He told me about a man he worked for in Oshkosh who had a team of mules which always stood on their heads when they were not at work.

He said all the mules in Oshkosh did.

So Patrick tied a heavy stone to our horse's tail to Balance him and keep him straight.
And this worked to a charm until I took the horse to church one Sunday, when, while a crowd stood round him looking at him, he swung his tail around and brained six boys with the stone." "Brained them, love ?" "Well, I didn't see them myself, but Patrick told me, when I came out of church, that they were as good as dead.

And he said he remembered that that Oshkosh man used to coax his mules to stand on their legs by letting them hear music.

It soothed them, he said.