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Black Beauty

You are the horse. Twenty-five chapters pass you through the hands of everyone who owns you, from a meadow to a London cab rank. A squire who is kind, an earl whose wife demands a bearing rein, a driver who cannot afford to rest you — and the only conversations available are with the other horses in the stable. Ginger, broken in by force before she ever met you, is the one who tells you what she learned from it.

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Chapters

1. Black BeautyFarmer Grey's Meadow
2. Duchess's MeadowFarmer Grey's Yard, Railway Meadow, and Birtwick
3. A Household NameBirtwick Park
4. Ginger's SchoolingBirtwick Stables
5. Apples at BirtwickBirtwick Orchard and Carriage Yard
6. Plain Words for FashionBirtwick Roads
7. A Boy Who Mistook PainBirtwick Lanes and Yard
8. James's Final Long JourneyRoad and Market-Place Inn
9. James's Final WeeksBirtwick and the Doctor's Road
10. The Bleeding KnifeBirtwick Stable and Village Road
11. The Birtwick PartingBirtwick House and Station
12. The Rein at EarlshallEarlshall Stables and Drive
13. An Unsteady ChestnutEarlshall Roads, Stable, and White Lion
14. The Broken JourneyEarlshall Meadow and Bath
15. Hands on the ReinsBath Roads and Livery Yard
16. Servants Who Steal or NeglectMr Barry's Stable and Bath Horse Fair
17. Another Bath Horse FairHorse Fair and London Yard
18. Jerry Barker's CareLondon Cab Rank, Streets, and Station
19. A Day of RestBarker Yard, Cab Rank, and Country Road
20. Cold StreetsLondon Cab Rank and Streets
21. A Familiar VoicePark Cab Line, Streets, and Barker Yard
22. Election DayBarker Yard and London
23. The Cost of Drunken DrivingLondon and Barker Yard
24. The Foreman's LoadsLondon Cart Roads, Skinner's Yard, and Station
25. A Farmer and His GrandsonCountry Sale, Thoroughgood Farm, and Final Home

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