‘Brownie is Born’

Press, 13 January 1987, Page 18

‘Brownie is Born’

By MICHELLE BERRIAGE, aged 9, of Christchurch Woof woof! A car pulls up outside a rich place in the country. The. people who live here are Tom, Lisa, and their parents. Two dogs, one collie and one spaniel are sitting in a line, thumping their tails on the ground. A horse trots over and begins to crop grass by the fence. The family hop out of the car, walk up the cobblestone path, "unlock the door and go Into the

house. The dogs get up and follow. The spaniel is named Speckles because he has white-and-brown speckles all over him. The collie is a girl named Collie. Polly, the colourful parrot screamed from her perch as Topsy the kitten chased her tail. Lisa went outside to saddle the horses. Tommy rode High-Boy and Lisa rode Blackie. That night they fed the horses and climbed into bed. Next morning they let out the horses.

• They trotted into the crisp, dewy morning. The horses’ hooves on the cobblestones woke the dogs. Out came the dogs, briskly into the morning. They turned the horses into the hill meadow. They were so far away that the children could not see that Blackie was having a foal. The foal was dark brown while High-Boy, his father, was grey, and Blackie was black. When they brought the horses in that night Lisa and Tom decided to name the new foal Brownie.