black beauty -3-

one day, merrylegs told me that he threw those yuang people off his background. i was very surprised when i heard that. i was worried about miss flora and miss jessie. then he told me that he just threw those boys off because of they made him felt him too tired. james was angry because those boys used the sticks, i was glad to heard that.

i felt confused that why mr oliver, the oldest horse, had so short a tail. one day i asked him and he told that when he was yuang, his master cut his tail off, just because in that time, people thought short tail looks better than long tail. i was sad about that.

a few days later, my master had to go to a distant town on business. i and other three horses went with them. it was rainning when we back to home. so my master wanted to go home as fast as we can. when we arrived at a small bridge, they wanted me go cross the bridge, but i didn't feel the bridge is safe, so i didn't continue go forward, so i stopped, a few minutes later, the villagers told my master that the bridge was not stable, so my master was grateful to me.