Once Upon a Camel

Question 1

She did not recall setting an early alarm bird.

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Question 2

There’s a mountain coming our way.

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Question 3

Just then, the wind did an unexpected dance.

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Question 4

But instead of an enormous wave of water, she saw a gigantic wave of dust.

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Question 5

The old tree would normally be a perfectly fine place to ride out a storm.

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Question 6

Aside from a few sprouting feathers, they still had their baby down.

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Question 7

You’ll have to give them a ride.

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Question 8

Please don’t be home.

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Question 9

In fact, two someone else’s were sending a message.

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Question 10

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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Question 11

Let’s fly!

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Question 12

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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Question 13

En parlak yıldız ol. Become the brightest star

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Question 14

Time for a field trip.

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Question 15

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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Question 16

But especially, her knees ached.

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Question 17

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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Question 18

But when the seas were rough, she was forced to withstand the straps again.

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Question 19

It would take every ounce of energy to stand back up.

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Question 20

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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Question 21

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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Question 22

As soon as they stepped onto the beach, they gamboled.

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Question 23

Faster than a spitball

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Question 24

To and fro they went, step by careful step.

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Question 25

Sometimes they marched for twenty miles in a day, or more.

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Question 26

Then unfortunately, the tumbleweed did what tumbleweed do - it tumbled.

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Question 27

One by one, they were auctioned off.

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Question 28

I found the perfect place for you to run again, he said.

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Question 29

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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Question 30

But she absolutely could not stand the horses.

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Question 31

How much longer?

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Question 32

The babies were safe for now.

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Question 33

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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Question 34

From the sad shape of the building, it appeared to be abandoned.

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Question 35

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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Question 36

Looks like we got here first!

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Question 37

The army mules were constantly rolling their eyes at humans.

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Question 38

And if the riders brought gifts, even better, especially if those gifts were gold coins.

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Question 39

It was the best news!

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Question 40

As long as they stood there, the longhorns would flow around them, like water flows around rocks in the river.

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Question 41

Incoming!

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Question 42

Friends do that for each other.

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Question 43

They were lovely and soft and semi-melodious.

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Question 44

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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Question 45

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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Question 46

She gave her sore wing an extra stretch.

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Question 47

Her neck began to droop.

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Question 48

In front of her stood an old man wearing a turban wrapped around his head.

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Question 49

COTTONWOOD

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Question 50

DESERT

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Question 51

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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Question 67

KESTREL

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JERBOA

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