Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/Source

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.

THE AUTHOR

Huckleberry Finn

Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago

Chapter I — Discover Moses and the Bulrushers
Chapter II — Our Gang's Dark Oath
Chapter III — We Ambuscade the A-rabs
Chapter IV — The Hair-ball Oracle
Chapter V — Pap Starts in on a New Life
Chapter VI — Pap Struggles with the Death Angel
Chapter VII — I Fool Pap and Get Away
Chapter VIII — I Spare Miss Watson's Jim
Chapter IX — The House of Death Floats By
Chapter X — What Comes of Handlin' Snake-skin
Chapter XI — They're After Us!
Chapter XII — "Better Let Blame Well Alone"
Chapter XIII — Honest Loot from the "Walter Scott"
Chapter XIV — Was Solomon Wise?
Chapter XV — Fooling Poor Old Jim
Chapter XVI — The Rattlesnake-skin Does Its Work
Chapter XVII — The Grangerfords Take Me In
Chapter XVIII — Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat
Chapter XIX — The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard
Chapter XX — What Royalty Did to Parkville
Chapter XXI — An Arkansaw Difficulty
Chapter XXII — Why the Lynching Bee Failed
Chapter XXIII — The Orneriness of Kings
Chapter XXIV — The King Turns Parson
Chapter XXV — All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle
Chapter XXVI — I Steal the King's Plunder
Chapter XXVII — Dead Peter Has His Gold
Chapter XXVIII — Overreaching Don't Pay
Chapter XXIX — I Light Out in the Storm
Chapter XXX — The Gold Saves the Thieves
Chapter XXXI — You Can't Pray a Lie
Chapter XXXII — I Have a New Name
Chapter XXXIII — The Pitiful Ending of Royalty
Chapter XXXIV — We Cheer Up Jim
Chapter XXXV — Dark, Deep-Laid Plans
Chapter XXXVI — Trying to Help Jim
Chapter XXXVII — Jim Gets His Witch Pie
Chapter XXXVIII — "Here a Captive Heart Buried"
Chapter XXXIX — Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters
Chapter XL — A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue
Chapter XLI — "Must 'a' Been Sperits"
Chapter XLII — Why They Didn't Hang Jim
Chapter XLIII — Chapter the Last, Nothing More to Write

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