After making a thorough search for a buyer who would be kind to his horses, Jerry decides to sell Beauty to a friend of his who works in corn dealing. His stay there would have been quite pleasant, Beauty notes, had this principled corn dealer been on the premises to watch out for his horses. The problem though was that when he was not on the premises, the foreman would overload the horses in order to increase the productivity of the business. As the foreman continued, day after day, to overburden the loads of the horses, Black Beauty and the other horses began to physically wear out. Soon enough, Black Beauty becomes too weak to work much longer there, and his owner sells him to a cab business owner named Nicolas Skinner. This man employed cab drivers and rented out the horses to them on a daily basis. He was exploitative of these men and they in turn were exploitative of their horses, as they had to overwork the horses to make enough money to pay off the rental fees. At no point in Beauty’s life does he suffer more than at the hands of these harsh-handed men. He continues to try his best though until his health simply deteriorates. Skinner, having sucked out what benefit he could from the horse, sends him to a horse market. Much like the previous story of the horse market, another kind man takes a liking to Black Beauty and buys him. This time it is Farmer Thoroughgood, who buys the horse under the encouraging of his little grandson Willie and decides to nurture him back to health before selling him again. The farmer and his grandson take excellent care of Beauty, and the horse, having just come out of the hardest part of his life, begins to feel happiness again. Although Beauty is by now an old horse, he fully recovers and Thoroughgood takes him to potential buyers. These buyers are Miss Blomefield and Miss Ellen, who live in a pleasant house in the countryside. They took a liking to the horse despite the scars on his legs from his old injury. Their groom also approves of the horse, and so they buy him from Thoroughgood. When the groom then begins to clean Beauty, he notices a few of the horse’s white marks on his otherwise black coat and he says to himself that this horse looks an awful lot like old Black Beauty. As he continues, the marks become unmistakable and he exclaims in joy that this must be Black Beauty and that he himself is Joe Green, Beauty’s old and dear friend from Birtwick. Joe is now a young man and Beauty an old horse, yet there old friendship immediately resurfaces. As it turns out, the ladies of the house are benevolent masters, Joe is an excellent groom and little Willie continues to visit his new friend Beauty frequently, so Beauty finds great happiness and peace in his new home. It is here that the story ends. Beauty is at peace, saying that often now, before he becomes fully awake, he feels like he is again under the trees of the orchard, standing contentedly with his old friends and talking with them.