List of Illustrations

[THE DEACON’S MASTERPIECE.]PAGE
[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]
[“Harnessed in his one-hoss-shay”][38]
[“The sexton ... led forth the horse”][40]
[“A sight to see”][41]
[“They lead him, limping, to the track”][42]
[“To limber out each stiffened joint”][43]
[“Something like a stride”][45]
[“A mighty stride he swung”][47]
[“Off went a shoe”][48]
[“And now the stand he rushes by”][50]
[“And off they spring”][51]
[“They follow at his heels”][52]
[“They’re losing ground”][52]
[“He’s distanced all the lot”][53]
[“Some took his time”][54]
[“Back in the one-hoss shay he went”][56]
[“A horse can trot, for all he’s old”][57]
[THE BROOMSTICK TRAIN.]
[Half Title][58]
[“Clear the track”][59]
[“An Essex Deacon dropped in to call”][60]
[“The old dwellings”][61]
[“The small square windows”][61]
[“Dark, dim, Dante-like solitudes”][63]
[“Norman’s Woe”][64]
[“The Screeching Woman of Marblehead”][65]
[“It isn’t fair”][66]
[“You’re a good old—fellow—come, let us go”][68]
[“See how tall they’ve grown”][69]
[“They called the cats”][70]
[“The Essex people had dreadful times”][71]
[“The withered hags were free”][72]
[“A strange sea-monster stole their bait”][74]
[“They could hear him twenty miles”][75]
[“They came ... at their master’s call”][76]
[“You can hear her black cat’s purr”][78]
[“Catch a gleam from her wicked eye”][79]
[Tail Piece][80]