The One Hoss Shay - With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher: Good Press
Summary
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…"