"'i reckon they're after somebody,' he reflected; 'likely it's me.' he returned to his pocket the handkerchief with which he had been whipping away the red dust of poker flat from his neat boots, and quietly discharged his mind of any further conjecture." "the outcasts of poker flat" by bret hart, 1869 the dialect used in this passage is an example of a. local color. b. figurative slang. c. symbolic grammar. d. western dialogue.