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loads, which, the brewers assert, no other breed of 

 Horses could bear. In the place of these Horses, 

 Messrs. Trueman, Harfoid, and Co. of Liadboftse, 

 have, for some time past, used mules in their drays. 

 Each dray is drawn by three Mules, die highest of 

 which does not, perhaps, stand more than fourteen 

 hands. These carry three butts of beer from Lime- 

 house to London: the same weight, precisely, 

 which the London drays cany with three large 

 Horses; and in these the shafts bear, in the same 

 manner, upon the filler, as upon that of the drays 

 drawn by Horses. 



The name of the Mule has been proverbially 

 applied to express stubbornness, and ungovernable 

 stupidity ; from the animals' being said 

 to resist ill treatment. It is asserted that the 

 severity cannot compel a Mule to go fc 

 when it is not inclined to do so of its own accord. 

 But,, if gentle usage be, as it is declared to be, suf- 

 ficient to effect this purpose, it might be consider- 

 ed a fortunate circumstance if all our beasts of 

 burthen were endowed with the same kind of spi- 

 rit; since, in that case, the feelings of humanity 

 would by no means be so often outraged as they 

 are at present. If, however, our countrymen could 

 only be prevailed with to consider this animal in 

 the light that its qualities justly merit, to pay due 

 attention to its breed, and treat it with gentleness 

 and kind usage, it might, in the course of a few 



vears, 



