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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343917" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>“Shouting” for a Camel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was over at Coolgardie that a mining speculator, <br>Who was going down the township just to make a bit o' chink, <br>Went off to hire a camel from a camel propagator, <br>And the Afghan said he'd lend it if he'd stand the beast a drink. <br>Yes, the only price he asked him was to stand the beast a drink. <br>He was cheap, very cheap, as the dromedaries go. <br>So the mining speculator made the bargain, proudly thinking <br>He had bested old Mahomet, he had done him in the eye. <br>Then he clambered on the camel, and the while the beast was drinking <br>He explained with satisfaction to the miners standing by <br>That 'twas cheap, very cheap, as the dromedaries go. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the camel kept on drinking and he filled his hold with water, <br>And the more he had inside him yet the more he seemed to need; <br>For he drank it by the gallon, and his girths grew taut and tauter, <br>And the miners muttered softly, 'Yes he's very dry indeed! <br>But he's cheap, very cheap, as dromedaries go.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So he drank up twenty buckets -- it was weird to watch him suck it, <br>(And the market price for water was per bucket half-a-crown) <br>Till the speculator stopped him, saying, 'Not another bucket -- <br>If I give him any more there'll be a famine in the town. <br>Take him back to old Mahomet, and I'll tramp it through the town.' <br>He was cheap, very cheap, as the speculators go. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's a moral to this story -- in your hat you ought to paste it -- <br>Be careful whom you shout for when a camel is about, <br>And there's plenty human camels who, before they'll see you waste it, <br>Will drink up all you pay for if you're fool enough to shout; <br>If you chance to strike a camel when you're fool enough to shout, <br>You'll be cheap, very cheap, as the speculators go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343917" data-title="“Shouting” for a Camel de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description="It was over at Coolgardie that a mining speculator, Who was going down the township just to make a bit o' chink, Went off to hire a camel from a camel propagator, And the Afghan said he'd lend it if he'd stand the beast a drink. Yes, the only ..."></div> </div> </div>
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