CHAPTER 1
You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t (*) no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom’s Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a truebook, with some stretchers, as I said before. (* ain't = an not, are not, is not). No sabes de mí sin haber leído un libro llamado Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer; pero eso no importa. Ese libro fue escrito por el Sr. Mark Twain y dijo la verdad, principalmente. Hubo cosas en las que se esforzó, pero principalmente dijo la verdad. Eso no es nada. Nunca vi a nadie que no mintiera una vez u otra, excepto quizás la tía Polly, o la viuda, o tal vez Mary. La tía Polly (la tía Polly es tía...