Show ml 1 j 4 he understood mules aies ek t on a street corner in the northwest era rn section of the city last saturday forenoon quite a large crowd had collected it bad had formed a ring or rather a square about some object in the center tik to 0 sides baring having con grega on each side of the curb while vic a other others made a ruther rather thin line on the other sl of the square the on lookers to whatever was going on did not seem in the least excited but there vanevery wai vax every indication of at interest in the situation drunken women fighting baldone of two young women who were passing in near ar by its most disgraceful and those people placidly looking on it they weri i men stop it I 1 ehe she bald said to her companion its degraa in ins 1 an old gentleman in the same locality was explaining to another one that a man had been stricken with an epileptic fit at poor fellow he said taid and no one knows knous what to do tor for haw i it vaa was evident that the gathering was an inactive ono one and the reporter whose duty it Is to investigate every i tiling hastened to the cene and found out that a stout well proportioned mule had slipped on the pave pae luent and waa was apparently well satis fled with his recumbent situation the fact was that be he rejected ed every well meant attempt to hoist bolst him from his contact with mother earth while bis his disgusted allver a boy wy abbat SO 20 te irs old was actually mobbing with anger and vexation itt C berlt all sorts of 0 ar were hurled burled at him but nobody to want to help hint in hia his dietress distress there w waa danger in jt it the mule wae wilder eed od and vicious and teed both fore legs as a battery to keep 1011 tolka away from him until at last abet the driver eai down on an the shafts of the cart which 1 had been drawn away froan the ani ant nal mal and indulged in long bitter fought just then an old colored man wear ing an tin old fashioned blue army array over coat and a red worsted comforter about his neck topped stopped into the open space walked bravel dp UP to the now quiet quadruped and took hold of both of 0 his lit eara ears he tie seemed to whisper to the beast but whatever he be did acted like magic the mule got apon upon his feet permitted himself to bo be hitched again to hie his cart and the 1 crowd went away you seem to know how to deal with mules said the reporter to the old fellow 11 deed I 1 does euh sub was wo the reply I 1 knows all about maloa mules ind they does me tore fore bawd boss I 1 brought up in 1 Miss missouri ourt for nothing daear amuels and me id kinfolks kin folka folks ss j ou bon en I 1 think dat jobs auff ten cents dont you boss the crowd had melted away and as its there was no one elee else by to respond to mhd palpable hint the reporter dl I 1 so and th this Is the chapter ended washington star |