He began to bark and to cry and to make such a noise that all the men from the village ran out to see what was going on.
There they found the camel eating the sugar cane, and at once they beat the poor beast with sticks and so drove him out of the field.
"Brother Camel, hadn't you better go home now?" asked the jackal.
"Yes, jackal, jump on my back," said the camel.
The jackal jumped on his back, and the camel waded through the river with him.
As he went, he said to the jackal:
"Brother Jackal, I think you have not been very good to me to-day. Why did you make such a noise?"
"O, I don't know," said the jackal. "It's a way I sometimes have. I like to sing a little, after dinner."
The camel waded on.