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 358 lot. It is easy enough to serve Man, the hard task is to please him. You wonder why he prefers us to you; but here is the secret of this preference: we Dromedaries have learned to bend the knee." (Florian, Fables, Vol. III, No. 4.)

(Florian, Fables, Vol. III, No. 16.)

T will be nothing"—so the thoughtless cry.

&ensp;What time the storm hangs threatening in the sky;

"Why vex ourselves before the evil day?"