asked Natty . `` The Cockawee upset out in the bay again this morning , '' answered Will Scott . `` That 's the second time . The Grey Gull picked up the men and towed her in . It 's no use trying to sail her . Lobstermen ai n't going to risk their lives in a boat like that . How 's things over at Blue Point , Natty ? '' `` Pretty well , '' responded Natty laconically . Natty never wasted words . He had not talked a great deal in his fourteen years of life , but he was much given to thinking . He was rather undersized and insignificant looking , but there were a few boys of his own age on the mainland who knew that Natty had muscles . `` Has Everett heard anything from Ottawa about the lighthouse business yet ? '' asked Will . Natty shook his head . `` Think he 's any chance of getting the app ` intment ? '' queried Adam Lewis . `` Not the ghost of a chance , '' said Cooper Creasy decidedly . `` He 's on the wrong side of politics , that 's what . Er rather his father was . A Tory 's son ai n't going to get an app ` intment from a Lib ` ral government , that 's what . ''
`` Mr. Barr says that Everett is too young XXXXX be trusted in such a responsible position , '' quoted Natty gravely .
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