CONTENTS
| [Prologue] | Land Across the Water |
| [1] | Before the Storm |
| [2] | A Duck in the Horse Trough |
| [3] | A Body with a Purpose |
| [4] | Let the Wind Screech |
| [5] | Ninety Head |
| [6] | Oceanus |
| [7] | The Sea Takes Over |
| [8] | Paul to the Rescue |
| [9] | Waiting for the Whirlybird |
| [10] | Backyard Landing |
| [11] | Refugees |
| [12] | Wait-a-Minute Couldn't |
| [13] | Up at Deep Hole |
| [14] | Misty Goes to Pocomoke |
| [15] | Grandpa Makes a Deal |
| [16] | Welcome Home, Progger |
| [17] | Sawdust and Sadness |
| [18] | Within the Foaling Box |
| [19] | Glory Hallelujah! |
| [20] | Home at Last |
| [21] | A Grave Decision |
| [22] | The Naming Bee |
| [23] | Dress Rehearsal |
| [24] | Stormy's Debut |
| [25] | The Last Scene |
| [Epilogue] | To Make the Story Complete |
[Prologue]
LAND ACROSS THE WATER
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.
But most of the time Chincoteague enjoys the protection of a neighbor island, a great long rib of white sandy hills. The Indians called it Assa-teague, or "outrider." They named it well, for it acts as a big brother to Chincoteague, protecting it from crashing winds and the high waves of the Atlantic.