![]() ![]() 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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