Show MUCH ADO A MULE How a Man Who Knew All About the thc Breed Worked a Charm Washington Star I On a street corner in the k section of the city last Saturday afternoon quite a large crowd had collected l It haL i ie W brg rg tt e a ring b or rather r a square rt about Some object In the center two sides hay hav lag Ing congregated on each ach sIde of the curb While the others made a rather thin urn line on the other sIde ot of time the square Time The on lookers t to what over eer was going on did not no seem In the least excited but there wa every IndIcation or of much flinch Interest In tin the situation Drunken women omen fighting said one of o f two young women who were passing near by SIts Its most disgraceful and these peo pie placidly looking on I If they were met men stop it she said to her companion I Its degrading An old gentleman e a in the same i w was e explaining afI to another n h one rn lO a mat had been stricken with an epileptic fit Poor ho he said and no one what to do him It Was eviDent that time the was wa an Inactive one and the reporter whose duty It 11 i to Investigate everything has to the scene and out that a i stout mule had I Ion on the tho and was apparently wel I satisfied with his recumbent position The Tb I fact was that lie he resented ver very well I mUnt to hoIst hint him from his con contact tact mother earth while his lis dis i is s iver a colored boy about year tars sobbing with Ith anger and an l I tl All sorts t of f II at lh s r hurled at him but I Is s to he In his dl die I II tresO There it The mul was I d and dd vicious al and used bl bob and as a battery batter to t I keep folks awa away from until at las ast I the sat down on the shafts of th tb cart which had been drawn n way away Iron from S 1 n the g animal al and f indulged d In fn bug bitte bitt r thought j Just then an old colored man an blu army overcoat and an ana I a 0 red worsted comforter a about out his n fleck k stepped irto the mien space walk i f bravely up to the and took hold ft f both of his ears Hi H I 8 t to whisper to the and what whateVer whatever eVer he did acted maric The mule got on hi his feet e t permitted himself to bo U I hitched again to the cart and the crowd wont went away I You seem to know how to deal with mules said Bald the reporter to time the old fri pl low Deed I duz sub suh was the reply r II knows all about mules and they does me J Fore God Goa boss I brou brought ht up Ii n nold ri ria old Missouri for nothing Yaser mime a I and me Is kinfolks you bOn En I t think that hat jobs ten cents Dont you yos I boss j The crowd had melted awa away and as a f there was as no one onu else by t to respond to tin particular hint the reporter dId so An And thus time the chapter en ended d I |