Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-03-15
A Row Between Camel and HI.
Driver.

A Cairo correspondent of the London
Nescs writes: II lately witnessed in an
inconceivably frowsy street of narrow
ness which rendered the presence of .
camel in it at all the most puzzling pleas.
antry imaginable-for the way was one in
which any European cat endowed with
the least instinct of self-preservation
would certainly object to being swung in
for obvious reasons-one of those contests
between ship of the desert and that an.
parentiy stranded vessels guide, philoso-
pher and friend. The latter had heaped
up an armful or so Of green meat more
than met the formers views. on an al
ready respectable collection of vegetable
substance, which magnifed the naturally
excrescent aspect of the camel's back into
the seeming OF an animate stack Crouch.
ing, he had pulled himself close together
to 'see OUT the Inconvenience result.
ing from his determination not to carry
away that extra armtul or two of greens,
and barring an occasional wag of his
whole skin-I cannot descl ibe the phe-
nomenon otherwse-and cynical writhe
Of his spongy nose, he might, for all
movement on his part, have been chiseled
out of stone. Around this impregnable
stole was capering, in sort of distracted
hornpipe, his Arab owner or lessee, in
yellow rage, each successive paroNysm of
which expressed itself in a frenzy of
double shufies. He was also hosting ND
parcel after parcel of curse from the re-
moter depths of his diaphram with pro-
ductiveness in that direction which would
have done honor to a skilled disciple of
Signor Lamperti'S gruesome method
and punctuating each malediction with
a furious thwack on the camel's hard,
hard hide, manifestly putting into
every thump the whole of whatever
heart may beat in his dusky bosom.
Meanwhile the sentient drum upon which
the infurate lshmaelite thus numerically
beat the DEVILS tattoo, made no sign, until
he had received about sixty or seventy
| blows, except the above mentioned scorn.
full nose wrinkling, with which he, as it
were, checked off and took tally Of the
wrongs inflicted upon him. Suddenly
his eye, which had followed the Arab
steadily through all his insensate gyra-
tons, twinkled. He thought he had his
chance. The Arabs legs were an inch or
two nearer to his victims body than they
| had hitherto been, when out dashed the
| long neck and "clash" went the formid-
able jaws! He just missed his tormentors
tiba, in virtue of an enormous skip
which the Arab executed simultaneously
with the camels effort; but it was a great
| joy to observe with what intensified wrath
and perfect oneness of purpose he "wcnt
for the most vulnerable point of his perse-
cutor's person. Many more thumps
avenged his abortive snap; but he took no
more notice of them than if they had been
| so many tlappings of butterily's wing.
Presently the Arab, fairly tired out, and
having presumably exhausted the abusive
resources Of his native tongue, sat down
and spat freely around him for minute
or two, after which he took off the three or
| four pounds overweight, whereupon the
camel rose with the utmost promptitude,
and stepped off in that gingerly manner
which is so ludicrously out of keeping
with the figure and stature of such Great
ures, steering his way down street
which almost accurately fitted him as
easily as if it had been broad boulevard.
i He had had his own way, and he appa-
rently bore no malice"