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After saying bye bye to the kids, Doudou leaves the oasis. But where are Ahmed and the camels? Fortunately, Doudou encounters a desert donkey…
“ Hello little donkey, says Doudou.”
But the little donkey seems to be upset. He doesn’t like when someone tells him he is a “little” donkey :
“ Little? I’m rubber and you are glue, he answers. Have you seen how big you are ! You are not very tall.
- Yes, you are right, I am small, just a little bear in this huge desert, and moreover I have lost my friend Ahmed, the camel-driver, and his camels.
- Ahmed? I know him very well says the donkey. He has probably settled his tent behind the big acacia that you can see there, in the distance.
- Pfff ! It’s very far from here, sighs Doudou.
- Yes, it’s a very long walk for such a tiny bear. Climb on my back, and I will carry you there…”

Doudou jumps on the back of the donkey who didn’t like to be called “little” and both start trotting to reach the camel-drivers camp.
“ Thank you very much says Doudou, you are a donkey with a BIIIIIIIIIG heart !”

© JiCé SOWA & Valérie CHERY - Décembre 2008

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