Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1890-04-05
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a Greedy HOrse-The End OF an z-sspsy
ating siule-A Bulls Vengeance.

u scranton man owned a IanK bay
horse that stood nearly nineteen hands
high The long legged animal devoured
great quantities. of food, and after the
Scranton man had made several un-
successful efforts to sell him or trade
him off, he got Waverly farmer to
winter the horse at stated price. In
the course of six weeks the voracious
horse had devoured a whole stack of
hay, and the Waverly man. became
| frantic. He straightway came to Scran-
ton and told the owner of the horse that
the greedy beast would ruin him finan-
clally before spring, and he begged the
man to take the horse away at once,
agreeing to take S. Il ton for all the hay
the horse had eaten and sag no more
about 1t. There was a good deal of the
milk Of human kindness in the owner of
the horse, and he made the discouraged
farmer feel happy by removing the
horse the next day.
The bay nag was an elephant on the
| Scranton mans hands for while, but
eventually he traded it off for pair of
mare mules that he didn't know any
| thing about. One of the mules proved
to be a very gentle and docile creature,
| while the other soon convinced her
owner that she had been foaled and
raised right in the center of the village
of Kickerville, as he expressed it. The
Dlan quickly concluded that it wouldn't
do to keep the mules together, and so he
sold the gentle mule for S175. The bad
mule, whose name was Jen, was as big
an elephant ON his hands as the tail horse
had been, and how to dispose of her
honOrably racked his brain for months,
he said.
Jen was sleek and handsome, but she
would kick everything to pieces that
was hitched to her. In the stall she was
as gentle as kitten until some one
undertook to throw a harness over her
back. Then her ieet flew, and the har-
ness and the man who tried to put it on
her didn'tstay there long. Jen wouldn't
let any one ride her, either. Several
smart young men tried to get on her back
III the stall, but Jen's hind feet flew so
fast and furiously, and her rump bobbed
up at such rapid rate, that the young
men were glad to go to another part of
the stable and reflect for while.
Along In the summer an unusually ac-
tive young chap offered to bet Jen's
owner that he could ride the mule five
blocks on one of the business avenues.
''Ill bet you s. you can't" the man told
the spry fellow, and the money was put
up at once. Ill that the young man
wanted ON Jen when he rode her was a
blind bride and surcingle, and pretty
soon Jen was led out on the street in
sight of crowd that didn't get very
near her heels. The athletic chap seized
the bride reins in his left hand, grasped
the surcingle on Jen's back with his
right, and spoke kindly to the mule.
Jen was standing still then, but the
expression in her moving ears, her owner
said, told him as plainly as words that
the cid Harry would soon be to pay.
With spring the Young man leaped to
Jen's back. and at the same instant Jen's |
hind legs began to play like drum sticks,
while her head went down, and the ath- |
lete was astride of her neck. Between |
kicks Jen whirled around dozen times |
within q circle of twenty feet, and then |
made a dash for the open door of a gro
Gerry, in front of which low awning |
extended over the sidewalk. Her would |
De rider saw his danger, and grabbed the |
caves of the awning with both hands, |
and Jen kited into the grocery and be-
gan to eat apples out of barrel. He |
was the last person who tried to ride her.
In the fail Jen met q tragic fate on the
Delaware and Hudson canal, Just below
HOnesdale. The man who put her ON
the canal knew all about her habits, and
had agreed to pay $3.50 for her if he could
make her work. lie hitched her behind
2iree other mules, and in going less than
half mile Jen threw herself into the
canal seventeen times. That exasperated
her driver 10 the highest pitch. The butt
Of his whip was loaded with lead, and
as zen lay kicking on the ground. he hit
her with the loaded butt, crushed her
skull anG killed her.
\ wealthy coal mine operator in the
Lackawanna valley owned 6-year-old
HolStein bull that was cross and vicious.
Generally the bull was tied with rope
in 4 yard by himself, but occasionally he
was allowed to run loose in yard with
a lot of idle mine mules. The two yards
joined, and one day four or five of the
mules got in the yard where the bull was
tied up ard began to act mi5chievously
around him. The barn keeper saw one
N them nip the bull on the flank and cut
up other playful capers. The bull didn't
like to be played with, but one mule in
particular seemed to take delight in teas
ing him. After q while the old bull got
mad, and the barn keeper
Jrove the mules out and put up the bars.
4 few days after that the bull was let
loose in the mule yard. He began to
nose around a manure heap, apparently
rs cOntented as could be, while several
Of the mules nibbled straw on either side
# him. At kis right stood the mule that
had teascd him 4 few days before. The
barn man was watching them. All at
once, without bit of warning, the bull
made q vicious lunge at the mule on his
light, and thrust one of his horns deep
INTO its left side. The mule died in no
line, and when they cut it open they
'Ound that the bulls horn had pierced
he center of its heart. After that the
]ull tried to kill two men, and he got to
)e so dangerous that the owner had him
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