Summary

Chapter 3

Maureen and Paul play in the sand around Assateague Island. Paul stops to pick up a stick and tells Maureen it is the bone of the Spanish Galleon that crashed many years ago. Maureen realizes he is just kidding and they continue to play as Paul pretends to see the ship. Just behind them they hear sticks break and they go belly down on the beach. Wild horses come to the clearing. Paul watches a horse by the name of Phantom come out onto the beach. Maureen and Paul decide right then that next year they will catch and buy Phantom in the annual pony roundup.

Chapter 4

Paul and Maureen head to their grandfather who is farther down the shore, and tell him about the horses they saw. Grandpa tells them how the horses are wild, and are vastly changed from their...