<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>While seeking to improve her health in Europe, Sewell encountered various writers, artists and philosophers, to which her previous background had not exposed her.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>When Black Beauty was still a colt, her mother called to her, and spoke to her.</p><p>"Pay attention," mother said, "to what I tell you: The colts who live here are very good colts, but they are cart-horse colts and of course they have not learned manners. You have been well-bred and well-born; your father has a great name in these parts and your grandfather won the cup two years at the Newmarket races; your grandmother had the sweetest temper of any horse I ever knew and I think you have never seen me kick or bite. I 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. . . ."</p><p>They were words the horse was never to forget, no matter how far from that meadow the trail of her life led her -- and it led her very, ver far indeed.</p>