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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Publisher: Good Press

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The One Hoss Shay by Oliver Wendell Holmes is a collection of stirring and imagery-filled poems about old Boston in the 1800s. Excerpt: "Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it—ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into fits…"
Available since: 12/12/2019.
Print length: 1453 pages.

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