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    The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels
    The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels
    The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels
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    The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels

    By Harry L. Smith and Arthur Scott Bailey

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    Release dateSep 1, 2007

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      The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels - Harry L. Smith

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels, by Arthur Scott Bailey, Illustrated by Harry L. Smith

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      Title: The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels

      Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

      Release Date: June 22, 2006 [eBook #18656]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF PONY TWINKLEHEELS***

      E-text prepared by Roger Frank

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net/)

      Twinkleheels Races With Ebenezer.

      Copyright

      , 1921,

      by

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      Contents

      Illustrations

      THE TALE OF PONY TWINKLEHEELS

      I

      A BIG LITTLE PONY

      When Johnnie Green sent him along the road at a trot, Twinkleheels' tiny feet moved so fast that you could scarcely have told one from another. Being a pony, and only half as big as a horse, he had to move his legs twice as quickly as a horse did in order to travel at a horse's speed. Twinkleheels' friends knew that he didn't care to be beaten by any horse, no matter how long-legged.

      It's spirit, not size, that counts, Farmer Green often remarked as he watched Twinkleheels tripping out of the yard, sometimes with Johnnie on his back, sometimes drawing Johnnie in a little, red-wheeled buggy.

      Old dog Spot agreed with Farmer Green. When Twinkleheels first came to live on the farm Spot had thought him something of a joke.

      Huh! This pony's nothing but a toy, he had told the farmyard folk. He's a child's plaything—about as much use as the little wooly dog that lives down by the sawmill.

      One trip to the village and back, behind Johnnie Green's glistening new buggy, was enough to change Spot's opinion of the newcomer. Back from the village Twinkleheels came clipping up the road and swung through Farmer Green's front gate as fresh as a daisy. And old Spot, with his tongue lolling out, and panting fast, was glad to lie down on the woodshed step to rest.

      My goodness! said Spot to Miss Kitty Cat. "This Twinkleheels is the goingest animal I ever followed. He doesn't seem to know the difference between uphill and down. It's all the same to him. I did think he'd walk now and then, or I'd never have travelled to the village behind him."

      He's not lazy, like some people, Miss Kitty Cat hissed; and then crept into the farmhouse before Spot could chase her. She had a poor opinion of old Spot. And she never failed to let him know it.

      It was true that Twinkleheels was not lazy. And it was just as true that he liked to play. When Johnnie Green turned him loose in the pasture he kicked and frisked about so gayly that Jimmy Rabbit and Billy Woodchuck and their friends had to step lively now and then, to get out of his way. They said they liked high spirits, but that Twinkleheels was almost too playful.

      When Twinkleheels took it into his head to do anything he did it without the slightest warning. If he decided to shy at a bit of paper he was out of the road before Johnnie Green knew what had happened. And if he wanted to take a wrong turn,

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