Now I am
back home from the hospital and it feels very good to "start over again from
basics". I had to nagg myself out of the hospital after a very rapid recovery
that the doctors had a hard time to understand. I shall explain that later
today, I think anyone can do it if they know the "secret", that actually is no
secret but something that most of us already know.
Until
then; I found this in the mailbox and thought I might share it with
you:
An old
lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa , taking
her
faithful
aged Setter named "Whatever!" along for the
company.
One day
the Setter starts chasing butterflies and before
long,
discovers
that he's lost.. Wandering about, he notices a
leopard heading
rapidly
in his direction with the intention of having lunch.
The old
Setter thinks, "Oh, oh! I'm in deep doo-doo 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
old Setter exclaims loudly, "Boy, that was one delicious leopard!
I
wonder
if there are any more around here?"
Hearing
this, the young leopard halts his attack in mid-strike, a look
of
terror
comes over him and he slinks away into the trees. "Whew!", says
the
leopard,
"That was close! That old Setter 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 old Setter 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
young 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
old Setter 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 old Setter says.
"Where's
that darn monkey? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another
leopard!
Torsti