July, 1891.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]
