Jeannette Walls Author

We climbed under the chain fence and knelt around Dad while he petted the cheetah. By then a few people had begun to gather. One man was calling to us to get back behind the chain fence. We ignored him. I knelt close to the cheetah. My heart was beating fast, but I wasn__ scared, only excited. I could feel the cheetah__ hot breath on my face. He looked right at me. His amber eyes were steady but sad, as if he knew he__ never see the plains of Africa again.