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    Jul 01, 2020 4 minutes

    Horse of a Different Color?

    After extolling the many virtues of the majestic horse in “The Horse Listeners” (May/June), why is the author Stacey McKenna photographed mounted on a mule on the Contributor page?

    John H. Roberts, Home, Pennsylvania

    EDITOR’S NOTE: Good question. We asked McKenna about this, and she replied that therapists use mules as well, adding, “And though I’ve never seen it, donkeys are used in equine therapy, too.”

    Scott Free?

    Your article about the ad from the 1920s for Scott toilet paper, which even then couldn’t be promoted as “splinter free” (“,” Vault, May/June), brought back a memory from my

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