Calling all donkeys.If Sunday is the Lord's day, then "Sunday" the mule mule, in zoology mule, hybrid offspring of a male donkey (see ass) and a female horse, bred as a work animal. The name is also sometimes applied to the hinny, the offspring of a male horse and female donkey; hinnies are considered inferior to mules. is certainly the Lord's cloven-hoofed mammal mammal, an animal of the highest class of vertebrates, the Mammalia. The female has mammary glands, which secrete milk for the nourishment of the young after birth. . Sunday saved the day for an interfaith Palm Sunday Palm Sunday, in the Christian calendar, the Sunday before Easter, sixth and last Sunday in Lent, and the first day of Holy Week. It recalls the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem riding upon an ass, when his followers shouted "Hosanna" and scattered palms in his path. procession in the South Bronx this year when the organizers of the recreation of Jesus' triumphal ride into Jerusalem found themselves plum out of a donkey. It seems the donkey they had hired from a local stable to carry Jesus in the parade got loose and ate so much he couldn't walk. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times reports that Father Thomas Fenlon of St. Augustine Catholic Church received the bad news from the stable manager on Saturday. "I was going to bring a pony," the manager told the Times, "but they really wanted a donkey." The next best thing was Sunday--and that is her real name. The 10-year-old mule had never walked in a parade before, but she was a big hit with the crowd of 300 from Catholic, Episcopal, Baptist, and A.M.E. churches. Many of the children enjoyed rides on Sunday's back, and Sunday took it all in stride Adv. 1. in stride - without losing equilibrium; "she took all his criticism in stride" in good spirits . |
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