Once Upon a Camel Flashcards
She did not recall setting an early alarm bird.
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There’s a mountain coming our way.
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Just then, the wind did an unexpected dance.
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But instead of an enormous wave of water, she saw a gigantic wave of dust.
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The old tree would normally be a perfectly fine place to ride out a storm.
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Aside from a few sprouting feathers, they still had their baby down.
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You’ll have to give them a ride.
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Please don’t be home.
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In fact, two someone else’s were sending a message.
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He was the first to offer her a handful of juicy figs, which to this day are her favorite food ever.
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Let’s fly!
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He was easy to discern because the star that formed his eye was somewhat blue, bluer than the other stars, at any rate.
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En parlak yıldız ol. Become the brightest star
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Time for a field trip.
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If you didn’t know it was the bells that made that sound together, you might think it was the pigeons after all.
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But especially, her knees ached.
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Sometimes, it seems, the storyteller needs the story as much as the listeners, and after all there was so much more to tell.
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But when the seas were rough, she was forced to withstand the straps again.
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It would take every ounce of energy to stand back up.
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And because the wind loves a good story as much as anyone, an invisible willy-willy slipped through the opening, curled up at her feet, and settled into the floor of the cave.
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Perhaps telling more of the story would buy her some time to recover, enough so that she could get back on her feet.
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As soon as they stepped onto the beach, they gamboled.
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Faster than a spitball
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To and fro they went, step by careful step.
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Sometimes they marched for twenty miles in a day, or more.
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Then unfortunately, the tumbleweed did what tumbleweed do - it tumbled.
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One by one, they were auctioned off.
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I found the perfect place for you to run again, he said.
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Maybe if he released them into the desert, two or three at a time, the army would not notice their dwindling numbers before they were all safely gone.
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But she absolutely could not stand the horses.
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How much longer?
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The babies were safe for now.
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There was a small bit of water still in the rivers, but it had turned salty in the dry heat, heat that seemed never-ending.
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From the sad shape of the building, it appeared to be abandoned.
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She looked up to admire it, and when she did, she saw a whole bevy of Mexican free-tailed bats, sleeping upside down underneath the tower’s eaves.
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Looks like we got here first!
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The army mules were constantly rolling their eyes at humans.
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And if the riders brought gifts, even better, especially if those gifts were gold coins.
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It was the best news!
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As long as they stood there, the longhorns would flow around them, like water flows around rocks in the river.
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Incoming!
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Friends do that for each other.
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They were lovely and soft and semi-melodious.
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It was a night just like so many of the five decades of nights that they had spent together, beginning with all their frisky gamboling under the watchful eyes of their mothers;
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It turned out that the daring duo could zigzag as quickly as any jerboa, making it hard to follow their movements.
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She gave her sore wing an extra stretch.
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Her neck began to droop.
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In front of her stood an old man wearing a turban wrapped around his head.
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COTTONWOOD
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DESERT
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FIGS
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WIND
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HABOOB
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CARAVAN
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DUST
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ESCARPMENT
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MOUNTAIN LION
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SAND FLEAS
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FOUNTAIN
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THE PASHA
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COPPER COATS
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BELLS
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SHELTER
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THE MISSION
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PRICKLY PEAR CACTUS
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CONQUISTADORS
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KESTREL
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JERBOA
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