Black Beauty - 22 Earlshall

The next morning after breakfast Joe put Merrylegs into the mistress' low chaise to take him to the vicarage; he came first and said goodbye to us, and Merrylegs neighed to us from the yard. Then John put the saddle on Ginger and the leading rein on me and rode us across the country about fifteen miles to Earlshall Park, where the Earl of W----lived. There was a very fine house and a great deal of…