Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1883 — The Mule Knew it Was Loaded. [ARTICLE]

The Mule Knew it Was Loaded.

Taibottom (Ga.) Register. Some time ago Major L. B. Brown bought a very smart looking young mule and proceeded forthwith to “break” it. The animal was accordingly hitched to a wagon, when it began to cut all sorts of capers, and some not down on the usual programme. After kicking, squealing and plunging around awhile, hi| muleship broke the breast chain, and™ in attempting to do a double somersault landed on his back in tne wagon body, heels up and unable to rise. A very tame mule had been hitched with him; this one was securely anchored to the ground by a burly, negro, who didn't seem tofancy the turn things had taken. Especially was he “buckeyed” when the tame mule became terribly alarmed of a sudden and proceeded to do the occasion only as a mule can perform. The negro was thrown from the mule’s back, when the now thoroughly frightened animal ran away with the wagon loaded with the mule, which up to that: had been unable to regain his feet It was quite a funny escapade—the flying wagon drawn by one mule, another mule in the wagon body, his legs punctuating the air with the force of a pile driver. The mule that got the ride came near having his neck broken in the frolic.