NARRATIVE of WARD COURIER, Continued

June, 2008

SOUTH WALES, NY

Once we were on top of the ridge, her spirits lightened considerably. This was, indeed, a lovely part of the ride: fairly flat, hard packed dirt trails or roads winding through occasional woods, along fields and in between two ponds, one of them good-sized. I was hoping that would cool her down, which it did. When we got to the downhill section of the trail, I got a surprise. Two of them, in ...