Mister Mitchell is the camel’s current owner in “The Bones.” The camel suspects that the man is mad, as Mister Mitchell rides him like “a fancy horse” and inexplicably digs up bones from an Aboriginal person’s gravesite. The bones, Henry Lawson later explains, are supposedly going to protect Mister Mitchell from the ghosts of Aboriginal people whom Mitchell’s father murdered years ago, during the Hospital Creek Massacre. Mister Mitchell is asleep with the bones for much of the story, but he wakes up in the story’s final pages and shoots the massive goanna that began stalking him and the camel after Mitchell dug up the bones. But though Mitchell manages to kill the goanna, he also accidentally shoots the camel.