A Royal Disaster by Lou Kuenzler

Author:Lou Kuenzler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2016-06-21T04:00:00+00:00

“Giddyup!” she cried, just as she had done a million times in her games at home. She wasn’t afraid at all. The wind whipped her hair, and Billy splashed through the edge of the waves, sending sea spray flying up behind them.

“Whee!” whooped Grace. For the first time in her whole life she didn’t feel clumsy. She couldn’t trip, because her feet weren’t on the ground; Billy’s legs were doing the work for her. All she had to do was cling tight and encourage him….

She pulled gently on his mane, steering him toward something dark and blue she could see fluttering along the sand.

“My veil!” she cried, slowing Billy to a trot.

But she couldn’t bear to get down from his back, not even for a moment. So she walked him over to a cluster of trees at the edge of the dunes. She snapped a dead branch from above her head and broke off the twigs until she had a long, straight stick like a knight’s lance. Then she charged back down the beach and speared the veil in one go.

“Got it!” She grinned as Billy leapt forward and thundered back to the school like a knight’s charger.

By the time Grace had brushed Billy down, fed him some hay, and seen him tucked safely into his stable, she had missed her entire deportment lesson.

“Never mind,” Sir Rolling-Trot laughed. “From what I saw, you learned quite a lot about keeping your back straight and your head high down there on the beach. I said you’d be a good rider…and you are.”

“Thank you.” Grace flung her arms around Billy’s neck. “It was the most exciting thing I have ever done.”

“That breath of sea air did you a world of good.” Sir Rolling-Trot chuckled. “Much better than standing around with a book on your head, eh?”

“Oh yes,” agreed Grace. “Much better.”

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