all, 'm1 sure,” and gets

away from Tom to bask 1n the magnificent patronage of Bob the Bactrian and the lady next door. Cantankerous and uncertain - as 18 the character of the camel, there 1s a deal of hu- man naturc about him. When he has packed into his character all the possible devil, and ostrich, and orphan, there 1 still room for much humancussedness,

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will open and closc with a great flexibility, and the lips and eyebrows arc more loose and mobile still. What more machinery may the camel want for the facial cxpression of his 1ll qualities? With such a lip and nose he can sneer as never can hu- man thing; this at the humble person who brings him no biscuit. He can guffaw ccarsely and with no sound beyond a rare grunt

and it is there.

You shall see 1t even in his very face. There 1s a world of expression in a camel’s face, mis- leading often to a , : TN In his least expressive stranger, but with a (et '7 Nl slumber the camel s human decett. N == AP smugly complacent,

The face lends itself although his inborn parlticularly to vzul'iec} g}enius cannot t&}Ch hig} and strongly markec that a piece of card- cxpression. The nostrils board is not a biscuit.

Furious malice 1s native to his face, and a self- sufficient conceit and superciliousness comes with full feeding. Ifven

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