Show FARMER HAD REAL THING I 1 peculiarly mean joke that Is said to have been played on an indiana sheriff say sheriff said a voice over the telephone to the sheriff ot of a nearby indiana county a few days ago this Is like ike stubbles well jim stubbins ns a neighbor of mine that I 1 been havin bavin trouble with li Is on his way to town right now with a load of 0 white mule iles hes goin by the cornbread road and it if you hurry you and your men will have plenty of time to ketch him before he reaches town hes got the mule all covered up with a canvas tarpaulin on the back of his wagon the sheriff swore tn in two deputies and went to the cornbread Corn brend road the officers saw approaching them in leisurely fashion a big farm wagon drawn by two hor horses es that were drien by a man answering the description ot of Stub birl halt in the name of the awl ordered the sheriff sherl fr nave have you got a load of white mule 1 I sure have I 1 gotta admit IV it replied the farmer fanner who by this time sensed that somebody was being made tho the victim of a joke look fer herself yer self sheriff under the cover there the sheriff raised the tarpaulin and gazed on the melancholy nelan choly form of a real white mule which had passed away following an attack of colic and which even then was on its way to a reduction plant la in the nearby city indianapolis news |