The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels

The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels

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Title: The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels
Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

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Slumber-Town Tales (Trademark Registered)
THE TALE OF PONY TWINKLEHEELS
by
ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
Author of "Sleepy-Time Tales" (Trademark Registered) "Tuck-Me-In
Tales" (Trademark Registered)
Illustrated by Harry L. Smith

New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers Publishers Made in the United
States of America Copyright, 1921, by Grosset & Dunlap

[Illustration: Twinkleheels Races With Ebenezer. Frontispiece (Page
44)]
* * * * * * *
SLUMBER-TOWN TALES (Trademark Registered)
by
ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
AUTHOR OF SLEEPY-TIME TALES (Trademark Registered)
TUCK-ME-IN TALES (Trademark Registered)
The Tale of the Muley Cow The Tale of Old Dog Spot The Tale of
Grunty Pig The Tale of Henrietta Hen The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot

The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat
* * * * * * *
CONTENTS
I A BIG LITTLE PONY 1 II FUN IN THE PASTURE 6 III
TRICKING TWINKLEHEELS 10 IV THE CHEATER CHEATED 15
V FLYING FEET 21 VI PICKING CURRANTS 26 VII CAUGHT! 31
VIII A GOOD SLEEPER 36 IX THE RACE 41 X EBENEZER'S
RECORD 46 XI BRIGHT AND BROAD 51 XII NO SCHOOL
TO-DAY 56 XIII FUN AND GRUMBLES 61 XIV STUCK IN A
DRIFT 66 XV STEPPING HIGH 71 XVI THE BLACKSMITH'S
SHOP 77 XVII A WHITE VIXEN 81 XVIII NEW SHOES 86 XIX
THRASHING TIME 92 XX A MEALY NOSE 97 XXI JUMPING
MUD PUDDLES 103 XXII THE CIRCUS RIDER 107 XXIII GOING
FISHING 112 XXIV BOYS WILL BE BOYS 116

ILLUSTRATIONS
Twinkleheels Races With Ebenezer. (Page 44) Frontispiece
Twinkleheels Tells Spot About Kicking. (Page 34) 32 Twinkleheels
Talks to the Oxen. (Page 54) 56 Spot Tells Twinkleheels He is Slow.
(Page 90) 88

THE TALE OF PONY TWINKLEHEELS
I
A BIG LITTLE PONY
When Johnnie Green sent him along the road at a trot, Twinkleheels'
tiny feet moved so fast that you could scarcely have told one from
another. Being a pony, and only half as big as a horse, he had to move
his legs twice as quickly as a horse did in order to travel at a horse's

speed. Twinkleheels' friends knew that he didn't care to be beaten by
any horse, no matter how long-legged.
"It's spirit, not size, that counts," Farmer Green often remarked as he
watched Twinkleheels tripping out of the yard, sometimes with Johnnie
on his back, sometimes drawing Johnnie in a little, red-wheeled buggy.
Old dog Spot agreed with Farmer Green. When Twinkleheels first
came to live on the farm Spot had thought him something of a joke.
"Huh! This pony's nothing but a toy," he had told the farmyard folk.
"He's a child's plaything--about as much use as the little wooly dog that
lives down by the sawmill."
One trip to the village and back, behind Johnnie Green's glistening new
buggy, was enough to change Spot's opinion of the newcomer. Back
from the village Twinkleheels came clipping up the road and swung
through Farmer Green's front gate as fresh as a daisy. And old Spot,
with his tongue lolling out, and panting fast, was glad to lie down on
the woodshed step to rest.
"My goodness!" said Spot to Miss Kitty Cat. "This Twinkleheels is the
goingest animal I ever followed. He doesn't seem to know the
difference between uphill and down. It's all the same to him. I did think
he'd walk now and then, or I'd never have travelled to the village
behind him."
"He's not lazy, like some people," Miss Kitty Cat hissed; and then crept
into the farmhouse before Spot could chase her. She had a poor opinion
of old Spot. And she never failed to let him know it.
It was true that Twinkleheels was not lazy. And it was just as true that
he liked to play. When Johnnie Green turned him loose in the pasture
he kicked and frisked about so gayly that Jimmy Rabbit and Billy
Woodchuck and their friends had to step lively now and then, to get