`` Ford has cleared out , '' said Cooper , `` gone down to Summerside to go into Tobe Meekins 's factory there . Best thing he could do , that 's what . Folks here had n't no use for him after letting that death trap to them two men -- even if they was Lib ` rals . The Cockawee druv ashore on Little Bear , and there she 's going to remain , I guess . D'ye want a berth in my mackerel boat this summer , Natty ? '' `` I do , '' said Natty , `` but I thought you said you were full . '' `` I guess I can make room for you , '' said Cooper . `` A boy with such grit and muscle ai n't to be allowed to go to seed on Blue Point , that 's what . Yesser , we 'll make room for you . '' And Natty 's cup of happiness was full . Penelope 's Party Waist `` It 's perfectly horrid to be so poor , '' grumbled Penelope . Penelope did not often grumble , but just now , as she sat tapping with one pink-tipped finger her invitation to Blanche Anderson 's party , she felt that grumbling was the only relief she had . Penelope was seventeen , and when one is seventeen and can not go to a party because one has n't a suitable dress to wear , the world is very apt to seem a howling wilderness . `` I wish I could think of some way to get you a new waist , '' said Doris , with what these sisters called `` the poverty pucker '' coming in the centre of her pretty forehead . `` If your black skirt were sponged and pressed and re-hung , it would do very well . '' Penelope saw the poverty pucker and immediately repented with all her impetuous heart having grumbled . That pucker came often enough without being brought there by extra worries . `` Well , there is no use sitting here sighing for the unattainable , '' she said , jumping up briskly . `` I 'd better be putting my grey matter into that algebra instead of wasting it plotting for a party dress that I certainly ca n't get . It 's a sad thing for a body to lack brains when she wants to be a teacher , is n't it ?
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