Read the passage. swith! in some beggar’s haffet squattle; there ye may creep, and sprawl, and sprattle wi’ ither kindred, jumping cattle, in shoals and nations: whare horn nor bane ne’er dare unsettle your thick plantations. in these lines of verse from “to a louse” by robert burns, what does the speaker command the louse to do?

a. jump on some cattle

b. crawl on some poor beggar

c. crawl on another lady’s bonnet

d. swim in a dinner companion’s dish

b is the answer

the scene now shifts back to the shelby plantation in kentucky, where  aunt chloe  has just received the letter tom wrote her with little eva's . mrs. shelby tells her husband about the letter, in which tom says that although his new family is kind, he still longs to return to his "real home."

mr. shelby, in the meantime, has still been plagued by debt. mrs. shelby offers to raise money, especially so that they can buy tom. mr. shelby becomes angry, and his wife lets the unlikely hope drop for the present. chloe then calls for mrs. shelby and asks if she could be hired out as a pastry cook in louisville in order to earn money for tom. mrs. shelby gives chloe her blessing.