Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Introductory Snippets (our term, not Twain’s) Summary

Before you get to any of the real text, you have to go through two little, let’s call them "snippets" that Mark Twain injected at the beginning of his novel.
The first is called a "Notice," and it reads: "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be executed; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." The decree is "By order of the author."
Next, you’ve got an "Explanatory," where Twain tells you that the characters in the novel speak in various dialects, and that he was particularly careful to get them all right. He would have you know that variation in the speech patterns from one character to another are intentional, not mess-ups on his part.