The tone of paragraph 12 can best be described as — Houses are like sentinels in the plain, old keepers of the weather watch. There, in a very little while, wood takes on the appearance of great age. All colors wear soon away in the wind and rain, and then the wood is burned gray and the grain appears and the nails turn red with rust. The windowpanes are black and opaque; you imagine there is nothing within, and indeed there are many ghosts, bones given up to the land. They stand here and there against the sky, and you approach them for a longer time than you expect. They belong in the distance; it is their domain.

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harlem's  cotton club boasted the talents of duke ellington. singers such as bessie smith and billie holiday popularized blues and jazz vocals. jelly roll morton and louis armstrong drew huge audiences as white americans as well as african americans caught jazz fever.

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explanation: to recognize illness in frogs, toads, newts, or salamanders, look for the following signs:

inactivity or unusual behaviors. the first thing you might notice in your amphibian is abnormal behavior or appearance.

gradual or sudden weight loss.

body/abdominal bloat.

skin blotches.

eye cloudiness.

edema.

i believe it is the first option, having taken lessons