Black Beauty

Black Beauty

This book is for those who love animals. Everybody can enjoy reading this, but this book will especially move people who love animals.

This is the story about a horse named Black Beauty. He was a wise, brave, fine horse. He had a lot of hard experiences. He could understand men's words and feelings. He was sold several times, and had various kinds of masters. Some people treated him very well, others did cruelly. Although he had a hard time because of men' selfishness, he served them very well through his almost all life.

A wonderful thing happened at the end of the story. Through the story, he was the narrator. A black horse was born of the wise, well-treated one. His mother told him the manner to serve men as a good horse. She said to him, "The better you behave, the better you will be treated. Do your best to please your master." As he was trained, he grew handsome. After getting basic skills, he was taken away to Birtwick Park, apart from his mother.

At Birtwick Park he met a little pony named Merrylegs and tall brown mare with a long handsome neck named Ginger there. They became good friends each other. His master named him Black Beauty. The groom, John trained him very well. Black Beauty performed great exploits. He was very happy. One day, new groom, Joe Green who was a fourteen-year boy, joined there.

After Black Beauty's great work to save the life of his ill mistress, Joe didn't take proper care of him, so he nearly died. John was very angry, but he knew Joe was not bad. After that, Joe learned many things quickly and became a good groom gradually.

Three years later, his master had to move to a warm climate for his wife's health. Therefore, Black Beauty and Ginger were sold and they moved to Earlshall Park. They worked as carriage horses. It was very hard, but they bore. Nevertheless, they live happily. One day, the accident happened. Reuben was gentle and clever as a manager of horses, and as a driver. He had, however, one fault that he sometimes drank too much. He drove Black Beauty unmercifully until he was injured. Black Beauty knew something was wrong, but of course he could not tell Reuben so. Finally, he fell because of his broken hoof, and Reuben died. Everyone knew the cause of it and did not blame him