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Black Beauty


No. of pages 22

Published: 2014

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This is a series which combines fairy tales, Aesop's fables, classics and also folktales. Designed especially for pleasure reading at bedtime, these stories help develop a child's reading habit. The information given about the author and the activity at the end adds value to each book.

 

There are 22 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd .

This book contains the following story:

Black Beauty
When he comes of age, the horse Black Beauty is sold to a grand house to be a carriage horse. The groom, Joe, is kind but his masters are cruel. Every day Beauty and his fellow horse, Ginger, are shackled to the carriage with a tight bearing rein to keep their heads held high, and the two horses are whipped and generally mistreated. When Ginger misbehaves she is taken away. When Beauty smashes his knee he is sold to a London cabby. Pulling a cab through all the weather is hard work but Jerry is kind to Beauty and he is happy. Then Jerry is offered a job as groom by a customer and has to sell Beauty. His next master is harsh and cruel. But then Black Beauty is rescued by a horse doctor and at the doctors stables he discovers that the groom is none other than Joe. Beauty lives out the rest of his life in the doctors fields, happy and cared for.

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