The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels

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.