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The Autobiography Of A Horse, With Fifty Illustrations.
By Anna Sewell, Published by Henry Altemus Company Philadelphia, Circa 1877

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The story is told in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by a highbred horse named Black Beauty - beginning with his carefree days as a foal on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty's life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses, with Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behaviour lending the novel a feeling of truth.

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Front Cover Frontispiece Title Page Dedication Foreword CONTENTS CONTENTS Well, Old Pet, and How is Your Little Darkle Some Men Leaped their Horses Clean Over Making Straight for Our Meadow Master went with me to the Smith's Forge Snorting with Astonishment and Fear Black Beauty After a Struggle, I Threw Him Off Backwards He Sponged My Sides Is That Pony Made of Flesh and Blood "The Bridge is Broken in the Middle," said John Coaxing. He Led Me out of the Stable Heb Hat was Gone—Heb Hair Streaming Behind Her I Uttered no Sound, but Stood there and Listened I was Driven Away by the Force of their Charge I was Led Back to the Stables Coming Out to Hear How I Behaved Myself A Horse Down I. My Early Home, - 0109 Page - 0110 Page - 0111 II. The Hunt, - 0112 Page - 0113 Page - 0114 Page - 0115 III. My Breaking In, - 0116 Page - 0117 Page - 0118 Page - 0119 IV. Birtwick Park, - 0120 Page - 0121 Page - 0122 V. A Fair Start, . - 0123 Page - 0124 Page - 0125 Page - 0126 VI. Liberty, - 0127 Page - 0128 Page - 0129 VII. Ginger, - 0130 Page - 0131 Page - 0132 Page - 0133 Page - 0134 VIII. Ginger's Story continued, - 0135 Page - 0136 Page - 0137 Page - 0138 IX. Merrylegs, - 0139 Page - 0140 Page - 0141 Page - 0142 X. A Talk in the Orchard, - 0143 Page - 0144 Page - 0145 Page - 0146 Page - 0147 Page - 0148 Page - 0149 XI. Plain Speaking, - 0150 Page - 0151 Page - 0152 XII. A Stormy Day, - 0153 Page - 0154 Page - 0155 Page - 0156 XIII. The Devil's Trade Mark, - 0157 Page - 0158 XIV. James Howard, - 0159 Page - 0160 Page - 0161 XV. The Old Ostler, - 0162 Page - 0163 Page - 0164 XVI. The Fire, . - 0165 Page - 0166 Page - 0167 Page - 0168 XVII. John Manly's Talk, - 0169 Page - 0170 Page - 0171 Page - 0172 XVIII. Going for the Doctor, - 0173 Page - 0174 Page - 0175 Page - 0176 XIX. Only Ignorance, - 0177 Page - 0178 XX. Joe Green, - 0179 Page - 0180 Page - 0181 Page - 0182 XXI. The Parting, - 0183 Page - 0184 Page - 0185 Page - 0186 XXIL Earlshall, - 0187 Page - 0188 Page - 0189 Page - 0190 XXIIL A Strike for Liberty, - 0191	Page - 0192 Page - 0193 XXIV. The Lady Anne, on a Runaway Horse, - 0194 Page - 0195 Page - 0196 Page - 0197 Page - 0198 Page - 0199 XXV. Reuben Smith, - 0200 Page - 0201 Page - 0202 XXVI. How it Ended, - 0203 Page - 0204 Page - 0205 XXVII. Ruined, and Going Down-hill, - 0206 Page - 0207 Page - 0208 XXVIII. A Job Horse and his Drivers, - 0209 Page - 0210 Page - 0211 Page - 0212 XXIX. Cockneys, - 0213 Page - 0214 Page - 0215 Page - 0216 Page - 0217 Page - 0218 XXX. A Thief, - 0219 Page - 0220 Page - 0221 XXXI. A Humbug, - 0222 Page - 0223 Page - 0224 Page - 0225 XXXII. A Horse Fair, - 0226 Page - 0227 Page - 0228 Page - 0229 Page - 0230 XXXIII. .A London Cab Horse, - 0231 Page - 0232 Page - 0233 XXXIV. An Old War Horse, - 0234 Page - 0235 Page - 0236 Page - 0237 Page - 0238 Page - 0239 Page - 0240 XXXV. Jerry Barker, - 0241 Page - 0242 Page - 0243 Page - 0244 Page - 0245 Page - 0246 XXXVI. The Sunday Cab, - 0247 Page - 0248 Page - 0249 Page - 0250 Page - 0251 XXXVII. The Golden Rule, - 0252 Page - 0253 Page - 0254 XXXVIII. Dolly and a Real Gentleman, - 0255 Page - 0256 Page - 0257 Page - 0258 XXXIX. Seedy Sam, . - 0259 Page - 0260 Page - 0261 XL. Poor Ginger, - 0262 Page - 0263 Page - 0264 XLI. The Butcher, - 0265 Page - 0266 Page - 0267 XL1I. The Election, - 0268 Page - 0269 XLIII. A Friend in Need, - 0270 Page - 0271 Page - 0272 Page - 0273 XLIV. Old Captain and His Successor, - 0274 Page - 0275 Page - 0276 Page - 0277 XLV. Jerry's New Year, PART IV. - 0278 Page - 0279 Page - 0280 Page - 0281 Page - 0282 Page - 0283 Page - 0284 XLVI. Jakes and the Lady, - 0285 Page - 0286 Page - 0287 XLVII. Hard Times, - 0288 Page - 0289 Page - 0290 Page - 0291 XLVIII. Farmer Thorouhgood and his Grandson Willie, - 0292 Page - 0293 Page - 0294 Page - 0295 LLIX. My Last Home, - 0296 Page - 0297 Page - 0298 Page - 0299

BLACK BEAUTY - online book

The Autobiography Of A Horse, With Fifty Illustrations. By Anna Sewell, Published by Henry Altemus Company Philadelphia, Circa 1877

The Autobiography Of A Horse, With Fifty Illustrations.
By Anna Sewell, Published by Henry Altemus Company Philadelphia, Circa 1877