title: How the Camel Got Its Hump (Little Golden Book)
author:  Justine Fontes 
description: <b>Justine Fontes</b> was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. She graduated with a BA in English literature from New York University. While at university, she went into publishing and has worked at various publishing houses before becoming a freelance writer of childrens books. She met her husband, Ron Fontes, while working with Little Golden Books, and they frequently write together.<br /><br /><b>Ron Fontes</b> has been an actor, advertising executive, art director, and standup comic. He is now happily an author of childrens books and has published more than 500 with his wife, Justine Fontes.<br /><br /><b>Keiko Motoyama</b>is an illustrator of books for young readers. Her works include<i>Hairy Henry</i>;<i>Bears, Bears, Everywhere</i>; and<i>How the Turtle Got Its Shell</i>.
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  # The Camel's Back
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
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  ### I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  The glazed eye of the tired reader resting for a second on the above
  
  
  title will presume it to be merely metaphorical. Stories about the cup
  
  
  and the lip and the bad penny and the new broom rarely have anything
  
  
  to do with cups or lips or pennies or brooms. This story is the
  
  
  exception. It has to do with a material, visible and large-as-life
  
  
  camel's back.
  
  
    
  Starting from the neck we shall work toward the tail. I want you to
  
  
  meet Mr. Perry Parkhurst, twenty-eight, lawyer, native of Toledo.
  
  
  Perry has nice teeth, a Harvard diploma, parts his hair in the middle.
  
  
  You have met him before—in Cleveland, Portland, St. Paul,
  
  
  Indianapolis, Kansas City, and so forth. Baker Brothers, New York,
  
  
  pause on their semi-annual trip through the West to clothe him;
  
  
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