When the world was new, the camel, a very lazy creature, said "Humph!" too often and received for all time a hump[h] from the desert god. Includes a puzzle, "No

When the world was new, the camel, a creature of 'scruciating idleness, said "Humph!" too often and received for all time a hump[h] from the Djinn of All Desert

Witty stories from around the world, and by the great writer Rudyard Kipling, "explain" how the camel got its hump. Fascinating facts about the camel round out

Relates how the leopard got his spotted coat in order to hunt the animals in the dappled shadows of the forest.

Because of his "satiable curtiosity" about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks. Copyright © L