The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-03-06
urrLe sroklss 81 AN.MALs.
A Grssdy Horss-Ths End of ~ EHaspsz
atipg Sluls--A Buli's vsugesacs.

A Greedy Horss-Ths End u ~ Exaspsr-
atipg Hfuls--A HuIl's vsngesocs.
A Scranton man owned . lank 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 of, he got Waverly farmer TO
winter tho horse ct o stated price. In
the course Of six weeks the voracious
horse had devoured 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-
cially before spring, and he begged the
man to take the horse away at once,
agreeing to take % q tom for ell the hay
the horse had eaten and sAy no more
about 1t. There was 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. sk.t@
The bay nag was an elephant on the
Scranton mans hands for while, but
eventually he traded it of for pair Of
mare mules that he Aidn't know any
thing about. One of the mules proved
to be 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
man quickly concluded that 1t wouldn't
do to keep the mules together, and so he
sold the gentle mule for SITS. The bad
mule, whose name was Jen, was as big
an elephant on his hands as the tall horse
had been, and how to dispose of her
honorably racked his brain for months,
he said. e~ e
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 a kitten until some one
undertook to throw harness over her
back. Then her feet few, and the har-
ness and the man who tried to put it on
her didn't stay there long. Jen wouldn't
let any one ride her, either Several
smart young men tried to get on, her back
in the stall, but Jen's hind feet few 50
fast and furiously, and her rump bobbed
up at such rapid rate, that the young
men were glad to 60 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.
"I'll bet you s you can't" the man told
the spry fellow, and the money was put
up at once. All 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 a. plainly q woras that
the old Harry would soon ber4p pay.
With spring tho young man leaped to
Jen's back, and at the same instant Jen'a
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 circle Of twenty feet, and then
made dash for tho open door Of q gro.
Gerry, in front Of which low, awning
extended over the sidewalk. Her would
be 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 fall Jen met o 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 $50 for her il he could
make her work. He hitched her behind
three other mules, and in going less thar
half q milo Jen threw herself into the
canal seventeen times. That exasperated
her driver to the highest pitch. The butt
Of his whip was loaded with lead, and
as Jen lay kicking on the ground, he hit
her with the loaded butt, crushed hel
skull and killed her. issa
A wealthy coal mine operator in the
Lackawanna valley owned a6-year-old
Holstein bull that was cross and vicious,
Generally the bull was tied with rop<
in yard by himself, but occasionally hs
was allowed to run loose in q yard with
Q lot Of idle mine mules. The two yards
joined, and one day four or Ave of the
mules got in the yard where the bull wa
tied up and began to act mischievously
around him. Tho barn keeper saw one
Of them nip the bull on the flank and cut
up other playful oapers. The bull didn',
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
believing mad, and the barn keeper
drove the mules out and put up the bars
A few days after that the bull was lei