Read Unicorn Uproar for Free Online Page B

please,” Nancy told Elly. “You don’t have to give me my money back.”
    Bess and George looked surprised. Elly just chuckled and said, “What’s the matter? Didn’t get your gown for the prince’s ball?”
    Nancy looked away from Elly. How could she tell her that the wand might have made a vegetable garden disappear? And maybe even a unicorn?
    â€œElly, do you know how to catch a unicorn?”Bess asked, interrupting Nancy’s thoughts.
    â€œA unicorn!” Elly declared. “Unicorns love the woods. You might catch one there.”
    â€œOr poison ivy,” George mumbled as the girls left.
    â€œWhy did you return the wand, Nancy?” Bess asked. “Are you beginning to think you made Sparkle disappear?”
    Nancy looked at Bess. So far they hadn’t found Sparkle—anywhere. But she refused to give up.
    â€œLet’s go back to Sparkle’s pen,” Nancy said. “Maybe we can find more clues.”
    On the way the girls passed a man juggling fire, an archery contest, and a cart where someone was selling peanuts. But when they passed a horse stable, they had to stop.
    â€œI’ll bet these horses are for the jousts!” George said as they entered the stable.
    â€œThere’s Speckle!” Bess said, pointing to a white horse with black speckles.
    Nancy studied the horses, their big handsome heads hanging over the stall doors.
    â€œYou know,” Nancy said, half to herself, “those horses look like unicorns without the horns.”
    â€œAre you saying Sparkle was a
horse
?” Bess asked.
    Nancy noticed a list hanging on the stable wall. It was a list of the horses and what to feed them. She read the names out loud: “Speckle, Midnight, Darby, Thunderfoot, Lindy—Ohmigosh!”
    â€œOhmigosh?” Bess giggled. “That’s a weird name for a horse.”
    â€œNo!” Nancy said. “Look at the last name on the list.”
    Bess and George looked up too. Then their mouths dropped wide open. Speckle was the first name on the list. But the last name was
Sparkle
!

Chapter Nine

Swingy Thingy
    â€œNot only is Sparkle on the list,” George pointed out, “he ate the same stuff the other horses ate. Vegetables.”
    Vegetables?
The word hit Nancy like a ton of cauliflower.
    â€œSomeone ate vegetables from Hannah’s garden yesterday,” Nancy said.
    â€œCarrots from my neighbors’ garden were nibbled on too,” Bess said. “It happened Friday during the night.”
    Nancy stared at Bess. Hannah’s garden wasn’t the only garden that had been nibbled on. So that meant one thing….
    â€œThat’s great!” Nancy exclaimed.
    â€œWhat’s so great about trashed gardens?” George asked.
    â€œNot about the gardens—about my wand,” Nancy explained. “It wasn’t anywhere near Bess’s neighbors’ garden, so it couldn’t have made the veggies disappear.”
    â€œHuh?” Bess asked.
    â€œMy dad thought deer had eaten the veggies,” Nancy explained. “Now I think it was Sparkle—the horse!”
    â€œBut Sparkle has a
horn
!” Bess said.
    â€œWe never saw Sparkle up close,” Nancy said. “His horn could have been fake.”
    â€œOh, phooey!” Bess complained. “We finally see a real unicorn and he’s not even for real.”
    â€œWell, now that we think Sparkle is a horse,” Nancy asked, “how do we catch him?”
    Bess tapped her chin as she seemed to think about it. Her eyes finally lit up, and she said, “Follow me!”
    Nancy and George followed Bess as she collected carrots from Seth, string from Mrs. Fayne’scake boxes, and a coat hanger from Lady Sue and Lady Inez’s costume tent. In less than an hour Bess had built a new gadget.
    â€œTa-daa!” Bess sang. She held up her carrot mobile.
    â€œHow does it work?” Nancy asked.

    â€œIf