Little Lass
Country Life, 1936, illus Frank Hart
Reprinted 1936
Set on Exmoor, but not
about Exmoors, this is the story of the pony Lassie. She has the usual ups and downs
common to this type of story: good masters and bad, a slide down into poorer and
rougher homes, and at the end, a reunion with Teddy, her first master.
Fortune’s Foal
Country Life, 1938, illus Anne Bullen
Fortune’s Foal is a foal the heroine
of the book, Anne falls for. Some years later her uncle says he will buy her a horse,
and there at the sale, is the foal (now grown, obviously). The foal has not had
an easy time of it, and the rest of the book deals with Anne’s attempts to learn
how to manage her pony: in the end she rides her in a point-
Thanks to Sue Howes for the information on the content.
