As to our city of dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose, in the most convenient parts of it, and butchers we may be assured will not be wanting; although i rather recommend buying the children alive, and dressing them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs. which statement best describes swift’s use of understatement in this excerpt? he states that "roasting pigs" is more difficult than roasting children. he states that butchers would have a problem roasting a child "as we do roasting pigs."he states that butchers are always "wanting" for "roasting pigs."he states that sending children to the butcher would be as simple as "roasting pigs."

He states that sending children to the butcher would be as simple as "roasting pigs."

Explanation:

Comparing children to pigs is an understatement; a way of making it seem less important, serious, bad, etc. than it really is.

"I rather recommend buying the children alive, and dressing them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs."

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.

pulling in the reader is important