Key: ( a) mense answer just like (b) (c) (d) 11 points

select the correct text in the passage. in this excerpt from “

you are old, father william” by lewis carroll, which line shows that the father is annoyed? "you are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak for anything tougher than suet; yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak— pray, how did you manage to do it? " "in my youth," said his father, "i took to the law,

( a) and argued each case with my wife; )
and the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw,

(b has lasted the rest of my life.")
"you are old," said the youth; "one would hardly suppose
that your eye was as steady as ever;

(c yet you balance an eel on the end of your nose)

what made you so awfully clever? "

"i have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
said his father; "don't give yourself airs!

(d do you think i can listen all day to such stuff? )
be off, or i'll kick you downstairs! "