The Horse Maiden

The day started out as a beautiful sunny day. The fields were almost ready to be brought in as the farmers prepared the plows and barns to store the much needed grain. The horses were getting some much needed rest before toiling over the fields to bring in the grains they would eat over winter while the snow covered the ground.
The horses rested in the fields beside the barns and watched the farmers carefully get the plows and barns ready for the harvested grains.
The horses were discussing the evenings events. It was a well known fact among the animals that none of the animals were to talk to the humans. They could listed all they liked, but they could not break the rules of the animal kingdome and speak to human beings. So, with that being said the events of the evening was animal events and not human events.
The subject was none other thatn the dance were the young princess Ruby was to become engaged to a prince in the next country over. The plans had already been put into place. The bonds of the aniaml kingdom were to become stronger for the marriage of Princess Ruby and the unknown Prince Golden Boy. Everyone wanted to know what Prince Golden Boy looked like, how he acted and various other things they could speculate on.
They all agreed that he could be no worse than Princess Ruby. She would often be found racing the younger foals with her mane and tail flowing with the breeze she created as she raced along the fence. SHe would often prefer to race then to be by her father's side in counsel and other meetings.
Her father came around the corner calling her as he had been doing teh last few days since announcing her engagement to Golden Boy. The other horses heard him and the oldest of the mares nickered softly as she said "Give th girl some time. You sprang the announcement on her so suddenly. She is even wilder than the wildest of horsesaround here. She just needs time to gain some perspective and tame down is all." The mare herself had been a 'free spirit' in the animal kingdom and new how difficult it was to become gentle and leave the wilderness behind in life. She was greatly respected because she had been caught adn tamed unlike the rest of them that had been born to the tamed horses the farmers kept.
"How much time must I give her? I have been quite patient and given her plenty af time to 'taste the oats'. Still, she gallops off and races teh wind when she cannot talk the foals into racing her. She should learn the acts of a princess befitting her and not the wild calling of the untamed horses. It is unbefitting her. It shames me to think I fathered he. I have decided to put down my hoof. She is not to leave the barn again until its time for her to go to the marriage ceremony." He screams as he heads back to the barn.