The Mule

"The mule always appears to me a most surprising animal.
That a hybrid should possess more reason, memory, obstinacy, social affection,
powers of muscular endurance, and length of life, than either of its parents,
seems to indicate that art has here outdone nature."

--- Charles Darwin

"The mule was old, raw-bony and mean.
He was so raw-bony that he creaked as he ambled about
the village street with his meanness shining out through every chink and
cranny in his rattling anatomy."

--- Zora Neale Hurston
From sugar mule magazine