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Sometimes there's nowhere else to go but up a tree.

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They've had many lives and many ages: cats I've met in my time travels.

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Like a very famous bear whom Algy had long admired, sometimes Algy sat and thought, and sometimes he just sat… And in Algy's opinion there were few places better in which to just sit than among the blossoms of the great white cherry trees at flowering time, April weather notwithstanding…

And so Algy flew up to a higher spot in one of the trees and reclined on a branch in a fashion perhaps more accurately described as lying down than sitting… but in any case it was conducive to either thinking or not thinking, as the case might be, and on this occasion Algy opted for not thinking, for what was the point of thinking when one was surrounded by such a glorious sight?

Of course it was true that the weather was being decidedly bothersome again: the sky was totally grey, the strong wind kept blowing all Algy's feathers contrariwise, as well as into his eyes, and the frequent April showers had a tendency to dampen the process of not thinking in a rather insistent way.…

However, the cherry blossom would not last long, and from time to time a burst of sunlight did manage to squeeze through the clouds, so Algy murmured carpe diem to the alarmingly few bees that were buzzing about the damp flowers, lay back on the branch, and returned to an absence of thought for as long as seemed prudent under the circumstances…