The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-31

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son Of mules, conzderin' OF EN- as just
mules
There hain't no considerable doubt
about mules bcln' ornery critters. look
IN at 'em most any way we're a min
Ter. The Lord made 'em 10 be ornery,
reckon. an they wouldn't oe film
sheir app'in1ed sp.ere ST they was TO
Re anything else but ornery-
But, as i was a-sayin', mule has
Pints. Fust of. he's got the courage
fhins 10 Go 'cordin' 10 the best of MS
eedgemeRE
If mule thinks it about time to
au1t work, he quits He doDt go into
Pc long argument about d eight-houT
nay, nor ne don't explain now he's
tired. N CALLED, an hungry. He just
quits But if anybody else charts up
argument he's ready.
Then just look ST tle way a Iuule
carries on = argument after it's been
started. DcD's malIa no difference
Hyhats0meyez 70 hiHl how much cussin'
tae other felier Goes, nor how bad ne
1naE tcse his tsaluer.
THAI mul@l stand an take it all as
meek as preacher tll3 ne gets q good
opeain fer q argument on ills own
side, an Jhea itll come like hghtnin'.
an that there sing0dly- adversary O.
hssn q get sWatted most effective.
Yes continued the Old man, with
q DISCONTINUED look around the room,
there's heaps o. things about mules
that's worth c,snsiderin'. The good
hook says Gro 10 the ant. you slugger.
consider her ways an get wise, but
I reckon, # theEe'd been mules then.
The singers d Ia been told to go To
Them. Mules knows more about slug
gin i'm = inmate nor a ant is. liable
10 learn in a Ions life.
The best thing about a mule. though,
IS = he knows he's q mule. I reckon
maybe IL d b. Eofn' a ieeue too fur to
say he's proud Of it. though I've saw
mules Z beard 10 think there wasn't
rothkn' else top o. the earth what Was
quite eIil ia q reel frst-Class mule
BUE whether they'vr proud Of bein'
a mule OF whether they're just plain
reeonGbed 10 the dsspu5a tons % Provi-
dence. don't know as il makes no
difference. The p'iut is they know they
are mulCF.
Now. i've saw people that didn't
know theY was mules.
Just at this point the old man broke
of his di~C0urse- and looked around the
loom from one To the other of the half
dozen men vino aa- listening TO him.
Not ODa III THEM however. seemed to
care q bout MEETING his eye, and no
euCe. 10 almost seen cd A. il they
dreaded 10 hear something or other
that the cid man was likely TO say.
There was soTae cause for their ap-
..reheusi0n. Only the night before
there had baen > game Of draw poker
I'm the pitle back nom OF the saloon in
which two strarAers had discounted
some OF the locaf talent. and cashed (
in more chips than strangers were sup
posed 10 have at tIFa end Of a game in
Arkansas City. And while there was
n veIi-defiued opini or on the part Of I
those who played Sas TO where the
blame principally res ked. there was an
uneasy feeling among. them that they
were all open to censure.
Is was plain enough. that Old Man /
Greenhut had in mind to administer a I
7ebukc, but Just What form the verbal I
chasusemen- might take was not clear !
to any of them.
For q long time ne looked from one I
10 another opening his mouth two or /
three times. as if TO speak, but thinking /
better of i each time
Then. shaking his head slowly and 4
soiemnIy. he opened a. cigar box and /
taking cut a big black cigar re lighted
II carefully and walked around % his
faVorite seat Dy the window. Putting
MS <ceL on the sill he smoke tor a /
long time in silence. Then he said:
Pears like it were a heap better
for 10 know what class you're in.
whether you're preacilD' the gospel OF (
whether you're playin draw poker. Isf 4
man knows hes in the mule class.
be don't enter himself into no tTottin'
matches with thoroughbred horses. an
similar. h don't start no argument or
-eripteraI subjects WIKI chem that's
studied luOre.n be has
An De Go1'I play draw poker with
tern be does nOC II he knows it. An
II De don lcn0sv Il. he done know he's
q mule.
Bat it's just rs j was sayfn'. there's
them that done know they're suckers.
There was Jim Peters.
Peters were a prerJy fair-nanded
boy that grogred up IN the Ozarks with
no special advantages ia the way of
cldica tio1, 'ceptins uncle O. hisn Z
Useter take him in hand oncet in a
way an lick him good an proper for
sonethin' Jim hadn't done. like as not. 1
seem the uncle GrinEed considerable
red iiguor I AIM sayln' the lickin' did
The boy as mech s0od as il oughter. 1
hein' il wan't did yviih proper discre-
tiou- but il stands 10 reason il didn't
de- him nc harm
Anyway. Jin Peters growad up toll
cradle much like most O. the other
, Guns feilcrs in the Ozarks. He cd
Tide an shoot au hglfJ am dance with
ae slriz- an play poker along with
t1e home talent. an drink a decent
amount - red liquor without bfeakin'
loose 1T night nor havin' no headache
IN the Eorniu.
Don't sound very interesting. do
~ We'll l Just hove IN them paTtie'-
lars by way OF eXplainin' Z Jim Peters
vas an right where he came from
Ills pa had right smart % land an
1Uned some lew niggers. this bein' be-
10 tle Was. ail Jim stood to get the (
" hole on 81 after while, him bein' tie
oniy son. Ef Jim Peters had stayed IN /
bis appiuued place where the Lord (
oorned him. an among the people L
znOWed nim an krOwed what ne RELY
we're. likely he'd ha' beeu rich am re-
sDeCJed all his DAYS. bat ke didn't !
S8cv- he we're q mule.
one time be took a trip down The
mississippi. i don't right Know how
happened. for them .Ozarkers amt
7artic lar strong on traveIin', but
q neither twas business or whether
twas pleasure. anyway, ne went. an o.
curse. ne sot into q game o. poker the
lrst G8y- ne were on the boat
4 reckon maybe that were the very Z
irst tinoe he experienced the reel need 2
II . good education 'TWa'n't that
my ornery eddication would ha' made I
aim win. III De were up against two a. I
he sliekeSt there was or the boats ,
hem days. StilweA an Cole. bur Is
led been 8r9ught up proper he might
lave saw that Ire were out of his class. 81
~ might ia been satisfied with his I
essen.
Good with the Home Talent. s
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