80 ff. Illustrated in color by Howard Pyle. Foreword by John G. Braun. "American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. memorialized the shay in his satirical poem "The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay". In the poem, a fictional deacon crafts the titular wonderful one-hoss shay in such a logical way that it could not break down. The shay is constructed from the very best of materials so that each part is as strong as every other part. In Holmes' humorous, yet "logical", twist, the shay endures for a hundred years (amazingly to the precise moment of the 100th anniversary of the Lisbon earthquake shock) then it "went to pieces all at once, and nothing first, - just as bubbles do when they burst". It was built in such a "logical way" that it ran for exactly one hundred years to the day."
