Skewbald, the New Forest Pony
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About This Book
Everyone who has journeyed from Southampton to Bournemouth by road or rail, knows a great part of the forest is open heath or moorland; but, unlike the barren wilds of the Scottish Highlands, the New Forest has also extensive woods full of gigantic oaks and beechesThe heather the year of Skewbald’s birth was of a brilliance such that the oldest forest man declared he had never seen equalled.During the summer the ponies explored the forest congregating near the streams and ponds water, enjoying the splashing of their hoofs as they walked in the stream, while their elders stood fetlock-deep! How...
Chapters (17)
- I.—THE HERD
- II.—THE FOAL
- III.—THE CHASE
- IV.—DEATH ON THE ROAD
- V.—SKEWBALD’S NEIGHBOURS
- VI.—WINTER
- VII.—THE RIVAL LEADERS
- VIII.—SKEWBALD IN TROUBLE
- IX.—THE NEW-COMERS
- X.—THE BRANDING OF SKEWBALD
- XI.—SKEWBALD’S JUMPING
- XII.—CHANGING THE BRAND
- XIII.—THE BROKEN LEG
- XIV.—HOW SKEWBALD RANG THE FIREBELL
- XV.—THE WANDERERS
- XVI.—SKEWBALD THE SWIFT
- XVII.—HOW SKEWBALD ESCAPED THE MINES
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