AFRICAN CAMP FIRES 



as though to dare any one of us to laugh. Their 

 native attendants immediately squatted down in 

 front of them and began to feed them with con- 

 venient lengths of what looked like our common 

 marsh cattails. The camels did not even then 

 manifest the slightest interest in the proceedings. 

 Indeed, they would not condescend to reach out three 

 inches for the most luscious tidbit held that far 

 from their aristocratic noses. The attendants had 

 actually to thrust the fodder between their jaws. 

 I am glad to say they condescended to chew. 



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