The English people in the present generation are falsely reputed to know Shakspere (as, by some innocent persons, the Florentine mule-drivers are believed to have known the Divina Commedia, not, perhaps, excluding all the subtle discourses in the Purgatorio and Paradiso); but there seems a clear prospect that in the coming generation he will be known to them through burlesques, and that his plays will find a new life as pantomimes.

I never could understand why it was that almost every person, that raises stock, recommends big, ugly gollips of mares, for mule-breeding.

was the cocksure reply as they alighted in Canal Street to take an up-town mule-car.

I often passed, on the road, camel and mule-cloths that made my mouth water, so old were their texture and delicate their pattern and colouring, but the owners invariably declined, under any circumstances, to part with them.

Dat's what I sold dem mules fur.

"Would you prefer that Max or your good uncle and perhaps some of our poor mule-leaders should be killed by these pigstickers," I asked, "or would you compound with them in some reasonable way?

Two of these sacks, each containing about fifteen hundred dollars' worth of the ore, constituted an ordinary mule-load.

Mr. Graberg, Mr. Schreber, and Mr. Ramstrom, seem of opinion, that the internal structure or parts of fructification in mule-plants resemble the female parent; but that the habit or external structure resembles the male parent.

Cairns appeared presently through the infantry, and around the end of the picket-linea correspondent serving mule-riders with all the enthusiasm of a pitifully-tightened belt....

Mary slipped away, mounted the old mule "Mustang" and galloped away at a mules snail speed to Newnansville where she related what had happened to a Union captain.

If ther boys tied them mules squar, they hain't made nothin' out 'er us, that's sartain.

There were several men in Natchez who reduced mule-stealing to a science, and were as thoroughly skilled in it as Charley Bates or the Artful Dodger in the science of picking pockets.

At present, nearly all the Government mule-teams are reined up, and worked with a single rein.

I want to go nurse the box-carloads and mule-wagonloads of wounded at Corinth, at Okolona and strewed all the way down to Mobilethat's full of them.

They hitch the mules to fences outside the tent, and while the performance is going on the mules bray in concert and drown the band.

She say I didn' need to learn nothin' 'cept how to count so's I could feed de mules widout colicin' 'em.