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Which quotation from “Uses and Abuses of the Umbrella” most clearly demonstrates that the author is using a comical tone?

• “Cork hats and newspapers of more than eight pages were invented for the rain.”
• “The umbrella, though we are led to believe otherwise, was not made for the rain.”
• “…one would determine that when the rains begin the umbrellas disappear.”
• “An intelligent woman once said: ‘The umbrella is an article proper to the desk.'”