. Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis . t heed. The camel began his swayingmotion, tossing Dinah, if we may so call her, up into the air in thisway, and then in another. It was such a comical sight that the good-natured crowd stood laughing, each one looking at the other, to sharethe humor. As the camel passed down the street, its upheaving motionsincreased. Whoa, dar! shouted Dinah. Stop yer wobblin dar! Driver,stop, dar, I 11 fall off! Dar, I m goin right ober now! Whoa! Ifyou dont stop him I 11 hollar! The camel gave a sidling lurch, sending Dinah hi
. Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis . t heed. The camel began his swayingmotion, tossing Dinah, if we may so call her, up into the air in thisway, and then in another. It was such a comical sight that the good-natured crowd stood laughing, each one looking at the other, to sharethe humor. As the camel passed down the street, its upheaving motionsincreased. Whoa, dar! shouted Dinah. Stop yer wobblin dar! Driver,stop, dar, I 11 fall off! Dar, I m goin right ober now! Whoa! Ifyou dont stop him I 11 hollar! The camel gave a sidling lurch, sending Dinah high up into theair with her ribbons and feathers flying. The crowd followed her,laughing. Down the street she went, shouting, Stop, dar ! Stop, dar! tossedthis way and that, and once threatening the philosophical driver with— If you dont stop dat dare critter, Ill cry Perlice, murder!But the camel driver did not heed. The camel stopped at length and turned back again, sawing theair. He stopped at length at the mat. Dinahs face grew happyagain, and she laughed with the THE FUNNIEST THING AT THE FAIR. 145 Ben, she said, did nt I ride like a queen ? She added, How am I ever to get down way up here in de air? Dinah surveyed the great crowd. There was an acre more or lessof people, with mouths stretched from ear to ear. It was not a pro-voking merriment, not sarcastic, nor that mean mirth that ridiculesweakness. It was all sympathetic, good hearted, and good natured. The camel driver gave another queer sound, somewhat like that atthe beginning of the ride. Dinahs question as to how she was to get down was suddenlyanswered, and without any ceremony. The camel seemed in an instant to collapse, and fall down all in aheap. When Dinah found the high-backed animal falling as it were allto pieces into a heap of bones, her eyes turned white. But she waslanded safely. The camel lay under her as if dead. She steppedfrom the saddle. The crowd began to cheer. Poor Dinah at firstdid not
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