A farmer is driving down the road and spots a sign that reads: Mule For Sale. He decides to go and have a look at the mule to see if it is worth buying.
He talks to the owner who tells him that the mule is the fastest mule he's ever owned, and that it is very different from other mules. The owner explains to the farmer that the mule will only walk when the phrase, "Praise The Lord" is spoken and will just keep getting faster the more it's repeated. The owner then explains that to stop the mule, you have to say "Hallelujah".
The farmer decides to give the mule a ride and see if the owner is telling the truth. He gets on the mule and shouts out, "Praise the Lord!". The mule takes off so the farmer then yells, "Hallelujah!" and the mule immediately stops.
The farmer, seeing that he is a pretty good distance from the owner, decides to see just how fast the mule will go, so he yells out " Praise The Lord" and the mule starts off again. He repeats the phrase over and over until he is really racing along.
The farmer looks up and sees they are approaching a very high cliff that drops off to a deep canyon below, and decides he had better stop the mule. Suddenly he realizes that he's forgotten what the word was to stop the mule was.
Hoping to hit the right word, he starts screaming out any religious phrase he can think of, "Amen! Glory be! Sweet Jesus! Amazing Grace!" He's now coming right to the edge of the cliff when suddenly he remembers and yells out, "HALLELUJAH!"
The mule stops dead in his tracks, only inches from the edge. The farmer, out of breath and shaking from fright, wipes the sweat from his brow looks up to heaven and says, "Whew! Praise the Lord!"
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