COULDN’T HOLD THEM BOTH!

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1060, 30 June 1910, Page 23

COULDN’T HOLD THEM BOTH!

■ General Phil Sheridan was at one J time asked at what little incident he had laughed the most. “Well.” he said, “I do not know; but I always laugh when I think of the Irish- ' man and the mule. I was riding down the line one day when I saw an Irishman mounted on a mule which was kicking its legs rather freely. The , mule finally got its hoof caught in the stirrup, when in the excitement, the Irishman remarked, ’Well, begorra, if you’re goin’ to git on, I’ll get off.’ ”