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A wealthy old lady decides to travel to Africa, taking her faithful (忠诚的) old dog Cuddles along for company. One day, the dog starts chasing butterflies and before long, Cuddles discovers that he's 1 Wandering about, he notices a2heading in his direction with the intention of eating him for lunch. The old dog thinks, “Oh, oh! I'm in deep3now!” Noticing some bones on the ground close by, he4settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the5leopard.
Just as the leopard is about to6 the old dog exclaims loudly, “Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I7if there are any more around here?” Hearing this, the young leopard stops his attack in mid-strike, a look of8comes over him and he runs back into the trees. “Whew!”, says the leopard, “That was close! That dog nearly9me!”
Meanwhile, a monkey who had been10the whole scene from a nearby tree decides that he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for11from the leopard. So off he goes … but the old dog sees him12the leopard and figures that something must be up. The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, and explains that the dog is13and strikes a deal with the leopard.
The young leopard is angry about being14and says, “Here, monkey, jump on my back and see what's going to happen to that15dog!”
The old dog sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and thinks, “What am I going to do now?” But instead of16 the dog sits down with his back to his attackers17he hasn't seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to18 the old dog says: “Where's that darn monkey? I19 him off an hour ago to bring me another leopard!”
Life is not about holding all the good cards, but in20those that you hold well.
