Read the excerpt below from "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and answer the question that
follows
... there couldn't be no solitry thing mentioned but that feller'd offer to bet on it."
Using your understanding of colloquial language and your inference skills, which of the following best represents
the meaning of the excerpt above?
The speaker (Simon Wheeler) is explaining that he would never bet against Jim Smiley
The speaker (Simon Wheeler) is describing the only situation in which he would place a bet
The man described (Jim Smiley) would be willing to place a bet in any situation
The man described (Jim Smiley) was a solitary man who greatly disliked gambling