A wealthy retired BBH'er from Florida decides to go on a photo safari
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> >> in Africa, taking his faithful aged poodle named Cuddles,
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> >> along for the company.
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> >> One day the poodle starts chasing butterflies and before
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> >> long, Cuddles discovers that he's lost. Wandering about,
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> >> he notices a leopard heading
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> >> lunch.
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> >> Th! e old p oodle thinks, 'Oh, oh! I'm in deep
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> >> doo-doo now!' Noticing some bones on the ground close
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> >> by, he immediately settles down to chew on the bones with
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> >> his back to the approaching cat. Just as the leopard is
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> >> about to leap the old poodle exclaims loudly, 'Boy, that
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> >> was one delicious leopard! I wonder if there are any more
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> >> around here?'
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> >> Hearing this, the young leopard halts his attack in
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> >> mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks
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> >> away into the trees. 'Whew!' says the leopard,
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> >> 'That was close! That old poodle nearly had me!'
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> >> Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene
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> >> from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to
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> >> good use and trade it for protection from the leopard. So
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> >> off he goes, but the old poodle sees him heading after the
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> >> leopard with great speed, and figures that something must be
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> >> up. The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the
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> >> beans and strikes a deal for himself with the leopard.
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> >> The young leopard i! s furio us at being made a fool of and
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> >> says, 'Here, monkey, hop on my back and see what's
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> >> going to happen to that conniving canine!
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> >> Now, the old poodle sees the leopard coming with the monkey
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> >> on his back and thinks, 'What am I going to do
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> >> now?', but instead of running, the dog sits down with
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> >> his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen
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> >> them yet, and just when they get close enough to hear, the
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> >> old poodle says.
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> >> 'Where's that damn monkey? I sent him off an hour
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> >> ago to bring me another leopard!
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> >> Moral of this story....
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> >> Don't mess with old farts .. Age and treachery will
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> >> always overcome youth and skill! xxxxxxxx and brilliance
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> >> only come with age and experience.
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