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Mickey Mantle had a friend who would let him hunt on his ranch.
One day he went to the ranch to hunt along with teammate Billy Martin.
Billy stayed in the car while Mickey checked with his friend.
Mickey was given permission to hunt, but the rancher asked him for a favor.
His old mule was going blind and had become crippled,
but the rancher just didn't have the heart to put him out of his misery --
so he asked Mickey if he would shoot the old mule as a favor.
When Mickey came back to the car, he decided to play a trick on Billy
and pretended to be angry.
"What's wrong?" Asked Billy.
"My friend told me no hunting!"
Mickey pounded his fist on the dashboard pretending anger and said,
"Why, that guy got me so mad I'm going into the barn
and shoot one of his mules."
With that, Mickey jumped out of the car and headed or the barn.
In quick order he took care of the mule and started back to the car
to tell Billy that it was just a joke.
At that moment Mickey heard two shots fired
and found Billy Martin standing over two dead cows.
"What are you doing?" Asked Mickey.
Martin answered, "Why, I saw how mad you were,
so I'll wanted to let the rancher know he couldn't fool with me either."
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