| EXPLANATORY
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| | 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 hap-
hazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly,
and with the trustworthy guidance and support of
personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.
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| | 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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| THE AUTHOR.
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