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the leaders look around, and, seeing him 
up out of the way, they slacken down 
their pace again, when the performance is 
repeated. Sometimes the mules do not 
wait to be pelted, but when they see their 
enemy stoop down to gather the missiles 
they gallop wildly ahead, leaving the 
road runner to make the best time he can 
to catch up ; which having done, he takes 
his revenge on the mules from above at 
his leisure. 
If there is one thing in which the 
Mexicans can outdo us more than another 
it is in stage or diligence driving, 
and this too with animals that will not 
compare with ours in size or strength, 
although, in proportion to their size, prob¬ 
ably more enduring. They generally 
make up in numbers what they lack in 
strength, for they hitch them in troops 
