Mustang by Marguerite Henry

Author:Marguerite Henry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

One night when we seemed to be getting nowhere, I sank exhausted on our couch and covered up with Mom’s warm afghan. Soon I fell asleep, and I dreamt that Mr. Richards was the great Thomas Jefferson with a copy of the American Constitution in his hands. He looked up from the print and said in a voice that went round the earth: “We the people . . . ” It was so real that I awoke in startlement, with Mr. Richards’ real-life words all mixed up with the Constitution. “We the people must trust the people; they are the lawmakers.”

I grabbed a pencil and in ten minutes I wrote our bill:

We, the people, say it shall be unlawful for any person to hunt wild horses, mares, colts or burros by means of airborne vehicles of any kind, or motor vehicles of any kind. It shall also be unlawful to pollute water holes in order to trap such animals.

Luckily our state senator, James Slattery, lived just up the canyon from us, and the very next evening Charley and I rode over to his ranch.

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