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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>March 22,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>NO ONE KNOWS WHY MAUD LEFT TOWN</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>People Gathered About Passenger Station Could Not Help
Admiring Her Voice</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> As train No. 3 pulled into the station last
night a regulation long-eared Maud set up a hee-hawing which would do credit to
twenty mules. She was standing in a crate waiting to be put in the express
car so that she could get started on her way to Charleston. Even above the
clanging of the bell on the engine and the rushing sound of escaping steam the
mule made herself heard, and after the train had stopped, Maud's shouts and
screams could be heard above all the noise. She seemed to be endowed with
a lovely voice half way between a soprano and a basso and every time she opened
her mouth the soprano note was shouted only to be followed by the basso in such
regularity and with such increasing crescendo that all of the people about the
station were forced to laugh. Later on, when ten men tried to force the
crate with Maud in it into the express car, there was plenty of fun. Only
two men had nerve enough to get up on the express truck behind that part of
Maud's anatomy where her heels were located. After they got up there they
stood on one side until they found that Maud was more interested in seeing the
box pushed into the car than she was in kicking.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Although several inquires were made no one
was able to say why Maud left town. Why she would want to leave
Bluefield to go to a dry town like Charleston is beyond comprehension, but then
mules are a hard lot anyhow.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Maud evidently has a very even temper, for
she never even once kicked and the people who stood around the truck watching
for her to make strenuous objections to being handled like a piece of baggage
had to go away without even seeing her raise her objectors even once. The
last word Maud said on leaving town was the regulation by-by sent out by
mules.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>