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For several decades of my life, I had a poodle.

Two different poodles love very much.

And so I'd like to start with a favorite story that stars a poodle.

This woman goes to a safari in Africa and she takes her poodle along for company.

And one day the poodle runs off after some butterflies or something.

Before long, he discovers he's lost.

And so he's wandering around and he notices a leopard that's heading rapidly in his direction and the intention of having lunch.

So the old poodle thinks, oh no, I'm in trouble now.

And notices some bones on the ground close by.

So he settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat.

And just as the leopard is about to leave the old poodle exclaims loudly, boy, that was one delicious leopard.

I wonder if there any more around here.

So hearing this young leopard halts his attack and mid-strike look of terror over space, slinks away and says,

the leopard says that was close that that old poodle nearly had me.

Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole thing from a tree, figures he can put knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard.

So off he goes, the old poodle sees him heading after the leopard with great speed and figures out that something must be out.

The monkey soon catches up with the leopard spells the bean strikes a deal for himself with the leopard.

Okay, so the young leopard's furious, he's made a fool of himself and he says, hear monkey, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving canine.

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