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| 7:00 am, Farandole the pony gets up in La Cloche http://www.naturetum.com/ |
7:00 am, Farandole the pony gets up, and goes out through a secrete pass door he has found in his fence.
Then, Farandole energetically canters two kilometers to the South, cautiously crosses the car road, and reaches the farm where a fellow horse had just been served a succulent breakfast. Farandole has a share of it, but soon after starts moving four kilometers North East where he knows a fellow donkey got his breakfast served around 7:30. Again he gasps a share of it, briefly touching the warm head of this second fellow.
Farandole should be relabeled 'the just-in-time horse' as he rushes back South-West to reenter his own pasture before his keeper arrives at 8:00 with a dedicated breakfast. What a journey!
It is difficult for a bright tricolor pony to remain unnoticed. In the village there start to be rumors that a pony - and that might well be the one known to live in La Cloche - mysteriously appears here and there in the early mornings. Also a horse and a donkey seem unusually hungry, and again there are rumors of a well-fit pony running around at their breakfast times. When I came back to La Cloche Naturetum (http://www.naturetum.com/) the next WE, several people expressed suspicions concerning Farandole early daily routine.
When in La Cloche, I usually get up very early, before dawn, and indeed the next morning I observe from the house top floor what Farandole might be doing. I saw him moving towards a specific place of his pasture ands next disappearing. I rush there and found a place in the fence where a pony this size might be able to go. I waited hidden for about an hour just to hear a pony cantering bravely and soon appearing and going through the suspected pass just before the car of the keeper enters the property.
Of course I fixed the fence more properly and Farandole escapades came to an end; it took sometimes however before I find out what have exactly been his journeys...
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