Rabbit smells the wind. He find out which way it drivin. He knock the coal from he pipe. Red-hot coal fall in the broom grass. Rabbit blow on the coal and it catch fire. Fire set pen the field, the broom grass all around on fire. And Rabbit find he self a stump to set pontop and he set up there and he watch and wait. The fire comin strong all around and around, for true. —“Alligator and Deer,”
Virginia Hamilton

Visualize the scene created in the passage. Use your own words to describe in detail what you see, hear, and smell.

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Explanation:

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."