“Desperate Dilemma: Can a Town Save Their Stubborn Mule Trapped in the Barn Before It’s Too Late?”
Just before sundown, the town mayor arrived on the scene with an even wider mule, Jumbo, who was brought to the farm to push Cloppy through the doorway. Unfortunately, insiders confirmed, the mule had taken an immediate liking to Cloppy and had gone and gotten his self stuck too.
“Oh, for Pete’s sake,” said Mayor Virgil Hart, dabbing mule spit from his brow with his necktie. “I ain’t never seen a mule that stuck—let alone two—and we used up all my good slidin’ grease on the first one.”
“Not to mention, it’s hotter than blazes out here and the whole town stinks to high heaven of mule and rancid lard,” he added.
At that point, sources reported, the mayor issued a mandate to bring in an even fatter mule that could nudge Cloppy and Jumbo out from behind.
“Oh, dang it, there goes one of them sheep that wandered in to see what all the fuss is about,” Hart said. “Now all three are stuck in there tighter’n a banjo string.”
Not knowing what else to do, head-scratching sources then called in the town sheriff to shoot at the mules and the sheep, hoping to scare them through the threshold, but such efforts were to no avail.
“Hoo doggy, did that make the old gal ornery!” said Sheriff Davis Paine, using a kerchief to wipe the mule blood off his hands and face. “She was sure fumin’ somethin’ awful. And everyone ’round here knows the only thing worse’n one stuck heavyset mule is two angry stuck mules and a sheep that’s all of ’em covered in grease.”
“How’d a coupla mules get so big anyhow?” Paine continued. “That’s 10 pounds of mule in a 5-pound sack.
