Black Beauty

‘a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse

hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.”

work with a good will

On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God’s mark.”

Then he talked to all the boys very seriously about cruelty, and said how hard-hearted and cowardly it was to hurt the weak and the helpless; but what stuck in my mind was this, he said that cruelty was the devil’s own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a tormentor to the end.

thought people did not value their animals half enough nor make friends of them as they ought to do.

remember, we shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be toward man or toward beast.”

fashion is one of the wickedest things in the world.

they never think that a pony can get tired, or have any feelings; so as the one who was whipping me could not understand I just rose up on my hind legs and let him slip off behind—that was all. H

there were several little ones. When they came there was plenty of work for Merrylegs, for nothing pleased them so much as getting on him by turns and riding him all about the orchard and the home paddock, and this they would do by the hour together.
One afternoon he had been out with them a long time, and