The New Horse

                    Trever O'neil was going home to his mother home for a week's rest from  working the fishing boats when it begone to rain.With still half a days walk ahead,and night closing in with a heavy down fall. He ran on the path and hoped for shelterHe didn't go far when he saw a faint light in the distance.He ran towards the light finding a small house with a 1 horse stable on the side.He knocked on the door and hoped some one would anwser.

              The door creek open and a small old crone peep out and answered"My I help you young man?"she said in a raspy voice.Trever smiled and replied in a soft voice."Dear lady I seam to be caught in the storm.May I have shelter for the night?"
She smiled in a twisted way.She close the door and came back in a minute with a quilt.
"Take this my dear and take off your wet cloths and hang them up and wrap your self in this it will keep you warm.I will make you breakfast in the morning.Goodnight and slieep tight."she chuckled a bit and shut the door. He did what the old crone said and wraped himself in the quilt. As in an instant,he fell asleep on the soft hay.

                    During the night he woke in a dream state and finds the old women putting something on his head and in his mouth.Then she demanded him to stand up.but he couldn't get his hands off the ground.He woke up more and notice his hands were not there........they were HOOF!!! He reaed up on his hind legs and yelled but all that came out was a loud whinny.
She twirled around and starting to laugh,but the laughter was not of an old women but of a young WITCH!
                    
                   She took of the rags she was in and whipped the horse so hard that blood came oozing out.She laught in a horrifying way and commanded him to let her mount him to ride or be beated to death.Knowing he couldn't win against her and he powers he let her get on him.
When she got situated she cracked her whip on his hind leg and command to run.He ran as fast as he could ,in all the while she kept whipping him to go faster and faster.
They ran though the night with breackneck speed till they reach the house that seam to be holding a party.

                She tie him up to a post  and the enter the house.When he seen her dissappeared into the house he tried to take the bridle off as quickle as he could.he tried for hours and it never slip off.She then return to him all liqured up.She mounted him and rode him home in breakneck speed.They finally got home and tied him up." she looked in to his yes and laugh"You will never be free.you are now my NEW HORSE"she sceamed with laughter.

                    It went on three night everynight she go out and everynight he would ty to take the bridle off till the fourth night he riped it on th bottom.He got it off and was relieve.Put he saw his chance to get revenge so he sliped it on a waited for her. She came out oblivously drunk.She got on him and made him gallop in a breackneck speed to her house.She tied him up and went off to her house to go to sleep.

                  He sliped of the bridle and slip the rope of his neck.He found his cloths in the corner of the stable and quickly got dressed.he then ran to the witche's house and sliped in through the front door.she found her in bed and he fixed the bridle so it wouldn't slip off again.He put it on her head and she turn into an ugly horse.She woke with a start but he already was on her back and whipping her with a whip."NOW YOU WILL LISTEN TO ME!"He comanded.

                      He made her go to a neighboring town and it was mid morning when they arrived .He went to the blacksmith and ask to shoe his horses with horseshoesand sold her to the town's sheriff. 

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