Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1913 — On Quarterdeck of Mule. [ARTICLE]

On Quarterdeck of Mule.

On the capture of Morris Island the whole mass of men was thoroughly pervaded by that feeling of hilarity that follows a quickly successful en-gagement-soldiers and sailors shout* ing. singing, happy. A bronzed blujacket had captured a mule, and without difficulty mounted It He perched himself near the animal’s tall, the mule objecting in every known way of a mule and in some ways until then unexhlblted. “Jack, sit more amidships,” said Hardy, the first engineer of the Weehawken, "and you will ride easier.” “Captain, this is the first craft I was ever in command of,” said he. “and it is a pity if I can't stay on th* quarterdeck."