Twain uses Webster's name to create humor when he wrongly spelled Webster's name and last name. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is also known as Mark Twain, which is a writer who wrotes the novel Adventure of Huckleberry Finn that is known as the Great American Novel. Mark Twain became a great contributor to American literature.
Just rapple down and climb back up .
I feel like the tone in these few lines is that of stubbornness, so (D).
The author talks about how the fruit struggles and continues to grow despite of everything going against it. This is probably a reference to something else. ( I think the rights of colored people?"