List of Illustrations
Oliver Wendell Holmes
THE DEACON’S MASTERPIECE.
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The Deacon
Frontispiece.
Half Title
11
The Masterpiece
12
“A chaise breaks down”
14
“The Deacon inquired of the village folk”
16
“Naow she’ll dew”
18
“She was a wonder, and nothing less”
19
“Deacon and deaconess dropped away”
20
“Eighteen Hundred”
21
“Fifty-Five”
21
“Its hundredth year”
22
“A general flavor of mild decay”
23
“In another hour it will be worn out”
24
“The parson takes a drive”
25
“All at once the horse stood still”
26
“Then something decidedly like a spill”
27
“Just as bubbles do when they burst”
28
“End of the wonderful one-hoss-shay”
29
HOW THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET.
Half Title
30
“The famous trotting ground”
31
“Many a noted steed”
32
“The Sunday swell”
33
“The jointed tandem”
34
“So shy with us, so free with these”
35
“The lovely bonnets beamed their smiles”
36
“I’ll bet you two to one”
37
Decorative
Drawing of two boys chasing after a one horse chaise
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