San Domingo by Marguerite Henry

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

They stopped at noon beside an Indian moon calendar with rays of stones laid out on the earth like spokes of a wheel, the hub a buffalo skull. In friendly silence they ate their lunch, sharing corn bread and jerky with their dogs, and apples with their horses.

On the quiet way home Brislawn suddenly said, “For my little Choctaw stallion that I caught in the Stairstep Mountains, and my mare Sweet Sioux, how would you like to trade Domingo?”

The words spurted out like air from the bellows. “What kind of trading was this?” Peter thought. “God-high praise for Domingo, and then the offer! Most men scoff at the horse they want, call him a mangy rat or worse, figuring to buy him cheap.”

Peter tried to let his mind play with the idea, the way Pa would. Sweet Sioux and Choctaw together could have many colts. Enough so he could have a band of his own, and they could travel to Laramie Peak and on to far places. In a leap of imagination he saw each colt and filly. He laughed outright. Not any of them, nor all of them together, could equal one San Domingo.

Brislawn took the silence for indecision. “How ’bout if’n I throw in Billy-goat and Nanny?”

Peter let out his breath in a long sigh. “Thank you, Brisley, sir, but y’see, Domingo and me are teamed up for life. He’s not for trading. Ever.”

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