Little Sea Star helps to distract them from their loss but the colt is frail and refuses to eat – it’s up to the whole Beebe family to find some way to save the poor thing. Paul and Maureen are guilt-tripped into selling Misty in order to put their uncle through college, and are afterwards thankful to discover an orphaned colt on Assateague. Movie men have come to film the annual Pony Penning, and they want to purchase Misty for the film and subsequent tour. It’s a bright July day when a silver airplane lands at Pony Ranch. All the while they kept thinking that soon they would have a pony of their own, never to be sold. They even helped load them onto waiting trucks. Now they actually led the colts out to the buyers to show how gentle they were. Nor did Paul swing up on one of Grandpa’s ponies and gallop down the hard point of land to keep from crying. I’ll begin with a quote from Misty of Chincoteague to explain my frustration with this book: Now when a buyer came to look at the colts, Maureen did not run to her room as she used to do, pressing her face in the feather bed to stifle her sobs. Henry.Įdition: Aladdin Paperbacks (1991), 172 pagesįirst Line: Paul was separating each silver hair in Misty’s tail. Way to betray the entire premise of your original classic, Ms.
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