EBENEZER'S RECORD 46
XI BRIGHT AND BROAD 51
XII NO SCHOOL TO-DAY 56
XIII FUN AND GRUMBLES 61
XIV STUCK IN A DRIFT 66
XV STEPPING HIGH 71
XVI THE BLACKSMITH'S SHOP 77
XVII A WHITE VIXEN 81
XVIII NEW SHOES 86
XIX THRASHING TIME 92
XX A MEALY NOSE 97
XXI JUMPING MUD PUDDLES 103
XXII THE CIRCUS RIDER 107
XXIII GOING FISHING 112
XXIV BOYS WILL BE BOYS 116

ILLUSTRATIONS

Twinkleheels Races With Ebenezer. (Page 44) Frontispiece
Twinkleheels Tells Spot About Kicking. (Page 34) 32
Twinkleheels Talks to the Oxen. (Page 54) 56
Spot Tells Twinkleheels He is Slow. (Page 90) 88

THE TALE OF PONY TWINKLEHEELS

I

A BIG LITTLE PONY

When Johnnie Green sent him along the road at a trot, Twinkleheels' tiny
feet moved so fast that you could scarcely have told one from another.
Being a pony, and only half as big as a horse, he had to move his legs
twice as quickly as a horse did in order to travel at a horse's speed.
Twinkleheels' friends knew that he didn't care to be beaten by any
horse, no matter how long-legged.

"It's spirit, not size, that counts," Farmer Green often remarked as
he watched Twinkleheels tripping out of the yard, sometimes with
Johnnie on his back, sometimes drawing Johnnie in a little, red-wheeled
buggy.

Old dog Spot agreed with Farmer Green. When Twinkleheels first came to
live on the farm Spot had thought him something of a joke.

"Huh! This pony's nothing but a toy," he had told the farmyard folk.
"He's a child's plaything--about as much use as the little wooly dog
that lives down by the sawmill."

One trip to the village and back, behind Johnnie Green's glistening new
buggy, was enough to change Spot's opinion of the newcomer. Back from
the village Twinkleheels came clipping up the road and swung through
Farmer Green's front gate as fresh as a daisy. And old Spot, with his
tongue lolling out, and panting fast, was glad to lie down on the
woodshed step to rest.

"My goodness!" said Spot to Miss Kitty Cat. "This Twinkleheels is the
_goingest_ anima