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Copyright 0110 by Slender Pony

All rights reserved.  Except as permitted under the Equestrian Copyright Act of 0011, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a databarn or retrieval system, without the prior hoof-written permission of the publisher.

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Slender Reading Company is a division of Haychette Book Group, Inc.

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The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher.

First Paperback Edition: May 0110

First published in hardcover in July 0100 by Slender Reading Co.

The ponies and events portrayed in this book are fictitious.  Any similarity to real ponies, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.  In the event a real name is used, it is used fictitiously.

Library of Congress Coltaloging-in-Publication Data

Pony, Slender.

    Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone / Slender Pony. --- 1st ed.

        p. cm. --- (Daring Do)

    Summary: Wow, you’re actually reading this? If ponies want to read the summary, they usually go to the back cover of the book or the inside of the front cover.  Not like you really don’t know what this is about, though.  If you even clicked on this story then you’ve seen “Read it and Weep,” and you already know how this story goes but want to hear it in more detail.  Now go read the actual story, you lama-lipped lapdog.

    ISBN 978-0-316-03698-7(hc) / 978-0-316-03830-1 (pb)

    [1. Talking Ponies-Fiction.    2. Talking ponies with wings-Fiction.    3. You actually reading this-Fiction.    4. Small temple that holds much more than its outer dimensions should let it hold-Fiction.    5. A FRIGGIN’ WINGED TALKING PONY!-Fiction.    6. An ugly dog that wants to take over a world filled with magical talking ponies-Fiction.    7. A Sapphire Stone-Fiction.]    I. Pony, Slender    II. Title.

    PZ7.Y25673Dl 2010

    [Fic] ---- dc22

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Printed in the United Towns and Cities of Equestria

Dedication Page

1.   To the Aviators, because they are awesome.

2.   To Lauren Faust.  You know why.

3.   To all sheep, because you remind me of Coco, my big standard poodle.

4.   To Coco, because you remind me of the sheep that remind me of you.  And you are also awesome.

5.   To Scootaloo: STAY AWAY FROM KFC!

6.   To KFC: STAY AWAY FROM SCOOTALOO!

7.   And now, a very serious and sincere one, to anybody who reads this and likes it, because you are the ones that made any of this possible.  I know it sounds cheesy and all, but without anybody to read this story and enjoy it, this story wouldn’t exist.  And I would be the only person left on Earth.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Epilogue

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