The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-25
MULES GOOD MEMORIEs.
a Story Proving That They Do Not
Forget Bad Treatment.
from The Nelo York Sun.

from Lhe NeLO YORK Sun.
SCRANTON, May ii have owned hun
dreds OF mules" coal mine operator said
"but have never had one that was q
vicious kicker, unless the man or boy who
broke or handled it made it so by his cruel
treatment. A m ule named Mol that cost
me $175, put in the mine once to haul
cars to the foot of the shaft She had
worked like horse above ground, and she
was as true as steel in front OF the
mine cars. In the course of a month
learned that the boy who drove her was in
the habit OF abusing her shamefuly. l
cautioned him number of times against
maltreating the mule, but found that he
paid no attention to my orders, and / had
made up my mind to discharge the boy the
next day, when the foreman sent word up
the shaft in the afternoon that the boy had
just pounded Mol over the head with a spraR
and blinded one OF her eyes, had the boy
discharged at once, and the mule was
brought up and kept in the hospital until
her blind eye got we'll. Then we put her
back ia the mine, and the next boy who
drove her hadn't the slightest trouble with
her. He treated her kindly, and she soon
became so much attached to him that she
would bray at the sound Of his voice as far
as she could hear it in the darkness OF the
mine.
tive LuOuLDS anu nAlE from LDe LlFQe
MoPs eve had been knocked out, the boy
who had pounded her on the head with the
sprag went down the shaft unbeknown to
me TO see the other boy. The mule was
hitched to car, and the moment the boy
began to talk to her driver she gave snort,
made a lunge at him, and snapped the
trace chains. She had been standing per-
fectly still, but the sound of the boys voice
drove her wild in an instant. He fled, and
Mol dashed at him, caught his coat collar
in her teeth, and slung him round
till he yelled. Then she threw him down,
wheeled around and went to kicking him.
and before her driver had chance to inter-
fere she had broken one OF his legs and
bruised him severely. Our boy drove her
away as soon as he could, and when she
turned around and saw her old enemy lying
helpless and heard him grooming, she walked
back and took her place in front of the car
as though she felt that she had got even
with him at last. Mol never offered to
kick or bite any one else. and she worked in
the mine until she was killed by a trip of
loaded cars.
Another mule that was used to haul
cars around the breaker fairly hated the
blacksmith who shod him. The blacksmith
had hammered the mule a good deal be-
cause he wouldn't stand still while his shoes
were being nailed on and the mule got so
after a while that he wouldn't enter the
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caught the blacksmith by the seat of his
trousers and threw him headforemost onto
the forge ten feet away. One of the black
smiths elbows was burned and the mule
got another unmerciful hammering at his
hands After that the mule tried to
cripple the blacksmith every time be was
taken to the shop. He struck the black
smith on the back with one OF his
forefeet one day, knocked him down, and
skinned his knees, and the blacksmith re-
fused so shoe the mule any more. So
another man took the mule in baud, and he
had no trouble whatever with him. The
mule stood perfectly still while the new
man was shoeing him, but he continued
TO hate the other one, and he made a num-
Der OF attempts to strike him down in the
shop. Several months afterward the
blacksmith who had hammered the
mule went into the yard where the mule
and lot OF Others we're running loose. The
mule hadn't forgotten the blacksmith for he
pitched at him the moment he closed the
gate, bit chunk out of his shoulder, trod
| on him and hurt him badly, centering back
to the herd and kicking up his heels as soon
| as he saw that the blacksmith lay helpless
"A little brown mule named Tom drew a
| clum car from the breaker to the top of the
| dump one year. Tom was faithful mule
but he had TO suffer great deal at the hands
| Of the driver boy. The boy mauled and
yauked him till his mouth was sore,
| but Tom never formed the habit Of
| kicking, striking OF biting. He
pulled the car like a draught horse, but
the boy abused him, no matter how well
| he worked. One day the boy went forward
at the top OF the culm dump to fix the mules
hame strap. He had hardly got in front of
the mule when Tom gave him a whack on
| the shoulder with the side of his head, and
the boy went end over end down the steep
slope of the dump clear to the foot, a dis
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