title: Shabang's Story: A Horse Adventure
author: Patricia Barrett
description: Patricia Marlowe Barrett has been a horse owner for twenty-six years. She lives in Richmond, Texas with her cockatiel, her German Shepherd dog and her horses, Jazz and Shybang. Shybang is the inspiration for this story.
zlib_text: # The Horse and his Boy
  
  Table of Contents
  
    1. [Chapter I](ch01.xhtml)
    2. [Chapter II](ch02.xhtml)
    3. [Chapter III](ch03.xhtml)
    4. [Chapter IV](ch04.xhtml)
    5. [Chapter V](ch05.xhtml)
    6. [Chapter VI](ch06.xhtml)
    7. [Chapter VII](ch07.xhtml)
    8. [Chapter VIII](ch08.xhtml)
    9. [Chapter IX](ch09.xhtml)
    10. [Chapter X](ch10.xhtml)
    11. [Chapter XI](ch11.xhtml)
    12. [Chapter XII](ch12.xhtml)
    13. [Chapter XIII](ch13.xhtml)
    14. [Chapter XIV](ch14.xhtml)
    15. [Chapter XV](ch15.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  # Chapter I
  
  ###  _How Shasta Set Out on His Travels_
  
  This is the story of an adventure that happened in Narnia and Calormen
  
  
  and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Peter was High King in
  
  
  Narnia and his brother and his two sisters were King and Queens under
  
  
  him.
  
  In those days, far south in Calormen on a little creek of the sea,
  
  
  there lived a poor fisherman called Arsheesh, and with him there lived
  
  
  a boy who called him Father. The boy's name was Shasta. On most days
  
  
  