PLZ HEL! “Well, think I’ll throw you in that th orny bri ar patch,” Fox said. “How you like that?” “Oh, mer cy, don’t do that!” cried Doc Rabbit.

“Whatever you do with me, don’t dare throw me in those th orny br ia rs!"

“That’s what I’ll do, then,” Fox said.

And that’s what Brother Fox did. He sure did. Took Doc Rabbit by the short hair and th rew him— Whip pit! Whap pit! —right in the bri ar patch.

“Hot lettuce pie! This is where I want to be,” Doc Rabbit hollered for happiness. He was square in the middle of the bri ar patch. “Here is where my mama and papa had me born and raised. Safe at last!”

“Didn’t know rabbits have they homes in the bri ars,” Fox said, scratching his tail.

He knows it now.

—“Doc Rabbit, Fox, and the Tar Baby,”
Virginia Ham trilton

Which statement summarizes the lesson in the fable “Doc Rabbit, Fox, and Tar Baby”?

You get what you pay for.
Fool me once, sha me on you. Fool me twice, sha me on me.
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a person healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Slow and steady wins the race.