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European Donteydom-Face Of the Count

European Donteydom-Fq Of the Country.
M4RsLILLEs. June 81, 1854.
To the Editor Of the Free Press
The universal donkey is certainly great nstitu-
ton in Europe. We have all Of from time
to time, respectable and wsc-looking ass, the
lighter and more graceful mule but that grotesqus
little animal, the universal European donkey has
been perpetual novelty to nc. lie Is but little
larger than goat, and is about as shaggy, His
ears are about as long as his legs, and he usually
carries them nearly horizontally, and his endurance,
patience meekness and strength, seem to be without
limit.
A donkey, costing in London or on the Con-
tnent, from ten to fifteen dollars, and cart about
as much more, is complete outfit for a
and without the cart on the Continent, the donkey
himself, with sort Of pack saddle, is competent to
anything. Thoy him up with sacks many
times his bulk they put tolerablc load of wood
on each side of him with strap the saddle
they cover him all up with faggots and bundles Of
hay, and straw and baskets Of size, filled
with stone or iron, or produce. Often you will see
the little animal trutting along with six or seven
ten-orffte n-galon-keg Of beer for a load, three
! kegs on each side and his back, So that his
load reaches each side t. within about n foot Of
the ground. You load # hay coming towards
you, appur, nt!y like one of WorlswVrth's rivers,
sat its own sweet will - but you soon discover,
near the ground, signs of donkey beneath it, look
ing for all the world hike mouse under bundle Of
oakum. And the peasant girl going to market, puts
her two large basket. of ons sarse. aud short are,
and all sorts cf garden truck" As solomon Swop
say on her little grey donkey, one on each ,idc
n.
in the picturesque dress OF her class, and herself
on the saddle, using basket for her foo-rc.t and
with her knitting in her hands, trct, chcerly on,
her broad-brimmcd cone crowned hat (tor out OF
France they hst,) and her party-coored bod
dice trembling under the pit-a-pnt pace of her pro.
gress, and the gay ribbon, Gyias gracefully in III,
gentle breeze that blows her cur's about her 'swuN
neck
And the trains for drawing carts and veg
CONS on the great highways for the transportation
merchandise produce, are great novelty to US
although doubtless tee7 have come down unchangcc
from the greatest antiquity You will three OF
four donkeys tandem, cr two OF three abreast, or
horse, a cow and a donkey tandem. on oitenvr thre
abreast, and another donkey ior leader and soine
times b, mogonoJvs tra!n Of si- ltn,,.s, tn,
abreast, OF ave- tv sh-cG ;, With leslt!. Tie!
hGclesl j. the Old re-. 81 ~ o.-'li,a a..d alt
lonAov A,..s.!! a- Jao -.t, i,h,s O.! c--.4-.e.i-
Ii, description. Letgcea tho Is au ornaments
little sJecp.e, VA" Fathers, .vsus Of rGss, and
bell or two. lien about the Shoulder, il Auni
solar, stated with straw, about ia inches thick
terminating at t., top in l,atler covered cont
about fifteen inehos hie and al, ut ria ineh,s in d
amt tor at the base, About this is ii necklace
small bells. Ih,n ccmos up the wooden humes, ia'
tened at the Las. Ct Il !. cor,, wh,i,, with us,
terminates hut in midd, flnnco it stops not tn, T.
but both ,idcs of the con. staris "A Hgain at "a
angle Of about 10 ssces with the aXis Of the con,
A and in guar cuIv, h-..rcho. 80 Is or ~ wth,
= like long pain Of Il Divr he, p, and ga to, cu,
, rings tarnush l'rh T., r,ir. .ru b,f,lg .uiu
to the bits Then the eat T. 'olucl go ., viii hen
abo, tn, nAl,trrc oui bel ,u. s., go O., So .s
noar the ground. E,r', Io,.i,ulurauiurd lis -i,,
Ne many head aud hoII.- as ia, hcA-t "a the Apps
: lyIsc, aud tbs h"lc thing together might be We
shipped by ilolstrously inclined, n, the ou