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Burros Had Much To Do With Building of the West
Nevada State Journal, November 19, 1922
Jack Bell
Absalom died after his hair got caught in the branches of an oak tree while he was riding on a mule (2 Samuel 18.9). Maybe if he had been riding a donkey his hair wouldn't have gotten caught.