Black Beauty

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Across
  1. 5. he is sold yet again to another kind family, to do fair work as a cab horse
  2. 6. he is finally sold to his last, kind home
  3. 8. at a horse fair he is sold to a nice field, where they strengthen him up
  4. 9. he meets a new horse called Ginger with a sad past
  5. 12. after an incredibly rough time he has a fair owner
  6. 14. he has to leave his family when they move and live with someone else
  7. 15. someone putting him in another family's care
Down
  1. 1. while travelling overnight, the barn he's in burns down
  2. 2. a stable hand steals his food and makes him ill
  3. 3. after many happy years, he is forced to be sold, where he is treated horribly
  4. 4. his new home is great
  5. 7. after a man rides and whips him until his shoe falls off and he ruins his knees, he is sold to a lower down taxi business
  6. 10. Black Beauty is sad and worn in his new home, being forced to wear a rein that is constantly straining him
  7. 11. being trained to wear saddles
  8. 13. horses chasing down other animals, sometimes getting hurt
  9. 15. when he has to run for the doctor, he pushes himself so fast that he nearly dies afterwards with a raging fever