As in the tool it pays to have the best of steel, so on the road, which is subject to the wear and tear of steel horseshoes and heavy iron tires, it is found the cheapest to have the best of stone.
"The Future of Road-making in America"
Archer Butler Hulbert
It requires good judgment based on experience to determine the right kind of stone to take the constant wear of horseshoes and wagon tires.
"The Future of Road-making in America"
Archer Butler Hulbert
He was beloved by all, and most of all by the children; For he told them tales of the Loup-garou in the forest, And of the goblin that came in the night to water the horses, And of the white Letiche, the ghost of a child who unchristened Died, and was doomed to haunt unseen the chambers of children; And how on Christmas eve the oxen talked in the stable, And how the fever was cured by a spider shut up in a nutshell, And of the marvellous powers of four-leaved clover and horseshoes, With whatsoever else was writ in the lore of the village.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow