rickfarang Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 This may be the earliest published Buffalo Story. I had to laugh out loud when I encountered this paragraph in Theodore Rooseveltâ??s 1920 autobiography. Here, he is writing about some slaves that refused to leave his family after the U.S. Civil War. â??The only demand they made upon us was enough money annually to get a new "critter," that is, a mule. With a certain lack of ingenuity the mule was reported each Christmas as having passed away, or at least as having become so infirm as to necessitate a successorâ??a solemn fiction which neither deceived nor was intended to deceive, but which furnished a gauge for the size of the Christmas gift.â? Sound familiar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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