Year: 1877

not put on rubber without leaning up
against something.


The mule has one more leg than
milking stool, and he can stand on one
and wave the other three round in as
many different directions. He has only
three senses, hearing, seeing and smell
ing He has no more sense of taste than
a stone jug, and will eat anything that
contains nutriment, and he don't care
two cents whether il be one per cent. or
ninety-nine. All he asks Is to pass him
along his plate, with whatever happens
TO be handy round the pantry, and he
won't go away and blow how poor the
steak is. lie just eats whatever is set
before him, and asks no questions.


Mules are naturally deaf, but that
supreme wisdom that teaches the little
boy to wipe his nose on his sleeve, has
fitted the mule out with pair of ears
that counteracts its deafness, so he can
hear as readily as u person when you
don't want him To-. These ears answer
a double purpose, as tunnels to pour
sound into his head, and also as fans to
brush away the flies with and keep
his head cool. They are hung by hinges
to the sides of his head, and flap back
ward and forward like pair of wet
trowsers round a boys legs In cold
latitudes quite tasty business is done
in mules ears. The ears are cut off and
dried, and sold for snow-shoes, and then
the stubs are trimmed up and the mules
are sent south and sold for horses. In
this way great many fine horses were
purchased for the army by the United
States.


If / were to have large picture of
innocence, to hang up in my parlor,
and did not wish to sit for it myself,
should get a correct likeness of mule.
There is innocence enough depicted in
mules countenance to fit out Sunday
School class. 1t looks as guileless as an
angle worm.


A mule never grows old or dies. Once
brought into existence, he continues for
ever. The original mule is now alive
EOIltN bNlC III lbN lDOulii1 anu 10 liulIitu
Robert Toombs, because he is so stub
born.


Mules are chiefly found in the South
and West. They have been more abused
than Judas Iscariott. A boy who would
not throw stone at mule if he got
chance would be considered by his pa
rents Us too mean to raise.


The mule is good worker, but he
cannot be depended on. He is liable to
strike, and when a mule strikes human
calculation fails to find out any rule by
which to reckon when -he will go to
work again. 1t is useless to pound him,
for he will stand more beating than
sitting-room carpet. He has been known
to stand eleven days in one spot, ap-
parently thinking of something, and
then start Off again as though nothing
had happened.


Down South, when they have a sur
plus of small darkeys on the plantation,
they send them out into the barn-yard
to play, where there is loose mule
They always bid them goodbye when
they start out, for they are sure the
parting will be final. This is the most
economical style of funeral now in the
market.


To fully appreciate the mule, one
should listen to his voice. You never
can really know whether you like a
mule or not till you have heard him
sing. I attended mule concert at Fort
Smelling. The programme opened with
a soprano solo, and then swung into a
duet, and then pranced off into trio,
followed up by quartette, and ending
with a full chorus by $50 mules. / did
not hear the whole thing, for when I
came too, the regimental surgeon was
standing over me, giving me powerful
restoratives, and heard him say that 1
might possibly get out again, though /
would never be a well man again. /
have been through the New York Stock
Exchange, and spent part of day in a
boiler factory, and have been on one or
two Sunday School excursions for chill
dren, but never knew what noise was
till l heard lot of army mules bray
! One of the dead certainties about a
mule is that he is sure-footed, especially
with his hind feet. He never misplaces
them. If he advertises that his feet will
be at certain spot at certain time,
with sample pair of mule shoes, to
which he would call your attention, you
will always find them there at the ap-