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Sophia Simpson's Mules Returned Home 'Intoxicated', Nov. 11, 1921

Mules Found a Still and Both Got Drunk. . . Mrs. Simpson Thinks Things Have come to a Pretty Pass When Not Even a Mule is Safe

Mrs. Sophia Simpson of the New Hope section of Perquimans County, thinks there is something woefully amiss in prohibition law enforcement when a woman’s mules come home drunk. Mrs. Simpson’s mules went astray a few days ago and couldn’t be located for several days. When found they were in a highly intoxicated condition and acted about like so many drunken men. The only explanation is that the mules found a moonshine still somewhere in the neighborhood and ate their fill of the mash from which the liquor was distilled. It is not unusual to see drunken hogs staggering along the roads of Camden, Currituck and other Northeastern North Carolina counties, but this is the first case of “stewed” mules reported to this newspaper.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Nov. 11, 1921

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