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Show g LOST A SURE THING BET. IEnthuslas-.n for Oood Boads Cost Kansas Mule Buyer Quite a Neat Sum. Drury Felld, of Wchards, Is a mule buyer and an enthusiast on good roads. Ho was In Kansas on a mule-buying 2 trip, when he stopped at a small town pt west of Fort Scott. A veterinary was w "' preparing a hot application for U horso with a rpralned ldg when Mr. Felld approached tho livery stable. A ket-tlo ket-tlo with the water heating In It stood I near and men were gathered about dis cussing how hot tho water should bo when applied to tho horse's leg. They asked Drury Felld's opinion. Mr. Felld said It should be boiling. "But," said the doctor, "the horso never could I stand having his foot put in a bucket I of boiling water; It would cook the flesh from tho bone." "Not at all," said Drury. "I havo held my foot In .boiling water for flvo m'nutes, many , a time and can do It again." "I'll bet you $50 you can't do It," said the doc-I doc-I tor, with thoughts of easy money drifting through his brain. "I'll tako , the hot," said Drury, with a merry twinkle In his eye; "get 'er to bllln'." I The mule driver has an artificial foot I which he Intended to put In tho hot ' - water when It should bo ready1. Mean while tho subject of good roads came up, and when tho tub of boiling water was ready the mule buyer, excited by his argument, absent-mindedly put tho wrong oot in tho liquid, according I ' to tho statement of fjo Richards Prog- ress, and thereby lost what looked llko I a bet on n lead plpo cinch. Kansas City Times. |