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(" Bnrlinyton Ha\ e ,») NO wnnder the mule is a lv ori \y ero 1 a mulo I, too, would kickj j cuow j us t uxantly what kind of a nni[ wou ia De . \h ly mule. One of thos^ e y OC | o i^ feilowH that loan back in *-\ x> r ceclaing nu.l ti.iu^. With stripad legsi, a zebra _ And a dartc-brown streak nov mjr tiack| and a paint-brush tail. And n\ lane cu j; short, aud my foretop banged, j a hea( j as long as a Hour barrel, aud I v wor th two hundred and a half in any m^ an( ] I'd wear a flat harness and no blin. 3 an( j some day when some man hitch^ o up to a dray and piled qh a ton and a ,j p f pig iron, a cord of wood, six bt| g o f flour and ' a steamboat boiler, Ipuid start off with it patiently, and f^ j, steadily until I KOt to the top of the^ e on tho nev/ road around North Hil_,j right about'therv aridihen a" falling c leaf, ilut»erin« down in a spark of golu crimson, would scite rre all but to djj and tho aixthorjues would have to drat ;^ Miss!s3ipi Kiver six weeks to find sol \j that load and and part of that driver, in three minntes I would be tranq'ly browsing on the grasiy heights that Bj e above tec silver fllowiug river. That il e kind of mule I would be.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 3867, 6 January 1883, Page 5 (Supplement)
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