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Black Beauty, His Grooms and Companions: The Autobiography of a Horse (Classic Reprint)
Black Beauty His Grooms and Companions The Autobiography of a Horse - Classic Reprint Author:Anna Sewell BLACK BEAUTY — PART I. — CHAPTER I. My Early Home, — The first place that I can well remember, was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a ploughed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our mast... more »er's house, which stood by the roadside; at the top of the meadow was a plantation of fir trees, and at the bottom a running brook overhung by a steep bank.
Whilst I was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the day time I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot, we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees, and when it was cold, we had a nice warm shed near the plantation.
As soon as I was old enough to eat grass, my mother used to go out to work in the day time, and came back in the evening.
There were six young colts in the meadow beside
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; PART I; CHAPTER TAOR; I My Early Home 9; II The Hunt 12; III My Breaking In 16; IV Birtwick Park: 21; V A Fair Start 25; VI Liberty 30; VII Ginger 32; VIII Ginger's Story Continued 38; IX Merrylegs 43; X A Talk in the Orchard 47; XI Plain Speaking fi4; XII A Stormy Day 58; XIII The Devil's Trade Mark 63; XIV James Howard 67; XV The Old Ostler 71; XVI The Fire - 75; XVII John Manly's Talk 80; XVHI Going for the Doctor 85; XIX Only Ignorance 90; XX Joe Green 93; XXI The Parting 97; PART II; XXII Earlshall 101; XXIII A Strike for Liberty 106; XXIV The Lady Anne, or A Runaway Horse 110; XXV Reuben Smith 118; XXVI How it Ended 123; XXVII Ruined, and going Down-hill 127 XXVIII A Job Horse, and his Drivers 131; XXIX Cockneys XXX A Thief XXXI A Humbug ; PART III; XXXII The Horse Fair ; XXXIII A London Cab Horse; XXXIV An Old War Horse XXXV Jerry Barker; XXXVI The Sunday Cab XXXVTI The Golden Rul« less