THE CAMEL.
For the benefit of inquisitive young folks who haven't seen him, it is mentioned that the line of beauty is almost wholly absent from the camel. He is a mass of bones, humps, lumps, splay joints, and callosities. Hia tail is a failure as ornament or fly-brush; feet "big sponges ;" skin covering, patches of old buffalo robes,' faded, and with the hair worn off. Nevertheless he carries his head high in the air, and looks at the world out of hia great brown eyes as one who should say: " i have come from the dim Past; the Deluge did not touch me; I helped Shotoo build the Great Paramid; I knew Egypt when it had'nt an obelisk nor a temple. There aie three of us ; the datepalm, the Pyramid and myself. Everything else is modern. Go to !"
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Otago Witness, Issue 1449, 30 August 1879, Page 23
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THE CAMEL.
Otago Witness, Issue 1449, 30 August 1879, Page 23
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