A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.

In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.

Retells the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.