Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1887 — A Georgia Mule. [ARTICLE]

A Georgia Mule.

There was a very large mule that died in my neighborhood, and three years after it was dead it killed a n'neyear old negro boy. The hawks were* very bad at our house, and we took the skull of the above-mentioned mule and hung it up in the top of a mulberry tree to scare the hawks away. In the summer, when the mulberries were ripe, the negroes one day went to the tree to get some. One climbed up the tree and shook it, and the skull fell and struck the negro boy on the head, killing him instantly. It was three years to the very day from the time the mule died until he killed the negro.— Hartwell (Ga.) Sun.