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.
The poem "The Deacon's masterpiece," a satire on Calvinism, paints a whimsical picture of a "one-hoss" shay that was so perfectly built that it lasted for 100 years and then fell apart all at once.
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