Select which words in the following paragraph are superlative adjectives. Ellen finished the race FASTER than Marybeth, but she was not always the FASTEST. She could remember many times that Eric ran FASTER than BOTH of them and other times when she was the slowest in the WHOLE fifth-grade class. She was not feeling her best that day, though, so she thought that she would probably never run that SLOWLY again.

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?