A camel said, "Nothing like being tall! See how tall I am." A pig who
heard these words said, "Nothing like being short; see how short I
am!"
The camel said, "Well, if I fail to prove the truth of what I said, I
will give you my hump."
The pig said, "If I fail to prove the truth of what I have said, I
will give up my snout."
"Agreed!" said the camel.
"Just so!" said the pig.
They came to a garden inclosed by a low wall without any opening. The
camel stood on this side the wall, and, reaching the plants within
by means of his long neck, made a breakfast on them. Then he turned
jeeringly to the pig, who had been standing at the bottom of the wall,
without even having a look at the good things in the garden, and said,
"Now, would you be tall or short?"
Next they came to a garden inclosed by a high wall, with a wicket gate
at one end. The pig entered by the gate, and, after having eaten his
fill of the vegetables within, came out, laughing at the poor camel,
who had had to stay outside, because he was too tall to enter the
garden by the gate, and said, "Now, would you be tall or short?"
Then they thought the matter over, and came to the conclusion that the
camel should keep his hump and the pig his snout, observing:
"Tall is good, where tall would do;
Of short, again, 't is also true!"
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