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The Army Mule and Other War Sketches

Henry A. Castle

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Page_35">35 Island, walk under the mistletoe with a young lady and tradition will do the rest. In Chicago, hand an attractive widow out of a cable car, and gossips will supply all necessary additional ingredients for a five-column sensation. Thus every locality has its advantages and its drawbacks, its vexations and its compensations. By parallel lines of illustration it may be demonstrated that what the Mule lacks in volubility he fully makes up in sagaciousness.

The capacity of this observant, discriminating animal to sit in judgment on the character of his stridulous driver can scarcely be subject to reasonable question. The judicial cast of intellect is so universally associated with solemnity of visage that the terms become substantially interconvertible, like the principles of a polished politician. When the Army Mule lowers his head and lifts his eyebrows and searches profoundly through his stable litter with his deliberative hoof, the rich trolley-line. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Who thought this book was worth preserving, and why? It is a collection of reminiscences from the American Civil War, published in 1898. There were thousands of similar books written in that era, most of them long forgotten, but someone, for some reason, thought this one was worth keeping, and then

Silly little turn-of-the-century book of vignettes about the underappreciated regulars in and affiliated with the British army. Great if you happen to be trying to brush up on vocabulary for fun or a standardized test, with all kinds of purple prose and several words even my dictionary didn't know.