How the Camel Got His Hump

Stories Podcast: A Bedtime Show for Kids of All Ages

Stories Podcast / Wondery

Fiction, Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.2 • 12.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2015

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today we bring you another interesting animal origin story from Rudyard Kipling, the author of the Jungle Book. How did the Camel get his hump? We have the answers in the form of this unique, vocabulary-enhancing just-so story. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone!
0:03.7	Welcome to Stories Podcast.
0:05.4	Today we're reading How the Camel Got His Hump by Redyard Kipling.
0:10.0	To have this story and all of our stories delivered free to your computer, phone, tablet
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0:17.5	When you subscribe, you help us continue to create free, quality, family friendly content.
0:22.7	So thanks to everyone who is subscribing now or who is already subscribed.
0:26.4	Hi, I'm Landon Wittsen.
0:28.6	And I host an episode of Who's Amazing Life, a Wondery Podcast for kids and families.
0:33.7	In the Plant Doctor, you've always loved plants.
0:36.6	But when you leave home and search of new opportunities, you discover that your passion for
0:40.6	bulbs and blooms can help others, and maybe even change the world.
0:44.9	Listen to the Plant Doctor and other incredible stories from Who's Amazing Life on Amazon
0:49.2	Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:51.8	And now we bring you How the Camel Got His Hump.
0:55.4	Enjoy!
0:59.2	In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the animals were just
1:03.9	beginning to work for man, there was a camel.
1:07.0	And he lived in the middle of a howling desert because he did not want to work.
1:11.3	And besides, he was a howler himself.
1:14.5	So he ate sticks and thorns and tamarisk and milkweed and prickles, most excruciating
1:20.3	idol.
	...

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