Year: 1875

ON THE FRONTIER, July 10th, 1875.

 '1 should like that kind of stock if they were not so internal nautish," said set tier from Vermont as he stopped to see our pair of twelve hundred pound Mexi- ican mules slide maline ten inch break ing plow through the sod. ''1Rat is the very reason why I do like them" was oar reply.

 We have heard of kind old lady who always could find good qualities in the most obdurate, till youngster said that he believed that if the Evil One should be spoken against too harshly she would find some redeeming trait in him. So he got some of his companions to call on the good lady and they begun to charge the Evil One with all possible and impossible baseness. when the matron dropped her knitting and said, ''Young friends, if we were all as perserering as Satan, we might be much better than we are" Everyone will acknowledge that the mule is patient and persevering. He is also capable of affection toward those who he knows are his friends. Nature has given him long head with heavy brain, ears that can hear, a nose that scents treason from afar, eyes that can see, and heels and jaws to pro- tect himself; but he seldom uses these weapons except under strong provocation. When first put into the harness, if he does not instantly move circuaspectly he is hit with a club over his sensitive ears, then kick ed with No. F double soled boot. He is then sworn at, which he detests as much as the kicking and cufing We recently saw an item in the Waterbury American to the effect that when Pike County farm CTS trade mules and the record was called for the reply was: seventeen dashboaris and three niggers. That is all bosh.. In the first place mules never kick at so in- significant thing as dashboard, and in the second place no negro was ever killed by a mule. They may have been kicked, for a mule can always teach 8 negro that they have rights that & black man is bound to respect

 The mule is a very timid but also very sagacious animal He is not to be forced into a quagmire or quieksands, and in cavalry charge his ideas of military glory would correspond with those of Sir John Falstaff. Self preservation is with him tine first law of nature During a recent tornado our mules were quietly picketed ln ravine with banks twenty-five feet perpendicular. A heavy wagon was blown of the bank right over them. Those who think mules are sloaC ought to have seen them 'stand from under." Had they been horses two backs and eight legs would have been lamed, but their inteIli- genee is far superior to that of the horse. During one of those fearful storms of last winter. they were placed in rayine (as we had no stable) and one of them tied to a tree In the height of the storm the one that vas loose dashed up to the cabin and uttered shrin neigh; and, as soon as he saw us come to the door, turned and dash ed back with the stOrm- We followed and found the wind had shifted . few points so that the rayine afforded no protection. This satisfied me that not only s'the OK knOweth its ovner," but that the mule knows enough to come to his masters cabin for assistance.

 We do not expect our young friends in the East who bet their money on the bob tailed horse under the influence of ben zine. and who valEe him simply because he can run or trot given space two sec