The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-03-16
LOVE, core AND MULE.
BY ELIHU DAWKINs.

!. Did you ever rldea mule 7 DOM
mean a civilized creature accustom
ed to good society, but wild steed
of the plains brought up on grass and
rattlenakes, and accustomed to ca
wort regardless Of the constitutions
as amended or the rights of man
Mules are pretty much alike the
world over, only the Texan mule is
a little more so. 4
l rode one the other day and Pm
going to try to tell you about it. 1t
won't be very we'll written, because
my right arm has been in sling and
| have more bruises than bones.
You see | Cell in love with girl
deep as a forty feet WE'LL mean
my love, not the girl-she isn't deep
a bit-and as my luck would have
it, anotherfellow fell about the same
distance and the same time.
He's not a bad looking chap, and
wears store clothes on week days
He parts his hair in the middle and
oils it up with burgamot and cinna~
mon. He has his name printed on
pieces of pasteboard, and drops them
round promiscuously for fear people
might forget, A. Browne Swivel
was about. had to acknowledge
the fact that between this fellow and
myself, in the affections of the di,
vine Araminta, it was nip and tuck,
with the dog little ahead.
i put on my best clothes one day
and walked over to the gals house,
intending to move on her works, and
have the thing settled without fur
Their debate. My rival was there,
and seemed to have on his best
clothes. That didn't amount to much,
for | knew that at ten o'clock, six
hours after my arrival, he'd
have TO wend his winding way home,
for the old lady he boarded with
didn't have any irregular hours
If he got to bis frugal couch, or
rather the house containing it, he
might skin his knuckles and Kick
his boots off, but he would not get in
after that hour, and the haymow is
not a pleasant bedroom in flea>tiIne.
But | was soon relieved of all anxsl
iety. We had a diversion that broke
up the sitting.
Araminta is possessed OF little
brother-I hate girls brother! If
they are little they play tricks on
you, and if they are big they borrow
your money, get drunk, and insult
you with impunity, knowing that
you are in love with the sister and
won't resent an indignity.
While we are talking in small way,
and looking volumes of love at the
girl and wrath at each other, we
heard fearful yell in the garden
patch, and running out found little
brother on the ground in active con-
vulsion. He had been trying to eat
his way through the melon patch.
1t was a disgusting failure, for he
could not have bursted open and
gone into the contents of more than
ten or twelve.
AS it was it look ed as though there
was going to be death in the fam
lily, and Aramiuta screamed a scream
and yelled at us to run for a doctor.
We both took 10 the situation at
glance-the man that got doctor
first would get Araminta for life. My
rival went over the fence like a deer
and seized the only horse in the sta
BILE. He bridled and saddled the
animal in double quick time, when l
found nothing left me but mule. |
seized blind bride and rushing at
the animal, felt something whiz over
my head that felt certain it was a
pair of heels. They narrowly MISS
ed my head, but carried away my
hat. Nothing dauuted, | seized the
creature by the ear, put on the bri>
die, and, christening the chain by
which he was battered, led him from
the stable. He went out willingly,
so much so indeed that | had some
difficulty in keeping up, and had not
the creature stopped on the outside to
give vent to his feelings in pro-
longed bray, could not have mount
ed. As it was, before he got through
with bis musical entertainment | was
on his back. ~
The beast seemed somewhat as
tonished at this performance, and
stood turning it over in his mind for
minute, while / dug my heels Wig
orously in his sides. He seemed
suddenly to come to the conclusion
that a change of administration would
be an excellent thing, and to this end
began going up and down like saw
gate. l really thought I'd split in
two, and would probably have been
pitched over but that in the midst of
this pleasing exercise, Muley caught
sight of the horse disappearing at
hard gallop in the distance. He
seemed animated by the laudabIe
ambition of overtaking that horse,
and started SO suddenly he came
very near leaving me behind. |
worked my way forward until l
could get hold of the halter chain,
and, pulling this rigging tight, got a
pretty secure hold.
2 How that beast did RIM He not