Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping, because they're most always
doing it on a raft, you'd see the axe flash and come down --you don't hear nothing: you see that axe go up again,
and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k' had took all that time to come over the
water. (p. 115)
use either context clues or an outside source to you determine the meaning of the word in bold in the passage
above.
a strange or foolish man
a type of water bird
a tree found on the mississippi river
a wealthy man

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In 911, a group of vikings lead by rollo besieged paris and chartres. after a victory near chartres on 26 august, charles decided to negotiate with rollo. the talks were led by hervé, the archbishop of reims. this resulted in the treaty of saint-clair-sur-epte, which granted rollo and his soldiers all the land between the river epte and the sea. it also granted him brittany, "for his livelihood". at the time, brittany was an independent land which france had not been able to conquer. in exchange, rollo promised the king his loyalty and military assistance when needed. also rollo also agreed to be baptised and to marry gisela, the king's daughter. the territory given rollo is about the same as upper normandy. this would grow to become normandy under rollo's descendants. - wikepedia