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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
poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long, Cuddles discovers that he's 
lost.. Wandering about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch.

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 
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 old 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 young 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 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, 
pretendinghe hasn't seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to
hear, the old poodle says, "Where's that damn monkey? I sent him off an 
hour ago to bring me another leopard! 
 

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