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The Idle Camel and the Well of the Djinn
In a vast and quiet desert, a camel who refuses all work is granted a strange gift by a gentle Djinn of the well: a weight he cannot set down. Wandering alone beneath enormous skies, he discovers that the burden grows lighter only when he bends to help, and that purposeful work is not the opposite of rest but its truest companion.
Retold from Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling.