AS STUBBORN AS A MULE.
Those mules (says the De Aar correspondent of a Cape paper) form the great source of trouble here justj ust now, particularly those whioh have come from Italy The majority of them are pack mules, with a rooted objection to harness of any description. Each time a couple of hundred of these animals have to be tracked an indescribable scene of confusion arises. The air is heavy with dust, and the shouting of the drivers and the expletives of their officers are amazing : certainly the departure of a hundred mules causes more noise than that of two or three regiments.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 11 January 1900, Page 4
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105AS STUBBORN AS A MULE. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 11 January 1900, Page 4
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