"I've been training her with a horse blanket pinned around me, so Susie could ride her! She'll be all right." So Shelley mounted, and the horse turned her head, and tried to rub against her, as she walked away, tame as a sheep.

I wondered if she could be too gentle.

If she went "like the wind," as Leon said, it didn't show then.

I was almost crazy to go along, and maybe Leon would let me ride a little while; but I had a question that it would help me to know the answer and I wanted to ask father before I forgot; so I waited until he came out.

When he sat down, smiled at me and said, "Well, is the girl happy for brother ?" I knew it was a good time, and I could ask anything I chose, so I sat on his knee and said: "Father, when you pray for anything that it's all perfectly right for you to have, does God come down from heaven and do it Himself, or does He send a man like Laddie to do it for him ?" Father hugged me tight, smiling the happiest.
"Why, you have the whole thing right there in a nutshell, Little Sister," he said.