Read the following sentences from the passage.

John James did not care much for school. Figures tired his head. He loved music, drawing, and dancing. His father was away from home most of the time, and his pretty, young stepmother let the boy do quite as he pleased. She loved him dearly, and as he liked to roam through the country with boys of his age, she would pack luncheon baskets day after day for him, and when he came back at dusk, with the same baskets filled with birds’ eggs, strange flowers, and all sorts of curiosities, she would sit down beside him and look them over, as interested as could be.

Which explains the meaning of the phrase figures tired his head?

Read the following sentences from the passage.

John James did not care much for school. Figures tired his head. He loved music, drawing, and dancing. His father was away from home most of the time, and his pretty, young stepmother let the boy do quite as he pleased. She loved him dearly, and as he liked to roam through the country with boys of his age, she would pack luncheon baskets day after day for him, and when he came back at dusk, with the same baskets filled with birds’ eggs, strange flowers, and all sorts of curiosities, she would sit down beside him and look them over, as interested as could be.

Which explains the meaning of the phrase figures tired his head?

a. Audubon’s mind got tired from doing “figures” or schoolwork in his head.

b. Audubon’s mind got tired from thinking of “figures” or drawings in his head.

c. Audubon’s mind got tired from creating “figures” or drawings in school.

d. Audubon’s mind got tired from roaming in the woods to draw “figures” of birds.