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Have you heard of the wonderful one-horse shay, That was built in such a logical way ; It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it--ah but stay, I'll tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening people out of their wits, Have you ever heard of that, I say?
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The Deacon’s Masterpiece or, the Wonderful "One-hoss Shay": A Logical Story ... All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet’n’-house on the hill. First a shiver, and then a thrill, Then something decidedly like a spill, —; And the parson was sitting upon a rock, At half past nine by the meet’n...
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In the text itself, the transportation apparatus is spelled with hyphens, i.e., "one-hoss-shay." (In the Preface, Holmes spells it the way we would today, "one-hoss shay.") It is a colloquial American term with phonetic spelling and the same meaning of chaise, the French word for a carriage, pulled by one horse.
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Here comes the wonderful one-horse shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson. -- Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text, -- Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the -- Moses -- was coming next.
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He would build one shay to beat the taown ; 'n' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun'; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown: "Fer," said the Deacon, "'t's mighty plain ; Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain; ... All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill.
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[edit] SEQUEL TO THE "ONE-HORSE SHAY." ... Doubtless my readers all have heard Of the " wonderful one-horse shay " ... But did they ever think of the horse,
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It shows in his poem about the wonderful one-hoss shay. That shay was so perfectly built it lasted a hundred years to the day. Then it wore out all at once and collapsed into a pile of dust. What a wrenching metaphor for the doctor's hopeless ideal of keeping quality in human life -- ... All at once the horse stood still,
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Both Shay and Glassic were later resurrected, briefly, by others, to no avail. Maybe this demonstrates that boutique manufacturing of automobiles is no longer viable. Or perhaps most people just feel as I do: If you want a Model A you're just as well off with a real one...
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