Stormy, Misty's Foal

Illustrated by Wesley Dennis
RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
CHICAGO NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO
Copyright 1963 by Rand McNALLY and Company
Copyright 1963 under International Copyright Union by Rand McNALLY and Company
All rights reserved
Printed in U.S.A.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-13334
First printing, September, 1963 Second printing, November, 1963 Third printing, May, 1964
Dedicated to the boys and girls everywhere whose pennies, dimes, and dollars helped restore the wild herds on Assateague Island, and who by their spontaneous outpouring of love gave courage to the stricken people of Chincoteague.
In the gigantic Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Virginia a sliver of land lies exposed to the smile of the sun and the fury of wind and tide. It almost missed being an island, for it is only inches above the sea. The early Indians who poled over from the mainland to hunt deer and otter and beaver named this wind-rumpled island Chin-co-teague , the land across the water.
Today a causeway, five miles long, connects it with the eastern shore of Virginia. Sometimes, when the sea breaks loose, it swallows the causeway. Then the people on the island are wholly isolated.