• XVIII. COL. GRANGERFORD was a gentleman
• XIX. TWO or three days and nights went by
• XX. THEY asked us considerable many questions
• XXI. IT was after sun-up now
• XXII. THEY swarmed up towards Sherburn's house
• XXIII. WELL, all day him and the king was hard at it
• XXIV. NEXT day, towards night
• XXV. THE news was all over town in two minutes
• XXVI. WELL, when they was all gone the king he asks
• XXVII. I CREPT to their doors and listened
• XXVIII. BY and by it was getting-up time
• XXIX. THEY was fetching a very nice-looking old
• XXX. WHEN they got aboard the king went for me
• XXXI. WE dasn't stop again at any town for days and
• XXXII. WHEN I got there it was all still and Sunday-like
• XXXIII. SO I started for town in the wagon
• XXXIV. WE stopped talking, and got to thinking
• XXXV. IT would be most an hour yet till breakfast
• XXXVI. AS soon as we reckoned everybody was asleep that
• XXXVII. THAT was all fixed. So then we went away and went
• XXXVIII. MAKING them pens was a distressid tough job
• XXXIX. IN the morning we went up to the village and
• XL. WE was feeling pretty good after breakfast
• XLI. THE doctor was an old man
• XLII. THE old man was uptown again before breakfast
• XLIII. THE first time I catched Tom private I asked him

HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain

NOTICE

PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance.

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.

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