Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1883-11-15

there.
recognised him. HAD met him.
Ills lover lip hung down. He look
sd disgussed. Il seemed he didnt
like being mule.
A day or two before. while was
irving to pick mp little child who
had got too near this mules heels. be
kicked roe two Or thrss times before
could tell from which way | was
hit. might have avoided some Of
The kicking, bat in my confusion ]
began to tick At the mule. I didn't
kick with him long. lie Oulnumber-
ed me.
He browsed along on the choice
shrubbery. forgot The beauty Of
the morning. Remembered black
and-bIue spot on my leg. Il locked
like the print Of a mules hOOf. There
was another on my right hip. Where
my suspenders crossed were two more.
a. 7 have been informed. They were
side by side-twin blue spots-and
seemed to be about thesame age
thought Of revenge. / didn't
want to kick with him any more. No.
But Thought. if I had him tied down
good and fast, so he could not move
his heels. how like sweet incense it
would be to first saw his ears and tail
smooth of. then put out his eyes with
a re,l-hot poker. then skin him alive.
then run him down through thresh-
ing-machine.
While I was Thus thinking and get
ting madden aud madden the mule.
which had wandered up close to a
large beehive, got stung Ills eyes
lighted up, as if that was just what
he was looking for. He fred. In
ten seconds the only piece Of beehive
] could see was about the size a man
feels when he has told joke that falls
on the company like 9 piece of sad
news. This piece was in the air. 1t
was being kicked at.
The bees swarmed. They swarm
ed a great deal. They lit on that
mule earnestly. After he had kick
ed the last bit of beehive 80 high
that he could not reach it any more,
he stopped for an instant. He SEEM
ed trying to ascertain whether the
ten thousand bees which were sting
ing him meant it. They did.
The mule turned loose. never
saw anything to equal it. lie was
envelOped in dense fog of earnest
ness and bees. and filed with enthu-
siasm and ssings. The more he kick
ed the higher he rose from the ground.
/ may have been mistaken, for WIS
somewhat excited and very much de-
lighted. but that mule seemed TO rise
a. high as the tops of the pepper-trees.
The perper trees were twenty feet
high. He would open and shut him.
self like q frog swimming. Some
times. when he was in mid air, he
would Took like he was flying. and /
would think for a moment he was
about to become an angel. Only for
a moment. There are probably no
mule angels
When he had cot mp to the tops of
the pepper-trees was called to break
fast. told them l diln't want any
breakfast.
The mule continued to be busy.
When a mule kicks himself clear
off the earth, his heels seldom reach |
higher than his back; that is, a mules !
fore-legs can reach forward and his
hind-legs backward until the mule |
becomes Strengthened ont into line
of mule parallel with the earth and |
fifteen or twenty feet therefrom. This
mules hind-legs. however. were not
only raised into line with his back, |
but they would come over until the
bottom Of his hOOfs almost touched |
his ears.
The mule proceeded as If he desired !
to hurry through.
Ihad no idea how many bees
hive would hold until I saw that bee
hive emptied on that mule. They
covered him SO completely that l
could not see any Of him but the glare
of his eyes. I could see from the ex-
preston Of his eyes that he didn't like
the way things were going.
The mule still went on in this alb
sOrbsa kind Of way.
Not only was every bee of the dis
turbed hive on duty. but / think the
news had been conveyed 70 neighbOr-
ing hives that war had been declared.
| could see bees fitting te and fro.
The mule was covered so deep with
bees that he looked like an exageerat-
ed mule. The hum Of the bees and