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The Daily Record
Dunn, Harnett County, North Carolina
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King Farouk of Egypt commissions Italian ceramic expert Prof. Alfredo Santarelli to create 12 plates depicting his rescue of a camel that escaped to the royal palace in Cairo, ordering it a natural death and royal funeral instead of slaughter.
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PEGURIA, Italy (IP) - King Farouk of Egypt has commissioned a ceramic expert to execute 12 plates depicting an episode when the Egyptian monarch saved a camel from the slaughter house.
Prof. Alfredo Santarelli, one of the oldest ceramic experts here, according to the Italian news-agency ANSA, has been commissioned by Farouk for 12 designed plates picturing his clemency to the camel.
ANSA said this is the incident to be depicted:
"Some time ago, at Cairo, there was a poor, decrepit camel which had to be led to the slaughter house by his owner and while going to his ultimate destiny, pulled at his ropes, not knowing that he was passing before the Egyptian Palace . . . He freed himself from the ropes that held him and with a mighty pull of his legs entered the gates of the royal residence."
"The owner was not able to recapture him and it happened that the guard was not able to stop the four-legged creature from entering and becoming a guest of the royal household."
"Informed of the fact, King Farouk ordered that the camel should not finish his life so miserably (in a slaughter house) and should die a natural death and that when his hour arrived he would have a royal funeral."
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Cairo
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the camel was spared from slaughter, ordered to die a natural death, and to receive a royal funeral.
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King Farouk commissioned Prof. Alfredo Santarelli to create 12 ceramic plates depicting an incident where the king saved a decrepit camel from the slaughterhouse. The camel escaped its owner, entered the Egyptian Palace gates, and was taken in by the royal household. Informed of this, King Farouk ordered that the camel should not be killed miserably but die naturally and receive a royal funeral.