The crowd thought the boy in the wheelchair was helpless-until the wild mustang lowered his head to his boots

the line. Another day, the horse refused to cross a shadow near the barn for forty minutes, and Jonah got so angry he threw the lead rope into the dirt.

Walt let the rope lie there. “You done?”

Jonah glared at him. “Maybe.”

“Horse can hear that.”

“He can hear everything, apparently.”

“Most horses can. People are just noisy enough not to notice.”

Jonah hated continue reading …