Fog Magic (Newbery Library, Puffin) by Julia L. Sauer

Author:Julia L. Sauer
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1986-10-07T06:00:00+00:00

7.

ANTHONY

WHEN school opened in September, Greta had less and less time to think of Blue Cove. But it was never quite out of her mind. Most of us live in two worlds—our real world and the one we build or spin for ourselves out of the books we read, the heroes we admire, the things we hope to do. Greta’s other world was Blue Cove. She played no part in it except as a visitor. Its life went on without her. Still, each time a fog closed in and she stepped into it, out of sight of her everyday life, she felt as drawn to the secret village over the mountain as if the turn of the tide down in Petit Passage had caught her up with its smooth power.

Sometimes on her visits she would do nothing but sit in Mrs. Morrill’s kitchen and watch her weave, content just to be there and hold Princess. Mrs. Morrill had begun work on one of the first woven carpets in the province. It was to cover her entire parlor floor. The hooked mats would do well enough for the kitchen and the bedrooms, she said. Greta wished that they used more hooked mats at home instead of exchanging them always for the congoleum squares and strips that were so easy to keep clean. Hooked mats suited the house better, she thought. They gave Mrs. Morrill’s cheerful kitchen a richness her own home lacked. But then there were many things about the Blue Cove houses that interested Greta, though outwardly the houses were just the same. But Blue Cove menfolk all went to sea at some time or other in their lives. Their vessels plied back and forth to the West Indies at least, and if they didn’t go to the Far East themselves, they often bespoke vessels that did. There were many chances to bring back curios and china, and the silks that made their womenfolk rustle “like a three-master coming up into the wind.” Greta laughed each time she thought of Early Frosst’s description. All these things that they had brought back still graced their houses; married sons and daughters and grandchildren had not yet coaxed them from their elders and carried them away to their own distant homes.

On one such quiet afternoon, Mrs. Morrill was telling the girls about the time the whole village had nearly been wiped out at once. They had gone across the bay on Captain Landers’s vessel to a cherry festival. The vessel had turned over in a sudden squall. But they had clung to it until help came and not a soul aboard was lost, except one small dog asleep in the cabin. Mrs. Morrill was interrupted by the sound of voices coming up from the shore.

“Run out, girls,” she said, “and see what’s happened. It sounds as if every man and child in town was coming up the road.”

They met the crowd where the street turned off from the Post Road. It was true—every man and child ashore was coming up the road.

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