ginger's story - a prequel to black beauty

CHAPTER FIVE- THE START TO A BETTER LIFE!

After that I was sent to the Tattersall’s to be sold, of course I could not be warranted free from vice so nothing was said. My beautiful appearance and good paces soon bought a gentleman to bid for me and I was bought by another dealer. He tried in all ways with many different bits and soon found out which ones I could bear. At last he drove me without a bearing rein. I was then sold as a perfectly quiet horse to a gentleman in the country. He was a good master who they called Mr. Kinsman. I was getting along well until his old groom left him and a new one came. This man was a hard tempered and hard handed as Samson. He always spoke in a rough impatient voice AND if I did not move in to the stall the moment he wanted he’d hit me above the hock with a stable broom or a fork, whichever he had in his hand at the time. Everything he did was rough and I started to hate but I stayed calm and tried not to fight. He wanted me to be afraid of him but I was too high melted for that.one day he had aggravated me more than usual I could not take it anymore so I bit him hard. This put him in a great rage and began to hit me in the head with a riding whip. After that he never dared to come to my stall- my teeth or heels were waiting for him and he knew it. I was quite quiet with my master, but of course he listened to what the man said, and so I was sold again.