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Black Beauty
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
[English Quaker -- 1820-1878.]
Black Beauty
[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
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, e 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 e 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