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Title: The One Hoss Shay
With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Illustrator: Howard Pyle
Release Date: October 18, 2009 [EBook #30279]
Language: English
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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
[Illustration]
_Boston and New York_
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
M DCCC XCII
Copyright, 1858, 1877, 1886, and 1890,
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
Copyright, 1891,
BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
_All rights reserved._
_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A._
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Preface
My publishers suggested the bringing together of the three poems here presented to the reader as bein