DRUNKEN CAMEL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8798, 27 April 1907, Page 1

DRUNKEN CAMEL.

All Paris is laughing at a story of a drunken camel, which slept at a police station on the night of March 4. The camel was being led along the boulevards by a young Turk as an advertisement. Without any warning it began to walk side ways. This frightened some'omnibus horses, and they swerved aside. The omnibus collided with a coal cart, which in turn humped into a hand cart, which with a thud swung into a little wine shop, breaking many bottles. The proprietor called the police, and the Turk and the camel were led away. The camel began to tremble and to walk diagonally, thereby dislocating traffic. After great exertion it farrived in front of the police station. There being no room for it in the police station the camel stood outside, an object of pity, while the police sergeant prepared to take down a door which had been sealed up four years. During this operation a oompassiouto wineshop keeper offered the camel a a bowl of wine.

The camel drank the and wanted more. It finally entered the police station in a gay mood when the obstinate door had been removed. Then it went to sleep in the middle of the chief sergeant’s office. Nothing would rouse it. Next morning the camel, thoroughly sobered and rather ashamed and still trying to walk sideways—was finally loaded on a cart and taken to the fasylum for lost animals at Genuevillicrs.