jimmie said:
Speaking of training, what was the quickest way to get from point A to point B at the year 1903?
You're refering, of course, to the twin cities
Point Allstead and
Point Ballbrick, Idaho, affectionately known to their residents as
Point A and
Point B. It was frequently pointed out that the shortest route between them, straight across
Lake Short, was not also the quickest route, except in the case of Sam Green, who could row faster than anyone else in the county. For most, the quickest route was by galloping horse over the south lake trail, except in the case of Martha Weston's old, strange pony, Cindy, who had only three legs and was fixed up with a stout oak replacement for the forth. Cindy, understandably, didn't gallop very fast, but people were amazed she could gallop at all.
Anyway, in 1904
Point B was completely destroyed by arson fires started by a crazed spurned lover who'd gotten into a keg of rum, and the notion of the quickest route from
Point A to Point B became moot since no one had any reason to go to
Point B anymore. Cindy the horse, incidentally, outlived her owner by ten years. Her new owner, Matt Jensen, was astonished after he adopted her, to find her coat grow out into black and white stripes. It seems Cindy was actually a zebra that Martha Weston had been surreptitiously dyeing to look like a brown pony. No one could make heads or tails of that.
Whatever happened to Jane Wilcox, the girl who so callously spurned the drunken arsonist?