Which verb is correct? there (goes, go) two siamese cats who have won blue ribbons.

What is meant by “eternally burning black pipes”? what is this implying about the personality of the firemen?

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?

Which passage is an example of rising action in edgar allan poe`s "the black cat