I HE Mule av Abyssinia. ig 



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to roll in the dust. In Abyssinia there are regular rolling-places for mules and asses. After he has 

 rolled they take him to water, hobble him, and let him go out to graze. The Abyssinian hobble 

 is the best I have seen. The near fore-leg is tied with a leather thong, about three-quarters 

 of an inch wide, to the off hind-leg, or vice versa, so that the mule can walk, but not go faster." 



THE niNNEV. 



The mule of commerce is, as before stated, the produce of a mare horse by an ass. The 

 hinney, which is never intentionally bred, unless by some fanciful amateur, is the produce of an 

 ass by a horse, and resembles its sire by having the tail, the mane, the legs and feet, and 

 sometimes, but more rarely, the head of a horse. The hinney is rarely larger than a common 

 ass, while a mule will generally be much taller than either of its parents. 



