Behold! a camel thrust his face:

“My nose is cold,” he meekly cried;

“Oh, let me warm it by thy side!”

Since no denial word was said,

In came the nose, in came the head;

As sure as sermon follows text,

The long and scraggy neck came next;

And then, as falls the threatening storm,

In leaped the whole ungainly form.

Aghast the owner gazed around,