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Show 1 a mule Willing tovgoi. ' ' A bad little boy in Portland lit a pack of fire-? crackers and threw them into .the street, tosee their' ygb oftV One of Ike Batemnn's mules c"arrie . along and.swallowed them heibre tbey 'went off.' The mule walked about fifteen feet and then stop-' ped. Things, wasn't acting right inside, 'tie began be-gan to taste the smoke of the fire-crackers.. He, laid his left ear around against His ribs and heard-something. heard-something. It was them fire-crackers'having fuh'., The mule, picked out about three mileS and a 'half' of straight road, and started, A negro met lifm about a mile the other side of the .alms-house,, go-nig go-nig south, white with perspiration,, with streams of smokc shooting 'out of his nostrils, mou(h, and cars,, while his 'tail stuck straight'up; and -a' stream of blue and green smoke about ten feet long" ''following ''fol-lowing in the rear. Ike found his mule, yesterday-morning yesterday-morning sticking half way through a: farmhouse near Palldy'S Run, still smoking. Tie man had got his faihily out and put 'em up into. fa lot of treesi Ike liaulcd' his mule homej wh'eri" he jgot cool enough, on a dray. The man is'' goiuff. ,to, move his house furtfier back bit" theroad and. his. wife and oldest daughter wil.be bantizedj when the water gets warm. Louisville Courier-Journal, -,; , . . . :;- " . '"' ' . |