Fils camel s very

largcly a fraud. That 15 to say, he con- tributes his half share to a very large fraud, and the goody- coody natural history books of childhood’s davs contribute the other halfs perhaps rather more than half. ‘st he s a fraud

- the matter of docility—a vile fraud. We rcad of the kind, patient, intelligent camel, who vol- untarily scttles on his knces 1o rcceive his load, and afterwards carries 1t for any number of thousands of miles at twenty or thirty miles an hour with

s . nothing to cat

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and we approve of the camel and hischeapness.

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Then there 18 a v proverb which ards the 3 fraud — most proverbs, IO i by-the-bye, ad a0 fraud fi{a

of some sort a proverb

clast straw breaking the camel's : o N

thoutthe 7]1t : i " e ,‘ ol I e DD

back. What o glamour of oppressed, o 3

uncomplaining paticnce that proverb sets about the camel ! You imagine the picturcsque Cut mconsiderate Bedoumn, having piled his faithful camel with cverything he possesscs,

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