The Christmas Pony

By Arlen Blumhagen

The Anderson twins had asked for a pony for Christmas since they were five. At the age of twelve their dream comes true. They get their pony, and are two of the happiest kids on earth!

Their joy is short-lived, however, when their precious pony wanders off into the wilderness. The children’s sadness turns to horror when they try to find their beloved colt, only to become lost themselves, wandering in the mountains with a frigid Montana winter night bearing down on them.

Are the kids savvy enough to survive the December night? Can their parents endure the night, not knowing what’s happened to their children? Will the pony be found, or fall victim to some mountain predator?

The Christmas Pony is a heartwarming story, filled with excitement, danger, and adventure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Untreed Reads
• Release date: Nov 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781611874723

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The Christmas Pony

By Arlen Blumhagen

Copyright 2012 by Arlen Blumhagen

Cover Copyright 2012 by Ginny Glass and Untreed Reads Publishing

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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to the living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Also by Arlen Blumhagen and Untreed Reads Publishing

Mount: A Mountain Man’s Adventures

The Killings in Boulder Valley

Green Beans & Murder (part of the Untreed Reads anthology

The Killer Wore Cranberry: A Second Helping)

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Christmas Pony

By Arlen Blumhagen

The Anderson twins, like just about every other kid ever raised in Montana, had asked for a pony since they’d been five. What made the Andersons different was the fact that they lived a few miles outside of town on about three acres of land, so there really wasn’t any good reason why mom, Alice, and dad, Alan, couldn’t…pony-up, if you will. Allison and Aaron Anderson figured that out about age seven, and had been relentless since.

Not only did they ask for a pony for their birthday on February 10th, and of course every Christmas, but they also asked for a pony as a Fourth of July present or maybe a Halloween treat. When Mom or Dad asked them to take out the garbage or mow the lawn, the standard answer was, sure…for a pony. Then they went and did their chores, because Mom and Dad could only be pushed so far.

Alice and Alan Anderson were more understanding than most when it came to their kids’ nagging for a pony. The majority of the time they would patiently smile and ignore the kids, and on present-giving events they would usually get something horribly practical and useful like clothes. The Andersons were both teachers at the high school in town, so they didn’t have much in the way of fun money.

And then it happened. After a couple years of planning and saving, plus Alan working a deal with a local farmer to help him on weekends in return for feed, the Anderson twins received a pony for Christmas! If they’d known the trouble, the horror, that lay ahead, they most certainly would’ve gone with a puppy.

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It was Christmas 2010, and the Anderson twins were twelve years old. Because ole man Jennings, who they’d gotten the pony from, was going to the city to see his daughter for Christmas, they got their present on December 22nd.