THE CINDER BUGGY
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE DRIVER
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THE CINDER BUGGY
A FABLE IN IRON AND STEEL
BY
GARET GARRETT
AUTHOR OF “THE DRIVER,” “THE BLUE WOUND,” ETC.
NEW YORK
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Copyright, 1923
By E. P. Dutton & Company
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THE CINDER BUGGY
A pot-metal body
on two little wheels,
absurdly,
bow-leggedly
walking away to the dump
with the slag, the
purgings of iron, the
villainous drool of the furnace—
that is a cinder buggy.
It is also a sign
that what man refines
beyond
God’s content
with things as he left them
will very soon perish
for want of the dross
from which it is parted.
Why hath each thing its cinder?—
even the sweetest desire?
THE CINDER BUGGY