![]() Take it.-You 're welcome.-No extra charge.)įIRST OF NOVEMBER,-the Earthquake-day. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth The Deacon's Masterpiece strong and sound. Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide Ĭhildren and grandchildren-where were they?īut there stood the stout old one-hoss-shay Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips Last of its timber,-they could n't sell 'em,Īnd the wedges flew from between their lips The panels of whitewood, that cuts like cheese,īut lasts like iron for things like these The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, That could n't be split nor bent nor broke,. So the Deacon inquired of the village folk T' make that place uz strong uz the rest." Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain "Fur," said the Deacon, "t 's mighty plain It should be so built that it couldn' break daown! He would build one shay to beat the taown In panel, or crossbar, or floor, or sill, There is always somewhere a weakest spot,. Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, I 'll tell you what happened without delay, The Holmes gambrel house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Two (unsigned) illustrations from his complete The wonderful one-hoss shay".frontispiece Oliver Wendell Holmes, with illustrations by H. Two illustrations from the 1902 Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Something decidedly like a spill".27 Īs bubbles do when they burst".28 General flavor of mild decay".23 Īnother hour it will be worn out".24 Īt once the horse stood still".26 Was a wonder, and nothing less".19 Īnd deaconess dropped away".20 Localities referred to are those with which I am ![]() Never give way then find the next vulnerable place, and so The workman should see to it that this part should When the wagon breaks down, three times out ofįour, I think, it is at this point that the accident Instance, the weak point is where the axle enters the hub The event follows as a logicalĬonsequence of the presupposed condition of things. May take a certain pleasure in this picture of the Should go to pieces, if not into its constituentĪtoms, at a given moment of the future. Matter that he could construct a machine which Humanity should so understand the conditions of Perfectly intelligible conception, whateverĬonceivable that a being of an order superior to The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.Įlectrotyped and Printed by H. The One Hoss Shay By Oliver Wendell Holmes with illustrations by Howard Pyle 1858, 1892Ĭopyright 1858, 1877, 1886, and 1890, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. The Deacon's Masterpiece, by Oliver Wendell Holmes ![]()
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