Front matter
Reading edition
EXMOOR LASS, and other Pony Stories
With frontispiece in colour and about 76 illustrations from drawings by the Author in the text, and with coloured jacket. Large crown 8vo, cloth. Price 3s. 6d. net. (By post, 4s.)
“These are jolly stories of the ponies not only on Exmoor, but in the heaths of the New Forest, on the Moorlands of Wales, and the stony spaces of Shetland. . . . The author’s sketches are delightful.”—The Times Literary Supplement.
THE BIRDS OF THE AIR; or, British Birds in their Haunts
Second Edition. With 100 illustrations, including 8 plates in colour. 5s. net. (By post, 5s. 6d.)
“He writes with sympathetic simplicity of the birds he has watched and sketched. His drawings are wonderfully characteristic; in a few lines he catches expression, attitude, ‘jizz’ as the Irishman said, of the living, alert bird.”—Manchester Guardian.
BY ANNA SEWELL
BLACK BEAUTY: The Autobiography of a Horse
With frontispiece and jacket in colour. Crown 8vo, cloth. Price 2s. 6d. net. (By post, 2s. 10d.)
This is a new edition of the classic of the horse. Today as many readers as ever are enjoying the tale of Black Beauty’s early life and pleasant friends, his fall to the hard lot of a London cab-horse, and the happy ending of his story.
PUBLISHED BY
A. & C. Black, Ltd., 4, 5 & 6 Soho Square, London, W. 1
AGENTS
The United States
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, NEW YORK
Australia and New Zealand
THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, MELBOURNE
Canada
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, TORONTO
South Africa
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India, Burma, China and F.M.S.
MACMILLAN AND COMPANY, LIMITED
BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS
SKEWBALD AND HIS MOTHER
SKEWBALD
THE NEW FOREST PONY
By ALLEN W. SEABY
AUTHOR OF
“EXMOOR LASS, AND OTHER PONY STORIES”
AND “THE BIRDS OF THE AIR; OR, BRITISH BIRDS IN THEIR HAUNTS”
A. & C. BLACK, LTD.
4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1
MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN
First Published in 1923
Reprinted in 1927, 1929, 1931 and 1934
AUTHOR’S NOTE
All the characters, human and
equine, in this story are fictitious.
CONTENTS
CHAPTERPAGE
I.THE HERD3
II.THE FOAL14
III.THE CHASE22
IV.DEATH ON THE ROAD29
V.SKEWBALD’S NEIGHBOURS35
VI.WINTER48
VII.THE RIVAL LEADERS52
VIII.SKEWBALD IN TROUBLE58
IX.THE NEW-COMERS65
X.THE BRANDING OF SKEWBALD69
XI.SKEWBALD’S JUMPING78
XII.CHANGING THE BRAND86
XIII.THE BROKEN LEG94
XIV.HOW SKEWBALD RANG THE FIREBELL107
XV.THE WANDERERS113
XVI.SKEWBALD THE SWIFT129
XVII.HOW SKEWBALD ESCAPED THE MINES141
Map of The New Forest
SKEWBALD
THE NEW FOREST PONY
