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i thttrsday april 21 1932 v a 1 r t i x 7 the acton free press page i 2 ffm firms liirt tory r the whoopla mules herbert cooijdge i4i4m4h4i he summer when my brother grant and i went into the business of scientific collecting we bought a pair of small desert mules from an olcy prospector earned jim elder according to the repeated assertions of jblder both the animals were as gentle as dogs finally however as he was carefully putting the purchase money into his poclfet he did remember to mention tbut theyre mexican broke hoys so of course theyre kind of whbopla on the start jack hes as nervous as a horse and thatrmakes john a little nervous too youll have to watch them of a cold morning grant and i found that we certainly did have to watch them on cold morn ingsand also on hot mornings in fact it turned out that the old pros pector had expressed himself conserva tively a the matutinal nervousness or jack and john by saying that theyl were kind of whoopla on the start he meant that they were both dead set on running madly for the first half mile when they had done that they would calm down and be demure enough for the resfof the day the oict prospectorwasdoubtlesscor dramatically all the time i was making their covering fast to the harness while i was finishing that work the fire top ped the ridge about a mile above our camp fortunately it would have to burn downhill and against the wind to reach us still i judged that our canon would burn out within an hour j at that moment i saw that mrs chandle was almost beside herself witn anxiety so to make it appear that i still fully expected to escape from the canon and also to give her something with which to occupy her mind i asked her to put up a good substantial lunch for the five of us then in the inter vals pf signaling with the shotgun 1 carried our camping dunnage to a near by washout where i covered it with dirt and turf as a protection from fire the firing of the shotgun was an event of yrcot internst to little joor dashboard before he could let go the lines and they pulled grant and me along over the ground jor fully a hun dred feet when they wefe excited jack apd john had mouths like iron for a few moments grant and i stood staring blankly into each others face meanwhile jack and john were pawn ing and champing like a- pair of furies and the fire drawing dangerously close was filling the canon with its crackling roar suddenly grants eyes lighted i know he said hobble theml while i held both mules by the bits grant hastily took off the remnant of the te rnpe that vas dangling from jacks neck using a hitch employed by mexicans when hobbling animals with a thong he fastened the firebrands forefeet close together that was a difficult task with an animal sq pos sessed with the determination to bolt xect when he attributed their behavior to the fact that they had been mexican hrokethat is lassoed when they were young and wild harnessed somehow or other hitched to a wagon and allowed to stampede across a mesa where there was plenty of room for them to run the embarrasing part for grant and me was that the excitable little rascals were bound to begin the race the moment we began to- hitch them to the wagon although they were exceptionally smal they were wiry and spirited it was pretty hard to hold them and at the same time to fasten the traces while the were rearing and plunging if we held them back too long jack the fire brand as we called him would throw himself fiat on the ground we had a good many lively fracases with jack and john that summer on one occa sion when grant and i were trying to get a family of campers out of a burning canon the antics of jack the firebrand and his faithful fodower john proved to be anything but a laughing matter at the time we were collecting mam mals in a heavilytimbered canon hlgn upin the san jallnto mountains camp ed near us was an old family friend a shoe dealer from los angeles named chandle who was enjoying a summer outing with his wife and child early one morning when we had been there about a week we discovered that a forest fire had broken out just over th3 ridgeand we at once decided that we must move quickly to a large wet meadow five miles distant chandle tamed- grant was pantlng so tnat he could uk out as i joined him htr broken loose during the night and grant and i started in opposite directions to bring in our string of traps an4iourorsolatorgrantandi chandles fouryearold boy after every shot he would ask eagerly whether that was for father and whether father would hear it and come each time i could see that it was very hard for the mother to control herself but she always an swered steadily yes joe father will hear andt come half an hour passed i had buried all of the camp equipage except a few articles that were too bulky andtfyere was nothing left to do except to fire the shotgun and time the interminable waits between thus far i had been encouraged bo- cause the flames had not progressed so fast as i had expected but now a shift ing wind suddenly sent a hot breath from the fire down the canon i knew then that it would only be a short time there was no telling how soon before the timber round us would be a mass of flames some time before i had tried to persuade mrs chandle to take utte joe and start on down the road and now i bitterly regretted that i had not insisted needless to say i would have given anything for a pair of mules that i could have hitched up alone the next few minutes were the most rackingly anxious time of my life i believe that i did nothing except fire that shotgun as fast as i could load at any rate i found it so hot in my hands that i could hardly hold it and then suddenly from the timbered slope above us came a faint shout from grant i was so gjaa that i feltlight enough to fly i flung aside the shotgun and ran to meet my brother at first i thought that grant was alone but as his outline showed more plainly through the smoke i saw that he wa supporting chandle immediately turned and shouted the glad news to mrs chandle who was following dis tractedly with little joe but grant flnishedit in an astonishingly ack rabbits and grant making his short time tying johns forelegs was blacksnake whip pop like a pistol in the comparatively easy space between them i began to eel the moment grant had made the safer for i had unlimited faith in the last knot fast he rose and running back mules ablity to run and in grants come on with yourjackknife come on hurry v the canon was like a kiln and the fire roared so near us that i almost des pared of escaping turn them loose when jack gets up grant shouted to chandle dont worry about us well catch on behind a moment later grant was yelling to me cut away then with simultan eous slashes of our sharp knives we eef the mules free as g and i made oiu- rush for the end gateof the wagon jack scrambled to bis feet and was off like a shot john who was never flrbt and yet never far behind made an ex peditious flying start also the wagon was lurching violently as grant and i climbed in over the end i expected that we should be wrecked every moment until grant had his foot on the brakes and the lines in his hands then with both mules running like to the wagon picked up the pole throw off the brake he called to chandle im going to roll the wagon down to the mules there was a good grade and grant came on a trot in a few moments- he had guided the pole between the mules and was fitting the end of it into the ring of the neckyoke let me hold them cried grant you hand the lines to chandle then hitch the traces the hobbles evidently had a subduing or a confusing effect on john for he now stood stock still so it was with jack too until he felt the first trace being hitched that had always- been the signal for jack to go and instantly now with all his accustomed fiery ardor he started on his half mile run thanks to the hobbles when he lunged forward he tripped and fell to his knees im mediately grant seized him by the cars and forced his head down to the ground long practice had taught meto fast en those traces quickly under any ordin ary difficulties and i made good time row in spite of the heat and smoke and jacks unusual position as i made the last trace fast grant yelled- ability to drive them 1 fortunately our road led down a sparselytimbered flat carpeted with pine needles at first we drew rapidly away from the fire but later when the road turned uphill the flames pressed us so closethat for a time ft seemed doubtful whether we could escape from the canon however in less than an hour from the time of their flying- slnrl another canadian industry- a pair of very demure little mules drear our wagon out into a broad wet meadow where no forest fire could follow toronto april 18 entrance of frigid- aire corporation worlds largest makers of electric refrigerators into the can adian manufacturing field was announc ed today definite decision to establish the can- adan factory was made 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gasp out fire headed him back this way then he heard the shot gun he come toward camp then but pocketed- in the hrush lucky- i turning to camp at almost the same found hm time found lfrs chandle greatly per tufted- because her husband had not yet returned stopping only to say thar we could to reassure her we set off on a run in the direction that chandle had taken now that it wastoo late we blamed ourselves heartily for allowing our friend to go after his horse alone for we knew that he was not an adept at mountaineering we had no trouble in picking up chandles trail incidentally we found where his horse had dragged its picket rope straight down the road that led out of the mountains an hour- later after many windings we traced chandle up a deep heavilytlmberecj gorge a mle and a half from camp presently grant halted and said hes lost thats sure here is where he got worried and began to run hes heading straight forthe are but he couldnt see the smoke on account of the timber so of course he didnt know it ril have to keep going and over take him if i can you hurry back to camp before that poor little wife of his worries herself into distracton fire the shotgun every ten minutes and get every thing ready so we can pull out in a hurry 0 i dreaded going back to camp with such a burden of dismal tidings but there was no way out of it so i re turned and with as great a show of hopefulness as r could muster told mrs chandle what the situation was she bore up with much more fortitude than i had expected the smoke indicated that the fire was now spreadingrapidly in our direction and i began to make ready for a race with the flames first i harnossed jack and john as usual jack the fire brand began to champ his bit the moment his bridle was on soon a fiery determined light appeared in his cjes i knew that he was waltng for fthe fray any i tied him to a stout tree hoping that ho would not have to wait long once the mules were harnesed i fired the shotgun then i stripped our wagon of fts load and soaking the chandles tent arid all our bedding in the spring put them back on the wagon then i put a wet blanket on jack and another on john but apparently neither of the uncivilized rascals had ever before worn a blanket of any kind much less one that was wet and dripping and they continued to squat and cringe theres even a difference in the grant was so nearly exhausted that hehad to lie flat on the ground for a while after tfe reached camp chandle was limp it was all his wife and i could do to hoist him into the bed of the wagon assoon as i could get mrs- ghandle and joe aboard i had them lie down beside mr chandle and then i- covered them all with the wet tent then i ran for the mules flrst i got john and tied him to the same tree with jack thereupon jack mmediately began to paw the ground and john of course immediately did the same after coupling them together with the lines i ran to the wagon took the neckyoke off the end of the pole nastened bock with it and fastened tne straps to the collars of my champing steeds then orant came and the fraca be ihad never seen jack and john so much excited the long wait the firing of the shotgun the wet blankets on their backs and the roaring and heat from the rapidlyapproaching fire com blned to make them wildly- eager for- their half mile run grants first mover was to cut the mules loose with a couple of hasty slashes of his sharp knife then taking eacn a mule we led them to the wagon and made john step pver the pole grant immediately raised the end of the pole but before he could insert it in the ring of the neckyoke jack reared on hs hind legs and lunged forward john instantly lunged also and in spite of our strenuous efforts they dragged us thirty fcetibefore we could check them when he turned round we had a hard time making them face the heat and smoke of the approaching flames at that moment chandles pallid appeared from behind the wagon sear you boys want any help he askjh anxiously lots of if said grant desperately you get up in the seat and 1 hold tip lines then my brother can hitch the traces while 1 hold ther heads first though we vc got to take those blankets off that must be whaus making them so crazy it took us only ja instant to strip off the wet blankets but if removing them had any soothing effect on jack ind john i did nqt notice it when we had driven thein to the wagon and made john step over the pole both mules simultaneously shot forward they nearly dragged chandle out over tne attacked by asthma the first fearful sensation is of suffocation which hour byhour becomes more desperate and hopeless to such a case the relief afforded by dr j d kelloggs asthma remedy seems nothing less than miracu lous its help is quickly apparent and soon the dreadful attack is masteied the asthmatic who has found out the dependability of this sterling remedy will never be without it it is sold every where crop plan book pays kelloggs corn flakes have such a delicious aroma that 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