The Camel and the Arab

by Aesop

Is it that the level way through the desert is closed?

AN ARAB Camel-driver, having completed the lading of his Camel, asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down. The poor beast replied, not without a touch of reason: Why do you ask me? Is it that the level way through the desert is closed?

Source:

Aesop's Fables
Copyright 1881
Translator: unknown
WM. L. Allison, New York
Illustrator: Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, Ernest Griset, et.al.
 

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