The Badminton Magazine 1900-06: Vol 10 Iss 59 (1900)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 55
tangled underbrush—a work for which horses would be totally unfit. It is indeed the burden of a world-wide testimony that the mule far excels the horse in patience, surefootedness and | immunity from disease ; and it is curious to collect the expert evidence available which bears witness to the… … CAUGHT ‘pack animals, he is not easily affected by climatic conditions, although most at home in rocky and mountainous country. If ‘we compare him with the horse, the mule can endure greater hardships, is more muscular in proportion to his weight, can live on less and do more work on the same…
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