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The Camel and the Giraffe


Once, the camel and the giraffe quarreled and quarreled.
They brought offenses each other; or the giraffe has a neck too long or the camel has the hump too big.
One day the savanna burned and the fire drove away them in the desert. They caught only to take something to eat and a little water.  On the way, the camel kept food for the giraffe, said: "I have enough reserves in my hump!"
When they arrived to an oasis came the turn of the giraffe to reward the gesture of the camel because it has a long neck, it torn leaves by palm trees and it gave them to the giraffe.
By then the camel and the giraffe remain friends.
"A friend in need is a friend indeed!"

Catalina Burga