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WE frequently had mules brought in to ex»ir%nent upon, and 

 often found them exceptionally good sbbj^itig. A mule when 

 vicious is supposed to be not only very dull but extremely 

 bad, and if the treatment is not made right, becomes really very 

 difficult to manage ; but when managed according to the experience 

 of our later years, we always found this animal among the very best 



Fig. 326.— A Favorite Mule. 



of subjects. No matter how bad the character of the mule, or how 

 vicious the resistance, he always works in, in a short time, entirely 

 gentle. The treatment we used with most success at first was the 

 Second Method, and it was rare that we found one that did not sub- 

 mit to this readily. However, it was' not in all cases the clear suc- 

 cess we could desire, and we then depended upon the simpler meth- 

 ods of treatment, making sometimes a good deal of work ; but when 



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