A _Camel_ Praying for _Horns_.
It stuck filthily in the _Camel’s_ Stomach, that _Bulls_, _Stags_,
_Lions_, _Bears_, and the like, should be Armed with _Horns_, _Teeth_,
and _Claws_, and that a Creature of his Size should be left Naked and
Defenceless. Upon This Thought he fell down upon his Marrow-bones, and
begg’d of _Jupiter_ to give him a Pair of Horns, but the Request was
so Ridiculous, that _Jupiter_, instead of _Horning_ him, Order’d him
to be Cropt, and so Punish him with the loss of his Ears which Nature
had Allow’d him, for being so Unreasonable as to Ask for _Horns_, that
Providence never intended him.