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La Mule du Pape:The Pope’s Mule, by Alphonse Daudet is about a mule that waits seven years to pay back a man for his unkindness. He says he found this story in the Grasshopper’s Library. This story is taken from Daudet’s collection of stories, Lettres de Mon Moulin, Letters From my Mill, published in 1869. This was a charming story. The stories contained in Alphonse Daudet’s Letters from My Windmill (Lettres de mon moulin) are more various then is often realized, with an emotional range that is considerable. The note of tragedy is at least approached in “The Beaucaire Stagecoach“ and “The Two Inns,“ for example. Nonetheless, the predominant note is a narrative charm, for which the volume is most famous, and this quality is perhaps nowhere more fully displayed than in the tale “The Pope’s Mule“ (“La mule de Pape“). “The Pope’s Mule“ was invented to supply a meaning for an otherwise enigmatic Provençal proverb. Daudet’s interest in the fo