LAM Chapter 7...

When Eustace had started up Turtle Island he started to notice and admire the people who lived in the mountain. After he talked to and spent time with those people, he began to think he wanted to spend time being more like them. Eustace was talking to one of the people who lived near Turtle Island about horses. After they talked Eustace ended up borrowing a horse of his and after a while bought a thoroughbread horse of his own. When Eustace bought the horse he decided that he needed to be more in touch with his horse. He eventually decides to take his horse on a trip across America. After some planning, Eustace and his brother Judson start in Georgia and make their way across the country all the way to California. While they were on the trip, their mule that they brought started acting up. Eustace all of a sudden jumps off his horse and starts beating on the horse. He bites, kicks, and punches so much at the mule that it simply breaks down.