[00:00.340]chapter 3 Giger's story
[00:04.716]What more could I want？ Freedom！For the first four years of my life I had a large field where I could gallop around at full speed—with no straps，no bit，and no blinkers．
[00:26.292]Now I stood in a stable，night and day，except when I was wanted for work， and sometimes when John took me out，I felt so strong，so full of life，that I wanted to jump or dance．
[00:44.326]　　'Calm down，boy！'he would say．
[00:48.412]　　Then，as soon as we were out of the village，he would let me trot fast for a few miles．
[00:57.132]Some grooms punished a horse for getting too excited，but not John．
[01:03.244]He knew how to control me with only the sound of his voice， and I was very fond of him．
[01:11.028]　　Sometimes we did have our freedom in the field for an hour or two．
[01:17.780]This was on fine Sundays in the summer，because the carriage never went out on Sundays．It was wonderful．
[01:27.021]The grass was cool and soft to our feet，and the air was so sweet．
[01:33.964]And we could gallop or lie down or roll over on our backs，or do what we liked．
[01:41.436]　　One day Ginger asked me about my old home and my training．
[01:48.308]When I finished telling her，she said，'Life has been different for me．
[01:55.660]I was taken from my mother when I was young，and there was no kind master like yours to look after me．I had a bad time when I was trained．
[02:09.372]Several men caught me in a corner of the field and one held my nose so hard that I could only just breathe．
[02:20.300]Then another pulled my mouth open to put the bit in， and I was pulled along and beaten from behind．They didn't give me a chance to understand what they wan-ted．
[02:34.196]　　'The old master， Mr Ryder， knew about horses， but he gave up most of the business to his son， who was tall and strong， but not gentle．
[02:48.476]They called him Samson， and he said that no horse could throw him out of the saddle．
[02:56.284]One day，he made me run round the field on a long rein until I was very tired and miserable．
[03:05.172]The next morning he did the same again，then he put a saddle and bridle on me，and a new kind of bit into my mouth．
[03:16.724]　　'The new bit was very painful and I pulled away and stood up on my back legs， which made him very angry．
[03:27.172]He stayed in the saddle and beat me with a whip，but after a long and terrible battle I threw him off and galloped to the other end of the field．
[03:40.198]　　'I watched him go into the stable， but no one came to fetch me．
[03:48.412]Time went on and the sun was very hot．I was hungry and very thirsty．
[03:59.525]At last，just as the sun was going down， the old master came out with some oats．
[04:07.772]He spoke kindly and held out the oats for me to eat，then patted me gently and looked at the blood on my sides where Samson had whipped me．
[04:20.466]　　'“Poor girl！”he said，then led me to the stable．Samson was there．“Keep out of the way，”said the master．
[04:32.824]“You've done a bad day's work for this horse with your bad temper．
[04:37.970]A bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse．”He led me into my box and took off my saddle and bridle．
[04:50.825]Then he called for some warm water and gently cleaned the blood from my sides．
[04:58.640]　　'After that，he often came to see me， but a man called Joe went on training me．He was quiet and thoughtful and I soon learned what he wanted．
[05:15.320]　　'After my training，'Ginger went on，'I was bought by a dealer to match another horse of my colour．
[05:25.960]But then we were sold to a man in London who drove us with a bearing rein—a rein to hold our heads up unnaturally high and to keep them there，for hours and hours，until the pain was terrible．
[05:43.760]We had to wear two bits instead of one，and mine was so sharp that it made my mouth bleed．
[05:52.025]Sometimes we waited for hours while our master or mistress was at parties or the theatre， and if we weren't patient，the driver would whip us．'
[06:04.416]　　'Didn't your master care about you at all？'I said．
[06:10.640]　　'Only about how we looked，'replied Ginger．'He knew very little about horses．
[06:17.944]The driver told him I had a bad temper but would soon get used to the bearing rein．
[06:24.896]I was willing to work and learn，but they were so cruel that it made me angry．
[06:32.792]Then I broke away from the carriage one day，and that was the end of that place．
[06:40.192]　　'I was sold to another man，but he had a groom as bad-tem-pered as Samson．
[06:47.848]He hit me across the legs with his stable brush if I didn't move quickly．
[06:53.390]I hated him， and one day when he made me angry，I bit him！He never came into my stall after that， and I was soon sold again．
[07:06.755]　　'A dealer heard of me and said he thought he knew one place where I should do well．“It's wrong for a fine horse to go bad like that，”he said．And I was brought here，not long before you came．Of course，it's very different here．But who knows how long it will last？ I've decided that all men are my natural enemies．'
[07:40.685]　　I was sorry for Ginger， but as the weeks went on， she became happier and more gentle．
[07:52.155]　　'I do believe Ginger is getting quite fond of me，'James said one day．
[08:01.051]　　'She'll be as good as Black Eeauty one day，'replied John．'Kindness is all she needs，poor thing！'