...ce which the guinea-fowl occupies among the feathered bipeds of the barn-yard in this respect, the mule holds facile princes among the domestic quadrupeds. The poets who lived in the same time with Pericles said of the latter that he lightened, thundered, and agitated all Greece, so powerful was his eloquence. So, likewise, when the mule raised his voice, all opposition was silent before him, for...