1. Mystic Horse
LindaC/Callison/2011

2. Other books by Paul Goble
. . . and many more

3. Read the definition
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Try to guess the word
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4. sores places on the skin that are broken open and painful
You don’t really want to see pictures of sores do you?

5. loosened to make something less tight
Even the president loosened his tie to relax.

6. something that is hard to understand or explain
mysteries

7. when something causes surprise and wonder
amazement

8. when you are in the middle of something
midst

9. having a job or duty to perform
responsibility

10. a series of people relieving each other or taking turns
relays

11. intervals chunks of time or space between things
These are one-week intervals.

12. the part of a country where people are just beginning to settle
frontier

13. a method of long-distance communication through wires
telegraph

14. These are words in the story you may not have seen before.
High Interest Words
These are words in the story you may not have seen before.

15. someone who follows a religious belief having to do with communicating with the divine
mystic

16. a rope used for catching horses, cows, etc.
lariat

17. to hold somebody or some-thing tightly with the hands
clasped

18. a traditional animal-hide tent used by the Plains Indians
teepee

19. trans-continental something that extends across a continent
In 1869 the trans-continental railroad was completed connecting the east and west coasts.

20. frontier
telegraph
High Interest Words
mystic
lariat
clasped
teepee
transcontinental
sores loosened mysteries amazement midst responsibility relays intervals