Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1913 — Tickled a Mule. [ARTICLE]

Tickled a Mule.

Little Paul Porpare had heard the mules laugh, or. at least make noises that sounded like laughter, and so when he saw a sad-faced jack standing loose near a stable at Cypress avenue and Troutman street, Brooklyn, he decided it should be cheered up. Little Paul —he is five years old and lives at 31 Wyckoff avenue —got a straw and tickled the mule’s ear. The mule sort of grinned and shook its head, but didn’t hee-haw. Then little Paul tried again. This time the mule whirled about quickly, raised his heels —and the next sounds that little Paul heard were the clang of an ambulance bell and thq hee-haw of the mule, combined. The surgeon from the German hospital bandaged up Paul’s face and hands, upon which he had Blid along the street after alighting. Then his mother took him home. —New York World.