Pony Club Challenge (Woodbury Pony Club Book 2) by Josephine Pullein-Thompson

Author:Josephine Pullein-Thompson [Pullein-Thompson, Josephine]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Jane Badger Books
Published: 2020-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

“You told me you were going up to see the Fullers’ cottage and ride on the downs.” Mrs Rooke glared at her daughters with angry, magnified eyes. “You said nothing about shooting, or tying the ponies to a fence for hours—of course I wouldn’t have allowed that. What were you thinking of, Lesley? Surely you’re old enough to know better?”

They stood at the open door of the loosebox looking at Bowie, who felt worse now that his battered legs were stiffening, and trembled pitifully at the pain as, with hanging head and dull eye, he tried to rest them in turn. Lesley shrugged her shoulders. “You can’t blame me; you know Sarah doesn’t listen to anything I say. She’s supposed to be the clever one.”

“Well, you tied Stardust to the fence too. It’s not my fault if that beastly Berry picked on Bowie to kick,” Sarah screamed at her sister. “It was Lynne’s fault for not tying Berry up properly or David’s, he allowed it, he let us have the pistols.”

“You mean David gave permission for this shooting practice, knowing that there was no adult there to supervise?” demanded Mrs Rooke incredulously.

“We all thought Mr Fuller was going to be in charge,” Lesley explained, “but he’d gone off somewhere. But the Robertses asked David for the pony club pistols so he must have known.”

“It’s disgraceful. I’ve never heard of such a thing. A pony club fixture without a single official present. In those circumstances our insurance would be invalid, and there could easily have been an accident to a child as well as a pony. I shall telephone David and have it out with him the moment we get home. Now the immediate question is—do we send for the vet? You’ve ruined an expensive pony and I can’t see any hope of sending him back now, he’s probably permanently blemished—and on top of that there’ll be vet’s bills to pay.”

“He’ll be all right, he’s not very lame,” Lesley told her mother. “Sarah had better hose his legs, that’s what the vet told us to do when Stardust was caught up in the wire netting.”

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