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Story to analyze
‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’
by Mark Twain
I told about Louis Sixteenth that got his head cut off in France long time ago; and about his little boy the dolphin, that would a been a king, but they took and shut him up in jail, and some say he died there. -‘Po' little chap.'
-'But some says he got out and got away, and come to America.'
-'Dat's good! But he'll be pooty lonesome6 – dey ain' no kings here is dey7, Huck?'
-'No.'
-'Den he cain't git no situation". What he gwyne to do?'
-'Well, I don't know. Some of them gets on the police, and some of them learns people how to talk French.'
-'Why, Huck, doan' de French people talk de same way we docs?'
-‘No, Jim; you couldn't understand a word they said - not a single word.'
-'Well, now, I be ding-busted! How do dat come?'
-'I don't know; but it's so. I got some of their jabber out of a book. S'pose a man was to come to you and say Polly-voo-franzy – what would you think?'
-'I wouldn' think nuff'n; I'd take en bust him over de head – dat is, if he warn't white. I wouldn't 'low no nigger to call me dat.'
-'Shucks, it ain't calling you anything. It's only saying, do you know how to talk French?' 'Well, den, why couldn't he say it?'
-'Why, he is a-saying it. That's a Frenchman's way of saying it.'
-'Well, it's a blame ridicklous way, en I doan' want to hear no mo' 'bout it. Dey ain' no sense in it.'
-'Looky here, Jim; docs a cat talk like we do?'
-'No, a cat don't.'
-'Well, does a cow?'
-'No, a cow don't, nuthcr.'
-'Does a cat talk like a cow, or a cow talk like a cat?'
-'No, dey don't.'
-'It's natural and right for 'em to talk different from each other, ain't it?'
-'Course.'
-'And ain't it natural and right for a cat and a cow to talk different from us?’
- 'Why, mos' sholy it is.'
-'Well, then, why ain't it natural and right for a Frenchman to talk different from us? You answer me that.'
-'Is a cat a man, Huck?'
-'No.'
-'Well, den, dey ain't no sense in a cat talkin' like a man. Is a cow a man? – er is a cow a cat?'
'-No, she ain't either of them.'
-'Well, den, she ain't got no business to talk like either one er the yuther of 'em. Is a Frenchman a man?'
-'Yes.'
-'Well, den! Dad blame it, why doan' he talk like a man? You answer me dat!’
- I see it warn't no use wasting words - you can't learn a nigger to argue. So I quit.-
