How the Camel Got His Hump

When the world was new, and all the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel that lived in the middle of a Desert.
All the Camel did was eat and eat and when anyone spoke to him he just said, “HUMPH!”
One day, the Horse came to him asking for help, “HEY YOU! Come and help us with the work!”
The Camel only said, “HUMPH!”
Later, the Dog came with a stick in his mouth, “HEY CAMEL! Come and help us by carrying some stuff.”
Bloody lazy Camel just went, “HUMPH!” and the Dog went off to complain to Man.
Then, the Ox came and asked the Camel for help. Again the Camel just went, “HUMPH!” and continued eating.
The Dog, Horse and Ox were damn pissed off as then Man told them to work double time since the useless HUMPH thing refused to help.
So the 3 animals complained to the Djinn of the Desert, how it was bloody unfair for everyone else to be working except for the lazy good-for-nothing HUMPH Camel.
The Djinn was also annoyed, “What?! Later I HUMPH him, then he know!”


The Djinn approached the Camel and asked him, “Hey! Your friends say you haven’t been doing any work!”
“HUMPH!” was the reply he got.
“They have to do double work, you know, because of you!” said the Djinn.
“HUMPH!”
“STOP SAYING THAT! If not…,” threatened the Djinn.
“HUMPH!”
Oooh, magic trick!
The Djinn punished the Camel with a humph on its back and made him join the other animals to do some work.
“You will be able to work for 3 days without eating, because you can live with your humph!”
– From Rudyard Kipling‘s book, “Just So Stories”. That’s the summarised version for you. Bought thebook for RM4 at the last TIME warehouse sale. The full version can be found here. ;D
– What a nice story to use to scare children to doing some work! hehehe.

17 thoughts on “How the Camel Got His Hump”

  1. eheheheheheeheheh …. the cameltoe got me imagining things *checks* nah, i’m alright! ;D
    dogma: only when they’re below the age of 5 ;D

  2. What you gon’ do with all that junk?
    All that junk inside your trunk?
    I’ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
    Get you love drunk off my hump.
    My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
    My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps (Check it out)

  3. What you gon’ do with all that junk?
    All that junk inside your trunk?
    I’ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
    Get you love drunk off my hump.
    My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
    My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps (Check it out)

  4. Djinn is the arabic word for Genie.
    Djinns, or jinns are creatures made out of smokeless fire, or subtle fire, like how Islam says that humans are made out earth, and angels out of light.
    Jinns have free will like humans, unlike angels who do not and only serve God.
    Jinns live just like humans, with communities and races, tribes, follow religion like humans, etc. They are good jinns, and bad jinns. Basically they are much like humans, but not. They live in another world, or dimension, but they can see us humans while we can’t see them.

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