hump
Long before
our ape ancestors took their first steps, there was camel without a hump on his
back. He lived with a group of animals, a bear, a crocodile, a cow and an
ostrich. That camel loved stealing their food. The animals were so annoyed.
One day,
though, while the other animals went gardening, the camel went too far. He ate
all of their emergency food for winter that they gathered last week! When the
animals came home, all they saw was the fat camel, wandering around from den to
den, trying to find any more food.
Bear was so
fed up, that he decided to deal with this once and for all. So he gathered all
the animals in his den. The animals gathered as much grass as they could, and
glued it on some stones with some tree sap. Lastly, they hid in the bushes,
with cow munching all of the grass around the stones.
For what
seemed like an hour, the annoyed animals eagerly waited for camel. This had
given him enough time to wander to every den. Finally, the camel came trotting
along.
“What do we
have here cousin?” he said. (Cow was Camel’s cousin)
He quickly
swallowed the stones covered in grass. POP!! On his back grew a huge hump, and
the stones had built up inside him. At first, camel thought it was very ugly,
and immediately lost his appetite.
He banished
himself in the desert forever, only eating dry grass and water, but never again
does he steal any other animals’ food (he even grew to like his hump!)
Written by
Aaliya
