John Henry

Chris Hughes at The New Republic, John Henry in Boston, Jeff Bezos in Washington.

John Henry Menton took off his hat, bulged out the dinge and smoothed the nap with care on his coatsleeve.

The copy bearing date 1628, to which reference has been made, belonged to John Henry Shorthouse.

I let my John Henry take the long-tailed wagon an' go down to the depot this mornin' to fetch her an' her goods up.

"I hear him," said John Henry suddenly; and faint and far away there came the sound of a desperate bark.

Do you think old Rover "overheard them talking," as John Henry suggests?