. A glimpse of old Mexico; being the observations and reflections of a tenderfoot editor while on a journey in the land of Montezuma . day or so it ceases to worry. Then, you must allow for the fact that a mule is a marvelouscharacter reader and will ascertain your weaknesses in no time. Itseemed to me as if all the mules in Mexico had me sized up understood perfectly that I had a chicken hearted disposi-tion and didnt have the nerve to punch holes in their hides with 28 A GLIMPSE OF OLD MEXICO the cruel spurs that I wore, and therefore that they could loafalong with me pretty much
. A glimpse of old Mexico; being the observations and reflections of a tenderfoot editor while on a journey in the land of Montezuma . day or so it ceases to worry. Then, you must allow for the fact that a mule is a marvelouscharacter reader and will ascertain your weaknesses in no time. Itseemed to me as if all the mules in Mexico had me sized up understood perfectly that I had a chicken hearted disposi-tion and didnt have the nerve to punch holes in their hides with 28 A GLIMPSE OF OLD MEXICO the cruel spurs that I wore, and therefore that they could loafalong with me pretty much as they pleased. In consequence Ialways used to be four or five miles behind the last man in the pro-cession and considered myself lucky if I got into camp at all. Butone day I happened to be a little short tempered and my mulemore than commonly preverse and with a sudden impulse I drovean inch of steel into both sides of him, supplementing the samewith half a dozen wallops with a small sized cat-o-nine-tails Icarried. A dispensation from above could not have worked agreater change. There wasnt a more ambitious animal than mine. San Dimas Creek and Glimpse of San Dimas. on the trail that day and for fear the tonic would wear out. I re-peated the dose the next morning. I have got along with mulesvery well ever since. It seems a little uncanny, at first, to have dusky shadows,swathed in red scrapes, fiitting noiselessy around your camp as thenight falls, but a little experience soon reassures. These people areabsolutely harmless, and such a thing as petty theft is almost un-known, especially so far as the foreigners are concerned. After A GLIMPSE OF OLD MEXICO 29 ?considerable inquiry, I can hear of no instance of camp beingrobbed while its owner slept. This is the more surprising and?commendable, because the plunder of a well-equipped outfitwould represent incalculable wealth. And I want to add this—that so far as my experience of mankind goes, you can find moreabsolute happin
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