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donkey

noun as in small domestic horselike mammal

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Wrapped in bright colours and wearing plastic sandals, women in the country's Jebel Marra mountains set off each morning on donkeys, children in tow, to tend the fields.

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Her nearby business, Adams’ Pack Station, which does donkey supply runs to historic cabins, was financially hit during the 2020 Bobcat fire.

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Those who could afford it paid high prices to hire donkey carts or small trucks to make the arduous journey north.

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The sports donkey in the Journal thinks it will happen.

On that drawing last year: the Ontario Sky Mules, with a whimsical logo of a grinning donkey wearing sunglasses and flying a prop plane.

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