Down North and Up Along 
The money of Money Point is still fished 
out of the sea, but not in the form of specie. 
It comes out as lobster to be later transformed 
into money. 
Sometimes lobsters are scarce even here, and 
there are none to can. This happened one 
year when the mountains were red with wild 
strawberries and the canny son of Big Rory did 
then, so we were told, set his people to canning 
strawberries instead of lobsters, and reaped the 
reward he deserved, for these mountain straw- 
berries, the people say, are very large and juicy 
and wonderfully flavoured. 
We were told, too, that on the back side of 
one of the mountains red currants grow wild 
and in great profusion ; but this marvel we did 
not see with our own eyes, though we saw a 
great many strawberry vines and some of them 
foolishly in bloom. 
Katie McDonald was going over to cook for 
her brothers, who were canning lobsters, and 
she did not seem to regard the excursion as 
particularly pleasant ; but when the time came 
she started bravely enough, and we watched 
her until she disappeared on the lonely moun- 
tain, as though swallowed up by it. 
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