Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     “The Shetland peasants, as soon as the cold comes on, turn their ponies out to shift for themselves,” said a horse dealer. “On those high, rocky, barren islands, amid the powerful and cold winds of winter, the ponies live on heather and seaweed, and it is indubitable that in their hunger they even scour the wild coast for dead fish. It is this life of exposure that gives the Shetland pony his shaggy coat. What gives him his kind and gentle disposition is the fact that he is brought up with the dogs and children-one might almost say in the house.”