Select the correct text in the passage. which excerpt in the story indicates falling action? rats were running wild through the quiet little town. they posed a health hazard and were terrorizing the people. the town mayor announced a prize of 500 gold coins to anyone who could get rid of the rats. many people approached the mayor with their solutions. none of them succeeded. one day, a piper came into the town playing a sweet tune on his pipe. he went to the mayor’s office and claimed that he would rid the town of the rats. the mayor promised to give him the 500 gold coins if he was successful. the piper played a tune, and all the rats started following him. he led them up a cliff and let them drop into the river below. the rat menace ended. the next day, the piper approached the mayor and asked for his prize. the mayor refused. the angry piper rushed out of the mayor’s office. as he ran, he piped a tune. all the town’s children came out of the houses and followed the piper up the mountain. neither their parents nor anyone else could stop them. the children filed into a cave in the mountain, and the rock that covered the cave door moved back to close it. the townspeople grieved the loss of the children. there was no way to get them back. the mayor paid a heavy price to rid the town of rats.

particulars about treasure island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, i take up my pen in the year of grace and go back to the time when my father kept th

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so you want me to do this crossword i’m good with crossword puzzles just don’t got the time yo, maybe later this week

the third paragraph is your answer,

"but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "