The Rascal Horse of Rumpsford: A Funny Story in Verse

Warning: This story contains 'mucky stuff'.
Prize Winning, funny story about a crafty old horse & a greedy landlord. An easy to read tale in rhyming verse. Ist PRIZE in Fanstory's 'Share a Story in a Poem' Contest March 2012.

The farmers of Rumpsford are doomed! Drought has gripped their land. There’s nothing left to eat. Yet their wicked landlord grows fatter every day, and richer too from robbing the poor folk of what little they have left. That is until…

In a dream, the blacksmith’s old horse outlines a clever plan to trick the greedy landlord. Will he fall for it? And if he does, will the old horse pay dearly for her cunning? For readers 7 to 107 years!