Mulley

Every little while I see in The Rural an article published in favor of growing mulley or hornless stock. Allow an old man of three-score years and ten, to give his experience in raising stock of the mulley kind.

Surrounding the whole herd, they quietly drove it down into a valley out of sight of the house, and while doing so discovered that of the whole herd there was but one animal sufficiently fat to satisfy the pampered taste of a soldier, and that was a mulley bull.

A female caribou has antlers same as a bull, but a cow moose is a mulley.

Leave milking and dry up old mulley, thy cow.

Little brother must be good, little brother mustn't cry, little brother's going to get a drop of milk from his good old Mulley.

Although not remarkably up in the world himself, yet he took care that the "mulley," at least, should occupy an elevated position in life; and so he had his stable on the flat roof, at the very top of the house, which is a high one; and he used to walk up and down the long flights of stairs which connected his home with the street below, "like a Christian," as we were once informed.

Being but a little lad, I felt much afraid; With the hazel-rod I had, On the "mulley laid; Donkey kicked and ran away, And to get out of my way Turned into a field of hay, Where awhile he stayed.

'What is a mulley, father?' 'Why a thing, Jan, what had a jack-ass for his father and a 'oss for his mother.'