Spirit of the Horse by William Shatner

Author:William Shatner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

“White Dandy”; or, Master and I

by VELMA CALDWELL MELVILLE (1898)

This novel, like the true-life tale of Blind Faith, is a fun and poignant story, and I offer up the first two chapters.

The selection has another value, one that makes stories written in any other era so important. I remember, growing up, reading novels like James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Fiction is often a snapshot of the time when it was written, riddled with customs, habits, tools, and thoughts that are otherwise lost to us. There are props in this tale that evoke what it was like to own a horse well over a century ago. The language, too, is a reminder of another time, when a word like “bungler” was truly an invective.…

I suspect that the tale (and the title) were inspired by the success of an earlier novel by one Anna Sewell, the classic Black Beauty since White Dandy was billed as a companion piece.

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