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Skinner owns one of the large cab companies in London that rents horses and cabs to drivers for a day rate. He employed Seedy Sam, and it’s implied that he owned Ginger. He’s a hard, cruel man who believes in working horses as hard as they’ll go until they die, and then he sells them to the knackers. Black Beauty spends only a few months in Skinner’s stables before he collapses from overwork. The farrier convinces Skinner to rest Black Beauty for two weeks and then sell him at a horse sale.
Nicholas Skinner Quotes in Black Beauty
The Black Beauty quotes below are all either spoken by Nicholas Skinner or refer to Nicholas Skinner. 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 47
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“He had a cruel whip with something so sharp at the end that it sometimes drew blood, and he would even whip me under the belly, and flip the lash out at my head. Indignities like these took the heart out of me terribly, but still I did my best and never hung back; for, as poor Ginger said, it was no use; men are the strongest.
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Nicholas Skinner Quotes in Black Beauty
The Black Beauty quotes below are all either spoken by Nicholas Skinner or refer to Nicholas Skinner. 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 47
Quotes
“He had a cruel whip with something so sharp at the end that it sometimes drew blood, and he would even whip me under the belly, and flip the lash out at my head. Indignities like these took the heart out of me terribly, but still I did my best and never hung back; for, as poor Ginger said, it was no use; men are the strongest.
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