ARMY MULES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 46, 8 March 1901, Page 4

ARMY MULES.

The following sketch rf the army mule is taken from out of L'euteoant Login's privaUi letters ti bis family ill Christchuteh : —"The donkified w»il of tho mules i? mott p-cc'nr. They always be'in in an absentminded m«-inar fcy thinking thty are donkey.-, aud tbei suddenly it dawiis upon them that; the ncieo thpy are makin™ is sndigrified, so they t-y to neigh like a bona, with, ths most disastrous effect. Sometimes it is the 10*r of a beast or the cry of an animal in ageny and someuw s a moat laughable little squeal or a ttrangled whefz . Last night a scoundrel of a male got loose and came ta all the different teams tied to the dieasl-fcoams (po'es ef waggons) and cr6»ton terrible discord. Is' last hsd to make my cabl? footman who r(j>i:ts in the uime cf So'omon, get op f .'em hi? lowly coach beneath my waggon and restore order, which he did with a whip and many strange oath*. It is wondmful to see how the niggers mac age these brutes They walk a boat among them in the most casual manner and do what they Kke with them, whereas a white man wonld be kicked to bits/ I think that the wily mole really wants to wi!e the white saan on to destruction, fcr he is Teriy half-bore?, half-donkey and altogether devil. Solomon is at the present moment frantically, with whip, boot and Kaffir oaths, initil'iig wisdom into one of my team, which i* doiag his beat to kick him."