#theponyengine

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William Dean Howell’s Pony Engine

"Well, the thing the little Pony Engine wanted to be, the most in this world, was the locomotive of the Pacific Express. It intended to apply as soon as its cow-catcher was grown, always trying to attract the locomotive's attention." https://americanliterature.com/author/william-dean-howells/short-story/the-pony-engine-and-the-pacific-express