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Show A GMAflT MULE. II llferae. Oue vt II. I .Hah. and Rati, a lUlleoi.l Tr.ln. 1 heard a good itory tho other day that wai Uilil by nil old locomotive cngiliiiir, orciigltiodHvij', aa the. Moro proixrly call him In nuglimd fur tho engineer U the nuin ttuit luneji and "la) i out" tho road audi nm going logho it to on exactly ru ho told it If )ou .Ion l mint tOUllelultallllliall not object, but 1 ihall profneo tbo "yiriiHultli tho re mark that there nro lunio "ruigbty emart" mule iu tho v orld. Ilcru ii (ho torj i lUilrpadiMoplohavoa horrorof ran idng over nnitunl. not only liecnuvi lb m don't like to kill liii-rn, for lilimaua IcJoni, hut Uauio ccolll.iim Hith one often remit! In derailing the train Tlicro W another rtfuon, too, aa tho old uiL.lni'Cr ald tbty don't llko to "inii.a up their engines by itrowlug piecei of anlruil all o rr it. Ono day ou arullron.1 out Iu Illlnole thli engineer acariHl up a mnle on tho truck bctldu him. Tlie teru about luolllllelfrom n brMgo at the time. Knowing tho foihlou oil nnliruili hivu of running Iralghtaliudon tluftrark livUad of piittlu Hiclr common aeniw uu tbo matter mat-ter utiilihu ring eilf toono llde.thoin ginccr fairly riirulo tho itirroiinilirig country ring with tho uolio of liii ulii.tlo, bo let to gstdoar of tho inula before they got to tho bridge, lint Mr. Mule ice mill to think that tho wlihtlo miu itivinteil mil to keep him on tho track and imiko him rim fivetcr, mid ho kcj I itr light on at redoubled ijiccd. Of lotirio tha culno coul eatil) ltavo overtaVm him and ktocked hiui Into iinlthcnvniJbutiui'tUat might luiore-nultril luiore-nultril in knocking tbo triilu into tho lamo kind of fragruenli, tbo engineer llickeued ipeeil a hlllo nnl finally ltopjiel uu 1 lent tho fireman out to drive tliobeait olf tho trick. Tint win done fcvcral tilnei, but each timo tbo llretnan hatl hardly got Into th cab again w hen thoinul v.a-1 on tho track tho r-nmo ns ltcforonnd tearing ahead llko ma 1. In fact tie tiling wai Incoming rryiuo-nob rryiuo-nob it u when, looking np imldcnly, tho e Oncer law that ho Tin lery cl ) to Ibo 1 rliUo. Then ho begun to get un-f un-f my for fc ir tho idiot of n initio na lio thought tho anlmnl to Co vrw going to trytoiroiw tho bridge though how ho would inanngo to iteponthetlidMire-footeil iteponthetlidMire-footeil tho puxzlcl ruilroiider coul 1 not undcntnrid. They cro f o near Ibo bri lgo by ihnt thnetlrat tho mglnrcr dared not go another an-other rod, no ho aropjieii ihort Justus tho old miilo da.hcil oil ncroei n lloll braying lllco n good fellow. And then thu englneir nnd, fireman eaw Ibo gam tho who old iiulmal w iu laying. Right In tho middle of tbo bridge uai nnotlirr mulo, stuck fatt villi hli leg. luluc-cii tho tieA. Tbo ol 1 railroader itiiltti ujion it that tbo mnlo hid kept on tho track to u iko tho train go ilow, nnd 1hu i redout re-dout it from coming into cnlli.iunltl' the inula on tho Iridic, not Inviumo It cared o much aliuut tbo fulo of Iu com-luinion, com-luinion, but to nii o the train from reck. 1 decline to exprei an opinion) m for )ou, ou citl take j our choice an to the raulo'i ruotho. Humaiio WorlU |