SOLDIER'S CAMEL RIDE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 96, 15 October 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

SOLDIER'S CAMEL RIDE.

A soldier in Cairo sends the follow, ing description of a ride on a ramel: — "Before a camel gets down it makes a noisQ like a sitz bath being dragged along Oxford Road at the rate of about four miles an hour. Then it folds its legs under it like a four-fold two-foot rule, and then you start. "It's your turn now. You get on its back and its legs unbend, and yo>i clutch and think of all the bad deeds you have ever done, and then open your eyes expecting to find the Pyramids far beneath you. "The motion when it starts is that of riding astride the banner in a Good Templars' procession, and when the beggar runs it's like being astride the banner in a bad templars' procession. "It's when a camel gets down that one real'} begins to see life. Have vou ever trodden on a loose stair rod? That is the second sensation. The first is like one you get when you como across the' top stair from above in the dark when you don't know it's there, and the last makes you remember the day the hammock rope broke." AN AWKWARD BUSINESS. "You're husband'll be .all right now," said the doctor, rubbing his hands with evident self-satkfa-ction. " What do you mean ?" demanded the weeping wife. "You told me he would not live a fortnight." "Well, I'm going to cure him after all," said! the doctor. "Surely you're glad to hear 6uch unexpected news?'' The woman wrinkled her brows. "Pule me in a bit of an 'ole," she said. "I've bin and sold all his clothes for h ; e funeral!"