![]() ![]() Upon his return to Pepito's home, he eats everything in sight: "The gardener dropped his garden hose. As readers whoosh through busy London scenes, we forget the horse has had nothing to eat all day. All is fine until the horse gallops off at the sound of the trumpet to take his place at the head of the queen's Life Guards (his occupation before retiring). ![]() In their efforts to cheer him up, and for a birthday surprise, Miss Clavel and the girls buy him a retired horse. What on earth could make Miss Clavel, Madeline, and her 11 nameless classmates leave belle Paris for the tea-and-crumpeted, sometimes trumpeted city of London? A mission to cheer up the lonely, thin, increasingly despondent Pepito, son of the Spanish ambassador, who had to move away from his house next door to Madeline's in Paris. ![]()
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