Zoom Comes to the Campfire

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[AustinBoston]

Thre were a lot of scouts in troop 125 of the South Hampshire Council.  They had 5 regular patrols plus a senior patrol.  Over the years, they had graduated a number of first class scouts, quite a few star scouts, a couple life scouts, and one eagle scout.  But nobody was prepared for what was about to happen to troop 125.

[ChisholmTrail-er]

With the word that they were headed out on the long-awaited field trip, the scouts zoomed toward the idling bus.

[tlhdoc]

While zooming for the bus one of the younger scouts saw something strange...
 
Sorry to interupt this post, but I am going camping today!  Talk to you next week.

[AustinBoston]

...it was a herd of cats!  There were domestic shorthairs, long-haired persians, Tom-cats, tiger-striped, tortise shells, and more.  There must have been a hundred and twenty-eight cats, and my word, the fur was flying!  The only thing that kept them in a herd were all the...

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[AustinBoston]

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[ChisholmTrail-er]

cat-herders!  I counted one hundred thrity-two cat herders, which was not nearly enough, because...

[AustinBoston]

Cats in herds tend to zoom off in all directions.   :yikes: You gotta be quick, or you will soon have a herd of less than none.

[ChisholmTrail-er]

Bye-the-bye, as an aside, and along those lines....134 is not less than none.

[AustinBoston]

Even harder than trying to herd al those cats, is trying to round up 135 of them in the first place.

[ChisholmTrail-er]

From cat-herding experience, I can report that corralling 136 cats is slightly harder than the task AB describes....

[ChisholmTrail-er]

Zooooooom went the line he cast over the pond, trying to lure someone else back into the game....

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