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Article: Not trying to talk alike and succeeding: the authoritative word and internally-persuasive word in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
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- Studies in the Novel
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- June 22, 2006
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"It don't make no difference how foolish it is, it's the right way--and it's the regular way. And there ain't no other way, that ever I heard of; and I've read all the books that gives any information about these things."
Tom Sawyer-Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 304
"I went along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come; for I'd noticed that Providence always did put the right words in my mouth, if I left it alone."
Huck Finn--Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 277
"In this book a number of dialects are used.... The shadings have not been done in haphazard ...