Read these lines: "They were always just going to have a leader, and laws and customs of their own, but they never did, because their memories would not hold over from day to day, and so they compromised things by making up a saying, What the Bandar-log think now the jungle will think later, and that comforted them a great deal." Why is the saying they made up hollow?

1. 1. The saying claims that what they think today the jungle will think later. 2. 2. That claim only works if today's thought survives until later. 3. 3. The quoted lines say their memories would not hold over from day to day, so nothing survives. 4. 4. The saying was invented as a compromise for never managing laws or a leader, so it replaces achievement with comfort. 5. 5. Option A adds copying, which the lines apply to their words rather than their sayings. 6. 6. Option D gives them a leader, which the same sentence denies. _Source: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)_