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| E-RFD: Brains Over Brawn
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:55:30 -0700 From: Bill Merwin <billm@bear-clan.com> A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa , taking
her faithful aged poodle named Cuddles, along for the company.
One day the
The old poodle thinks, "Oh, oh! I'm in deep doo-doo 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 old poodle exclaims loudly, "Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I wonder if there are any more around here?" Hearing this, the young 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 old poodle nearly had me!" Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a
The young leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here,
Now, the old poodle sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back,
but instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers,
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