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THE BRAINY MULE. 
A MODERN NATURE STORY. 
An old pioneer farmer, named Orson Bing- 
ham, known as “Ort,” lived on a large farm 
near Flint, Mich., in other days. 
In the course of his horse jockeying, Ort 
picked up a span of quite large mules, and re- 
ceived therefor much adverse criticism from his 
neighbor farmers. Those “farm cherubs,’ winged 
heads you know, were never popular in that 
neck of the woods, and Ort’s cherubs could out- 
bray a Methodist camp meeting. 
A few mornings after Ort began pasturing the 
birds they were missing. Inspection of the rail 
fence, the old-time Virginia pattern, showed not 
a rail off the eight rail fence. Ort rounded up 
the butterflies well away toward their former 
home. 
Three times this happened, and Ort became 
convinced a neighbor had let the mules out for 
spite and put up the fence behind them. 
Next time he put them in pasture he hid to 
watch for the culprit. About 10 o’clock, accord- 
ing to Ort, the half-donks fed up near the road 
fence. Soon one of them raised his head and 
surveyed the scenery critically. Ort had taken 
the precaution of putting a horse poke on each 
of them. A wooden bow hung on the neck bore 
a stick four or five feet long projecting in front 
so as to catch in the fence and stop the jump| 
at a crite point. The preliminary survey being 
satisfactory, the leader signalled his mate and 
the two trotted up to the fence and walked into 
the selected corner. 
The leader now put his nose under the poke, 
stick on his mate and raised it well above the 
fence. Presto! quick! over bounded the mate, 
and turning about reached his nose over the, 
fence and lifted the poke stick of the leader, who 
nimbly sailed over the fence also. 
Down the road to liberty they fled, their tune- 
ful souls, no doubt, aflame with poesy and song: 
Joy to the world, the deed is done, 
The fence is jumped, the road is won. 
E. HoLiEeNBECK. 

FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
SIXTY-THREE YEARS AGO 
‘‘ Bill” Hamilton, then 20 years of age, set out from St. Louis, 
Mo., with seven other free trappers under the leadership of old 
Bill Williams. Seven of these eight men are dead, but Hamilton 
still lives out in Montana and still sets his traps. He has written 
the story of his early trapping days and the book has been 
published. It is called 
MY SIXTY YEARS ON 
THE PLAINS 
By W. T. HAMILTON 
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It tells of trapping, trading, Indian fighting, hunting, and all 
the many and varied incidents of the trapper’s life. It is full of 
adventure and excitement, but the story is told modestly, and 
there is nothing in it that is lurid. Amid much fighting, there is 
nothing that can be called ‘‘blood and thunder,” but there is 
much that is history. 
The book has all the charm of the old volumes telling of early 
travel in the West; books which were simple and direct, and in 
which there was no striving for effect. 
It is illustrated by a portrait of the author and one of the 
celebrated Chief Washaki, and by six drawings of old-time 
trapper and Indian life, by Mr. Charles M. Russell, the celebrated 
cowboy artist of Great Falls, Montana. 
223 pages, cloth, Illustrated. Price, $1.50. 
Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 346 ae New fork 
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