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my haus , and as my only buggy horse is lame and has had to be retired, I had no way of contacting anyone to tell them I’d found him. I couldn't drive my own horse, so I harnessed up this horse and I was on my way to the Glicks to tell them that I’d found him."
    The mann looked taken aback at Nettie's manner. "Why didn’t you call someone? Don’t you have a phone in your barn?" His tone was less accusatory and more enquiring.
    " Nee , I do not," Nettie snapped. "And it's a long walk to the phone shanty, as I found out when my buggy horse went lame and I had to call the veterinarian to him. Besides, you should be thanking me for finding your horse." Nettie was fuming at the mann's manner; how dare he speak to her like that!
    As the mann opened his mouth to speak, Nettie remembered the harness marks on the horse. "Besides, I also brushed your horse. You should be ashamed of yourself leaving a horse with sweat marks."
    The mann gasped, and his face went from a fading red to a deep shade of purple. "For your information, I tied him up and was about to wash him, but when I came back outside the barn, I found him missing. I then harnessed up this horse and went in search of him."
    "Oh." Nettie was glad to hear he had intended to wash the horse, but his manner with people left a lot to be desired. "Well," she said, "you can follow me back to my haus and then take your horse." Her voice shook when she said that, with the realization that she had no buggy horse after all.
    "Where is your haus ?" The mann looked less angry now.
    Nettie waved her hand in the general direction of her farm. "I'm Nettie Swarey."
    The mann once again looked shocked. "Oh. Well, I'm sorry to hear about your mudder ."
    " Denki ."
    The mann took a moment to settle his horse which was pawing the ground and snorting. "I'm Daniel Glick."
    Nettie simply nodded.
    "And your horse is lame?" he asked.
    " Jah , and the veterinarian said he must be retired."
    "And he's your only horse?"
    " Jah ," Nettie said again, wondering where Daniel Glick was going with this line of questioning.
    "Why don’t you borrow the horse, then? You're most welcome to. I have this horse as you see, and I don’t need two horses."
    Nettie's response was automatic. " Denki , but nee , I couldn’t possibly do that." She silently rebuked herself for saying that; this would be an answer to prayer.
    "It would make me feel better for the rude way I spoke to you, and you’d be doing me a favor," Daniel continued. "He's a very good buggy horse, but he likes to be in work and I don't have time to drive him. My own horse here is highly strung and needs a lot of work to keep him calm." As if on cue, Daniel's horse arched his neck and pawed the ground angrily. "You'd be doing me a favor, actually," he repeated.
    Nettie thought for a moment. She had prayed to Gott to find her another buggy horse, and it seemed as if He had. She should accept the provision of Gott gracefully. " Denki , that is very kind of you," she said meekly. "It may be some time before I can get another buggy horse, though."
    Daniel waved her concerns away. "Keep him as long as you like," he said. "By the way, his name is Blessing."
    * * *
    Daniel watched the girl drive away at a trot, admiring the fact that she had harnessed up a strange buggy horse and driven him. Why, for all the girl knew, the horse could have had any manner of behavioral problems and even been dangerous. She had courage to harness a strange horse and drive him on the road.
    Yet Daniel was surprised at Nettie Swarey herself. He had imagined her much older, and far less attractive, what with some of the local Englischer schoolchildren referring to her as "an old witch." When he had gotten over the initial shock of seeing someone driving his lost horse, he had been surprised to see that the driver was a pretty, round-faced, blonde girl, with a creamy complexion and deep, blue eyes. Wary eyes , he said to himself, and then chuckled when he remembered how she