Show KEPT MULES ON THE MOVE hitched to speeding automobile team tor lor a while had the time of their lives hero here is a kiy frum from a manhattan with vaudeville rea features tures not to men tion the hard luck A farmer living on deep creek several miles east cast of manhattan had a thrilling experience with an automobile and a team of mules the farmer recently had purchased a new machine and on one of his first trips tried to cross the creek at a ford ile he put the clutch it t high speed and waded in for some reason the engine went dead la in midstream cranking failed to revive it after a number of useless efforts the farmer secured a team of mules paulos hitched them to the stubborn fluto auto and dragged tho machine across the creek and up the bank the driver hadjeff had ett the clutch aitch on at high speed and from some unaccountable cause as soon as the machine was wag on level road the engine suddenly revived tho the ma chine started forward with a bound and struck the mules squarely in their kicking apparatus there was some thing joing doing immediately thereafter the mules started oft off full tilt xyth ith the machine chugging after them the driver being occupied with the mules could not give the machine much it at lention the maelene was soon going at i 1 great speed striking the mules on oil the heels again and again both team and machine became unmanageable but tho the mules suddenly jumped to one side bringing the machine sharply are around dmd and causing it to strike a bank of eaith thus bringing the strange runaway to an abrupt end kansas CRY journal |