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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2014, 18 June 1875, Page 3

Danger op Letting Off FieewoeksJ —A bad little boy in Portland lit a pack; of shooting craters and threw them into; the street to see them "go off." One of Ike Batman's mules came along and swal-, lowed them before they '• wont off." The mule walked about 15 feet, and stopped.: Things acting right, inside. He began to 'taate the'smoke of fire crackers. He laid his left ear around against his ribs,] and heard something. It was them crackers having fun. The mule picked out about, three and a half miles of straight road, "and-""started. A negro • met ;him about a mile on the other side of the almshouse, going south, white with perspiration, with streams of smoke shooting out of his nostrils, mouth, and ears. Ike 'found his mule yesterday morning, sticking half-way through a farmhouse near - Paddy's llun, still smoking. The man had got his family out and taken 'em up into a lot of,trees. Ike hauled his mule home, when he got cool enough, on a dray. The man'is going to move his house further back off the road.—Louisville Courier Journal. r ■■/ " > - It was Coleridge who r said, " Some men are'like musical glassesl—to produce their finest tones you must keep them ■ wet."" i' »-" '"< " ' »