A CAMEL’S REVENGE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 45, 8 November 1890, Page 22

A CAMEL’S REVENGE.

A.valuable camel, working in an oil-mill in Africa, wasseverely beaten by its driver. Perceiving that the camel had treasured up the injury, and was only waiting a favourable opportunity for revenge, he kept a strict watch upon the animal. Time passed away: the camel, perceiving that it was watched, was quiet and obedient, and the driver began to think that the beating was forgotten, when one night, after the lapse of several months, the man was sleeping on a raised platform in the mill, whilst, as is customary, the camel wasstabled in the corner. Happening to wake, the driver observed by the bright moonlight that, when all was quiet, the animal looked cautiously around, rose softly and stealing towards a spot where a bundle of clothes ami a burnous (a sort of cloak >, were thrown carelessly on the ground resembling a sleeping figure, it east itself u|>on them with violence, rolling with all its weight, and tearing them viciously with its teeth. Satisfied that its revenge was complete, the camel was returning to its corner, when the driver sat up and spoke. At the sound of his voice, and perceiving the mistake it had made, the animal was so mortified at its failure that itdashed its head against the wall and died on the spot.