I was a horse！ Not once, but many times -- as often as I read Black Beauty, and that was often. I always loved horses, but I had to worship them from afar. As a city kid there were no living,breathing horses in my life. I had plastic models, which I'd imagine taming and riding. I had a book of natural history in which I would trace and retrace the evolution of the modern horse from the little dawn horse. I would read other novels about horses, too, but Black Beauty was my favorite. It was the only one that gave me the real deal, the inside scoop on being a horse. It was the only one told from the horse's point of view.
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As a young horse, Black Beauty is well-loved and happy. But when his owner is forced to sell him, his life changes drastically. He has many new owners--some of them cruel and some of them kind. All he needs is someone to love him again...
Whether pulling an elegant carriage or a ramshackle cab, Black Beauty tries to live as best he can. This is his amazing story, told as only he could tell it.
PART ONE
CHAPTER
I. My Early Home
2. The Hunt
3. My Breaking In
4. Birtwick Park
5. A Fair Start
6. Liberty
7. Ginger
8. Ginger's Story Continued
9. 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 TWO
22. Earlshall
23. A Strike for Liberty
24. A Runaway Horse
25. Reuben Smith
26. How it Ended
27. Going Downhill
28. A Job Horse
29. Cockneys
30. A Thief
31. A Humbug
PART THREE
32. A Horse Fair
33. A London Cob Horse
34. An Old War Horse
35. Jerry Barker
36. The Sunday Cab
37. The Golden Rule
38. Dolly and a Real Gentleman
CHAPTER
39. Seedy Sam
40. Poor Ginger
41. The Butcher
42. The Election
43. A Friend in Need
44. Old Captain
45. Jerry's New Year
PART FOUR
46. Jakes and the Lady
47. Hard Times
48. Farmer Thoroughgood and Willie
49. My Last Home
