Prudence Farr was a teacher at the Country Craft School—where she discovered that the pupils were treated like slaves by Master Fothergill, the school’s owner.
Sandy Wilson had always been a winner, until one morning on a training run, she scared a horse pulling an old woman’s caravan, causing the breakage of an old crystal ball. In her fury the woman, Old Meg, put a jinx on Sandy so that when a white streak appeared in Sandy’s hair, she would lose whatever she was trying to win
Tennis star Wendy Moore was honoured by having the new tennis courts in her home town of Tarnford named after her. But, as she performed the opening ceremony, Wendy had a curse put on her by an old gipsy woman. The land used for the courts had been a gipsy camping ground for many years. Gipsy Zara blamed Wendy for taking it from them. She told Wendy that, from that time on, she would not win at tennis. Another Tarnford tennis star, wealthy Irma Parfitt, was jealous of the honour which the town had given Wendy. The rich girl took every chance to remind Wendy of the gipsy’s words.
Jane Smith was a skivvy in a large Victorian household. Miss Jemima Dalglish, daughter of the household, used threats to persuade Jane to take her place at Miss Hardcastle’s School for Young Ladies, whilst Jemima ran off to London. The deception was soon detected and Jane was summoned to Miss Hardcastle’s private parlour. To her surprise Miss Hardcastle wanted to keep Jane on as a student and teach her to be a lady.
A story spanning centuries, what is the secret of the Hardy Horse?
Trudy Morgan and her sister Olwen lived with their parents and grandfather on a farm near Cwm Llewellyn in the Welsh hills. One stormy night the two sisters discovered an ancient sword. It turned out to be the magic sword of Prince Llewellyn. The sword sang to give a warning when danger threatened the valley.
Samantha Proctor had just qualified as a vet and was starting her new job with Mr Norris, but it seems people in the village didn’t trust a young girl to be a vet.
Humour strip about very lazy girl named Lizzie
Terry Morgan lived with her father and her younger brother, David, in the small village of Llangarog. Mr Morgan was the local ferryman, and when he was injured, Terry took over the job, while still having to attend school.
Show-jumper and trainer, Fred Jones, had made a substantial wager with Lord Brandon, a toffee-nosed horse-owner, and was trying to make a top-class show-jumper out of sixteen-year-old Rosie Perkins. The trouble was, Rosie was clumsy.
