Wallace - 1850 Author:Jacob Abbott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The house where Caroline lived. The yard. the side of the house. The yard was very large and very pleasant. Phonny drove the horse up to a post which stood... more » under a tree, at the corner of the house. He got out of the wagon himself, fastened the horse to the post, and then helped Malleville out. They then advanced together into the yard. CAROLINE'S PONT. At a little distance before them they saw Caroline and some other girls, her company, amusing themselves in riding a black pony, near a piazza. The pony belonged to Caro- Caroline's pony. Caroline dismounts. line. Her father had bought it expressly for her. Phonny and Malleville advanced toward the pony party. Caroline was mounted upon the pony herself, though some of the other girls were asking her to let them ride. She said that she would, presently; and, in the mean time, she sat upon the horse in a very graceful attitude, and looked pleased and happy. When she saw Phonny and Malleville coming, she began to ride towards them to meet them. " Oh what a pretty pony!" said Malleville. After speaking to Phonny and Malleville very politely, and saying that she was glad to see them, Caroline rode back to the piazza. After a time she dismounted, and allowed some of the other girls to take her place and ride. They were all very eager to do so. They could mount very easily by means of the steps of the piazza, and the pony was very quiet and gentle. The girls praised and admired him very much, but Caroline said that she did not like him very well. He was too small for her. He would do very well for a little girl.' " I am going," she said, " to get my father to buy me a handsome saddle horse,—a white Phonny and Malleville invite Caroline to the party. one,—perfectly white. I keep teasing him about it every...« less