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Explanatory

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In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dia-

lect; 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 trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these

several forms of speech. ssssssssss

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

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