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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by a portmanteau which is much

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nicer than a harry manto it's Really gross get clippers

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for those things Like what is that people Big foot

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Maybe All right we're reading we're reading you know on

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a coach and horses more dead than alive It's dark

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All right yep Bristol by things parlor Can i take

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your hand and i prefer to keep them up all

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right we'll read the following description from paragraph one Rat

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chair Snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest

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and added a white crest to the burden he carried

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heavy Well the author uses the white crest and the

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burden he carried into description about teo Do what And

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here the potential answer Okay well if the answer doesn't

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jump right out at us it's best to take another

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look at the passage is one might trick us that

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we don't have a solid memory of what went down

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in the first paragraph Yeah well for example choice a

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claims that h g wells wants us to feel How

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heavy the strangers luggage is huh When we see the

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word burden well we might be fooled but the first

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sense of the paragraph tells us that the strangers on

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li carrying a little black portmanteau well if you didn't

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know a portmanteau is kind of suitcase And since this

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one's a little guy we know the stranger doesn't have

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too much luggage Yes the stranger believes in traveling light

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It is perfect All right Options He's Probably right on

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some level There's no doubt the stranger is glad to

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be in out of the blizzard and eaten some of

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mrs hall's famous Now whatever she's famous for over this

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is not the reason that wells mentions the strangers burdens

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and snowy shoulders H g is up to something cooler

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here B isn't a totally ridiculous answer The white crest

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of snow does show how miserable the strangers walk from

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the train station wass Unless the white crest is dan

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drift but get the streams with benefit of the doubt

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their thank you head and shoulders Ultimately option d is

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the best answer The sentence from the passage reads The

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snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest and

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added a white crest to the burden he carried Got

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it Wells doesn't tell us what the mysterious burden is

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so we're basically left toe wonder about this guy's secret

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issues even though the title of the novel just kind

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of gives away at least one major problem This guy 00:02:32.175 --> [endTime] has right

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