In "honest work," which best explains why the old smith carefully forges each link of the ship's chain?
a.
he believes the ship will be caught in a storm very soon.
b.
he wants to prove that, even though he is old, he can still do good work.
c.
he knows that people's lives may depend on the chain's strength.
d.
he expects to be paid extra for doing such careful work.

"such has been the patient suffrence of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to after their former systems of government. the history of the present king of great britain is a history of reapeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishedment of an absolute tyranny over these states." which statement best describes the excerpt