A wealthy man went on a safari in Africa and took his faithful dachshund along for company. One day, the dachshund started chasing butterflies, and before long he realized that he was lost.
Wandering about, he noticed a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having lunch. The dachshund thinks, "OK, I'm in deep trouble now!" Then he noticed some bones on the ground close by and immediately settled down to chew the bones with his back to the ferocious leopard.
Just as the big cat was about to leap, the dachshund said loudly Boy, that was one delicious leopard. I wonder if there are any more around here?" Hearing this, the leopard halted in mid-stride, a look of terror came over him, and he slunk away into the trees.
"Whew," said the leopard. "That was close. That dachshund nearly had me."
Meanwhile, a monkey, who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figured he could put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard. So, off he went.
But the dachshund saw him heading after the leopard with great speed, and figured that something must be up. The monkey soon caught up with the leopard, spilled the beans, and struck a deal for himself with the leopard.
The leopard was furious at being made a fool of and said, "Here monkey, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving weinerschnitzel."
Now the dachshund saw the leopard coming with the monkey on his back, and thought, "Uh oh! What am I going to do now?" But instead of running, he down with his back to his attackers and pretended he didn't see them.
When they were close, the dachshund said, "Now where's that monkey? I sent him off half an hour ago to bring me another leopard."
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