Folly as a Foal
Folly full grown
Tricks Trailers Will Pull
Chaps
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"The Tricks Trailers Will Pull" By Connie Hubbard American Cowboy January/February 1995 < Click on photo to read article ... Page 104 |
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"Chaps, as in Chappaquiddick...or Cheyenne?" By Connie Hubbard American Cowboy July/August 1997 < Click on photo to read article ... Page 104 |
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Folly, a story for children Excerpt below ... |
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Mother was canning fruit. This time it was apricots or maybe peaches….whatever. It was some yellow fruit and some of it was done and already in Mason jars, cooling. Big pots of boiling water were on the stove and the sink was full of freshly washed fruit.
Sighing, Jill started for the back door, “Can I ride Cricket down to the spring so she can eat some green grass?” Riding ancient old Cricket the pony would be better than doing nothing at all, or worse yet helping to can fruit.
“Yes, but be back by lunchtime,” Mother said, “so you can have a bath before we go to town for your allergy injection at Dr. Wynters. By the way it’s ‘may I,’ not ‘can I.”
“I will,” Jill answered but thought to herself ‘What an awful day this is. Not only do I get left behind on the camping trip to the mountains, I have to have a bath, a grammar lesson AND go get a shot.’ She headed toward the saddle shed to get Cricket’s bridle.
She walked a few steps and stopped, listening to an unusual noise. Jill thought she heard a thumping, banging sound coming from somewhere….where? She paused and listened again but there was only silence. Hearing nothing more, she walked to the hot wooden shed with the tin roof which served as a tack room. Usually there were many saddles, bridles and blankets but today only the pony Cricket’s tack remained. It was another reminder that the rest of the ranch horses and gear were in the mountains where she wanted to be and it angered her all over again. She slammed the door and began walking toward Cricket’s pasture behind the machine shed.
Just then the distant noise began again, only this time the thumping wasn’t the only sound. There was a high pitched scream, like a tiny animal in trouble….what could it be? |
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