About the Camel.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 May 1915, Page 3

About the Camel.

NOT SO GOOD AS HE IS PAINTED. Tin , camel, it scums. i« an animal whose qualities of merit have been overestimated. A writer in the Sydney Sun asserte that the lady who ■\\ rote the verses commencing, "Oamel. thoii ;j|t good and mild, mightst be guided by a child," was not closely intimate with the cantankerous, splayfooted, always complaining, and everlastingly unhappy hearer of the burdons of the explorer, pioneer, and prospector of Australia. The camel is not good and mild. He certainly mighet not be guided by a child. He is full to tlie muzzle of guile and treachery, is revengeful te the limit, and as ready to avenge an accidental as an intentional wrong. The Tndian. who knows camel character will not -work one lie has offended till lie has giveii the animal its opportunity to get even. If during the the day's march he has been severe with one of the string, he that night puts some article of his scanty wardrobe on the feeding ground, and when the cann»] has finished with it, and honor is satisfied, there is not enough of it left to produce as an exhibit of tho proceedings.