Bookworm_The Black

Author: (English) Sewell wrote, (English) Scott revised, Li Song translated
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Publish Date: 1998-10-01
Features: "What else do I want?" Black Beauty described his happy home and kind master: "Freedom! In the first four years of my life, I had such vast fields where I could run at full speed—without reins, without bits, and without blinkers. Now, except when I have work to do, I have to stay in the stable day and night." In the 1870s, there was a lot of work for horses to do—pulling various carts through crowded cities and over country lanes in all kinds of weather. Black Beauty had been well-trained. He knew he could never kick, bite, or run away, and he had to obey orders no matter how tired or hungry he was. He always behaved properly, but when he was sold from one master to another, he understood how difficult a horse's life could be and how foolish and cruel some people were. Out of strong dissatisfaction with animal abuse, author Anna Sewell wrote this book, Black Beauty, to persuade people to be kinder to horses.