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Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

A black horse remembers his early days in a pleasant meadow.

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Original language: EnglishLevel: Beginner3,441 characters · ≈ 6 minSource: Project Gutenberg

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The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master's house, which stood by the roadside; at the top of the meadow was a grove of fir trees, and at the bottom a running brook overhung by a steep bank.

While I was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees, and when it was cold we had a…

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About the book

Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell, narrated from a horse's perspective. A black horse recounts, in his own voice, memories of his childhood in the meadow. While openly teaching animal welfare, it also shows how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect, and is seen as a forerunner of the pony book genre with over fifty million copies sold.

About the author

Anna Sewell (30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) was an English novelist, born into a Quaker family in Norfolk. She is known for her only book, Black Beauty, a novel about a horse, written between 1871 and 1877 and published a few months before her death.

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