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wolram
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The lady who lives next to me asked if i could help her, it seems something had scared her cat up a tree (an old elm), she had been trying to coaxs it
down all that morning, after several hours of calling etc the cat refused to move, so i started throwing little stones into the tree to see if i could scare it back down, all it did was make the cat go higher up the tree, i suggested we leave it and it will find its own way down by morrning, the lady called again and told me the cat was still up the tree:grumpy: so i thought the only way to get it down was to climb the tree and get it, the trouble was there were no solid branches for about 8ft and neither of had a ladder, so i called my dad and asked him if could bring his, he said he would but he had to finish a job first and he would be about an hour, in the mean time the local farmer turned up and told us he would get his bail lifter and he could lift me up to the stronger branches, while we were waiting the lady offered to make some coffee so we went back to her house, dad and the farmer turned up within 5mins of each other, by that time several people had turned up to see what was going on, one asked what all the fuss was about, i told him about the cat, he looked up the tree and spoke to some of the other people then came over to me and told me that there was no cat up in the tree, we all looked and sure enough the cat had gone, where is the cat? well it has not gone home to date.
down all that morning, after several hours of calling etc the cat refused to move, so i started throwing little stones into the tree to see if i could scare it back down, all it did was make the cat go higher up the tree, i suggested we leave it and it will find its own way down by morrning, the lady called again and told me the cat was still up the tree:grumpy: so i thought the only way to get it down was to climb the tree and get it, the trouble was there were no solid branches for about 8ft and neither of had a ladder, so i called my dad and asked him if could bring his, he said he would but he had to finish a job first and he would be about an hour, in the mean time the local farmer turned up and told us he would get his bail lifter and he could lift me up to the stronger branches, while we were waiting the lady offered to make some coffee so we went back to her house, dad and the farmer turned up within 5mins of each other, by that time several people had turned up to see what was going on, one asked what all the fuss was about, i told him about the cat, he looked up the tree and spoke to some of the other people then came over to me and told me that there was no cat up in the tree, we all looked and sure enough the cat had gone, where is the cat? well it has not gone home to date.