" Maggie's sobs began to subside, and she put out her mouth for the cake and bit a piece; and then Tom bit a piece, just for company, and they ate together and rubbed each other's cheeks and brows and noses together, while they ate, with a humiliating resemblance to two friendly ponies.
"I walked down to the depot to keep an eye on the outfit and see that they didn't locate any land or scare the cow ponies hitched in front of Murchison's store or act otherwise unseemly.
You see, a pony gets to know his rider mighty well, and it is not unlikely that cow ponies in pastures and at hitching racks had often guyed Sam's pony for being ridden by a guitar player instead of by a rollicking, cussing, all-wool cowboy.
By the fall of 1979 Apple was breeding three ponies to be potential successors to the Apple II workhorse.
He set himself up for trouble: Scott brought Manchurian and Siberian ponies that quickly fell through the snow and ice; he planned, in part, for his crew to "man-haul," meaning that the men would pull sleds full of gear, instead of relying on dogs.
In some areas such as Richmond Park and the New Forest there are herds of deer; wild ponies are found in the New Forest and on Dartmoor.
Last year the charity took a terminally-ill 86-year-old man back to his farm in Holland, to say goodbye to his ponies.
The small ponies, which have no stable, but are tied up in the storeroom under the staircase, kick against the door and the paneling as they move about.
At the depot there they ate one of the dead ponies.
On December 9th,Oates killed the ponies.
On November lst Scott and Oates and six more men left Cape Evans with eight sledges and eight ponies.
Oates stayed at Cape Evans and looked after his ponies.
Every morning the ponies started first,and the dogs started two hours later,because they ran faster.
And tomorrow the ponies are coming.
