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    The One Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train
    The One Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train
    The One Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train
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    The One Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train

    By Oliver Wendell Holmes and Howard Pyle

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The One Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train
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    Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the “Breakfast Table” series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.

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      The One Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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      Title: The One Hoss Shay

      With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet &

      The Broomstick Train

      Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes

      Illustrator: Howard Pyle

      Release Date: October 18, 2009 [EBook #30279]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ONE HOSS SHAY ***

      Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed

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      Transcriber’s Note

      Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of corrections is found at the end of the text.

      The One Hoss Shay

      With its Companion Poems

      How the Old Horse Won the Bet

      &

      The Broomstick Train

      By Oliver Wendell Holmes

      With Illustrations by

      Howard Pyle

      Boston and New York

      Houghton, Mifflin and Company

      The Riverside Press, Cambridge>

      M DCCC XCII

      Copyright, 1858, 1877, 1886, and 1890,

      By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

      Copyright, 1891,

      By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

      All rights reserved.

      The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.

      Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

      Preface

      My publishers suggested the bringing together of the three poems here presented to the reader as being to some extent alike in their general character. The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay is a perfectly intelligible conception, whatever material difficulties it presents. It is conceivable that a being of an order superior to humanity should so understand the conditions of matter that he could construct a machine which should go to pieces, if not into its constituent atoms, at a given moment of the future. The mind may take a certain pleasure in this picture of the impossible. The event follows as a logical consequence of the presupposed condition of things.

      There is a practical lesson to be got out of the story. Observation shows us in what point any particular mechanism is most likely to give way. In a wagon, for instance, the weak point is where the axle enters the hub or

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