THE SHETLAND PONY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 182, 22 October 1927, Page 27 (Supplement)

THE SHETLAND PONY

Sammy was a dear little Shetland pony, and he lived in a field with his mother and lots of brothers and sisters. They were all very small — Shetland ponies always are, you know —bin Sammy was much the smallest of all. He ought to have been very pleased about it, but he wasn’t; he was always looking at the carthorses as they went past to work, and wishing he could grow as big as they were. One day, when he saw the gate of the field opening, and some people coming in, he was so ashamed of himself for being so tiny that he ran away and hid in the farthest away corner lie could find. The people looked at all the ponies in the field, and then Sammy heard a little girl, who was with them, say: "Dont decide yet, mummy; there’s another pony at the end of the field, and I want to look at him first.” Sammy was right up in a corner of the field, so he couldn’t run away, but he stood very defiantly, and glared at them as they came up. Imagine his surprise when he heard the lady say: “But this is the one wmust have; he’s so adorably small.” And the fanner said: “Yes, ma’am, he’s quite the best Shetland I’ve got at the moment: some of his brotherare a bit large, but he’s just perfect as to size.” So Sammy was bought and taken off to be the little girl’s own special pony Now, when he remembers that he ev-r wanted to grow into a great bij: clumsy, hard-working carthorse. smiles to think what silly ideas he once had.