Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — A Camel’s Suicide. [ARTICLE]

A Camel’s Suicide.

A few years ago it chanced that a valuable camel, working in an old mill in Africa, was severely beaten by its driver, who, perceiving that the camel had treasured up the injury, and was only waiting a tavorable opportunity for revenge, kept a strict watch upon the animal. Time passed away, the camel, perceiving that it was watched, was quiet and obedient, and the driver began to think that the beating was forgotten. One night, after a lapse of several months, the man, who slept on a raised platform in the mill, while, as is customary, the camql was stalled in a corner, happening to remain awake, observed by the bright moonlight that when all was quiet the animal looked cautiously around, rose softly, and stealing over toward a spot where a bundle of clothes and abernous, thrown carelessly on the ground, resembled a sleeping figure, cast itself with violence upon them, rolling with all its weight and tearing them most viciously with its teeth. Satisfied that its revenge was complete the camel was returning to it? corner when the driver sat up and spoke. At the sound of his voice, and perceiving the mistake it had made, the animal was so mortified at the failure and discovery of the scheme that it dashed its head against the wall and died on the spot.