"Well," he says, "there's excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; If It warn't so, I wouldn't approve of It, nor I wouldn't stand by and see the rules broke-because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body

ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better. It might answer for you to dig Jim

out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don't know no better, but it wouldn't for me, because I do

know better."

The meaning in this excerpt is

O explicit

Inferred

connoted

O implicit