MULES
"Is you gwine ter let dat mewel do as he pleases?" asked Uncle Ephraim's wife.
"Wha's you will-power?"
"My will-power's all right" he answered "You jes' want ter come out hyar an' measure dis mewel's won't power."
Somewhere in France a tall negro dough-boy was trying to pull to his feet a mule who persisted obstinately in sitting down. The darkey tugged and strained but the mule remained obdurate. Finally the man desisted and glaring at the mule, remarked "As you were, mule, as you were."
"What's become of your chauffeur?"
"Oh, he was with the regiment down in Texas and crawled under an army mule to see why it wouldn't go."