The army mule and other war sketches . essed is the voluptuousness of reverie, blessed andcheap as an expectant clothiers greeting, while hepauses ecstatically for an appropriate smile . . 162 No two companies have been drilled alike; no three con-secutive soldiers perform the same antic at the sametime 212 The veterans quietly gathered in the voluntary and in-voluntary honors .... One state points withpride to her nine soldier governors, and of seven presi-dents elected since the close of the war, six were ex-soldiers . 230 ********I hail thee Brother—spite of the fools scorn!And fain would t
The army mule and other war sketches . essed is the voluptuousness of reverie, blessed andcheap as an expectant clothiers greeting, while hepauses ecstatically for an appropriate smile . . 162 No two companies have been drilled alike; no three con-secutive soldiers perform the same antic at the sametime 212 The veterans quietly gathered in the voluntary and in-voluntary honors .... One state points withpride to her nine soldier governors, and of seven presi-dents elected since the close of the war, six were ex-soldiers . 230 ********I hail thee Brother—spite of the fools scorn!And fain would take thee with me, in the dellOf peace and mild Equality to dwell,Where Toil shall call the charmer Health his bride,And Laughter tickle Plentys ribless side!How thou wouldst toss thy heels in gamesome play,And frisk about, as lamb or kitten gay!Yea! and more musically sweet to meThy dissonant harsh bray of joy would warbled melodies that soothe to restThe aching of pale Fashions vacant breast! —Coleridge. THE ARMY MULE. I HE longevity of the Muleis proverbial. He liveson and on, until his originbecomes a .musty myth,and age erects a tumoron his brow which betok-ens superb developmentof spirituality. The endurance of a halluci-nation is perhaps greater still. Our civil warclosed more than thirty years ago. TheMules employed in the army are mostly dead—not so the hallucinations. These still linger,picturesque but fatiguing. There still survivesin every northern town and village at least oneman who habitually asserts, who is willing toverify by affidavit, worst of all, who stead- I THE ARMY MULE fastly believes, that he put down the rebellion. The Mules are not supposed to have un-derstood the war, and consequently can notbe expected to hold themselves responsiblefor its results. But the man of distorted per-spective, who measures the circumference ofthe universe by the diameter of his own ego-tism, shrinks from no exaltation and shirksno responsibility. He is festoo
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