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A game two can play or The Arkansas farmer

Description: A drawing and poem (author unknown) about George Bert Whitestine when he lived in Arkansas. My old friend Bert has a big-eared mule and from him he will never part he loves that mule and the mule loves Bert with all its mulish heart. When the rooster crows my friend Bert knows that day is a goin to break he curries that mule with the leg of a stool and scratches him down with a rake.
Origin: 1922
Source: http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll15/id/5902
Collection: Huntington City-Township Public Library
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Subjects: Poetry
Cartoons (Commentary)
Mules
Farming

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