A wealthy man decided to go on a safari in Africa. He took his faithful pet dog along for company. One day the dog starts chasing butterflies and before long he discovers that he is lost. So, wandering about he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having lunch.

The dog thinks, "Boyo, I'm in deep doo-doo now." (He was an Irish setter).... Then he noticed some bones on the ground close by, and immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat.

Just as the leopard is about to leap, the dog exclaims loudly, "Man, that was one delicious leopard. I wonder if there are any more around here?"

Hearing this the leopard halts his attack in mid stride, as a look of terror comes over him, and slinks away into the trees. "Whew", says the leopard. "That was close. That dog 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 dog saw him heading after the leopard with great speed, and figured 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 cat 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 dog 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 dog says, "Where's that monkey. I just can never trust him. I sent him off half an hour ago to bring me another leopard, and he's still not back!!"

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A lion, a donkey, and a fox were once hunting. It had been a good day and the time had come to divide the proceeds. Wearily, the lion spoke,

"Friend donkey," said he, "Divide the spoils of our hunt into three parts, one for each of us."

The donkey did so, producing three parts of amazingly equal size. Whereupon, the lion promptly made away with the donkey and added him to the pile. "Friend fox," said he, "Divide these proceeds into two parts, one for each of us."

Whereupon, the fox put everything together save one crow, which he put to one side. Said he, "Do you, friend lion, have this for your half, and the crow shall be my half."

The lion smiled broadly and said, "Well done, friend fox, but who taught you to divide so cleverly into equal halves?"

"The donkey," replied the fox.

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The frog was feeling more than usually self-important one day. Having previously determined that a change of scenery for himself was in order, he was perplexed as his means were non-existent and he felt it beneath his dignity to expend the energy required to bring the change about.

Not long thereafter he came upon two geese who were heading south for the winter. After a bit of fancy talk he persuaded the birds to stretch a long blade of grass between them. The frog took hold of the blade in his mouth and the birds were off.

After some time another bird happened along and proclaimed,

"That's a wonderful idea. Who thought of it?"

The proud and vainglorious frog replied,

"I did."

When he thus opened his mouth he naturally fell to his death.

He had a good thing going and he couldn't keep his mouth shut."

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