A MULE THAT COULD KICK.
"Speaking about mules," remarked a six-footer from Harnett County, as he cracked his whip at market, " I've got a mule at home which knows as much as I do, and I want to hear somebody say I'm half a fool." No one said so, and he went on. " I've stood around here and heard men blow about kicking mules till I've got disgusted. When you come down to kickiug, I want you to bet on my mule. A friend came along and took dinner with me the other day, and, as he seemed a little down-hearted, 1 took him out to see Thomas Jefferson, my champion mule. I was telling the good man how that mule would flop his hind feet around, and he said he'd like to Bee a little fun. He passed his whole life m the South, and had never seen a mule lay his soul into a big time at kicking." " Well." he continued, after borrowing some tobacco, "I took Thomas out of the stable, and back'd him tip again a hill, gin him a cuff on the ear, and we stood back to see the amusement. It was a good place to kick his durndest, and what d'ye s'poße he did ? In ten minutes by the watch he was out of sight. In five more we could'nt feel him with a twelve-foot pole, and — and— The crowd began to yell and sneer, and the narrator looked around and asked. "Does anybody think I'm lying? Would I lie for one mule ? Right here under my arm is a pound of tallow candles, which are to light the hole for me to go m after Thomas ; and I got word not an hour ago that the hind-feet of a mule were sticking out of a hill thirty-nine miles as the bird flies from where my mule went m! I'm shaky on religion, gentlemen, but our family never had a liar m it."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 843, 24 July 1879, Page 2
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330A MULE THAT COULD KICK. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 843, 24 July 1879, Page 2
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