h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

* These fine stables are the very ones which Henry VIII once crushed a poor filly flat... *

* The Lord of the Manor makes sure Princess Smartypants pony is well secured... *

Thank you kind sir.

OY! Mrs! When are you going to start rubbing the HORSE down?
GUFFAW!!!!

*George - the stable boy dashes out as Ivor saunters in

Aha wench - I've caught up with you at last

LOL!



George! Sorry about this but he is a horrible pony!

Hello Ivor, how are you?

*GB dashes out the back of the stables while Princess Smartypants distracts Ivor Biggun
*GB heads back for Foxy Manor....

Ivor she is escaping... get after her!

*walks along the stables and selects a horse*

I believe this mount will do. And oh good, they do have a few western saddles. I see someone has been polishing the saddle horns.

*mounts the horse and rides out into the fields*

Don't mind me, I'm just looking about.

~eyes up the saddles~

that gives me an idea.

~dashes off again~

George! Stop that! Right, where did I put that hoof pick?

~comes back in and gives hoof-pick back to Princess Smartypants~

Sorry, I didn't think anyone wanted it.

Cheers! Hold on ....

You can have it back now! Have fun with it

Thanks!
You know where it is when you want it.

Nice horse btw.

Thanks! ~slaps George on the rump, causing him to pull a hideous face~ He has his moments!

*After the tumult and the shouting dies ... enter Kes*
Aha! There's a nice one - built for comfort, not speed.
*Stops looking at the groom's pin-up calendar, and checks out the horses*
Yes - that one over there - solid as a breeze-block armchair. That'll do me ... but later. I'm thirsty. Back indoors, what?

*Strolls through the stables. Pets the magnificent stallion she rode the day before. The stallion promptly grabs a chocolate-coated piece of paper out of her hand and eats it. Gives the horse an apple she got from the kitchen and goes for a stroll in the gardens*

George! My own true beloved.

~George the pony pulls a face as Smartypants tacks him up and tightens his girth~

Come on time for a hack.

~exits~