The Essex people had dreadful times

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The Essex people had dreadful times
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The Essex people had dreadful times

Date1892
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 board
Dimensionssheet: 5 7/8 × 6 5/16 in. (14.9 × 16 cm)
Credit LineGift of Daniel Anderson, 1991
Object number1991-107
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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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