protested Cynthia Ann . `` Why , he is no good to you -- and think of the expense of feeding him ! '' `` I 'll keep him for a while , '' said Miss Cordelia briskly . `` As you say , there is the four-acre field . It will keep him in eating for a while . I always knew that field had a mission . Poor John Drew ! I 'd like to oblige him for old times ' sake , as he says , although this is as crazy as anything he ever did . But I have a plan . Meanwhile , I ca n't feed Nap on geraniums . '' Miss Cordelia always adapted herself quickly and calmly to new circumstances . `` It is never any use to get in a stew about things , '' she was wont to say . So now she untied Nap gingerly , with many rueful glances at her geraniums , and led him away to the field behind the house , where she tied him safely to a post with such an abundance of knots that there was small fear of his getting away . When the mystified Cynthia Ann had returned home Miss Cordelia set about getting her tea and thinking over the plan that had come to her concerning her white elephant . `` I can keep him for the summer , '' she said . `` I 'll have to dispose of him in the fall for I 've no place to keep him in , and anyway I could n't afford to feed him . I 'll see if I can borrow Mr. Griggs 's express wagon for Saturday afternoons , and if I can those poor factory children in my grade shall have a weekly treat or my name is not Cordelia Herry . I 'm not so sure but that John Drew has done a good thing after all . Poor John ! He always did take things so for granted . ''
* * * * * All the point pleasant people soon knew XXXXX Miss Cordelia 's questionable windfall , and she was overwhelmed with advice and suggestions .
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