'you must be crazy!' she cried to sam sylvester. 'you can not use these horses. you will have to use mine, and, with the lesson , that will cost you fifty pound a week, from now until the summer!'
Nothing happened for almost a week after that, but then Sam called the team together.
'the school has decided that fifty pounds is too much,' he told them. 'the competition was a wonderful idea, of course, but the riding's too expensive. there are the swimming lessons as well, and we haven't even started the shooting yet. No,It's all too difficult. the competition's dead