The Monkey And The Camel

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  "summary": "\"The Monkey And The Camel\" is a short fable by Aesop about the dangers of envy and overstepping one's abilities. When the Monkey dazzles King Lion's court with his graceful dancing, the Camel grows jealous and insists he can do just as well. His clumsy, lurching performance earns not applause but outrage — and when a heavy hoof nearly strikes the king himself, the crowd's patience runs out entirely. The fable builds with sharp comic tension toward a swift and rather grim consequences.",
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    "The praise that was showered on the Monkey made the Camel envious. He was very sure that he could dance quite as well as the Monkey, if not better, so he pushed his way into the crowd that was gathered around the Monkey, and rising on his hind legs, began to dance. But the big hulking Camel made himself very ridiculous as he kicked out his knotty legs and twisted his long clumsy neck. Besides, the animals found it hard to keep their toes from under his heavy hoofs.",
    "At last, when one of his huge feet came within an inch of King Lion’s nose, the animals were so disgusted that they set upon the Camel in a rage and drove him out into the desert.",
    "Shortly afterward, refreshments, consisting mostly of Camel’s hump and ribs, were served to the company.",
    "Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, traditionally believed to have lived around 620–564 BCE, whose fables have shaped moral literature across the world for over two millennia. \"The Monkey And The Camel\" is a lesser-known gem in his collection, using the contrast between two very different animals to land its pointed lesson about envy with both humor and bite."
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