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<Text id=TwaHuck> <Author>Clemens, Samuel Langhorne; Mark Twain</Author> <Title>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</Title> <Edition>[Prose Works. Selections.] Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1985</Edition> <Date>1876-1885</Date> <body> <loc><locdoc>TwaHuck619</locdoc><milestone n=619> NOTICE. <p>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. <p>BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR <p>PER G. G., CHIEF OF ORDANCE. </loc><loc><locdoc>TwaHuck620</locdoc><milestone n=620> EXPLANATORY. <p> In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods South-Western dialect; the ordinary "Pike-County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a hap-hazard fashion, or by guess-work; but pains- takingly, and with the trus . . .
