Meaning of the metaphor dirt-disappointed

The travels of marco polo. based on the text and the map, which labeled location sends products to shihr?

Jane addams's memoir, twenty years at hull-house, describes her work with

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?