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Jakes is Black Beauty’s carter when Black Beauty is sold to a baker. Jakes has no choice but to follow his foreman’s orders and overload Black Beauty’s cart, but he insists on using the bearing rein on Black Beauty so the other carters won’t laugh at him. After a lady stops Jakes from whipping Black Beauty and shows him how much better Black Beauty can pull uphill without a bearing rein, Jakes begins letting Black Beauty have his head on hills.
Jakes Quotes in Black Beauty
The Black Beauty quotes below are all either spoken by Jakes or refer to Jakes. 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 46
Quotes
“Is it not better,” she said, “to lead a good fashion, than to follow a bad one? A great many gentlemen do not use bearing reins now; our carriage horses have not worn them for fifteen years, and work with much less fatigue than those who have them; besides,” she added, in a very serious voice, “we have no right to distress any of God’s creatures without a very good reason; we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”
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Jakes Quotes in Black Beauty
The Black Beauty quotes below are all either spoken by Jakes or refer to Jakes. 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 46
Quotes
“Is it not better,” she said, “to lead a good fashion, than to follow a bad one? A great many gentlemen do not use bearing reins now; our carriage horses have not worn them for fifteen years, and work with much less fatigue than those who have them; besides,” she added, in a very serious voice, “we have no right to distress any of God’s creatures without a very good reason; we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”
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