Word: mule
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Blue-coat did not recognize me, and so much the better. I told uncle I would attend to him, and I rather think I did. Instructions had been given the coachman to have the pony and mule ready at four the next morning, but I told Pat I would attend to them myself. The pony was an easy riding animal, but the mule was a perfect terror, and the most severe bit could not begin to hold him. Determined to have some fun with the detective, I put on the mule the bridle with the snaffle-bit, and, after assuring...