She said to him ever so many times, graciously waving her tail, “my son, when you find a hedgehog you must drop him into the water and then he will uncoil, and when you catch a tortoise you must scoop him out of his shell with your paw.” and so that was all right, best beloved. –“the beginning of the armadillos,” rudyard kipling which phrases from the passage convey a comforting tone? check all that apply. 1.“best beloved” 2.“scoop him out” 3.“graciously waving” 4.“and so that was all right” 5.“drop him into the water”

1.“Best Beloved”; 3.“graciously waving"; 4.“And so that was all right.”

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. His most famous book is The Jungle Book (1894), and other works include Kim (1901), The Man Who Would Be King (1888), Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If— (1910). He was also a great innovator of children's books and short stories. In this story, he describes how a tortoise and a hedgehog joined forces to defeat a jaguar.

i believe the answer is: b. mr. head had a long, tube-like face with a rounded open jaw and a short depressed nose.

this is because in the un-revised sentence it said that mr. heads face was long and tube-like, and he had a rounded open jaw. this is not a very grammatically correct because of how it seems to drag on with the and, replaced with, with, makes it sound more fluent in the description.