she said to him ever so many times, graciously waving her tail, “my son, when you find a hedgehog you must drop him into the water and then he will uncoil, and when you catch a tortoise you must scoop him out of his shell with your paw.” and so that was all right, best beloved.

–“the beginning of the armadillos,”
rudyard kipling

which phrases from the passage convey a comforting tone? check all that apply.

“best beloved”
“scoop him out”
“graciously waving”
“and so that was all right”
“drop him into the water”