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vicmarion | 13:38 Wed 09th Jan 2008 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Help!!!! I have just got round to the Melksham quiz please can anyone help on the following:-
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4. I can only find a 3 word quote for this so is the 3rd word 'indeed'
6. I can only find 3 word quote for this one too so is the middle 'more or less'
21. I have trolled lots of books and lots on the net but cant find anything to suit, I know its Rudyard Kipling and think the last words may be 'we get from having too little to do' If I am right can anyone tell me where I can look it up.
Many thanks.

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I'm not doing this quiz/haven't seen it, but the quote you give (21.) is from How the Camel Got his Hump, part of Kipling's Just So Stories. Hope this helps. The full story appears below:

The Camel's hump is an ugly lump
Which well you may see at the Zoo;
But uglier yet is the hump we get
From having too little to do.

Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo,
If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,
We get the hump --
Cameelious hump --
The hump that is black and blue!

We climb out of bed with a frouzly head,
And a snarly-yarly voice.
We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl
At our bath and our boots and our toys;

And there ought to be a corner for me
(And I know' there is one for you)
When we get the hump --
Cameelious hump --
The hump that is black and blue!

The cure for this ill is not to sit still,
Or frowst with a book by the fire;
But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
And dig till you gently perspire;

And then you will find that the sun and the wind,
And the Djinn of the Garden too,
Have lifted the hump --
The horrible hump --
The hump that is black and blue!

I get it as well as you-oo-oo --
If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo!
We all get hump --
Cameelious hump --
Kiddies and grown-ups too!
4 knowledge itself is power by francis bacon
6history is more or less bunk by henry ford
21 the camels hump is an ugly lump which well you may see at the zoo but the ugliest yet is the hump we get from having too little to do by rudyard kipling
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Thank you both very much indeed.

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