Which is the best summary of "the little smoke thief"? a. rené is a boy who gets in trouble for stealing a loaf of bread and the smoke that he uses to give it flavor. the baker uses a coin the boy had found to make a sound, and then the baker offers the boy a job. b. rené a baker, so the baker gives him a loaf of bread. rené flavors it with the smoke of roasted chickens. the meat seller says rené must pay for the smoke. the baker settles things by dropping the franc rené found and saying that the sound the coin makes pays for the smoke. c. rené is new to the town of brilley and is hungry. he gets a loaf of bread. then, he sticks the bread in some smoke. the meat seller wants rené to pay for the smoke. rené drops a coin and says the sound is equal to taking the smoke.

B. René helps a baker, so the baker gives him a loaf of bread. René flavors it with the smoke of roasted chickens. The meat seller says René must pay for the smoke. The baker settles things by dropping the franc René found and saying that the sound the coin makes pays for the smoke.

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Making a summary means presenting the content in a synthetic way, highlighting the essential information of the content of a story. Based on this, we can conclude that the letter B represents the necessary and relevant information from "The Little Smoke Thief", this information is being told in a synthetic and objective way that makes the reader understand what the story is about. For this reason, the letter B represents the best summary of the story.

source text: from the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. on the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - the reason of which i conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine. add punctuation to the following excerpt. writing under the name of diedrich knickerbocker washington irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as thomas jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately: a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen

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