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 |
.
Get a Free CD containing all your Literary Favorites.
If you enjoy Public Domain Books Online...
Share us with your friends by linking to us.
If you find a
bug on any of
our pages please
tell us about it