So there was this record store—Campus Music and Gallery—in Seattle's University District. The record store had a resident cat.

On a sunny summer day, there were some flies buzzing around the front window display, so Jim Bates, the proprietor, put a couple of sheets of fly paper in the window.

The resident cat decided to sun himself in the window and hopped into it, landing with all four feet on one of the sheets of fly paper.

He lifted one front paw and the fly paper came with it.

Then he tried the other front paw. It, two, was stuck.

He inventoried his hind paws with the same result.

Then he made a major mistake. He sat down to think the matter over.

The cat was last seen heading sou'east under full sail and with a strong tailwind!

Don Firth