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and donkey, lie naturally inherits this 

 quality, as well as that of longevity. He 

 is also extensively used, I believe, in the 

 Neapolitan district, and in the Island of 

 Sardinia. 



The mule, Mr. Sutherland remarks, has 

 been aptly described as "an animal with 

 no ancestry and no hope of posterity." For 

 his mother's sake, we trust not from pride, 

 he loves to consort with horses rather than 

 with members of his father's family ; so 

 miich so that the presence of a qiiiet old 

 mare or pony will prevent a team from 

 straying Avhen outspanned on veldt or 

 prairie. Nevertheless, when in the course 

 of that instructive conversazione of camp 

 animals, which occurred on a memorable 

 night of panic, and which was so faithfully 

 reported by Mr. Eudpard Kipling (who 

 evidently knows camels and mules as well 

 as he knows Thomas Atkins and the Com- 

 petition Wallah), the battery mule was 



