People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1894 — CHANCE SAVED HIS LIFE. [ARTICLE]

CHANCE SAVED HIS LIFE.

Mistake of a Camel Which Birre an Ancient Grudge Against Its .Master. Revenge seems to be sweet even to animals. It is certain that they remember for long spaces of time injuries they have received. An instance of this is cited by a New York paper. 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 favorable opportunity for revenge, kept a strict watch upon the animal. Time passed away. The camel, perceiving that he 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 upon a raised platform in the mill, while, as is customary, the camel 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 the spot where a bundle of clothes andabernous 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 his 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 w all, and died on the spot.