When the eggs were hatched, a camel passed that way.

The camel came back while browsing the grass of the roadside.

The camel seized the bird, which passed through its teeth safe and sound.

"Truly," he said to them, "the camel is a gigantic animal, but I am not ashamed of myself.

He called the camel and showed him his feet, saying: "See what is written on this tablet.

" "The writing is difficult to decipher," answered the camel.

"My destiny is in an egg, the egg in a pigeon, the pigeon in a camel, the camel in the sea.

"My destiny is in an egg, the egg in a pigeon, the pigeon in a camel, the camel in the sea.

" Mahomet arose, ran to dig a hole at the shore of the sea, stretched a mat over the hole; a camel sprang from the water and fell into the hole.

After many struggles he was obliged to submit to his brother, Abou Camel, who immediately ordered him to be seized, and conveyed to a place of security.

Contempt and want the wretch await Who slumbers in an abject state 'Midst rushing crowds, by toil and pain The meed of Honor we must gain; At Honor's call, the camel hastes Thro' trackless wilds and dreary wastes, Till in the glorious race she find The fleetest coursers left behind:

Another I saw that was like a camel in shape and color.

These Argan forests continued under the fearful ban of the enchantress and wicked jinns, until a holy man was brought from the farthest desert upon the back of a flying camel, who set free the spell-bound wood by tying on each bewitched tree a small piece of cork bark on which was inscribed the sacred name of the Deity.

Indeed, we may say, it is the all and everything of the Jereed, and, as it is said of the camel and the desert, the palm is made for the Jereed, and the Jereed is made for the palm.

In front rode the three Berberee body-servants upon donkeys, and behind walked the Arab camel-boys.

They had been travelling for nine long hours, ever since the first rising of the moon, at the weary camel-drag of two and a half miles an hour, but now they brightened, both beasts and men, at the sight of the grove and the riderless horses.

In a few minutes the loads were unstrapped, the animals tethered, a fire lighted, fresh water carried up from the river, and each camel-boy provided with his own little heap of tibbin laid in the centre of the table-cloth, without which no well-bred Arabian will condescend to feed.

"You are aware, of course, that though a horse beats a camel on twenty miles, a camel beats a horse on thirty.

"Who's hit, then?" "The brown camel that's chewing the cud."

" Anerley had been lying behind a camel staring with an interest which bordered upon fascination at the rocks opposite.

"Cock it, you fool!" shouted a furious voice; and at the same instant, with a rush and flutter, the Arab bounded over the prostrate camel and came down with his bare feet upon Anerley's chest.

And then he could have shouted for joy, for there, in the hollow, some little distance off, rose the high, graceful white neck and the elegant head of such a camel as he had never set eyes upon beforea swanlike, beautiful creature, as far from the rough, clumsy baggles as the cart-horse is from the racer.

But the camel was on its legs now, and the young pressman was safely seated upon one of the fliers of the desert.

" Railway to Baliani, the post-boat to Assouan, and then two days on a camel in the Libyan desert, with an Ababdeh guide, and three baggage-camels to tie one down to their own exasperating pace.

A splendid trotting camel had been found lying dead a little way down the track.