I found the pony. I named him Steve.

I made extensive use of the tac and rev commands (for hours). The cat command was utilized with the path redirection and append commands to place Steve into and appropriate txt file wherein he was then compressed using the tar command.

tar took some tinkering with, and I managed to find help from someone's opus posted last semester who encountered the same difficulty as I. I was missing part of the command, -c, to create the file.