What they did do seemed useful enough; but be that as it may, no gentleman is willing to keep a camel for riding or to practise for fighting in war upon one. And so they have again taken their proper position and do service among the pack-animals.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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