
Black Beauty is a young black colt & loves roaming Farmer Gray&s fields with his mother As Black Beauty grows into a handsome stallion he is trained into the use of a saddle & whip & sold to Squire Gordon of Birtwick Hall Here he makes many friends including the angry Ginger the well-meaning Merrylegs & the elderly Sir Oliver as well as stablehands James & John When Squire Gordon has to move abroad to improve his wife&s ill health Black Beauty is sold again to Earlshall Park So begins a hard & unsettled life for Black Beauty who is always at the whim of his human owners Often he is whipped & made to wear blinkers or the bearing rein at other times he must work as a cab horse on the busy London streets Will Black Beauty ever be able to roam the fields again as he did in his childhood? What has become of his friends Ginger & Merrylegs? Rediscover Anna Sewell&s moving tale of the hardships of being an animal in a human world with Scholastic&s classic edition