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tailgate there walked with stately steps a beautiful, brown, hairy, young female Bactrian camel.
    â€œHullo,” she said to him. “I’m Hephzibah. Who are you?”

    â€œI’m Hezekiah,” said Hezekiah, and they moved toward
each other till their rubbery lips met in a kind of kiss.
    â€œLove at first sight!” said the Earl of Basin to the ranger. “I do like happy endings!”
    Don’t you?
    THE END

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    Illustrations copyright © 2007 by Nick Bruel
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    King-Smith, Dick.
    Hairy Hezekiah / Dick King-Smith ; illustrated by Nick Bruel. -- 1st U.S. ed.
    p. cm.
    Summary: A lonely Bactrian camel sets out in search of a friend, but after being
threatened, laughed at, and insulted by other animals at the zoo and unknowingly
wreaking havoc in the English countryside, he finds a real home and true friend at a
safari park.
    ISBN-10: 1-59643-318-3
    [1. Bactrian camel--Fiction. 2. Camels--Fiction. 3. Zoo animals--Fiction. 4. Open-air
zoos--Fiction. 5. Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction. 6. England--Fiction.] I. Bruel,
Nick, ill. II. Title.
    PZ7.K5893Hai 2007
    [Fic]--dc22
    2007015162
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