Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Camel and the Arab

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London: George Routledge and Sons, page 101


THE CAMEL AND THE ARAB.

An Arab Camel-driver having completed the lading of his Camel, asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down hill. The poor beast replied, not without a touch of reason: "Why do you ask me? Is it that the level way through the desert is closed?"