Pamela Camel

"Pamela Camel belonged to the Brinkerhoff Brothers Big Top Circus a long time ago. She was a scrawny scraggly camel who was much too clumsy and awkward to be a performer in the big top. And it saddened her to think that she could never be part of the big show, or ever do something clever or sensational to excite the crowds."

The story of Pamela was originally set in the Sahara desert. Pamela was a camel who "lost too many camel races" and whenever "she traveled to faraway places, she stopped at every oasis." Her owner sold her to a used camel lot because of her quenchless thirst.

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	PAMELA CAMEL

"Pamela Camel belonged to the Brinkerhoff Brothers Big Top Circus a long time ago. She was a scrawny scraggly camel who was much too clumsy and awkward to be a performer in the big top. And it saddened her to think that she could never be part of the big show, or ever do something clever or sensational to excite the crowds." The story of Pamela was originally set in the Sahara desert. Pamela was a camel who "lost too many camel races" and whenever "she traveled to faraway places, she stopped at every oasis." Her owner sold her to a used camel lot because of her quenchless thirst.		ROUGH DRAFT FOR PAMELA
Copyright 1984 by Bill Peet, Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston


Color sketch for oil painting of circus.	Homer on the track.

	Originally it was Homer that found a break in train tracks. How the little pigeon was to prevent a train wreck, my father did not say. He may not have worked out that part of the story. Bill Peet,Jr.


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