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.
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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