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A year later, Black Knight and Old Jake stood munching grass in the pasture of their new home. Lily and Samuel had married, bought a new home (complete with stables and a tack room), and had begun a business of breeding good race horses. Black Knight was the sire of many good racers. Prairie Fire had also raced and finished second in the Kentucky Derby so he too was a sire. Lily and Samuel were making enough money to keep Emerald Stables going and buy new horses. Altogether, Lily and Samuel had forty horses. Three stallions and thirty-six mares. The thirty-seventh horse was Old Jake.
Lily was very happy to have so many horses. She’d always wanted horses ever since she could remember and now that dream was fulfilled. Her mother lived with them in her own house on the other side of their land. She’d wanted it that way because she wanted her children to have their privacy. But, she was very glad to have them over whenever they wanted to come. Jedidiah lived in his own house on the West side with his dog, Harry. The two were quite happy together and Jedidiah was especially glad because he no longer had to go very far from his house to work. All he had to do was keep the horses well cared for; with Lily and Samuel’s help, of course. Every week, Lily and Samuel would go to town and get the supplies they needed. Luckily, they didn’t need to buy feed because Mrs. Starr had land on the other side of the road from the stables where they grew all the feed they needed. Oats and hay was harvested and fed to their horses all year round. Lily and Samuel never had to worry for feed. In addition to all the horses and crops, Lily also had a little garden of her own. She grew vegetables and flowers in it and had good harvests from it. If Lily needed something for a salad, she knew just where to get it; the garden. It was rather convenient to have a garden. All the times that Lily made salad, instead of going to buy their vegetables at the market, they just picked it from the garden. Now, Lily and Samuel weren’t health nuts. They did have a microwave and a lot of other “unhealthy” things, but they were happy and healthy anyway. They went to the doctor only when they were terribly sick and they kept medicine from the store in their cabinets just in case, but they didn’t rely completely on them. For years, Lily had dreamed of owning her own house with a garden and many horses, but she’d never thought she’d actually get that wish granted. But, after Black Knight had won the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes and she’d married Samuel, her dream became a reality. It was a wonderful dream come true and Lily thanked God every day for it. Mrs. Starr also had dreamed of the things that she now had for many years. She had always wanted a little two-story cottage with a little flower garden in the back for her to tend to. She’d dreamed that she’d always live near her daughter and could visit often (though not all the time). Her house was everything she’d wanted and more. She even owned her own pond with fish in it. It was so clear and clean that she could easily watch the fish swimming about in it. She was so happy and thankful that there was nothing that kept her from singing and smiling. One night, Lily said to Samuel, as they sat on their front porch, “God has surely blessed us. I have everything I have always wanted. Even the home of my dreams.” |
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