Lucy and her friends saddle their horses. Melinda, “I mailed the forms in, Go Saddle up and meet me is the ring.†Melinda, “I take it that your parents all said yes.†Kate, “Can I Ride with the show team.†In The Smith Home Kate and her dad are talking after dinner. Sammy, “Can I Ride with the show team.†In The Clark Home Sammy and her mom are talking after dinner. Mathew, “Can I Ride with the show team.†In The Cole Home Mathew and his family are talking after dinner. Tanner, “It will be good for me and Miracle.†Tanner, “Can I Ride with the show team.†In The Eaton Home Tanner and his family are talking after dinner. Later the night Lucy and her parents are eating dinner. The Show jumpers: Are We In This Together Part 2 "Oh Lord!" Maggie cried, her voice being carried away by the wind, "Be my guide! Help me now Lord! Help me now!" She climbed on the wagon seat and realized with horror, that the fog hid the trail leading to the town! Something, a hidden instinct perhaps, told her that this was only the beginning of such weather, and she must work hard to reach the town. She grabbed a shawl out of the wagon as she sought to hitch up the horses. The prairie grasses were waving with such force, it stung on her bare legs like a whip when she slid off of Nell. Her breath made steam as it and the chilly air met and there was fog so thick she could barely see Nell's ears. Maggie woke with a jolt at sunrise as a huge gust of wind blew her quilt off her back. But by midnight she was so drowsy, she nodded right to sleep and the wolves could have howled right in her ear and she'd have stayed fast asleep. She crept out of the wagon and, wrapped in a quilt, she climbed up on Nell's wide back and Tried to keep watch. Stories she knew were lies, but still they gave her shivers. Things she didn't want to remember, like all the stories her father's friends had told, like about the wolf that weighed hundreds of pounds and was near the size of a horse. But as the wolves crept closer, she then started to remember things. The wolves and coyotes kept her awake most of the night, and she lay awake, thinking of her mother and father away up in heaven. She tethered the horses to the back of the wagon and climbed into the wagon bed to sleep till morning. Maggie drove on for miles, till it was to late to go further. Maybe I'll find somewhere to stay if someone takes a pity on me." "I wonder what Pa'd of done," she mused, "It's already October, and a cold October at that, I think he'd stay in town somewhere Pa'd have had a hard time doing that, on our little portion of money, but I'm just one girl. You lazy girl!" Maggie cracked the whip above Old Bess's ears, forgetting her troubles and chill for a moment.Īs the wagon rolled on over the bumpy, end, less prairie Maggie thought. Yaa! Git up there Bess! take your full share of the work. Supplies are running low and winter's coming fast. Then she hitched up Nell and Bess and drove off, following the faint wagon tracks in the prairie grasses. She sat there for the better part of an hour, till she had cried herself out. Maggie climbed up on Bess and cried, the tears streaming profusely down her face. September 2012 Story Contest Age 12 & Older << Back to previous page September Story Contest
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