Black Beauty

Black Beauty remembers the green meadow where he grew up and the advice his mother gave him there.

On a misty spring morning, the young horses watch a hunt race across the fields next to their meadow.

The young horse learns to carry a rider and pull a carriage, and his mother tells him about the different kinds of people.

Black Beauty goes to his new home at Squire Gordon’s and meets the other horses in the stable.

The coachman takes the new horse out for the first time, and the squire and his wife look for a good name for him.

Black Beauty is happy at Birtwick, but there is one thing he misses.

Standing in the shade one day, Ginger tells Black Beauty how her life began.

Ginger tells Black Beauty about the masters and grooms she had before she came to Birtwick.

After a long afternoon with the vicar’s children, Merrylegs comes back to the stable in trouble.

On a free day in the orchard, old Sir Oliver tells the younger horses how he lost his tail.

The squire and his wife are kind to every creature, and the squire tells two men exactly what he thinks.

On the way home from a long journey in a storm, Beauty does something that surprises the squire.

On the way home, John and Beauty see a boy who is trying to make his pony jump a gate.

The master comes into the stable with a letter and asks John some strange questions about James.

On a journey with the master and mistress, Beauty meets a little old man who knows a lot about horses.

In the night Beauty wakes up in the hotel stable and knows that something is wrong.

Back at Birtwick, James wonders who will take his place, and John tells him about his own life.

One night the stable bell rings, and John and Beauty have a long, fast ride ahead of them.

While Beauty lies ill in his stable, John and the gardener talk quietly about Joe.

Joe rides Beauty alone to take the master’s note to a neighbour and sees something on the way home that makes him very angry.

After three happy years at Birtwick, sad news comes to the house and the stable.

Black Beauty and Ginger come to a grand new home, where the lady of the house likes her horses to look stylish.

The lady of the house wants the horses’ heads higher at once, and Ginger decides she has had enough.

While the Earl is away in London, Lady Anne chooses Black Beauty as her riding horse and gives him a new name.

Reuben Smith, the clever groom left in charge of the stables, rides Black Beauty home from town one evening.

Late at night, Black Beauty hears a horse he knows coming along the dark road.

Black Beauty rests in a quiet meadow, where an old friend comes to join him.

In Bath, all kinds of people hire Black Beauty for a drive, and not all of them know how to drive.

Black Beauty meets drivers who treat a horse like a machine, and two new partners tell him why they move the way they do.

Black Beauty’s new master orders the best food for him, but something in the stable is not right.

A handsome, polite new groom comes to look after Black Beauty, and everyone thinks Mr Barry is lucky to have him.

Black Beauty is taken to a busy horse fair, where he watches every buyer closely and hopes for a kind one.

Black Beauty is given a new name and gets to know his new family and the drivers at a busy London cab stand.

On a quiet Sunday, old Captain tells Black Beauty about his life as a young army horse.

Jerry will not drive his horse hard for careless people, but one morning a passenger in real trouble needs a fast cab.

A good customer asks Jerry to drive on Sundays, and Jerry and Polly must decide what their day of rest is worth.

News comes from Mrs Briggs, and then a young mother needs Jerry’s help on a Sunday morning.

In a hard London winter, Dolly brings her father hot soup, and Jerry meets a passenger he does not forget.

A poor, tired driver answers the Governor on the cab stand, and the other men listen.

Outside a London park, a worn-out old cab horse calls Black Beauty by his name.

In the London streets Beauty watches how people treat their horses, from a butcher’s son in a hurry to a boy who loves his pony.

A gentleman wants Jerry’s cab for the election, and the election brings trouble to Dolly too.

On election day, a young mother from the country who is lost in London asks Jerry the way.

A drunk driver causes an accident in the busy streets, and life in Jerry’s stable changes.

Over a cold Christmas Jerry works late into the night, and the New Year brings great changes for the whole family.

Beauty pulls a heavy cart for a new master, and a stranger in the street notices what is wrong.

Beauty’s new master works his horses without rest, and one day a family with a great deal of luggage needs a cab.

At a sale of old and tired horses, a farmer and his young grandson stop in front of Beauty.

Beauty is taken to meet three ladies who need a horse, and their young groom looks at him very closely.