Another lovely day was
dawning in the little town of Ponyville. One could call the town
backwater, but that wouldn’t quite do it justice. True, it was out
of the way and off the beaten paths of Equestria. True, it bordered
the Everfree Forest, a wild place mostly inhospitable to civilized
creatures for a millennium. And true that except for its rather
close proximity to Canterlot and Cloudsdale, it would probably be
populated entirely by earth ponies who would gawk in awe at ever
seeing an