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Book Title: Illustrated History Of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

ASIATIC ANTICS.

   In 1858 a Chinaman was kicked by a mule at Goodyear's bar, in consequence of
which injury he dissolved partnership with earth, and was gathered to his
antipodal fathers. The great sanhedrim of celestials was immediately convened,
and the Chinaman to whom the guilty mule belonged was summoned to appear before
that tribunal with his vicious property. The animal was trotted up without
saddle or bridle, and after a protracted " ching-chung-how-ee-lum," the jury of
seventeen Chinamen proceeded to ballot on the question of shooting the
long-eared prisoner at the bar, without giving him a chance of speaking in his
own defense. Sanguinary counsels prevailed, and six pistol balls entered the
mule's hide; after which his brains were clubbed out. Then it was resolved that
the offending member must be cut off; but as mules kick promiscuously with both
hind legs, it became a difficult problem as to which hoof should be lopped off.
Numerous citations were made from Confucius and other Mongolian authorities,
when it was decided that both legs should be amputated, and thereby get a dead
sure thing on the mule; which order of the court was faithfully carried out.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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