Since the desert air was so dry, the bread quickly turn stale. in this sentence, which word serves as a clue that there is cause and effect?

Kyle and his brother have a marble set of the marbles 12 are blue this represent 50 over a hundred of all the marbles what decimal is equivalent to 50 / 100

"ten from the sea to the sand he walks, to look in the soil, but not in the box''!

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?