Rudyard Kipling

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How the Camel got his hump

• Rudyard Kipling
• (From It so happened,the Supplementary Reader in
  English for Class VIII)

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The Introduction

• It was the beginning of the world.
• The animals were learning to work for the humans.
• But there was a lazy animal which refused to do
  any work.

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Hi! I am the camel. I hate to work. So if
somebody asks me to work, then all I say is
Humph! Did you notice my beautiful back? I am
so proud of it.
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Its Monday
Camel come with me and let us trot.
Humph!
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Humph!
Its Tuesday
Lets go and fetch.
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Come along with me and plough like the rest of us.
Its Wednesday
Humph!
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The camel is not willing to work. So, you three
must do his share of the work.
Thats not fair!
At the end of the third day
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We worked hard and now we have to do the camels
share of the work. This is not at all fair.
Humph!
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Wait a minute. Let me go and check.
The camel in the middle of your desert is always
idle and says only Humph.
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Why didnt you work since Monday?
Humph!
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You didnt do any work and all you said was
Humph. Well, now you will have your very own
ugly hump on your beautiful back and now you will
be able to do three days extra work as you didnt
work the first three days.
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Do your work on time because laziness never pays.
So, what is the moral of the story?
THANK YOU!