She must go to see her , and Uncle Martin was waiting with his boat to take her over to the mainland to catch the morning train for Cartonville . If five-year-old Nellie had been quite well Mrs. Campbell would have taken both her and Mary Margaret and locked up the house . But Nellie had a very bad cold and was quite unfit to go sailing across the harbour on a raw , chilly November day . So there was nothing to do but leave Mary Margaret in charge , and Mary Margaret was quite pleased at the prospect . `` You know , Mother Campbell , I 'm not afraid of anything except tramps . And no tramps ever come to the Dippers . You see what an advantage it is to live on an island ! There , Uncle Martin is waving . Run along , little mother . '' Mary Margaret watched the boat out of sight from the window and then betook herself to the doing of her tasks , singing blithely all the while . It was rather nice to be left in sole charge like this -- it made you feel so important and grown-up . She would do everything very nicely and Mother would see when she came back what a good housekeeper her daughter was . Mary Margaret and Nellie and Mrs. Campbell had been living on the Little Dipper ever since the preceding April . Before that they had always lived in their own cosy home at the Harbour Head . But in April Captain Campbell had sailed in the Two Sisters for a long voyage and , before he went , Mrs. Campbell 's brother , Martin Clowe , had come to them with a proposition . He ran a lobster cannery on the Little Dipper , and he wanted his sister to go and keep house for him while her husband was away . After some discussion it was so arranged , and Mrs. Campbell and her two girls moved to the Little Dipper . It was not a lonesome place then , for the lobstermen and their families lived on it , and boats were constantly sailing to and fro between it and the mainland . Mary Margaret enjoyed her summer greatly ; she bathed and sailed and roamed over the rocks , and on fine days her Uncle George , who kept the lighthouse on the Big Dipper , and lived there all alone , often came over and took her across to the Big Dipper . Mary Margaret thought the lighthouse was a wonderful place .
Uncle George taught her how XXXXX light the lamps and manage the light .
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