The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-01

| pam nau 1ull possession OF him. IO
couldn't lay a pin point ON part G
his person that wasn't riled; he was ma
all through-under, over, and roun
about him. The angels of peace, pity
and tenderness had just to stand bach
clear space of forty feet, to give hin
a clear swing, and watch him sail in. HI
had been cruelty deceived, and TIN
blood of the Boblinks was up. He mad
a ferocious charge on the invader, cary
ing the air with his cane, but his mule
ship appeared again to have gone t.
sleep, and paid no more attention to tn,
cane than if it had been straw.
| Mr.. Boblink had just turned around
to find some heavier weapon, when hi.
wife, watching from the window, penelo
the mule suddenly and systematically
straighten out his left hind-leg in Mr.
Boblink's direction, and that worthy but
very mad gentleman was observed to fly
through the air as if he had been shot
out of cannon, turn somersault over
the dog, try to pillow furrow with his
nose and vest buttons and finally SUBJ
side into a very much enraged and
bruised heap of soiled and torn broad
cloth. Round number one was univer-
sally coded to the mule.
Towser, after getting out from under
his master, sprang at the mule, giving a
wide berth to the hind-leg portion of that
animal, and attacking him in front, bark
ing loud enough to raise the shingles on
the roof of the house, and swapping vi
ciously at the intruder's front legs; and
Mrs. Boblink was just thinking what
faithful, noble dog, to come so boldly to
the defense of his master, when the mule
dropped his bland, innocent face toward
him suddenly, and removed foot or so
of Towser's backbone; and that worthy
animal, after bestowing parting glance
over his shoulder Of disgust and undying
hatred to the whole mule tribe, folded
away his bark, leaned over on his side,
and was gone in a minute and half to
meet his grandfather Tray in dogs para
disc, where yellow mules are not adj
mitted.
Mr.. Boblink got up on his feet in
dazed manner, as if he couldn't exactly
understand how it all happened, but the
sight of that old yellow hulk grinning at
him, together with a red-hot sensation
under his coat-tails, made it clear to his
mind; and, with three-story fighting
oath, he snatched an immense stick of
cerawood and aimed murderous blow
I the beasts pensive and childlike face.
To his dying day he will never be able to
understand how the brute changed ends
20 quick. He seemed to work on a pivot,
Tor the next moment Mr.. Boblink found |
hat mules dainty hoof Nesting just
where his vest leaves off and his sus-
bender buttons are sewed on.
Still, all the unlocked missionaries in |
oreign lands couldn't have persuaded |
him it wasn't an earthquake he was nurs-
ng instead of mules hind foot; and he
had just abousmade aphis mind that he
lidn't want to. live any, longer in the
<AiiC WiSACu WOAiN Win CllOW
when the brute kicked him again Just
,etween the shoulders, hard enough to
halter the constitution of the United
States, the ten commandments, and Ply
mouth rock. That kick started Mr..
3oblink's eyes out of their sockets like a
fulton market lobster. 1t didn't appear
o hurt the mule bit; he rather seemed
o enjoy it; for he switched his stumpy
all lazily, leaned over and pulled down
section of the picket fence with his
eeth, and slowly meandered away.
Mrs. Boblink and the hired girl came
ut, picked up her shattered and bunged-
Up husband, whom she found cropping on
lis hands and knees. as if he was looking
Or a sixpence, and with no more wind in
i'm than bursted balloon. They car
led him into the house, and for a solid
Teek after the atmosphere for hundred
ards around that habitation was hung
leavy with a camphorated odor.