Told in his own words, the life of a handsome black horse in Victorian England: a happy colthood in a green meadow, good years at Birtwick Park with fiery Ginger and little Merrylegs, a fall into the hands of careless and cruel owners after an accident ruins his knees, hard work as a London cab horse for the kind cabman Jerry Barker, and at last a peaceful home. Anna Sewell's beloved 1877 novel, the book that changed how the world treated horses,
