THE ARAB MULETEER. 
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altogether, sleeping and smoking his way through life on a 
capital of one mule. When he gets rich by making a fortune 
of ten dollars, he buys a small ass' so that he can ride after 
his mule, and boast an ass of his own; and then he assumes 
the honorable position of a Howadji among muleteers, and is, 
to all intents and purposes, 
A GENTLEMAN OF ELEGANT LEISURE. 
