I did not know what it was, but there was something in the sound so strange that it made me tremble all over. I listened, and heard a soft rushing sort of noise and a low crackling and snapping. The trapdoor had been left open, and I thought that was the place it came through. I heard Ginger coughing and one of the other horses seemed very restless it was quite dark, and I could see nothing, but the stable seemed full of smoke, and I hardly knew how to breathe. I got up the air seemed all thick and choking. I cannot say how long I had slept, nor what time in the night it was, but I woke up very uncomfortable, though I hardly knew why. James came in to look at us the last thing, and then the door was locked. 'All right,' said the other, and went up through the trapdoor and I heard him step across the floor overhead and put down the hay. 'I say, Towler,' said the hostler, 'just run up the ladder into the loft and put some hay down into this horse's rack, will you? only lay down your pipe.' Later on in the evening a traveler's horse was brought in by the second hostler, and while he was cleaning him a young man with a pipe in his mouth lounged into the stable to gossip. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today!

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Black beauty audiobook