The passage is mostly about Melantha's cat upsetting Melantha by picking up the day horse and
bringing it downstairs
Melantha's decision to bring her clay horse to the festival instead of
gluing it to her brother
Melantha's discovery before the festival that she has a good reason to
keep her clay horse
O Melantha's mother explaining that the clay horse once belonged to
Melantha's grandmother

Read the excerpt from part 2 of “to build a fire.” to build the fire he had been forced to remove his mittens, and the fingers had quickly gone numb. his pace of four miles an hour had kept his heart pumping blood to the surface of his body and to all the extremities. but the instant he stopped, the action of the pump eased down. which words from the excerpt provide context clues for the underlined word?