Purebred by Bonnie Bryant

Author:Bonnie Bryant [Bryant, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-82523-0
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2013-02-06T05:00:00+00:00

AT THE UNMOUNTED Horse Wise meeting at Pine Hollow the next day, Karenna showed up with Betsy and Meg just as Max called the room to order. She waved to Stevie and Lisa, but she sat down with Betsy and Meg, and she seemed to be having a great time. The three of them whispered and giggled throughout May Grover’s entire presentation on winter stable management.

Finally the girls’ chattering attracted Max’s attention. “Meg, do you and Betsy have something you wish to share with the group?” he asked in a stern voice. He didn’t single out Karenna, but his glare included her. Max hated it when students talked during lessons or Horse Wise meetings. May looked indignant too.

“No, no, I don’t think I do,” said Meg. Stevie thought Meg looked as if she were having trouble keeping a straight face. She wondered what the joke was.

“Perhaps you and Betsy can present a topic at our next meeting,” Max suggested. “Let’s see … Stall Cleaning and its Role in Parasite Control.” He wrote it down in his pocket calendar. “January thirteenth, okay?”

This time Meg barely suppressed her groan. “Uh, sure, Max,” she mumbled. “Sorry if we bothered you, May.” They quieted down, but a few minutes later Stevie saw them giggling again.

“I wonder what’s so funny,” she whispered to Lisa.

“I don’t know, but I wish I knew,” Lisa answered. “It doesn’t seem right that Karenna is spending so much time with Meg and Betsy, does it?”

Stevie shook her head. “If she’s Carole’s friend, she ought to be sitting with us. If she’s got a good joke to tell, she should be telling it to us.”

Lisa agreed, but figured they could ask Karenna about it after the Pony Club meeting, when they all met for Prancer’s birthday party.

When the meeting was over, however, she couldn’t find Karenna anywhere. Lisa had stepped into the locker room for a moment and when she came out Karenna was gone. Exasperated, she gave up and went to meet Stevie outside Prancer’s stall.

They had not managed to come up with a very interesting plan for the birthday party—even Stevie’s famous brain had had to admit defeat. The carrot cake idea had failed, because neither of their mothers would let them attempt to make one, and the cakes in the bakery cost too much. Instead, they had just brought a lot of apples, carrots, and other treats to give to the Thoroughbreds.

“That’s an awful lot of carrots,” Lisa said as she sat down on a hay bale next to Stevie. “Do you think Prancer can eat that many?”

Stevie grinned. “The ten-pound bags were on sale. Besides, I think Prancer would say that there’s no such thing as too many carrots.”

Lisa agreed. “I couldn’t find Karenna. We’ll just have to wait for her.”

They waited and waited. Finally Karenna ran up to them breathless, with Meg and Betsy in tow. “We’re going on a trail ride; Max said we could,” she said. “Do you two want to come?”

“I don’t think so,” Lisa said indignantly.

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