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Mrs. Mary {. Bushnell,

MoHRIsTowN. y. j, Sept. News
was received here to-day OF the death
OF Mrs. Mary G. Bushnell, widow Of
Thomas G bushnell, az North East Har-
Dor. Me. Mr.. Bushnell was an associate
Of John II Rockefeller. ST., in the stan
dard OIL Company. Mrs. Bushnell lived
with her daughter and ]son-In-lnw, MIR.
and Mis-. Alexander Terrence, at q Elm
street here.
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CHICAGO ART ROW ENDS.
VIII UnveiI BOrglum's wOrk De-
spite Art Commissioner.

CHICAGO, Sept. S.-"Profound regret"
NJ the state Art Commission that II did
not have opportunity to pass on the
statue OF the late Gov, John +. Altgeld
before July /, will not interfere with
the unwilling of the memorial next Mon
day In Lincoln Park, according to the
plans of Gov. DUNES commission The
nrt commission met to-day m eX-
pressed It's sorrow that the model of the
Altgeld group was not submitted In
time for that body's opinion to have
Influenced the Governors commission
The meeting Of the art COMMISSION
and its Anal pronouncement on the mat
ter bring to an end the clash ~ the
commission and Gutzon Borglum, the
sculptor.
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Guy u. Hubba d

Guy II Hubbard. Al, OF II Madison
street, Brooklyn. died on Thursday at
st, Iuke's Hospital, Manhattan. He
was well known In the garment trade
and was editor Of NugCni'S Bulletin.
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METucHEN, N. j., Sept. ~3.---Congress-
man r. j. Sully to-day came out with
n lengthy statement In support OF woman
suffrage, lie says that abuses that
men voters fail to correct are assured
OF reform II equal suffrage wins. He
says women have fully demonstrated
their fitness for equal political privi-
leges with the other sex.
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Mrs Anna Brnud, so. widow OF
Adelard Braud, for many years one OF
the foremost sugar planters In Loulsl-
ana, died Yesterday a. the home of her
daughter. Mrs John +. Terrio 1875 Van
Alst avenu Long Island city.
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ENGAGEMENTS ANNOUNCED.

The engagement of Miss Claire Louise
Baxter, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Rob
ert II. Baxter OF l721 Ditmas avenue,
Brooklyn, to Frederick r.. Dalzell, Jr.,
son OF Frederick II. Dalzell OF III Balm
bridge street, was announced Yesterday.
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Mrs. Emily r.. HrOvnen.

Mrs, Emily T.. Browne,l. -. widow of
Capt, John D. Brownell. long assistant
super!nt, ndeut Of the New York and
Brooklyn Ferry Company. died yester-
day at her home, 322 Halsey street.
Brooklyn. She leaves a son and two
daughters.
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William Elliott has announced the
title Of the play which he will produce
on Monday afternoon. II is BILLY, Jr."
II was first called The D%alinquents"
and then struggled along for n while
with no name AT all.
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Ned Wayburn, director OF the Century
Theatre, was in a taNicab yesterday
when "A heavy potor truck collided with
It. MIR. Wayburn was stunned, but after
a while was able to don his sweater and
under the eye Of his personal physician
continue his daily battle FOR art.
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any, neither" shouted the old man in a
squeaky voice.
I'm kinder goin' out o. hogs myself.
What's calves bringin' in your neigh
borhood this spring."
Il don't know nothin' bout calves and
I don't want to talk"
Don't .ys' Why. I thought We was
dyin' to talk. Folks all well at home, l
hope? How'd yer Eaters keep last win
ter? Hear any demand fur turnips
lately?"
Il want you to stop. I say,' yelled the
old man as he waved his arms around.
Then l will. II We are so techy as all
that / don't want nuthin' to do with We.
Lucky that We hain't goin' to run fur
supervisor in my town. You wouldn't
git blamed vote. Howdy do, naybur?'
This last remark was addressed to a
rather savage-lOoking man with a weed
on his hat, who was reading a magazine.
NO reply.
"Howdy do? Git the cellar cleaned out
and whitewashed yit?"
No reply.
Makes me remember that I forgot to
change my collar afore 1 cum away. but
l guess nothin' won't happen. S'pose
there amt no great demand fur dried
apples down your way?"
"Old man." said the weedy passenger
as he turned on him. "go hence. Don't
bother mer'
Mercy on me, but you hain't lost your
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opening it was plain that he had run
his saw at an angle.
Il told you so!" she quietly OBJ
served.
turned on her. DO you suppose /
don't. know what I'm about: Do you
imagine I wanted straight top
on that door? If you know SO much
go ahead and finish the job"
and Mr.. Bowser held up the frame
again to see that he would be obliged
to tack on strip or leave an OPEN
ing for all the flies in New York
State. He was saving a piece off one
when Mrs. Bowser appeared and said:
You'll spoil that door, too. Mr..
Bowser. Why don't you take a piece
from this box? II you had put a
it you would have been all right"
Mrs. Bowser," he began as he laid
down his saw. .'am I purblind child
or 6 years old. who must be brought
in when it rains, )or am I the man
orally supposed to have sense enough
not to sit down under a piledriver to
eat my lunch?"
But you'll never make that door
fit"' she protested.
need try
She went in again and he sawed off
a strip and nailed il on the other door.
Then he held it UP to find the frame
reappeared and was about to say
something. but he glared at her SO
savagely that she went back without
word.
..Those Internal old kitchen chairs
ne eSsE as he held s the door
I've got to saw a piece on the bot
tom to make a fit, and she'll either
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How They Met.

A Court street car in Brooklyn stop
ped at Harrison street to let a lady
wearing a spring hat alight. At the
same moment a lady wearing her
winter hat wanted to take the same
car. They met face to face on the
lower step. They were strangers. The
one with the spring hat had the right
OF way. and she tossed her head In
a defiant manner. Winter hat felt
that the odds were against her. but
she braced up and looked the other
square in the eye and refused to give
way.
reaching for the bell-rope. Spring hat
would not bulge. Winter hat would
not retreat.
"All aboard"
Spring hat glared at winter hat. and
the end of her nose was elevated Q
bit. Winter hat returned the glare,
and her pugnose tried the same dodge.
but couldn't elevate.
Ladies', don't detafn the carr cried
the conductor. and his words encour-
aged winter hat to renewed exertions
She pulled herself up the step, crowd
ed spring hat against the side Of the
car, and entered the door with q smile
Of triumph on her face. The other
stepped or, gave her skirts = shake
and her head toss and walked away.
but despite and defiance. the conduc.
tor looked after her and said:
sFinest spring hat on this whole
line. but the lady inside the car takoo-
the gate receipfs.
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Jericho was communal when there
were only two families here, and she
has kept 1T up to this date. .,,
it's got, from a boot-jack to the only
pillow-case in the house, can't live
If a man kills a rooster for a Sun
day dinner it is expected that he'll
divide up with at least five neigh
bors, and if he saves whole leg for
himself he is looked upon as a hog.
II a man builds a house or a barn.
there are at least fifty other men who
expect to be told all about it and to
have their advice asked for.
Last year the town put in 100 feet
of sewer pipe. Six hundred and forty
men bossed the job.
It put in a public hay scales. but
lie meetings held and everybody was
satisfied that it was the right thing
TO do.
Jericho has bin buiIdin' a town fur
the last six years. 1t was planned to
hev a tower in the middle and there
has bin a good deal OF discussion as
TO what should be the finish of that
tower. Some. have stuck fur gilt
ball. some fur a rooster, some fur
cross-bars with the p'ints of the COM
pass on 'em. The town board has
,meetin' was called one night last week
TO settle what the thing should be.
Nobody realized how intense the feel
in was TN the meet eth opened: Squar'
he got up and spoke fur fifteen minits
without stoppin' to wipe the sweat off
the back of his neck. He started in
TO 1900 like soft soap gIidin' down
the cellar stairs. He commended that
gilt ball on the top of a tower had
always bin considered an emblem of
Innocence. 1t would be the first thing
a stranger would look fur when en-
term the town of Jericho. If he saw
that gilt ball. he'd put up at the
nd
speakin' well of the town. If he didn't
he'd set the folks down as vicious
and desperate and drive on to larry
town or Dobbs Ferry. The Squar'
kin. and he wanted real gold leaf fur
gliding and he closed his speech with
an appeal to the people to continue
to be innocent and happy. Deacon
as usual. and when the Squar' sot
down the Deacon said he'd made a
pint. Enos Williams was then called
wanted a rooster. Enos didn't go as
fur back as the Squar. He has asthma
and is short of breath and so he start
America. He had bin reading up on
roosters. He couldn't find that roost-
ers was an emblem of innocence, but
he didn't want no innocence on
find innocence when he came to play
checkers or trade bosses with Jer-
ichoian- The rooster was an emblem
of grit and independence. He was a
bird who went to bad at shutdown, got |
up before sunrise and was hustlin' |
around all day. A rooster on top Of
that tower would signify that Jericho |
could take care of herself and didn't |
State. He was out of breath. and he !
busted a suspender when he sat down. |
and Deacon Spooner raped with a
.ane and said:
"EnCs has NOT only made n sneech
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York would have no trouble in flying
in there; And how are you putting
that spring on?"
Mr.. Bowser laid down the hammer.
after wiping off his flushed face he
stood erect and pointed into. the
kitchen. Mrs. Bowser disappeared
without word. Then he inspected
and found cracks.
COMPOUNDED old doorway is out of
growled as he set to work to un-
Ainge IT. When he got the door off
he racked it this way and that and
tried it again. More cracks than be-
the top with, all his might. and this
crevice through which sparrow
could have flown. He started to lay
it it fat on the ground but feIl for;
sprawled on his back.
whats the natter" asked Mrs
Bowser from the back door.
Mr.. Bowser slowly arose, looked all
he uped With AK both feet on
screen doors and kicked until they
were reduced to strings and strips
Then he went up to Mrs. Bowser,
painting and perspiring and pale-faced
This is the last time-the very
last! Next time you coax me into
doing any such Internal puttering
work around the house I'll go-go,
when did l coax you?"
Never you mind. It's all right"
But l say
Just-keep quiet! I am neither
blind nor deaf If we live together
ten billion years longer don't you
leg for a caster This is the limit.
I'm dangerous from this oni'
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train goin' the wrong way, but I didn't
Just happened to think. though. that
didn't shet the door OF the corn crib. and
DEATH
There was a woman sitting alone a few
seats down the aisle. She had an UNI
orella, a bundle secured with shawl
strap and two or three parcels on the
seat, and as Uncle Jerry passed down
the aisle he stopped before her and
cheerfully observed:
Face kinder familiar to me. but !
can't remember your name; Never been
much of a hand at remembering names.
anyhow. Husband flew around and
helped We to git ready, l SUPPOSE. Leave
the children alright? Been lots O. meas
les round this year. Didn't leave the
outside cellar door open. did ye?'
Il don't know yer she said as she
looked up.
what! Haint ye Hammer Jones. of
Jones Crossroads?"
WAL. / swow, I'd bet two-year-old
steer agin a cider barl that We was.
Didn't We climb an apple tree last sum-
mer and tumble out an break leg?"
Wasn't it you that burnt her heel
most Off while maxim soft soap?"
No. sir. You go on and femme mel"
Gosh HI. all hemloek; IA, thought knowed
beg your pardon. Gurus how folks
will git deceived sumtimes. Don't be
scairt. madam. II anything happens I'll
save we as quick as IL we really was that
Hammer Jones who climbed up twenty
nine feet and fell kerchunk to the
ground"
The next one he accosted was a man
fully as old as himself. whose crown was
bald. and who wore spectacles. He was
reading a letter. which he had taken
from corn-colored envelope, when
Uncle Jerry gave him a playful poke in
the ribs and called out:
Lands. you look just like my brother
Bin across the back and head. Coin
! s'posey"
who did that?" testify exclaimed the
old man as he looked UP.
II kinder poked We: but. i hain't
Jerry. '.Usin' anythin' on yer scalp fur
baldness?'
"No. 1 hain't usin' anythin' on my
scalp. and I don't mean to. either! I
won't buy. 20 don't ask me-"
Jest the same with me. Need about
forty different things. but it's no 90. Bin
told that crushed catnip would stimer-
late the roots. but hain't no faith.
Who's a-sein' to feed the hogs while yel
"Hain't got no hogs and don't want
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your way down town." asked Mrs.
ser was ready to leave the house.
WHY" he cautiously asked in re-
ply; -
will come in. We can use the same
old door we had last year. but We'll
have to have a carpenter to hang IL"
don't propose to pay no carpenter So
or 81 for doing what I can do in half
an hour. I'll fit it myself"
But don't you remember. Mr.. Bow,
THAT what?"
You tried to hang a screen door
last IS, summer NINE ,s and you got 50 mad you
Il did. EN-? That's a pretty yarn
for you to stand up there and spin!
In the first place I never tried to hang
a screen door; and in the second 1
Nothing Of the sort I don't even
remember that we had a screen door.
got mad. l never even saw a fly
around our house in summer. Change
of climate seems to have had a very
queer effect on you"
but won't you send a carpenter"
Not by a jugful! I shan't have any
thing to do at the Office this after
noon. and if there's a bit of tinker
MS Tic houoC ~ Will pc iuh
for me-"
He returned at noon having a heavy
parcel with him, and when Mrs. Bow
ser asked about the contents he cut
the string and replied:
lust few tools. Comes handy to
tinker with. Every man ought to keep
a few tools and do his own repairing.
l think l saved US at least $500 last
well. I hope you won't fly mad over
your work. A screen door is a very
particular thing to hang"
'Oh. it is? You've hung lots of 'em,
I presume"
"I know that it takes a skilled
workman"
You'd better write a book and call
it What / Know About Screen
Doors" / ought to feel awful proud
to think I've got such a smart wife.
Run right in now, and begin the first
Chapter
Mr.. Bowser descended to the cell
lar where he found four screen doors
of different sizes He selected one he
thought would fit and carried it up.
1t was six inches too high. The next
was four inches too short. The third
was almost long enough to make two
such doors as he wanted. He had the
fourth one. which was almost fit.
in the back yard, when Mrs. Bowser
came out to say:
III you had first measured the
opening and then measured your doors
you wouldn't have had to lug up but
this one
Wouldn't ]? Perhaps you under
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THE TOO-GOOD MAN
His Kindness Is Always Repelled.

I've figured 1t up with slate and pencil,
and I've chalked it down and added II
up, and subtracted it and multiplied it
on the barn door, but it always comes
out the same. the too-good man has no
cross between a burdock and a sunflow-
er-not ornamental enough for wear. nor
good enough eating for cows, and when
ever 1 hear Of a suicide with no appar-
ent reason 1 know that some too-good
man has got tired out and made up his
mind to go back home.
Coming UP from Red Bank the other
day. / followed an old man into the pas
senSer coach. l had noticed him on the
platform and I recognized him as be-
longing to the species / have named. In
when he said to young man with a
diamond pin in his scarf:
Boy, it's mighty risky wearin' SIGH
things around in public in these cluss
boot leg I'll take keer Of it for you till
We get up TO Hoboken."
Il think I'm able to take care OF itw
was the cold reply.
you know. but I should hate to see you
robbed. l lost 81 on this road once, and
it didn't get over hurting for fifteen
years. I'll kinder watch over you as fur
aS ~, dusHSW II III MAKE your mOtn-
er feel easier. mebbe"
Parlor car-blue upholstery-one porter
one conductor-three men-two women
sixteen silver-plated cuspidors-one SOL
emn-lookiSn old chap who has engaged
lower No. and will try to freeze out
upper No. in case he shows up-that's
all.
Passenger coach-bags. bundles, band
boxes-twenty men-eighteen women
ten children-hope-fear-
nature to be read as from an open book.
See?
Tho train had scarcely begun to move
when my too-good man, who had a rear
seat, rose up and announced:
Don't nobody be skeered. now. This
hain't no collision; It's just like they
aiius move on. I've read on 'em morn .
dozen times. and III tell you when to
jump or"
Everybody looked at him. while some
deluded him with smiles meant to be
encouraging. He slowed away his
satchei. removed q yarn comforter he
had been wearing for fear of a change
in the weather. and then took OF his
hat and rubbed his hands together and
sid:
.'old woman said she'd bet I'd Git on
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was saying. I allus reckoned I had a
powerful lot of courage. but I've lately
diskivered it was all a mistake"
But what can have happened to make
you think so?''
For answer he pointed toward the
cabin, where We could see his wife stand.
ing in the door. and l was about to say
something when she lifted up her voice
and shouted:
"Yo,' thar Hank"
''Y-yes, Nancy" he answered as he
stood up.
wall. now. yo' Jest hump yo'rself out
to the woodpile and split about cord O.
wood or I'll turn in and throw yo' clean
through the side of this ole mountain"
And when the old hunter. who had kill
ed scores of bears and rattlesnakes and
wildcats and looked upon pistols and
knives without losing his nerve, skunk of
for the woodpile without so much as a
backward glance ] knew why he doubt
At last
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the partner of his joys. and I was goin'
to sympathize. Never lost my own VIE:
but I've bin one of the watchers and
helped borrow chairs and driv the head
team in the funeral purcession fur them
who has,"
II warn you to go on" said the other.
Pm wicked! I'm tuff! I'll hurt ye"
Haul right of and PUNK me cause I
want to be friendly, Ell? Oh. wall.
there's folks as is born that way. Got a
man in our town SO pizen 'fraid that
somebody will speak to him that he
keeps wool in his ears and purtends to be
a little deaf"
He seemed to be a bit discouraged for
moment. but presently his eye caught
the figures of two females at the far end
of the car. and he edged along down to
see if anything was wanted In his line:
The two were mother and daughter. and
the latter didn't look well.
Did she fall down the cellar stairs. or
pitch of the hay-mow?' kindly inquired
Uncle jerry. as he sat down on the rail-
of the seat.
Are We speakin' Of me darter!' de-
"'ZactIy. Doesn't look just right for
this time of the year. II I'd only thought
I'd brung along a bunch O. mayweed and
told we how to make tea OF It; Beats ats
kinks out Of the system. She amt in
lug As,I Is she'"
"Naybur o. mine had a gal about her
age, who began to ravel out and fade
away. They put horseradish drafts to
her feet. mustard plasters to her neck
and dosed her with catnip, mayweed and
sage tea, but she continued to flake on
and fade In the wash and finally died:
When too late they discovered she had
all along bin in luv with Bill Hawes. my
hired man. who was so gaul burned
bashful that he dassn't say a word
about 1t. Better begin to hunt around the
grass and see II something of that sort
amt trOublin' her.
You old critter. go away from here
yer shouted the mother. and as he
jumped back she pulled the girl out into
the aisle beside her and waved her UNI
brella In a threatening manner.
W-whats the rumpus now" gasped
Uncle Jerry In great establishment.
III We don't go I'll call the police!'
Wall by gum! If I was to tell this to
Lucy when I git home she'd say fell
asleep and had the nightmare. Don't
thixed with. I'll go. I'll git right away,
and II had hull sack Of dried catnip
and two dozen red peppers here I'd let
the whole caboodle Of you suffer all the
way to Hoboken before I'd offer ye a
He went back to his seat and fell into
i, and l felt inclined to pity him. This
ieenng was % strong that went down
10 INN. nm ny and BY and remarked:
rettins ,o ought cran. to be good weather for
Eth! chr he aueried A. he looked up.
Oh. ! see. Want to GIT me to say that
y " ana then tell me TO shet up and 30
70 nahyhack! Waal. lest wont say
another word; Tn dished II I dsW!'
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] sat smoking with the old mountaineer
and hunter few rods from his cabin.
and was hoping to get him started on
some Of his adventures. but he seemed
preoccupied over something and was ST.
lent for some time. After a while, how
ever, he crossed and recrossed his legs
several times and began:
Stranger. a Teller that kin stand right
up to a big bar and kill him In a far
fout has got. leetle courage in his
makeup. 1 take II.
Yes. he surely has," I replied. realiz-
ing that he was about to lead of.
"yo'd reckon. wouldn't yo." he contin-
ued, that a man who wasn't bit
afeard to waltz up'n jump on a rattle
snake and kill 1t was purity nervy
man?'
II most certainly should"
"And critter who didn't crawfish nor
tarn pale when he looked into six
shooter. and knSwe ed. i was going of
leetle credit. as I figure It,"
He must and no mistake"
Jest 50. stranger-jest So" he said. as
and looked OF up the mountains with a
sad expression In his eyes. Il was tryin'
to figger a spell ago jest how many bars
and rattlesnakes and wildcats I had
critters had run out o. this county. but
thar hev bin so many of them that I've
lost the tally. I've allus bin called the
best man around these parts. but lately
I'm kinder doubtin' it-kinder thinkin'
It's all mistake. stranger"
had heard Of his courage up In the
village. and had been told that he had
killed more wild animals than any other
man In the State. but before I could
praise him about II he leaned forward
and slowly continued:
"Yo've seen my ole woman. hafn't
Yes. I vas taIkin.; to her before you
came up."
shes my third. stranger. and we've
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Almost a Tragedy.

A negro. about twenty years Of age,
sat in the sun, with his back to the
freight shed. on an Alabama railroad.
He was sound asleep when another young
man of his color drove up to the plat
form with an old horse and wagon. The
newcomer saw a chance for sport, and
he used his whip to nip the other I'M
til he finally awoke and demanded
all de timer"
Il 'spects yo' am lookin' right at him.
sah;' replied the one with the whip.
Julius. lie a mind to broke 70 in
two fur dat!'
Shoe! Yo' couldn't hurt nobody"
Couldn't. Ell? I let yo' know. sab.
dead he nebber breathed agin.
,Doan, yo' go fur to threaten me.
Moses. kase I won't stand it! Mebbe
some of yo'r friends dun tole yo' bout
de way I knocked dat man to pieces
down at Greenyille. Jest reached out
fur him an he diedv'
>. Huh! Look out fur me. boy. lie get
tin mad. an when de madness comes
nobody can't dun hold me- lie Jest a
drove Of nevis runnin' away. 1 arr"
l don't skeeri'
.'Nigger. Who yo' calm Niger? Yo'
is niger yo'self. an yo' stole hogsr'
What! Yo' say I dun stole hogs! Why
boy, I'll crack yo' ribs in a minute! I
doan low no no. common trash to talk dat
way 10 me!
''Shoo! Niger! II ! war jest to reach
out my han. yo' would fall dead! lie
sorry fur yo' pore ole mudder, an dat's
why / doan reachr'
Now lee mad. I'll glib yo' just one
minute to flee fur yo' lifev
.'So's / mad!'
.'Nigger!''
"Hog THEIR
They stood facing each other and
breathing hard. when an old stray mule
turned the corner. 1t WAS n diversion
Julius. am dat Kurnel Boxter's
mewl?" asked one.
Reckon tits. Noses" replied the other.
Den we'd better kotch him an see IL
de kurnel won't glib US two bits fur our
trubble."
Two minutes later they were walking
down the road arm in arm, with the old
mule following behind.