Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round– more than a body could tell what to do with. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. We got six thousand dollars apiece–all gold. Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. Aunt Polly–Tom’s Aunt Polly, she is–and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. YOU don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer but that ain’t no matter. Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago 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 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. 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. 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.īY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance.
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