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!!!