![]() Sham is bought by a Quaker man and taken to England. ![]() Agba becomes a servant to Sham's new owner and meets Grimalkin the cat along the way. ![]() Sham becomes a kitchen horse, but he is so disobedient that the cook sells him to a carter. When the racehorses arrive in France, they are frowned upon by the French, who believe that they are not 'lusty' enough to be racehorses. The horseboy is to remain with that horse until the horse's death, then return to Morocco. The horses are to be given as gifts to the French King Louis XV. Later, the Sultan summons six horseboys to his palace, including Agba, and charges them to accompany six horses to France. The mare dies within a few days, but Sham matures into a promising racehorse. ![]() ![]() The colt has a white spot on his hind heel, considered the emblem of swiftness and good luck, but it also has a wheat ear on his chest, symbolizing bad luck. Plot Īs the fast of Ramadan is ending in Morocco, Agba, a mute slave boy, tends to his favorite Arabian mare, who gives birth that night. It was made into a film of the same name in 1990. King of the Wind is a novel by Marguerite Henry that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1949. ![]()
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