![]() ![]() ![]() However, after he is four-years-old, Beauty suffers a series of upsets that lead him to a degrading life of hardship. ![]() He recounts his happy days as a carefree foal raised by a loving mare on a fine English farm owned by a kind and understanding squire. “I have never forgotten my mother’s advice.”īLACK BEAUTY: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horseīlack Beauty, by Anna Sewell, is the eponymous memoir of a handsome black horse with a white star on his forehead. 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 or kick even in play.” 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 wish you to pay attention to what I am going to say to you. ![]()
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