3. Reread these sentences from the passage. We worked hard to make our farm profitable and in time were able to hire convicts who had
recently been freed to work the land with us. My father bought more land with his profits and
became a respectable member of the community. I took on more and more carpentry work until
could earn a living at my trade.
Use context clues to figure out the meaning of profitable and write it on the line below. Then
circle a word or phrase you used as a clue to the meaning.
(5 Points)

d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.

this is what i put and it was correct

it's a way for authors to communicate with reader in this time period. books from the past can teach us about life.

ok if it wasn't the hans one it was probably c or he thought the mountain was collapsing on them.