How the camel got his hump is one of the 'Just so Stories' that Rudyard Kipling wrote to his daughter Effie. This story tells of the beginning of time when all animals were just starting to work for man except one very lazy camel. The camel, who still had a flat back, wouldn't trot like the horse, he wouldn't plough like the ox and he wouldn't fetch like the dog. All he ever did was go 'humph' until at last the animals became tired of his laziness and decided to complain to the Djinn, which is a genie, of the desert. So the Djinn, who was an extremely kind Djinn, went to the camel and asked him why he wasn't working for man. Once again all the camel did was go 'humph' and so the Djinn made the camel a humph - a very big black one - and plonked it right on the camel's flat back. And to make up for those days off at the beginning of the world, that camel has always had to carry a burden - that big, black, heavy humph!