He quickly on the canary and carried it back to its cage. a. spring
b. sprang
c. springed
d. sprunged

How to combine the two sentences in bold.

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?

How can an author reveal move information about a character