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Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell [English Quaker -- 1820-1878.]

[Note: `Black Beauty' was originally published in 1877.

This etext was transcribed from an American edition of 1911.

Some small corrections were made, after being confirmed

against other sources.]

Black Beauty

The Autobiography of a Horse

by Anna Sewell

To my dear and honored Mother,

whose life, no less than her pen,

has been devoted to the welfare of others,

this little book is affectionately dedicated.

Contents

Part I

Chapter

01 My Early Home

02 The Hunt

03 My Breaking In

04 Birtwick Park

05 A Fair Start

06 Liberty

07 Ginger

08 Ginger’s Story Continued

09 Merrylegs

10 A Talk in the Orchard

11 Plain Speaking

12 A Stormy Day

13 The Devil’s Trade Mark

14 James Howard

15 The Old Hostler

16 The Fire

17 John Manly’s Talk

18 Going for the Doctor

19 Only Ignorance

20 Joe Green

21 The Parting

Part II

22 Earlshall

23 A Strike for Liberty

24 The Lady Anne, or a Runaway Horse

25 Reuben Smith

26 How it Ended

27 Ruined and Going Downhill

28 A Job Horse and His Drivers

29 Cockneys

30 A Thief

31 A Humbug

Part III

32 A Horse Fair

33 A London Cab Horse

34 An Old War Horse

35 Jerry Barker

36 The Sunday Cab

37 The Golden Rule

38 Dolly and a Real Gentleman

39 Seedy Sam

40 Poor Ginger

41 The Butcher

42 The Election

43 A Friend in Need

44 Old Captain and His Successor

45 Jerry’s New Year

Part IV

46 Jakes and the Lady

47 Hard Times

48 Farmer Thoroughgood and His Grandson Willie

49 My Last Home

Black Beauty

Part I

01 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 plowed field, and on the other we looked over a gate

at our master’s house, which stood by the roadside; at the top of the meadow

was a grove of fir trees, and at the bottom a running brook

overhung by a steep bank.

While I was young I lived upon my mother’s milk, as I could not eat grass.

In the daytime 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 grove.

As soon as I was old enough to eat grass my mother used to go out to work

in the daytime, and come back in the evening.

There were six young colts in the meadow besides me;

they were older than I was; some were nearly as large as grown-up horses.

I used to run with them, and had great fun; we used to gallop all together

round and round the field as hard as we could go. Sometimes we had

rather rough play, for they would frequently bite and kick as well as gallop.

One day, when there was a good deal of kicking, my mother whinnied to me

to come to her, and then she said:

“I wish you to pay attention to what I am going to say to you.

The colts who live here are very good colts, but they are cart-horse colts,

and of course they have not learned manners. You have been

well-bred and well-born; your father has a great name in these parts,

and your grandfather won the cup two years at the Newmarket races;

your grandmother had the sweetest temper of any horse I ever knew,

and I think you have never seen me kick or bite. I hope you will grow up

gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will,

lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.”

I have never forgotten my mother’s advice; I knew she was a wise old horse,

and our master thought a great deal of her. Her name was Duchess,

but he often called her Pet.

Our master was a good, kind man. He gave us good food, good lodging,

and kind words; he spoke as kindly to us as he did to his little children.

We were all fond of him, and my mother loved him very much.

When she saw him at the gate she would neigh with joy, and trot up to him.

He would pat and stroke her and say, “Well, old Pet,

and how is your little Darkie?” I was a dull black, so he called me Darkie;

then he would give me a piece of bread, which was very good,

and sometimes he brought a carrot for my mother. All the horses

would come to him, but I think we were his favorites.

My mother always took him to the town on a market day in a light gig.

There was a plowboy, Dick, who sometimes came into our field

to pluck blackberries from the hedge. When he had eaten all he wanted

he would have what he called fun with the colts, throwing stones and sticks

at them to make them gallop. We did not much mind him,

for we could gallop off; but sometimes a stone would hit and hurt us.

One day he was at this game, and did not know that the master

was in the next field; but he was there, watching what was going on;

over the hedge he jumped in a snap, and catching Dick by the arm,

he gave him such a box on the ear as made him roar

with the pain and surprise. As soon as we saw the master

we trotted up nearer to see what went on.

“Bad boy!” he said, “bad boy! to chase the colts. This is not

the first time, nor the second, but it shall be the last. There –

take your money and go home; I shall not want you on my farm again.”

So we never saw Dick any more. Old Daniel, the man who looked after

the horses, was just as gentle as our master, so we were well off.

02 The Hunt

Before I was two years old a circumstance happened

which I have never forgotten. It was early in the spring;

there had been a little frost in the night, and a light mist