| Show MULE DEVOURED THE PIANO animal totally wrecked a musical instrument near him on a steamboats deck mule mula ate piano shipped sendan other next boat this message was received recently by a local piano house from an up the river purchaser whose instrument had been forwarded via mississippi river steamboat in its usual pine box the piano was installed on oil the lower deol deck next to a lanky sleepy looking mule bound for the cotton fields of the upper bends although provided with plenty of oats oata and hay the mule ripped ot off a portion of 0 the outer box disposing of six octaves of black and white ivory keys heys running the chromatic scale up to G in tile the treble clef lie he had gnawed away the mahogany panels in front m masticated felt dampers and hammers by the dozen completely wrecking the melodious insides Ins ldes of the instrument steamboat bill stoking a boller boiler twenty feet away said the mule must have had hla his foot on the soft pedal as lie he did not hear a note when discovered the animal was unconcernedly gazing longingly across the river at a grass covered levee it will coat coal to repair the piano new orleans correspondent spon dent montgomery journal |
