` Humph ! ' said the Camel ; and the Horse went away and told the Man . Presently the Dog came to him , with a stick in his mouth , and said , ` Camel , O Camel , come and fetch and carry like the rest of us . ' ` Humph ! ' said the Camel ; and the Dog went away and told the Man . Presently the Ox came to him , with the yoke on his neck and said , ` Camel , O Camel , come and plough like the rest of us . ' ` Humph ! ' said the Camel ; and the Ox went away and told the Man . At the end of the day the Man called the Horse and the Dog and the Ox together , and said , ` Three , O Three , I 'm very sorry for you -LRB- with the world so new-and-all -RRB- ; but that Humph-thing in the Desert ca n't work , or he would have been here by now , so I am going to leave him alone , and you must work double-time to make up for it . ' That made the Three very angry -LRB- with the world so new-and-all -RRB- , and they held a palaver , and an indaba , and a punchayet , and a pow-wow on the edge of the Desert ; and the Camel came chewing on milkweed most ` scruciating idle , and laughed at them . Then he said ` Humph ! ' and went away again . Presently there came along the Djinn in charge of All Deserts , rolling in a cloud of dust -LRB- Djinns always travel that way because it is Magic -RRB- , and he stopped to palaver and pow-pow with the Three . ` Djinn of All Deserts , ' said the Horse , ` is it right for any one to be idle , with the world so new-and-all ? ' ` Certainly not , ' said the Djinn . ` Well , ' said the Horse , ` there 's a thing in the middle of your Howling Desert -LRB- and he 's a Howler himself -RRB- with a long neck and long legs , and he has n't done a stroke of work since Monday morning . He wo n't trot . ' ` Whew ! ' said the Djinn , whistling , ` that 's my Camel , for all the gold in Arabia ! What does he say about it ? '
` He says `` XXXXX ! '' '
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