2) Why are Tom and Huck willing to put in hard labor to search for imagined treasure?

The speaker in the “to a mouse” regrets that the mouse runs away so fast because the

Janine studies to improve her math skills

Which is the most effective paraphrase of the passage "six benches were left empty in every ship that evening when we pulled away from death. and this new grief we bore with us to sea: our precious lives we had, but not our friends" - the odyssey