4. Which quotation from "The Ransom of Red Chief" best explains how the difference in Ebenezer Dorset's value of his child and that of the narrator contributes to the irony of the story?
a. Perhaps, says I to myself, it has not yet been discovered that the wolves have borne away the tender lambkin from the fold. Heaven help the wolves!'"
b. "Bill and me figured that Ebenezer would melt down for a ransom of two thousand dollars to a cent."
C.
''Sam,' says he, 'What's two hundred and fifty dollars, after all? We've got the money. One more night of this kid will send me to a bed in Bedlam.'"
d. ''Enough, says Bill. 'In ten minutes I shall cross the central, Southern and Middle Western States, and be legging it trippingly for the Canadian border.'"