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Part I
1. My Early Home
2. The Hunt
3. My Breaking-In
4. Birtwick Park
5. A Fair Start
6. Liberty
7. Ginger
8. Ginger’s Story Continued
9. Merrylegs
10. A Talk in the Orchard
11. Plain Speaking
12. A Stormy Day
13. The Devil’s Trade Mark
14. James Howard
15. The Old Hostler
16. The Fire
17. John Manly’s Talk
18. Going for the Doctor
19. Only Ignorance
20. Joe Green
21. The Parting
Part II
22. Earlshall
23. A Strike for Liberty
24. The Lady Anne, or a Runaway Horse
25. Reuben Smith
26. How it Ended
27. Ruined and Going Downhill
28. A Job-Horse and His Drivers
29. Cockneys
30. A Thief
31. A Humbug
Part III
32. A Horse Fair
33. A London Cab-Horse
34. An Old War Horse
35. Jerry Barker
36. The Sunday Cab
37. The Golden Rule
38. Dolly and a Real Gentleman
39. Seedy Sam
40. Poor Ginger
41. The Butcher
42. The Election
43. A Friend in Need[130]
44. Old Captain and His Successor
45. Jerry’s New Year
Part IV
46. Jakes and the Lady
47. Hard Times
48. Farmer Thoroughgood and His Grandson Willie
49. My Last Home
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The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master’s house, which stood by the roadside; at the top of the meadow was a grove of fir trees, and at the bottom a running brook overhung by a steep bank.
While I was young I lived upon my mother’s milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees, and when it was cold we had a nice warm shed near the grove.
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“I like to toss my head about and hold it as high as any horse; but fancy now yourself, if you tossed your head up high and were obliged to hold it there, and that for hours together, not able to move it at all, except with a jerk still higher, your neck aching till you did not know how to bear it. Besides that, to have two bits instead of one – and mine was a sharp one, it hurt my tongue and my jaw, and the blood from my tongue colored the froth that kept flying from my lips as I chafed and fretted at the bits and rein. It was worst when we had to stand by the hour waiting[21] for our mistress at some grand party or entertainment, and if I fretted or stamped with impatience the whip was laid on. It was enough to drive one mad.”
“Did not your master take any thought for you?” I said.
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