Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

In nearly every army race meeting held in France during the war there was provision for a mule race. Some mules, a London Times correspondent says, were remarkably fast and handy, while others were satisfactory so long as it was a straight course. At one meeting of the Picquigny course the distance was four furlongs, with a very sharp right-handed turn at the half distance. If the turn was not taken there was no alternative but to go into the woods which surrounded the course. Fully 25 of the mules refused to take the bend and plunged straight into the wood, which is thick and very dark. After a while the whole woods were reverberating with the agonizing cries which only mules can make. Strange to relate there were no serious casualties to men or mules.