Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . Mule, his heels and his vices, and helped himconquer them. Poor brute! on our return hefell sick. We dragged him along behind thecart for a day or two, and since he got no better,but only worse, and could hardly walk, we lefthim on the open prairie, cutting a heap of greengrass for his bed and board, clipping his ear fora property-mark, and praying that the wolvesmight spare him. Good old mule! you servedus well, and I couldnt help choking at the throatas I caught the last glimpse of your long neckstretched out as you lay there, l
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . Mule, his heels and his vices, and helped himconquer them. Poor brute! on our return hefell sick. We dragged him along behind thecart for a day or two, and since he got no better,but only worse, and could hardly walk, we lefthim on the open prairie, cutting a heap of greengrass for his bed and board, clipping his ear fora property-mark, and praying that the wolvesmight spare him. Good old mule! you servedus well, and I couldnt help choking at the throatas I caught the last glimpse of your long neckstretched out as you lay there, loth to believethat we would desert you. If the stern readerderides my grief, O dead ass, you shall notmeet again! Oh for the Mustang Horse Lini-ment that might have spared us all! I forgot to say that we used to rest in cam])one day in seven, Sunday the day, as often as waspossible. Then our trowsers and morals weremended, or, at least, patched up to appear a lit-tle better, the emigrants greased afresh their cart-wheels and their good resolutions, and washed. nKs. TO KED RIVER AND BEYOND. 5
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