Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — THE CRANKY CAMEL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE CRANKY CAMEL.

Ha Is the Moat Tlreaomo anti TroubleRome of All Animal*. If any other animal gives out it is still possible te make it travel a few miles by a judicious use of patience and a club, but not so with a camel. When ho lies down he will get up

only when he feels like doing so; you may drag at the string which is fastened to the stick through his nostrils till jou tear it outr—ho will only groan and spit. It was my first experience with camels, and I vowed that it should be my last; for, taking them altogether, they aro tho most tiresome and troublesome animals I have ever seen, and are suited only to Asiatics, tho most patient aDd long-suffering of human beings, writes Woodville Ilockhill, in the Century. Besides their infirmities of temper—resulting, I believe, from hereditary dyspepsia, as evidencod by coated tongues, offensive breaths and gurgling stomachs, as I have seen with no other ruminants—they are delicate in the extrema They can work only in tho winter months, for as soon as their wool begins to fall, Samsonlike, their strength abandons them.

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