Carry their own weight in the world or support themselves
In this text, the question is not included. However, we are still able to determine what the quote means within the larger context of the work.
These lines refer to <em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</em>. In these lines, we learn that Jim and Huck are travelling with the duke and the dauphin. Huck describes the journey that the four embarked on. He tells us that the duke and the dauphin engaged in various scams in order to raise money. However, despite their efforts, they were unable to earn a significant amount of money.
A short story is not an autobiography because they don't tell you true events that actually happened to the author.
A Campfire story setting gives a shade of uncertainty, uneasiness, mystery, and insecurance to the characters in a story and is why many tropes have spooky campfire stories at night. It is important to the plot of the story because it will blend this uneasiness and suspense to the actual story and what is occurring.
Your correct answer is D.