he asks. A cashier assents. "How 'bout a mule?" Horowitz says. The cashier shrugs. "Sure." Horowitz heads outside, and then leads Audrey, a white, 800-pound Arabian mule, into the store.

The cartoon depicts an Arab man on a mule angrily declaring “I boycott you Israel.” The mule, in a play on words, tells the boycotter that he is “as stubborn as a mule. ...

and some of them were dear to their owners because of their scarcity or intelligence. It is said that one of the governors owned a favorite smart mule. To take advantage of the mule’s intelligence, ...