The answer choice is three
Explanation:
The narrator speaks to the reader, saying, "as you I will apprise." Then, two lines later, this context clue appears: "Before yet farther in this tale I place." This clue suggests that "apprise" is a verb that gives some information to the reader before too much time passes.
She could argue that you don't need to sell the same thing every year and therefore, we could all try something different this year, not just candy.
She also could argue that candies are not healthy and it's time to distance ourselves from them for now.
The best argument that she could pull off would be, if that was really the case, if fruits were easier and more profitable to sell. By far, if that was the argument, they would all sell fruit easily.
