Twain's characters, white and black, speak good vernacular English.
"I doan’ hanker for no mo’ un um, Huck. Dese is all I kin stan’." You see the merger of -n with -ng and of -d with -th and the double negative which is characteristic of African American vernacular English.
no subject
"I doan’ hanker for no mo’ un um, Huck. Dese is all I kin stan’." You see the merger of -n with -ng and of -d with -th and the double negative which is characteristic of African American vernacular English.