Searching
The two of them gathered up some friends and they all went into the woods later that day to look for their missing horse. They were able to follow some tracks into the forest, but along the way, the tracks started to get weaker and they lost the trail, so they turned around.
On the way back to the farm, Nick was really upset. He loved Bessie and wanted her and her unborn calf to be okay. Just the thought of something happening to them was a terrible feeling that he’d rather not want to think about. He decided that he couldn’t let them go that easily.