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Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

by Anna SEWELL (1820 - 1878)

Chapter 14 – James Howard

Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir of a highbred horse named Black Beauty, from his carefree days as a foal on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty’s life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses. (Summary from wikipedia.org)

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Listen next episodes of Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse):
Chapter 15 – The Old Hostler , Chapter 16 – The Fire , Chapter 17 – John Manly’s Talk , Chapter 18 – Going for the Doctor , Chapter 19 – Only Ignorance , Chapter 20 – Joe Green , Chapter 21 – The Parting , Chapter 22 – Earlshall , Chapter 23 – A Strike for Liberty , Chapter 24 – The Lady Anne, or a Runaway Horse , Chapter 25 – Reuben Smith , Chapter 26 – How It Ended , Chapter 27 – Ruined and Going Downhill , Chapter 28 – A Job Horse and His Drivers , Chapter 29 – Cockneys , Chapter 30 – A Thief , Chapter 31 – A Humbug , Chapter 32 – A Horse Fair , Chapter 33 – A London Cab Horse , Chapter 34 – An Old War Horse , Chapter 35 – Jerry Barker , Chapter 36 – The Sunday Cab , Chapter 37 – The Golden Rule , Chapter 38 – Dolly and a Real Gentleman , Chapter 39 – Seedy Sam , Chapter 40 – Poor Ginger , Chapter 41 – The Butcher , Chapter 42 – The Election , Chapter 43 – A Friend in Need , Chapter 44 – Old Captain and His Successor , Chapter 45 – Jerry , Chapter 46 – Jakes and the Lady , Chapter 47 – Hard Times , Chapter 48 – Farmer Thoroughgood and His Grandson Willie , Chapter 49 – My Last Home