Crocodile was, in the days when animals still could talk, the acknowledged foreman of all water creatures and if one should judge from appearances one would say that he still is. but in those days it was his especial duty to have a general care of all water animals, and when one year it was exceedingly dry, and the water of the river where they had lived dried up and became scarce, he was forced to make a plan to trek over to another river a short distance from there.
what is implied in the sentence concerning the crocodile: "crocodile was, in the days when animals still could talk, the acknowledged foreman of all water creatures and if one should judge from appearances one would say that he still is."
a) crocodile only appears to be as powerful as he once was.
b) crocodile is likely still as powerful as he once was.
c) crocodile has probably ceded his foreman duties to other creatures.
d) crocodile seeming authority is mainly an illusion.

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