![]() ![]() ("For sake and for my own sake, for Albert's, too, I leaned my weight into my collar and began to pull.") Rumbles of war, then the reality: Joey is sold to the British cavalry, distraught Albert is turned away as too young, Joey acquires a new protector in Captain Nicholls and a new friend in majestic Topthorn. ![]() The spirited young stallion is purchased by a Devon farmer, vicious when drunk, to thwart a despised neighbor he is protected, however, by the farmer's gentle young son Albert, then 13, who names him Joey (to rhyme with old farm horse Zoey), tends him fondly, and trains him-"inside a week," after a paternal threat-to pull a plow. In effect, a horse's eye view of the First World War-heart-rending in Black Beauty tradition, anti-war like All Quiet., certainly unusual and dramatic. ![]()
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