That's me on "Old Lou"--I was probably about nine in 1946 and that's my kid brother about seven. The mule was probably about thirty two at the time. That's an earlier mule "Ida" drawing the cart. Daddy used mules exclusively as his farm animals (he kept four) as he found them to be more suited in temperment for the purpose. But he still rode his spirited horses in his dreams. Sometimes he would startled us and wake himself  yelling at his son for driving his prize horse too hard. I have a nice photo c1920 of my father as a young man riding Jack dressed in his riding attire.

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