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Read the excerpt from part 2 of “to build a fire.” to build the fire he had been forced to remove his mittens, and the fingers had quickly gone numb. his pace of four miles an hour had kept his heart pumping blood to the surface of his body and to all the extremities. but the instant he stopped, the action of the pump eased down. which words from the excerpt provide context clues for the underlined word?

"and descant on mine own deformity: " what does the word descant mean in this shakespeare play richard iii, act i, scene i?

Which event in the reading to categorize odysseus as an archetype