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And from that day to this the Camel always wears a humph (we call it ‘hump’ now, not to hurt his feelings) but he has never yet caught up with the three days that he missed at the beginning of the world, and he has never yet learned how to behave. Humph yourself!’Īnd the Camel humphed himself, humph and all, and went away to join the Three. Come out of the Desert and go to the Three, and behave. You will be able to work now for three days without eating, because you can live on your humph and don’t you ever say I never did anything for you.
‘That’s made a-purpose,’ said the Djinn, ‘all because you missed those three days. ‘How can I,’ said the Camel, ‘with this humph on my back?’ To-day is Thursday, and you’ve done no work since Monday, when the work began. ‘That’s your very own humph that you’ve brought upon your very own self by not working. Bubbles, I want you to work.’Īnd the Camel said ‘Humph!’ again but no sooner had he said it than he saw his back, that he was so proud of, puffing up and puffing up into a great big lolloping humph. ‘I shouldn’t say that again if I were you,’ said the Djinn you might say it once too often. ‘You’ve given the Three extra work ever since Monday morning, all on account of your ‘scruciating idleness,’ said the Djinn and he went on thinking Magics, with his chin in his hand. The Djinn sat down, with his chin in his hand, and began to think a Great Magic, while the Camel looked at his own reflection in the pool of water. ‘My long and bubbling friend,’ said the Djinn, ‘what’s this I hear of your doing no work, with the world so new-and-all?’ The Djinn rolled himself up in his dust-cloak, and took a bearing across the desert, and found the Camel most ‘scruciatingly idle, looking at his own reflection in a pool of water. ‘I’ll humph him if you will kindly wait a minute.’
‘Only “Humph!” and he won’t plough,’ said the Ox. ‘He says “Humph!”’ said the Dog ‘and he won’t fetch and carry.’ ‘Whew!’ said the Djinn, whistling, ‘that’s my Camel, for all the gold in Arabia! What does he say about it?’ ‘Well,’ said the Horse, ‘there’s a thing in the middle of your Howling Desert (and he’s a Howler himself) with a long neck and long legs, and he hasn’t done a stroke of work since Monday morning. ‘Djinn of All Deserts,’ said the Horse, ‘is it right for any one to be idle, with the world so new-and-all?’
Presently there came along the Djinn in charge of All Deserts, rolling in a cloud of dust (Djinns always travel that way because it is Magic), and he stopped to palaver and pow-pow with the Three. Then he said ‘Humph!’ and went away again. That made the Three very angry (with the world so new-and-all), and they held a palaver, and an indaba, and a punchayet, and a pow-wow on the edge of the Desert and the Camel came chewing on milkweed most ‘scruciating idle, and laughed at them. ‘Humph!’ said the Camel and the Ox went away and told the Man.Īt the end of the day the Man called the Horse and the Dog and the Ox together, and said, ‘Three, O Three, I’m very sorry for you (with the world so new-and-all) but that Humph-thing in the Desert can’t work, or he would have been here by now, so I am going to leave him alone, and you must work double-time to make up for it.’ Presently the Ox came to him, with the yoke on his neck and said, ‘Camel, O Camel, come and plough like the rest of us.’ ‘Humph!’ said the Camel and the Dog went away and told the Man. Presently the Dog came to him, with a stick in his mouth, and said, ‘Camel, O Camel, come and fetch and carry like the rest of us.’ ‘Humph!’ said the Camel and the Horse went away and told the Man. Presently the Horse came to him on Monday morning, with a saddle on his back and a bit in his mouth, and said, ‘Camel, O Camel, come out and trot like the rest of us.’ So he ate sticks and thorns and tamarisks and milkweed and prickles, most ‘scruciating idle and when anybody spoke to him he said ‘Humph!’ Just ‘Humph!’ and no more. In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because he did not want to work and besides, he was a Howler himself.
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