Honor the charge they made!
Honor the Mule Brigade,
Long-eared two hundred!
The following plaint in behalf of this veteran quadruped will close this sketch:—
THE ARMY MULE IN TIME OF PEACE.
“That men are ungrateful can plainly be seen
In the case of that mule standing out on the green.
His features are careworn, bowed down is his head,
His spirit is broken: his hopes have all fled.
He thinks of the time when the battle raged sore,