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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 961, 27 November 1879, Page 2

A Mule Willing to Go.— A bad boy in;portland lit a pack of shooting cradkers, and threw them into the street, to 1 « go oS. " One of Ike Bateman's mules came along and swallowed them before they "went off." The mule "walked about fifteen feet and stopped. Things wasn't acting just right inside. He began to taste the smoke of fire* crackers. He laid his left ear round his ribs and heard something. It was them crackers having fun. The mule picked out about three and a-half miles of straight road and started. A negro met him about a mile the oLher side of the Alms House going south, white with perspiration, with streams of smoke shooting out of his nostrils, mouth, and ears, while his tail stuck straight up, and stream of blue and green smoke about ten feet long followed m the rear. * Ike soon afterwards found his mule sticking halfway through a farm-house near Paddy's Run still smoking. The man got his faintly out and put 'ein up into a lot of trees. Ike hauled his mule home when he got cool enough, on a dray.