Hospital Sketches

Louisa May Alcott

Capitolo 65

prickings of incitements, for the benefit of the flower of perambulating-
bed. Some of these gentlemen painfully struck uniforms holds,
and the small berets, kept above from of the new law of gravitation as them
only covered the bridge of the nose, still never falls;  the men
seemed stuffed birds, and it rode as if the safety of the
nation depended alone on their speed. The more fat, greyer
officers dressed the most greater part, and long statelily ambled, with orderlies
behind, trying to look as if theirs didn't know the strong party in
forehead, and making a lot of caracoling on them really account.

The mules were my special delight;  and the study of a hour of a
continuous succession of he/she introduced them me to many of them
characteristics;  for six of these small odd beasts each drew
army's wagon, and went exciting as frogs through the brook of mud
what it softly rolled along the road. The coquettish mule had
the small feet, a bow exactly repaired of a tail they lifted the head on ears,
and it seemed very determined to little lance of the head, it struck
jumps and it feathers;  and, if he brought the bells, or it was bedizzened
with some elegance, I handed as many aspects as some beautiful. The moral one
mule was a strong creature, hard-working, while always dragging with all
his were able;  often throwing away after the rest was stopped,
working under the conscientious deception that the food for the
whole army depended on his/her private exercises. I respected this
style of mule;  and a cabbage juicy hood had possessed me, it would have
presses him/it on him, with thanks for his/her excellent example. The
historical mule was an apple tree-dramatic quadruped, prone to frightening
humanity from eccentric jumps and wild dives, very shaking of his
stubborn head, and whipping out of his/her vicious heels;  now and then
falling apartment and apparently a the Forrest dying:  a gasp--a
contortion--a failure, and so on, you cultivate the road it was jammed well on,
the drivers every oath as demons in the bad hats and the head
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