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Bees don't eat flowers they gather nectar from them and take it back to the hive. complete, run on or comma splice

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?

The dogs created when they pulled the christmas tree down and started eating the candy canes.