The legend of Black Beauty has spawned (if a horse can be said to spawn; it's more of a frog thing, really) a great many horsey tails on film television and in print, but even Anna Sewell's original classic adventure didn't tell it like it really is. So here, straight from the horse's mouth, is Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan, revealing what it's like to be a young foal: On being a young foal: 'As soon as I was old enough to eat grass, my mother used to stuff it down my throat until it kept coming out the back.' On being sold by a beloved master: 'I could not say goodbye so I put my nose in his hand and bit off a finger.' On freezing weather: 'The horses all felt it very much. I felt mine and it was frosty.' Spike canters through this volume of his According To...series with his unique, bawdy irreverence.