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Select the correct answer. Which best states how the author develops the character in this excerpt?
A. with the use of dialect
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with a physical description
C. with an action sequence
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with the use of inner monologue
adapted from The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County
by Mark Twain
There was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley
in the winter of '49-or maybe it was the spring of '50-1
don't recollect exactly, somehow, though that makes me
think it was one or the other is because I remember the big
flume wasn't finished when he first came to camp; but
anyway, he was the curiosest man about, always betting on
anything that turned up you ever see, if he could get
anybody to bet on the other side, and if he couldn't, he'd
change sides.
Anyway that suited the other man would suit
him-anyway just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied. But
still he was lucky, uncommon lucky, he most always come
out winner. He was always ready and laying for a chance;
there couldn't be no solitry thing mentioned, but that
feller'd offer to bet on it, and take any side you please, as I
was just telling you. If there was a horserace, you'd find
him flush, or you'd find him busted at end of it; If there was
dogfight, he'd bet on it; if there was a cat fight, he'd beton
it; If there was a chicken fight, he'd bet on it: why, if there
was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which
one would fly first; or if there was a camp meeting, he
would be there regʻlar, to bet on Parson Walker, which he
woed in he the host evharter about here and en he was
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