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Captain is Jerry’s other cab horse. As a young horse, he was trained to be ridden in the cavalry—he led regiments in Crimea. While he loved his owner and loved the training, he now believes that war itself is horrible. After seeing so many horses and men die senseless, gruesome deaths, he can only hope that their enemies were truly evil. Captain performs admirably for Jerry until he’s hit by a runaway dray and a shaft impales him. He recovers, but only enough to work as a carthorse. Since Jerry believes carting is a cruel death sentence for old horses like Captain, he has Captain shot.
Captain Quotes in Black Beauty
The Black Beauty quotes below are all either spoken by Captain or refer to Captain. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 34
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I said, “I have heard people talk about war as if it was a very fine thing.”
“Ah!” said he, “I should think they never saw it. No doubt it is very fine when there is no enemy, when it is just exercise and parade, and sham-fight. Yes, it is very fine then; but when thousands of good brave men and horses are killed, or crippled for life, it has a very different look.”
“Do you know what they fought about?” said I.
“No,” he said, “that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.”
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Chapter 44
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The drayman was proved to be very drunk, and was fined, and the brewer had to pay damages to our master; but there was no one to pay damages to poor Captain.
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Captain Quotes in Black Beauty
The Black Beauty quotes below are all either spoken by Captain or refer to Captain. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 34
Quotes
I said, “I have heard people talk about war as if it was a very fine thing.”
“Ah!” said he, “I should think they never saw it. No doubt it is very fine when there is no enemy, when it is just exercise and parade, and sham-fight. Yes, it is very fine then; but when thousands of good brave men and horses are killed, or crippled for life, it has a very different look.”
“Do you know what they fought about?” said I.
“No,” he said, “that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.”
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Chapter 44
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The drayman was proved to be very drunk, and was fined, and the brewer had to pay damages to our master; but there was no one to pay damages to poor Captain.
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