Pocket Oracle

Library › Classical antiquity › Aesop's Fables

The Camel and the Arab

Aesop's Fables ยท 1 passage

1

AN ARAB CAMEL-DRIVER, after completing the loading 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: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file cla/aesop/aes283.htm.

Ask a question