Select the sentence that BEST conveys the central idea of the text to the reader. In direct, quiet words-words whose bareness made them dramatic for the weight of possibility they.
carried—the Colonel explained. Black Wolf and his band were out on the war-path. A soldier
coming in wounded, escaped from the massacre of the post at Devil's Hoof Gap, had reported it.
With the large command known to be here camped on Sweetstream Fork, they would not come this
way; they would swerve up the Gunpowder River twenty miles away, destroying the settlement and
Little Fort Slade, and would sweep on, probably for a general massacre, up the Great Horn as far as
Fort Doncaster. He himself, with the regiment, would try to save Fort Slade, but in the meantime
Captain Thornton's troop, coming to join him, ignorant that Black Wolf had taken the war-path, would
be directly in their track. Some one must be sent to warn them, and of course the fewer the quicker.
Lieutenant Morgan would take a sergeant, the Colonel ordered quietly, and start at once.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.

the examples that saki used to represent satire through situational irony are options two (2) and five (5) inasmuch as the wolf thought that looking for a girl in the bushes could be as easy as hunting little pigs at the park, but it took him so much time to find the girl if it had not been not for a silly mistake. also, bertha would have survived to the wolf's hunt if she had not won those medals for goodness, which at the end they were what got her killed by making noise, so winning medals of goodness was not so good achievement, after all.

he uses the metaphor autumn.