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Come out and trot!
Camel! You have given extra work to the other animals.
Come fetch and carry things!
You can live on your humph!
Rudyard Kipling made up bedtime stories for his children. He wrote them down in 1902 and called them Just So Stories . Using a lot of imagination, these tales were fun ways to explain things like how the elephant got his trunk, the leopard his spots, and the camel his hump.
Come plow!
Grrrrrrr!
HEY! W-w-what’s happening to my back???
But how can I with this humph on my back?
Other animals asked Camel to help with their work ...
hen the world was new and the animals were just beginning to work for Man, Camel lived out in the middle of the desert because he didn’t want to work. Whenever anybody spoke to him, Camel just said . . .
That Humph-thing in the desert won’t work, so you must work double-time to make up for it!
After three days, the Man spoke to Horse, Dog, and Ox.
The Djinn warned Camel to stop saying “HUMPH.” But Camel said it again and again. So the Djinn cast a spell on Camel.
This made the three animals very angry, so they asked a Djinn (also called a genie) to help make Camel do some work too.
You have missed three days of work. Now you’ll work without stopping or eating for three days!
nd since then, Camel always wears a lolloping humph (we call it a hump now to not hurt his feelings). But he never caught up with the three days of work he missed at the beginning of the
world. And he has never learned how to behave!
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