C. Northfield Parkinson
- Ponies Plot
"Stamina, that is what so many ponies lack! Good to look at, some of them, keen to jump, but show them the open country and where are they?" At that moment, before he could answer his own question, poor Dumpling collapsed in a heap and lay there until morning. Completely exhausted, he stayed in the pony lines for the next three days, having his breakfast in bed and telling all visitors, in a feeble voice, that his life was drawing peacefully to a close.
C. Northcote Parkinson
- Ponies Plot
It is some years now since Miss Daisy Dedleigh-Sirkett kept the Dundreary Riding School at Dedford Ditchbury in Dorset... When our story opens, she had daily classes and constant confusion. It was in her father's paddock that half the members of the Pony Club learnt to ride and it was there that many of their ponies learnt to be ridden. Daisy was then a frowning nineteen-year-old who spent part of each day sorting out the muddles she had made the day before...
