, 1890-02-16
little STORIES OF ANIMALS.
A Greedy Horse-Thc End of an Exasper-
ntIng Mule-A Bulrs Vengeance.

A Greedy Hor-e-The End of an Exaspcr-
nting Muie-A Bulls Vengeance.
. A Scranton man owned a 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 I'M
successful efforts to sell him or trade
him off, he got a Waverly farmer to
winter the horse at a stated price. In
the course of six weeks the v~oracious
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-
cialiy before spring, and he begged the
man to take the horse away at once,
agreeing to take So a ton for all the hay
the horse had eaten and say 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.
h bay nag was an elephant on the
Scranton mans hands for a while, but
eventually he traded 1t off for a pair of
mare mules hat he didn't know any
thing about One of the mules proved
to be q very gentle and docile creature,
while the other o 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 it wouldn't
do to keep the mules together, and so he
sold the gentle mule for Si75. The bad
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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.
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 &c throw n harness over her
back. Then her feet flew, and the har.
ness and the man who tried to put 1t on
her didn't stay there long. Jen wouldn't
let any n ride her, either. Several
smart young men tried to get on her back
in the stall, but Jen's hind feet few SO
fast and ~furiously, and her rump bobbed
up at u a rapid rate. that the young
men were glad to go to another part OF
the stable and reflect for a while.
Along in the summer an unusually &C
tive young chap offered to bet Jen's
owner that he could ride the mule five
blocks on one of the business
III bet you IS you can't the man told
the spry fellow, n the money was put
up at once. An that the young man
wanted on Jen when he rode her was a
olind bride n a surcingle, and pretty
soon Jen was led out on the street in
sight of a crowd that didn't get very
near her heels. The athletic chap seized
the bride reins in his left hand, grasped
the surciDgle IN 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 old Harry would soon be to paw.
With a 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-
lets was astride Of her neck. Between
kicks Jen whirled around a dozen times
within . circle of twenty feet, and then
made . dash for the open door of a gro