Huckleberry Finn (Pocket Classics, C-6)

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.\nI 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.