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Show 10 Of course, you know what I did next: I hitched Emmett alongside Sadie, and in the presence of such a mule as Emmett, Sadie was always the perfect lady. Unfortunately for mules they remain strong under harsh working conditions. That's why you find mules in construction camps, in military camps, on the farms, and in the mines. And that's why, now that I had two mules, I hired myself out to a miner in Colorado who had a dig up near Pike's Peak. Twice each day he'd load up the ore cars with his diggin's. Twice each day my two mules would pull the ore cars out of the gopher hole. The miner always dug enough to fill five cars, a decent pull for two mules. On the day I'm talking about that old miner got avaricious and filled an extra car. Well, sir, Emmett and Sadie were smarter'n that old miner gave 'em credit for. When the ore cars were hitched together, the mules always counted the clicks of the coupling pins. So when Emmett and Sadie heard that extra click, they refused to move. If'n I wanted to keep my job, I'd better get those mules movin', the miner told me. But beg as I might, I couldn't |
