 That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke,^ That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for...  The Autocrat of the breakfast table - Page 290by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ferguson - 1881 - 386 pages
...cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; 40 THE WONDERFUL " ONE-BOSS SHAIT." The hubs from logs from the " Settler's ellum," Last of its timber— they couldn't sell 'em — Never an axe had seen the chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 pages
...from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 410 pages
...from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips. And the wedges flew from between theii stay,... | |
 | Gleanings - 1882 - 692 pages
...from the straightest trees ; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " settler's...linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; » Shafts. Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 630 pages
...from the straightest trees; The panels, of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's...linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 pages
...from the straightest trees : The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the " settler's...linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide; Hoot, top, dasher, from tough old hide, Found in the pit... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1882 - 420 pages
...from the straightest trees; The panels of whitewood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't .sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips,... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - 1881 - 438 pages
...from the straightest trees ; The panels of whitewood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's...linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 396 pages
...from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's...linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit... | |
 | John Hamer - 1883 - 334 pages
...from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's...between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery tips ; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the... | |
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