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Watson, Helen Orr (1944). Shavetail Sam U.S. Army Mule. Houghton Mifflin Company Boston.163 Seiten.
SAM was a mule with a great deal of zest and a mind of his own. The leader of all the mule foals on the farm, he did learn how to plow, through Elmer’s patient training, but he enjoyed outwitting his master at every chance. Yet when Sam was auctioned off on Mule Day, Elmer felt sad, for he knew Sam was an unusually capable and clever mule.
The United States Army bought Sam and sent him to Front Royal Remount Training Depot. His name soon became Shavetail Sam, and he was taught how to be a pack mule and was ·broken to a rider. Sam proved his ability was unusual by conquering his instinctive fear of water and by taking such an exciting part in a fox hunt that he was sent to West Point as a mascot.
Shavetail Sam’s West Point career, however, was cut short by his being mistakenly sent overseas. He saw England and arrived in the midst of the Italian Campaign to take a heroic part which brought happiness to Italian Tony, and by a strange coincidence,‘ to his old master, Elmer.
Mrs. Watson, whose former stories have been of an army horse, TOP KICK, and an army dog, TROOPER (see back flap), has made the usually ridiculed mule a very appealing and sturdy character. The army background is authentic and timely. Shavetail Sam has been drawn by Bernard Garbutt, who also illustrated TOP KICK and TROOPER.
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