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Cameelious hump--
The hump that is black and blue!

The cure for this ill is not to sit still,
Or frowst with a book by the fire;
But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
And dig till you gently perspire;

And then you will find that the sun and the wind.
And the Djinn of the Garden too,
Have lifted the hump--
The horrible hump--
The hump that is black and blue!

I get it as well as you-oo-oo--
If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo--
We all get hump--
Cameelious hump--
Kiddies and grown-ups too!




HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKIN

ONCE upon a time, on an uninhabited island on the shores of the
Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun
were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour. And the Parsee
lived by the Red Sea with nothing but his hat and his knife and a
cooking-stove of the kind that you must particularly never touch.
And one day he took flour and water and currants and plums and
sugar and things, and made himself one cake which was two feet
across and three feet thick. It was indeed a Superior Comestible
(that's magic), and he put it on stove because he was allowed to
cook on the stove, and he baked it and he baked it till it was
all done brown and smelt most sentimental. But just as he was
going to eat it there came down to the beach from the Altogether
Uninhabited Interior one Rhinoceros with a horn on his nose, two
piggy eyes, and few manners. In those days the Rhinoceros's skin
fitted him quite tight. There were no wrinkles in it anywhere.
He looked exactly like a Noah's Ark Rhinoceros, but of course
much bigger. All the same, he had no manners then, and he has no
manners now, and he never will have any manners. He said, 'How!'
and the Parsee left that cake and climbed to the top of a palm
tree with nothing on but his hat, from which the rays of the sun
were always reflected in more-than-oriental splendour. And the
Rhinoceros upset the oil-stove with his nose, and the cake rolled
on the sand, and he spiked that cake on the horn of his nose, and
he ate it, and he went away, waving his tail, to the desolate and
Exclusively Uninhabited Interior which abuts on the islands of
Mazanderan, Socotra, and Promontories of the Larger Equinox.
Then the Parsee came down from his palm-tree and put the stove on
its legs and recited the following Sloka, which, as you have not
heard, I will now proceed to relate:--

Them that takes cakes
Which the Parsee-man bakes
Makes dreadful mistakes.

And there was a great deal more in that than you would think.

Because, five weeks later, there was a heat wave in the Red Sea,
and everybody took off all the clothes they had. The Parsee
took off his hat; but the Rhinoceros took off his skin and
carried it over his shoulder as he came down to the beach to
bathe. In those days it buttoned underneath with three buttons

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