id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 30279 Holmes, Oliver Wendell The One Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train .txt text/plain 4707 511 95 Old Horse won the Bet," which taxes the credulity of experienced "Old Blue," a famous Boston horse of the early decades of this century, But there stood the stout old one-hoss-shay _How the_ Old Horse HOW THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET HOW THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET HOW THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET The old horse nears the judges' stand, He steps a five-year-old again! Old Hiram said, "He's going fast." Old Hiram followed on his gray, The old horse--all the rest astern,-Some said, "Old Dutchman come again!" [Illustration: "Back in the one-horse-shay he went"] A horse _can_ trot, for all he's old. A horse _can_ trot, for all he's old. You're a good old--fellow--come, let us go!" You're a good old--fellow--come, let us go!" [Illustration: "You're a good old-fellow-come, let us go"] But every cat knew his own old witch; ./cache/30279.txt ./txt/30279.txt