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Now Bonnie is four years old in 1873.

A spirited and willful child, she has her father wrapped around her finger and giving into her every demand.

Even Scarlett is jealous of the attention she gets from him.

Rhett rides his horse around town with Bonnie in front of him, but the household mammy, " Mammy ," insists it is not fitting for a girl to ride a horse with her dress flying up.

Rhett heeds Mammy's words and buys Bonnie a Shetland pony, whom she names " Mr. Butler ," and teaches her to ride sidesaddle.

Then Rhett pays a boy named Wash twenty-five cents to teach Mr. Butler to jump over wood bars.

When Mr. Butler is able to get his fat legs over a one foot high bar, Rhett puts Bonnie on the pony, and soon Mr. Butler is leaping bars and Aunt Melly's rose bushes.