The General repeatedly told me that the mule was "no good," and that I ought to have had a good horse.

Mules and hinnies are mongrels and grafts as it were on a stock of a different species, for a mule is got by an ass out of a mare, and a hinny by a horse out of a she ass.

The court said: "If the complainants could be heard to assert here rights personal to themselves in the treaty just mentioned, and if the mules and horses involved in the case are munitions of war, all of which is disputed by the defendants, it would become necessary to determine, whether the treaty is meant to prevent private citizens from selling supplies to the belligerents."

Sir Mule, now blessed be the day That I see you so goodly and so gay 590 In your attyres, and eke your silken hyde Fil'd with round flesh, that everie bone doth hide.

It is what I regard as unsoundness, and a mule badly affected with it is generally of but little use.

On one occasion, a fortunate player, the celebrated Baquijano, was under the necessity of sending for a bullock car to convey his winnings, amounting to above thirty thousand dollars: a mule thus laden with specie was a common occurrence.

As he came up, he said, in tones that carried cheer with them, "Well, Judge, we're in luck; fifty mules and two varmints is a pretty good night's work.

The mule and the zebra are distant relatives, 'cause lots of mules have a few stripes on their legs, but the zebra is the eldest son who is aristocratic and inherits the stuff, while the mule is the younger son who never gets a look in for the money, but has to work for a living.

The self-acting mules are Robert's, about one half spinning 36's weft, and spindles revolving 4800 turns per minute; and

The mule is the only draft animal that always pulls straight and gets there right side up.

But they forget that the mule is not a natural animal, only an invention of man.

"Your mule," continued Ajax, "is about played outpoor beast.

When he was a captain he made all the furniture of his horse, from the bit to the crupper, in beaten poetry, every verse being fitted to the proportion of the thing, with a moral allusion of the sense to the thing; as the bridle of moderation, the saddle of content, and the crupper of constancy; so that the same thing was both epigram and emblem, even as a mule is both horse and ass.

You know, mules are the greatest mind readers in the world.

Our mule and her load would be a great capture for them.

The mule, Casey said, was just plain damn mule, sloughed off from the army, blasé beyond words,any words at Casey's command, at least.

The mule that breeds closest after the jack, and is marked like him, is the hardiest, can stand fatigue the best, and is less liable to those diseases common to the horse; while those which breed close after the mare, and have no marks of the jack about them, are liable to all of them.

That ole mule was sure wabblin' like a duck, but he come aside his ole place and followed along all day.

DISEASES MULES ARE LIABLE TO.WHAT

The mule and the zebra are distant relatives, 'cause lots of mules have a few stripes on their legs, but the zebra is the eldest son who is aristocratic and inherits the stuff, while the mule is the younger son who never gets a look in for the money, but has to work for a living.

Mules are much dearer in Morocco and in other parts of Barbary than horses.

Some persons are inclined to think that, when a mule is a kicker, he has not been properly broken.

De mule tuk it all, en 'peared ter be ez 'umble ez a mule could be; but w'en dey wuz makin' de turn at de een' er de row, one er de plough-lines got under de mule's hin' leg.

To show of how little service three year old mules are to the Government, I will give the number handled by me during part of 1864 and 1865.