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Books at bedtime by calming anxiety.

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How the camel got his hump by radyard Kipling.

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Now this is the next tale and it tells us how the camel got his big hump.

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In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the animals were just

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beginning to work for men, there was a camel and he lived in the middle of the hallowing

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desert because he did not want to work and besides he was a howler himself.

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So he ate sticks and films and tamarruks and milkweed and prickles, most excruciating

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idle and when anybody spoke to him he said, "Humph, just hump and no more."

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Presently, the horse came to him on Monday morning with a saddle on his back and a bit

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in his mouth and said, "Camel, O camel, come out and trotth like the rest of us."

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"Humph," said the camel and the horse went away and told the man.

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Presently the dog came to him with a stick in his mouth and said, "Camel, O camel,

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come and fetch and carry like the rest of us."

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"Humph," said the camel and the dog went away and told the man.

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Presently, the ox came to him with a yoke on his neck and said, "Camel, O camel, come and

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plow like the rest of us."

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"Humph," said the camel and the ox went away and told the man.

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At the end of the day, the man called the horse and the dog and the ox together and said,

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"Three, oh three, I'm very sorry for you, with the world so new and all."

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But that hump thing in the desert can't work or he would have been here by now.

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So I'm going to leave him alone and you must do double work time to make up for it.

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That made the three very angry, what with the world so new and all and they held a party

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on the edge of the desert with a power well and the camel came chewing on milkweed, most

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cruciatingly idle and laughed at them then he said, "Pump," and went away again.

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Presently, they came along the gin in charge of all deserts rolling in a cloud of dust.

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Gin's always travelled that way because it is magic and he stopped and he stopped at the

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power well with the three.

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Gin of all desert said the horse, "Is it right for anyone to be idle with the world so

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new and all?"

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"Certainly not," said the gin.

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"Well," said the horse, "there's a thing in the middle of your howling desert and he's

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a howling himself with a long neck and long legs and he hasn't done a stroke of work

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since Monday morning.

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He won't trot."

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"Phew," said the gin, whistling, "that's my camel.

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For all the gold in Arabia, what does he say about it?"

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He says, "Hump," said the dog and he won't fetch and carry.

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Does he say anything else?

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Only hump and he won't plow," said the ox.

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Very good said Gin.

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"I'll hump him if you will kindly wait a minute."

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The gin rolled himself up in his dust cloak and took a bearing across the desert and found

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the camel most cruciatingly idle.

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Humping at his own reflection in a pool of water, "my long and babbling friends," said

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the gin.

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"What's this I hear of you doing no work with the world so new and all?"

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"Hump," said the camel.

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The gin sat down with his chin in his hand and began to think a great magic while the camel

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looked at his own reflection in the pool of water.

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You've given the three extra work ever since Monday morning, all on account of your

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"scrush-eating" eyewitness, said the gin and he went on thinking magics with his chin in

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his hand.

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Hump said the camel.

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"I shouldn't say that again if I were you," said the gin, "well you might say it once

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up too often, bubble, I want you to work."

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And the camel said Hump again, but no sooner had he said it, that he saw his back, that he

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was so proud of, puffing and puffing up into a great big, lullaping hump.

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"Do you see that?" said the gin.

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"That's your very own hump that you've brought upon your very own self by not working."

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"Today is Thursday and you've done no work since Monday."

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When the work began, "Now, are you going to work?"

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"How can I," said the camel, "with this hump on my back?"

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"That's made a purpose," said the gin, "all because you missed those three days, you'll

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be able to work now for three days without eating, because you can live on your hump."

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And don't say, "I ever did anything for you."

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Come out to the desert and go to the three and behave, hump yourself.

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And the camel humped himself.

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Hump for all and went away to join the three.

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And from that day to this, the camel always wears a hump, although we call it a hump now,

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not to hurt its fear.

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But he is never yet caught up with the three days that he missed at the beginning of the world.

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And he is never yet learnt how to behave.

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