1. Guess the Vocabulary

2. Papa taught Leah to place her new saddle right in the middle of his back and tighten the girth around his belly, just so.

4. That whole summer, Leah and her pony crossed through cloud-capped cornfields and chased cattle through the pasture.

5. Leah knew what an auction meant.

6. She raced her pony past empty fields lined with dry gullies.

7. “It’ll plow, plant, fertilize, and even cultivate for you.”

8. Saddle (sad-dle) A seat for riding on a horse.

9. Girth (girth) Measurement around an object.

10. Pasture (pas-ture) Land where animals graze.

11. Auction (auc-tion) A public sale at which things are sold to the person who offers the most money.

12. Gullies (gul-lies) A narrow ditch made by flowing water

13. Cultivate (cul-ti-vate) Prepare and use land for growing vegetables, flowers, or other crops.

14. When it rains, water runs through the ____ beyond the fields.

15. Gullies

16. Grandpa cleaned up the dusty old _____ and polished the leather until it looked new.

17. Saddle

18. The machine helped _____ the soil for planting.

19. cultivate

20. If the ____ is not tight enough, the saddle will slip over to one side.

21. girth

22. The cattle grazed in the ____ and drank water from the stream.

23. pasture

24. The highest bidder buys an item in an _____.

25. auction