Blind Mule Caper

[snowyday]

With the coming of the railroad came a new brand of entrepreneurialism.

Stock would wander onto the track and be hit by the train.

The railroad would then have to settle with the owner for the superb stock lost.

A Cherokee County man saw an opportunity and went out and bought a

blind mule as his sacrificial lamb so to speak.

Now the mule may have been blind but was not stupid. He could both hear

and feel the vibrations caused by the train and get out of the way.

Hopefully each day the man would go check on his prize stock. Day after day

he would find the mule alive and well.

One day when the train engineer looked down the track he spied the mule

on the track. He blew his whistle. All the mule did was turn his head in the

direction of the sound.

Muttering to himself he brought the train to a stop and got out to chase the

mule off the tracks.

Imagine his surprise to find the hooves of the mule nailed to the crosstie

between the tracks.

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