Show J A MULE WITH A ME1WEY She Attempted to Kill a Boy Who Had Set Fire to Her Stable This summer one of our boy mule drivers driv-ers asked me to let them off tho next day t so that tuey could go to a game of baseball base-ball said a Lackwanna Valley coal operator oper-ator and I told them they could not go They quit work however When tho flro fl boss wont down tho shaft the next morn 9 lag he found one of the mine mules brayIng bray-Ing near the foot of the shaft She was badly burned in the left hip and shoulder end the fire boss found that the mule barn fifty yards from the foot of tho ehaft had been not on lira Fanny had yanked her halter in two kicked the door down and run to the shaft for air On yrsterday afternoon I went down the shaft to see how Fanny was getting along While I was there tho thirteen baseball loving youngsters got the engineer to lot them down the shaft They wanted to sso me bout going to work in tholr old places the next day Fanny was standing without any halter on and when the boys spread out in a row to talk to me the mule gave a glance along faces stuck her ears back uttered a bray of anger oud made n vicious lunce at the last boy but two from tho right end of the row f The lada ycllod and scattered but the male kept after the ona she had picked out paying no attention to the othors She chased him through the gangway to the foot of the shaft in spite of me and before I could get to her she had bittn the boys bbruldora till the blood came through his clothing Fanny had un r doubtedly seen tho boy tot fire the barn ana she meant to get even That was the firat time tho mule bad been the least bitfierce and her evidenco of the incendiary in-cendiary was convincing to mt though I could not use it against him in court |