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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 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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Nicholas Skinner Character Timeline in Black Beauty
The timeline below shows where the character Nicholas Skinner appears in Black Beauty. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 39
...man is back—and he shares that Sam died early this morning, raving about his boss, Skinner, and how he never had a Sunday to rest. Governor says soberly that this is...
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Chapter 47
Black Beauty’s new master is harsh and cruel. His name is Nicholas Skinner, and Black Beauty believes he’s the same Skinner Seedy Sam drove for. In Skinner’s stable,...
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Black Beauty returns to Skinner’s stables in the evening. The farrier who examines him says Black Beauty is just overworked...
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Chapter 48
Black Beauty’s seller, a man from Skinner’s stable, interjects that Black Beauty has simply been overworked and will supposedly recover with six...
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