Read the excerpt from "the straw, the coal, and the bean (links to an external ” the bean, who had prudently stayed behind on the shore, could not but laugh at the event, was unable to stop, and laughed so heartily that she burst. it would have been all over with her, likewise, if, by good fortune, a tailor who was travelling in search of work had not sat down to rest by the brook. as he had a compassionate heart he pulled out his needle and thread, and sewed her together. the bean him most prettily, but as the tailor used black thread, all beans since then have a black seam. what evidence demonstrates that the author uses cause and effect to show that the tailor’s repair causes the bean to have a black line? choose two.
a. “the bean, who had prudently stayed behind on the shore,”
b. “…could not but laugh at the event, was unable to stop,”
c. “a tailor who was travelling in search of work”
d. “as he had a compassionate heart he pulled out his needle and thread, and sewed her together.”
e. “…but as the tailor used black thread, all beans since then have a black seam.”