An old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa, taking her faithful poodle along to accompany her. One day, the poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long, discovers that he is lost. Wandering about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having him for lunch. The poodle thinks, “Oh no! I am in deep trouble now.” Noticing some bones on the ground close by, he immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the leopard is about to leap, the poodle exclaims loudly, “Boy, that was one delicious leopard. I wonder if there are anymore around here.” Hearing this, the leopard halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees. “Whew.” says the leopard, “That was close. That poodle nearly had me.” Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree figures that he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard. So off he goes, but the poodle sees him heading after the leopard with great speed and figures that something must be up. The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the beans, and strikes a deal for himself with the leopard. The leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, “Here monkey, hop on my back and see what is going to happen to that conniving canine.” Now, the poodle sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and thinks, “What am I going to do now?”, but instead of running, the poodle sits down with his back to the leopard, pretending he has not seen it yet, and just when they get close enough to hear, the poodle says, “Where is that monkey? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another leopard.”
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