The Deacon inquired of the village folk

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The Deacon inquired of the village folk
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The Deacon inquired of the village folk

Date1905
Illustration CitationThe One Hoss Shay with its Companion Poems, How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892)
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 6 1/16 × 3 5/8 in. (15.4 × 9.2 cm)
sheet: 12 13/16 × 9 5/16 in. (32.5 × 23.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Aiken Simons, 1934
Object number1934-45
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Label TextOliver Wendell Holmes was well known not just as a professor anatomy at Harvard but also as an author of light verse. The One Hoss Shay tells of a one hundred year old horse-drawn carriage that finally, and suddenly, breaks down. In How the Old Horse Won the Bet, a "poor forlorn old beast" amazes everyone with his speed in winning a race. The Broomstick Train attributes the flashing sparks of new electric trains to witches riding alongside them.
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