Poodle
A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa, taking her
faithful pet poodle along for company. One day the poodle starts chasing
butterflies and before long he discovers that he is lost. Wandering
about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the
obvious
intention of having lunch.
The poodle thinks, "Uh-oh, I'm 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 any more around here."
Hearing this, the leopard halts his attack in mid-stride, 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
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's 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
dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen
them yet and, just when they get close enough to hear, the poodle
says..................... "Where's that damn monkey? I sent him off half
an hour ago to bring me another leopard!"
"There's only 2 things that money can't buy, and that's true love and home grown tomatos" Guy Clark
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