The Camel and the Floating Sticks

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  "title": "The Camel and the Floating Sticks",
  "slug": "camel-floating-sticks",
  "url": "https://fairytalez.com/camel-floating-sticks/",
  "collection": "La Fontaine",
  "published_date": "January 17, 2015",
  "regions": [
    "French"
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  "reading_level": "Easy",
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  "body": [
    "The first who saw the humpback’d camel Fled off for life; the next approach’d with care; The third with tyrant rope did boldly dare The desert wanderer to trammel. Such is the power of use to change The face of objects new and strange; Which grow, by looking at, so tame, They do not even seem the same. And since this theme is up for our attention, A certain watchman I will mention, Who, seeing something far Away upon the ocean, Could not but speak his notion That ’twas a ship of war. Some minutes more had past,— A bomb-ketch ’twas without a sail, And then a boat, and then a bale, And floating sticks of wood at last! Full many things on earth, I wot, Will claim this tale,—and well they may; They’re something dreadful far away, But near at hand—they’re not."
  ],
  "body_text": "The first who saw the humpback’d camel Fled off for life; the next approach’d with care; The third with tyrant rope did boldly dare The desert wanderer to trammel. Such is the power of use to change The face of objects new and strange; Which grow, by looking at, so tame, They do not even seem the same. And since this theme is up for our attention, A certain watchman I will mention, Who, seeing something far Away upon the ocean, Could not but speak his notion That ’twas a ship of war. Some minutes more had past,— A bomb-ketch ’twas without a sail, And then a boat, and then a bale, And floating sticks of wood at last! Full many things on earth, I wot, Will claim this tale,—and well they may; They’re something dreadful far away, But near at hand—they’re not.",
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