THAT OLD STRAW SOJOURNER BY DAVID MATHERNE ..QUESTION USE THE STRATEGY OF CONTEXT CLUES TO DETERMINE THE BEST DEFINITION FOR PATE IN THE LINE 15

what is your question because all i see is "i'll give 25p. and give brainliest.

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can

what book are we talking about here

main idea: it is important to prepare today for the needs of tomorrow.

the grasshopper was dying due to hunger, and this was because he didn't prepare for the winter.

the ants told the grasshopper, "if you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter."

the ants were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected in the summertime.