The Painted Ponies of Partequineus and The Summer of the Kittens

Author:Peter H. Riddle [Riddle, Peter H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horses, Animals, Peter H. Riddle, The Painted Ponies of Partequineus, Unicorns, Cats, The Summer of the Kittens
Publisher: CCB Publishing
Published: 2012-08-17T18:08:49+00:00

June 15th

Hello, Diary!

I’m really sad today. My tree is gone. Some men came on Saturday with a truck that had this thing like a big claw mounted on it, and they cut off the branches up top and then parts of the trunk, one at a time, and loaded the parts on the truck with the claw and took them away someplace. I watched the whole thing. There’s nothing left now but a stump.

Now I don’t have anywhere to sit where I can see the world. I know how Jimmy must feel.

June 26th

Hey, Diary!

School’s out! And I get to stay up later now. I went to the flying field with Jimmy and his Dad after supper tonight, and they let me fly his plane, and I even got to land it, only I kind of messed up, ’cause it went over on its nose and the engine stopped. I was afraid I broke it, but Jimmy just laughed and said he used to do that lots of times. He made me try again right away, ’cause he said it’s like when you fall off a horse you have to get right back on, or you’ll always be afraid later on. I know that’s a cliché, but I guess it’s true, ’cause when I tried to land the next time I was so nervous I was afraid to push the joystick that makes the plane come down, and it overshot the end of the field and fell into some weeds, only that was okay, because the weeds were soft so nothing got broken that time either. And Jimmy said, “See? You didn’t hurt it. So try again.” And guess what? The next time I tried it, I put that old plane right down in the middle of the field, and it only bounced once - well, maybe twice - and Mr. Morris told me I was a “natural,” whatever that means.

Maggie seemed really strange today. She’s been prowling around the house, trying to get into the closets and acting kind of restless. I let her out when I got home from flying with Jimmy, but I guess she did her business real quick because she came back inside right away. Dad got mad at her ’cause she was snooping around in his den, and he hates that, so I took her upstairs and put her in my room, and right away she scratched at my closet door as if she wanted to go in, so I opened it for her and she went inside and sort of poked at my stuff on the floor, so I shoved things around to make space for her and she sat down and started to wash. I waited a while and then tried to coax her out, but she just curled her feet under her chest and looked at me. I swear, I think she wanted me to close the closet door. If I did, at least she wouldn’t be able to go downstairs and bother Dad, but I was afraid if she couldn’t get out, she might pee in there.

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