How did slaves use music to protest

What does twain find ironic and hypocritical about human patriotism?

In the poem, collins compares his love to a pigeon on a generals head

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?