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Winnie The Pooh · Winnie The Pooh

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  Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh by a A Milney introduction to her.
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  Speaker 1: Hand in hand, we come, Christopher Robin, and I to
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  Speaker 1: lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised, Say
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  Speaker 1: you like it. Say it's just what you wanted, because
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  Speaker 1: it's yours, because we love you. If you happen to
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  Speaker 1: have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may remember
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  Speaker 1: that he once had a swan, or the swan had
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. I don't know which, but that he used
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  Speaker 1: to call this swan Pooh. That was a long time ago,
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  Speaker 1: and when we said goodbye, we took the name with us,
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  Speaker 1: as we didn't think the swan would want it anymore. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when Edgar Behar said that he would like an exciting
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  Speaker 1: name all to himself, Christopher Robin said it once without
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  Speaker 1: stopping to think that he was Winnie the Pooh, And
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  Speaker 1: he was so. As I have explained the Pooh part,
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  Speaker 1: I will now explain the rest of it. You can't
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  Speaker 1: be in London for long without going to the zoo.
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  Speaker 1: There are some people who begin the zoo at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning called way in, and walk as quickly as they
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  Speaker 1: can past every cage until they get to the one
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  Speaker 1: called way out. But the nicest people go straight to
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  Speaker 1: the animal they love the most and stay there. So
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  Speaker 1: when Christopher Robin goes to the zoo, he goes to
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  Speaker 1: where the polar bears are, and he whispers something to
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  Speaker 1: the third keeper from the left, and doors are unlocked,
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  Speaker 1: and we wander through dark passages and up steep stairs,
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  Speaker 1: until at last we come to the special cage. And
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  Speaker 1: the cage is opened, and out trots something brown and furry,
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  Speaker 1: and with a happy cry of oh, bear, Christopher Robin
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  Speaker 1: rushes into its arms. Now this bear's name is Winnie,
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  Speaker 1: which shows what a good name for bear it is.
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  Speaker 1: But the funny thing is that we can't remember whether
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  Speaker 1: Winnie is called after Pooh or Pooh after Winnie. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't know once, but we have forgotten. I had written
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  Speaker 1: as far as this. When Picklet looked up and said,
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  Speaker 1: in his squeaky voice, what about me, my dear Picklet,
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  Speaker 1: I said, the whole book is about you. So it
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  Speaker 1: is about Pooh, he squeaked. You see what it is.
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  Speaker 1: He is jealous because he thinks Pooh is having a
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  Speaker 1: grand introduction all to himself. Pooh is the favorite, of course,
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  Speaker 1: there's no denying it. But Pickelet comes in for a
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  Speaker 1: good many things, which Pooh misses because you can't take
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  Speaker 1: Poo to school without everybody knowing it. But Picklet is
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  Speaker 1: so small that he slips into a pocket where it
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  Speaker 1: is very comforting to feel him when you are not
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  Speaker 1: quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes he slips out and has a good lie in
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  Speaker 1: the ink pot, And in this way he has got
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  Speaker 1: more education than Pooh. But Pooh doesn't mind. Some have
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  Speaker 1: brains and some haven't, he says, And there it is,
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  Speaker 1: And now all the others are saying, what about us?
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  Speaker 1: So perhaps the best thing to do is stop writing
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  Speaker 1: introductions and get on with the book. End of introduction,
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  Speaker 1: chapter two, in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into
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  Speaker 1: a tight place. Edward Baar, known to his friends as
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  Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh or Pooh for short, was walking through
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  Speaker 1: the forest one day, humming proudly to himself. He had
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  Speaker 1: made up a little hum that very morning as he
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  Speaker 1: was doing his stoutness exercises in front of the glass
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  Speaker 1: to a law law, to a law law, as he
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  Speaker 1: stretched up as high as he could go, and then
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  Speaker 1: to a la law.
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  Speaker 2: Toraw law, Oh help law.
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  Speaker 1: As he tried to reach his toes after breakfast. He
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  Speaker 1: had said it over and over to himself until he
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  Speaker 1: had learnt it off by heart, and now he was
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  Speaker 1: humming it right through properly.
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  Speaker 3: It went like this, draw la lah try la law,
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  Speaker 3: draw la la try la law.
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  Speaker 1: Rum tom tittle um tum tettle ill ttle ill tirtle
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  Speaker 1: little tittle ill rum tum tittle um. Well, he was
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  Speaker 1: humming this hum to himself and walking along gaily, wondering
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  Speaker 1: what everybody else was doing and what it felt like
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  Speaker 1: being somebody else, when suddenly he came to a sandy bank,
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  Speaker 1: and in the bank was a large hole. Ah said, pooh,
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  Speaker 1: rum tum tidle um tum. If I know anything about anything,
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  Speaker 1: that hole means rabbit, he said. And rabbit means company,
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  Speaker 1: he said, And company means food and listening to me
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  Speaker 1: humming and such like rum tom tittle um. So he
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  Speaker 1: bent down, put his head into the hole and called out,
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  Speaker 1: is anybody at home? There was a sudden scuffling noise
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  Speaker 1: from inside the hole, and then silence. What I said was,
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  Speaker 1: is anybody at home? Called out pooh very loudly, No,
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  Speaker 1: said a voice, and then added, you needn't shout so loud.
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  Speaker 1: I hurt you quite well the first time, bother, said Pooh.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't there anybody here at all? Nobody? Winnie the Pooh
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  Speaker 1: took his head out of the hole and thought for
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  Speaker 1: a little, and he thought to himself there must be
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  Speaker 1: somebody there, because somebody must have said nobody. So he
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  Speaker 1: put his head back in the hole and said, hello, rabbit.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that you? No, said rabbit, in a different sort
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  Speaker 1: of voice this time. But isn't that rabbit's voice? I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so, said rabbit. It isn't meant to be.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, said Pooh.
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  Speaker 1: He took his head out of the hole and had
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  Speaker 1: another link, and then he put it back and said, well,
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  Speaker 1: could you, very calmly tell me where rabbit is. He
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  Speaker 1: has gone to see his friend poo Bear, who is
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  Speaker 1: a great friend of his. But this is me, said bear,
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  Speaker 1: very much surprised. What sort of me, Pooh bear? Are
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  Speaker 1: you sure? Said rabbit, still more surprised. Quite quite sure. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: then come in. So Pooh pushed and pushed and pushed
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  Speaker 1: his way through the hole, and at last he got in.
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  Speaker 1: You were quite right, said rabbit, looking at him. All
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  Speaker 1: over it is you glad to see you? Who did
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  Speaker 1: you think it was? Well, I wasn't sure. You know
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  Speaker 1: how it is in the forest. One can't have anybody
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  Speaker 1: coming into one's house. One has to be careful. What
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  Speaker 1: about a mouthful of something? Pooh always liked a little
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  Speaker 1: something at eleven o'clock in the morning, and he was
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  Speaker 1: very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs.
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  Speaker 1: And when Rabbit said, honey, are condensed milk with your bread,
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  Speaker 1: he was so excited that he said both. And then
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  Speaker 1: so it's not to seem he added, uh, boy, don't
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  Speaker 1: bother about the bread, please, And for a long time
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  Speaker 1: after that he said nothing, until at last, humming to
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  Speaker 1: himself in a rather sticky voice, he got up, shook
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  Speaker 1: Rabbit lovingly by the paw, and said that he must
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  Speaker 1: be going on? Must you, said rabbit pointedly? Well, said Pooh,
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  Speaker 1: I could stay a little longer if it, if you,
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  Speaker 1: and he tried very hard to look in the direction
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  Speaker 1: of the larder. As a matter of fact, said Rabbit,
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  Speaker 1: I was going out myself directly. Oh, well, then I'll
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  Speaker 1: be going on. Good wine, Well goodbye. If you're sure
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  Speaker 1: you won't have any more, is there any more, asked Pooh. Quickly,
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  Speaker 1: Rabbit took the covers off the dishes and said, no,
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't I thought, Nah, said Pooh, nodding to himself,
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  Speaker 1: Well goodbye, I must be going on. So he started
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  Speaker 1: to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his
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  Speaker 1: front paws and pushed with his back paws, and in
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  Speaker 1: a little while his nose was out in the open again,
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  Speaker 1: and then its ears, and then his front paws, and
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  Speaker 1: then his shoulders, and then Oh, help, said Pooh. I'd
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  Speaker 1: better go back. Oh bother, said Pooh, I shall have
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  Speaker 1: to go on. I can't do either, said Pooh. Oh
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  Speaker 1: help and bother. Now by this time Rabbit wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go for a walk too, and, finding the front door full,
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  Speaker 1: he went out by his back door and came round
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  Speaker 1: to Pooh and looked at him. Hello, are you stuck,
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  Speaker 1: he asked, No, said Pooh, carelessly, just resting and thinking
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  Speaker 1: and humming to myself. Here, give us a paw. Pooh
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  Speaker 1: bear stretched out a paw, and Rabbit pulled and pulled
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  Speaker 1: and pulled. Oh, cried Pooh, you're hurting. The fact is,
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  Speaker 1: said Rabbit, You're stuck. It all comes, said Pooh crossly,
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  Speaker 1: of not having front doors big enough. It all comes,
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  Speaker 1: said rabbit, sternly. Of eating too much, I thought at
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  Speaker 1: the time, said rabbit, Only I didn't like to say anything,
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  Speaker 1: said rabbit. That one of us was eating too much,
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  Speaker 1: said rabbit, and I knew it wasn't me. He said, well, well,
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  Speaker 1: I shall go and fetch Christopher Robin. Christopher Robin lived
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  Speaker 1: at the other end of the forest, and when he
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  Speaker 1: came back with a rabbit and saw the front half
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  Speaker 1: of Pooh, he said, silly, old bear in such a
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  Speaker 1: loving voice that everyone felt quite hopeful. Again. I was
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  Speaker 1: just beginning to think, said bear, sniffling slightly, that Rabbit
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  Speaker 1: might never be able to use his front door again,
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  Speaker 1: and I should hate that, he said, so should I said,
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  Speaker 1: Rabbit use his front door again, said Christopher Robin. Of
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  Speaker 1: course he'll use his front door again. Good, said rabbit.
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  Speaker 1: If we can't pull you out, Pooh, we might push
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  Speaker 1: you back. Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully and pointed out
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  Speaker 1: that when once Pooh was pushed back, he was back,
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  Speaker 1: and of course nobody was more glad to see Poo
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  Speaker 1: than he was still there. It was some lived in
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  Speaker 1: trees and some lived underground, And you mean I'd never
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  Speaker 1: get out, said Pooh. I mean, said Rabbit that, having
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  Speaker 1: got so far, it seemed a pity to waste it.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin nodded. Then there's only one thing to be done,
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  Speaker 1: he said. We shall have to wait for you to
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  Speaker 1: get thin again. How long does getting thin take, asked
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  Speaker 1: Pooh anxiously, About a week, I should think, But I
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  Speaker 1: can't stay here for a week. You can stay here,
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  Speaker 1: all right, silly old bear. It's getting you out, which
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  Speaker 1: is so difficult. We'll read to you, said Rabbit, cheerfully.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope it won't snow, he added, And I say, oh, fellow,
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  Speaker 1: you're taking up a good deal of room in my house.
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  Speaker 1: Do you mind if I use your back legs as
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  Speaker 1: a towel horse? Because I mean, there they are doing nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and it would be very convenient just to hang the
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  Speaker 1: towels on them a week, said Pooh gloomily. What about meals?
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid no meals, said Christopher Robin, because of getting
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  Speaker 1: them quicker. But we will read to you. Bear began
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  Speaker 1: to sigh, and then found he couldn't because he was
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  Speaker 1: so tightly stuck, and a tear rolled down his eye,
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  Speaker 1: as he said, then would you read a sustaining book
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  Speaker 1: such as would help? And conquered a wedged bear in
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  Speaker 1: great tightness. So for a week Christopher Robin read that
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  Speaker 1: sort of book at the north end of Pooh, and
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  Speaker 1: Rabbit hung his washing on the south end, and in between,
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  Speaker 1: Bear felt himself getting slenderer and slenderer. And at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the week, Christopher Robin said, now, so he
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  Speaker 1: took hold of Pooh's front paws, and a rabbit took
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  Speaker 1: hold of Christopher Robin, and all rabbit's friends and relations
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  Speaker 1: took hold of rabbit, and they all pulled together. And
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  Speaker 1: for a long time Pooh only said oh and oh,
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  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden he said pop, just
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  Speaker 1: as if a cark were coming out of a bottle,
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  Speaker 1: And Christopher Robin and rabbits and all the rabbit's friends
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  Speaker 1: and relations went head over heels backwards, and on the
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  Speaker 1: top of them came Winnie the Pooh free. And so,
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  Speaker 1: with a nod of thanks to his friends, he went
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  Speaker 1: on with his walk through the forest, humming proudly to himself.
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  Speaker 1: But Christopher Robin looked after him lovingly and said to himself, silly,
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  Speaker 1: old bear. End of chapter two. Chapter two in which
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  Speaker 1: Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place. Edward Bear,
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  Speaker 1: known to his friends as Winnie the Pooh or Pooh
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  Speaker 1: for short, was walking through the forest one day, humming
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  Speaker 1: proudly to himself. He had made up a little hum
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  Speaker 1: that very morning as he was doing his stoutness exercises
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  Speaker 1: in front of the glass. Tra la la tra la
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  Speaker 1: law as he stretched up as high as he could go,
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  Speaker 1: and then try la law, try l oh help law
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  Speaker 1: as he tried to reach his toes after breakfast. He
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: had said it over and over to himself until he
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  Speaker 1: had learnt it off by heart, and now he was
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  Speaker 1: humming it right through properly.
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  Speaker 3: It went like this, draw la law, try la law,
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  Speaker 3: draw la law, try la law.
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  Speaker 1: Rum Tom tiddle um tom little ill tittle ill tirtle
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  Speaker 1: little tittle ill rum tom tirdle um. Well, he was
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  Speaker 1: humming this hum to himself and walking along gaily, wondering
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: what everybody else was doing and what it felt like
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: being somebody else. When suddenly he came to a sandy
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  Speaker 1: and in the bank was a large hole. Ah, said Pooh,
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  Speaker 1: rum tom ti lum tum. If I know anything about anything.
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  Speaker 1: That hole means rabbit, he said. And rabbit means company,
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  Speaker 1: he said, And company means food and listening to me,
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  Speaker 1: humming and such like rum tom tittle um. So he
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  Speaker 1: bent down, put his head into the hole and called out,
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  Speaker 1: is anybody at home? There was a sudden scuffling noise
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  Speaker 1: from inside the hole, and then silence. What I said was,
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  Speaker 1: is anybody at home? Called out Pooh, very loudly. No,
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  Speaker 1: said a voice, and then added, you needn't shout so loud.
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  Speaker 1: I heard you quite well. The first bother said, Pooh,
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  Speaker 1: isn't there anybody here at all? Nobody? Winnie the Pooh
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  Speaker 1: took his head out of the hole and thought for
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  Speaker 1: a little, and he thought to himself there must be
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  Speaker 1: somebody there, because somebody must have said nobody. So he
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  Speaker 1: put his head back in the hole and said, hello, rabbit.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that you? No, said rabbit, in a different sort
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  Speaker 1: of voice this time. But isn't that rabbit's voice? I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so, said rabbit. It isn't meant to be, oh.
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  Speaker 2: Said Pooh.
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  Speaker 1: He took his head out of the hole and had
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  Speaker 1: another link, and then he put it back and said, well,
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  Speaker 1: could you very calmly, tell me where Rabbit is. He
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  Speaker 1: has gone to see his friend Pooh Bear, who is
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  Speaker 1: a great friend of his. But this is me, said bear,
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  Speaker 1: very much surprised. What sort of me, Pooh Bear? Are
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  Speaker 1: you sure, said Rabbit, still more surprised. Quite quite sure.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, then come in. So Pooh pushed and pushed
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  Speaker 1: and pushed his way through the hole, and at last
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  Speaker 1: he got in. You were quite right, said Rabbit, looking
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  Speaker 1: at him all over. It is you, glad to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Who did you think it was? Well, I wasn't sure.
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  Speaker 1: You know how it is in the forest. One can't
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  Speaker 1: have anybody coming into one's house. One has to be careful.
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  Speaker 1: What about a mouthful of something? Pooh always liked a
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  Speaker 1: little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, and he
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  Speaker 1: was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates
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  Speaker 1: and mugs. And when Rabbit said, honey, are condensed milk
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  Speaker 1: with your bread, he was so excited that he said both,
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  Speaker 1: And then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, uh, boy,
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  Speaker 1: don't bother about the bread, please, And for a long
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  Speaker 1: time after that he said nothing, until at last, humming
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  Speaker 1: to himself in a rather sticky voice, he got up,
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  Speaker 1: shook Rabbit lovingly by the paw, and said that he
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  Speaker 1: must be going on? Must you? Said rabbit pointedly, Well,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh, I could stay a little longer if it,
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  Speaker 1: if you, And he tried very hard to look in
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  Speaker 1: the direction of the larder. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: said Rabbit, I was going out myself directly. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: then I'll be going on. Good wine, Well goodbye, if
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  Speaker 1: you're sure you won't have any more? Is there any more?
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  Speaker 1: Asked Pooh. Quickly, Rabbit took the covers off the dishes
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  Speaker 1: and said, no, there wasn't I thought not, said Pooh,
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  Speaker 1: nodding to himself. Well, good bye, I must be going on.
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  Speaker 1: So he started to climb out of the hole. He
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  Speaker 1: pulled with his front paws and pushed with his back paws,
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  Speaker 1: and in a little while his nose was out in
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  Speaker 1: the open again, and then its ears, and then his
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  Speaker 1: front paws, and then his shoulders, and then oh help,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh, I'd better go back. Oh bother, said Pooh,
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  Speaker 1: I shall have to go on. I can't do either,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh, Oh help and bother? Now why this time
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  Speaker 1: Rabbit wanted to go for a walk too, and finding
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  Speaker 1: the front door full. He went out by his back
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  Speaker 1: door and came round to Pooh and looked at him. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: are you stuck, he asked, No, said Pooh, carelessly, just
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  Speaker 1: resting and thinking and humming to myself. Here, give us
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  Speaker 1: a paw. Pooh Bear stretched out a paw, and Rabbit
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  Speaker 1: pulled and pulled and pulled. Oh, cried Pooh, you're hurting.
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  Speaker 1: The fact is, said rabbit, You're stuck. It all comes,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh, crossly, of not having front doors big enough.
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  Speaker 1: It all comes, said Rabbit, sternly, of eating too much.
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  Speaker 1: I thought at the time, said rabbit. Only I didn't
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  Speaker 1: like to say anything, said Rabbit. That one of us
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  Speaker 1: was eating too much, said Rabbit, and I knew it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't to me. He said, well, well, I shall go
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  Speaker 1: and fetch Christopher Robin. Christopher Robin lived at the other
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  Speaker 1: end of the forest. And when he came back with
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  Speaker 1: Rabbit and saw the front half of Pooh, he said,
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  Speaker 1: silly old Bear in such a loving voice that everyone
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  Speaker 1: felt quite hopeful again. Oh, I was just beginning to think,
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  Speaker 1: said bear, sniffling slightly, that Rabbit might never be able
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  Speaker 1: to use his front door again, and I should hate that.
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  Speaker 1: He said, so should I said, Rabbit. Use his front
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  Speaker 1: door again, said Christopher Robin. Of course, he'll use his
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  Speaker 1: front door again.
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  Speaker 2: Good, said rabbit.
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  Speaker 1: If we can't pull you out, Pooh, we might push
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  Speaker 1: you back. Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully and pointed out
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  Speaker 1: that when once Pooh was pushed back, he was back,
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  Speaker 1: and of course nobody was more glad to see Pooh
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  Speaker 1: than he was. Still there was some lived in trees
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  Speaker 1: and some lived on the ground. And you mean I'd
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  Speaker 1: never get out, said Pooh. I mean, said Rabbit, that,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: having got so far, it seems a pity to waste it.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin nodded. Then there's only one thing to be done,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: he said. We shall have to wait for you to
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: get thin again. How long does getting thin take, asked
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Pooh anxiously, About a week, I should think, But I
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: can't stay here for a week. You can stay here,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: all right, silly old bear. It's getting you out, which
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: is so difficult. We'll read to you, said Rabbit cheerfully.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: And I hope it won't snow, he added. And I say, oh, fellow,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: you're taking up a good deal of room in my house.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Do you mind if I use your back legs as
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: a towel horse, because I mean, they are doing nothing
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and it would be very convenient just to hang the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: towels on them a week, said Pooh gloomily. What about meals?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid no meals, said Christopher Robin, because of getting
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: thin quicker. But we will read to you. Bear began
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: to sigh and then found he couldn't because he was
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: so tightly stuck, and a tear rolled down his eye
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: as he said, then would you read a sustaining book
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: such as would help? And conquered a wedged bear in
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: great tightness. So for a week Christopher Robin read that
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: sort of book at the north end of Pooh, and
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Rabbit hung his washing on the south end, and in
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: between Bear felt himself getting slenderer and slenderer, And at
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the end of the week, Christopher Robin said, now.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: So he took hold of Pooh's from.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Pause, and Rabbit took hold of Christopher Robin, and all
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Rabbits friends and relations took hold of Rabbit, and they
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: all pulled together. And for a long time Pooh only
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: said oh and oh, And then all of a sudden
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: he said, pop, just as if a cark were coming
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: out of a bottle, and Christopher Robin and Rabbits and
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: all the rabbit's friends and relations went head over heels backwards,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and on the top of them came Winnie the Pooh free,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: and so with a nod of thanks to his friends,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: he went on with his walk through the forest, humming
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: proudly to himself. But Christopher Robin looked after him lovingly
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and said to himself, silly, old bear. End of chapter two.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Chapter three, in which Pooh and Picclicks go hunting and
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: nearly catch a woozl. The Picclet lived in a very
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: grand house in the middle of a beach tree, and
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the beach tree was in the middle of the forest,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and the Picclet lived in the middle of the house.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Next to his house was a piece of broken board
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: which had trespassers w on it. When Christopher Robin asked
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the piglet what it meant, he said it was his
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: grandfather's name and had been in the family for a
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: long time. Christopher Robin said, you couldn't be called trespassers
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: w and Pickelet said yes, you could, because his grandfather
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: was and it was short for trespasser's will which was
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: short for trespassers. William and his grandfather had had two
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: names in case he lost one, Trespassers after an uncle,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: and William after trespassers. I've got two names, said Christopher
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Robin carelessly. There you are, that proves it, said Picklet.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: One fine winter's day, when Picklet was brushing away the
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: snow in front of his house, he happened to look up,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: and there was Winnie the Pooh. Pooh was walking round
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and round in a circle, thinking of something else, and
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: when Picklet called to him, he just went on walking. Hello,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: said Picklet, What are you doing? Haunting, said Pooh? Hunting? What?
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Tracking something? Said Winnie the Pooh, very mysteriously, tracking what?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Said Picklet? Coming closer? That's just what I asked myself.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I asked myself, what what do you think you'll answer?
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I shall have to wait until I catch up with it,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: said Winnie the Pooh. Now look there, He pointed to
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the ground in front of him. What do you see there? Tracks,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: said Piglet. Paw marks. He gave a little squeak of excitement. Oh, Pooh,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: do you think it's a a a woozle? It may be,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. You
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: never can tell with paw marks. With these few words,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: he went on tracking, and Pickelet, after watching him for
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: a minute or two, ran after him. Winnie the Pooh
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: had come to a sudden stop and was bending over
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the tracks in a puzzled sort of way. What's the matter,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: asked Piglet. It's a very funny thing, said Bear. But
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: there seemed to be two animals. Now, this whatever it was,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: has been joined by another, whatever it is, and the
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: two of them are now proceeding in company. Would you
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: mind coming with me, Piglet, in case they turned out
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: to be hostile animals? Pilet scratched his ear in a
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: nice sort of way and said that he had nothing
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to do until Friday and would be delighted to come
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: in case it was a woozle. Do you mean, in
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: case it really is two woozles, said Winnie the Pooh,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: and Piglet said that anyhow, he had nothing to do
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: until Friday, so off they went together. There was a
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: small spinnee of larch trees just here, and it seemed
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: as if the two woozles, if that is what they were,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: had been going round this spinny, so round this spinney
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: went Pooh and Pilet after them. Piglet passed the time
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: by telling Pooh what his grandfather Trespasser's w had done
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: to remove stiffness after tracking, and how his grandfather Trespasser's
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: w had suffered in his later years from sharpness of
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: breath and other matters of entry, and Pooh wondering what
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: a grandfather was like, and if perhaps this was two
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: grandfathers they weren't after now, and if so, whether he
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: would be allowed to take one home and keep it,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and what Christopher Robin would say? And still the tracks
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: went on in front of them. Suddenly, when he the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Pooh stopped and pointed excitedly in front of him. Look what,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: said Picklet, with a jump, And then to show that
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: he hadn't been frightened, he jumped up and down once
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: or twice more in an exercising sort of way. The tracks,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. A third animal has joined the other two,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Pooh said, Picklet. Do you think it's another whoozzle? No,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, because it makes different marks. It is either
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: two woozles, and one as it might be whizzle, or
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: two as it might be Wizzles, and one, if it
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: is so, Woozle, let us continue to follow them. So
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: they went on, feeling just a little anxious now in
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: case the three animals in front of them were of
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: hostile intent. And Pilet wished very much that his grandfather
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: t w were there instead of elsewhere. And Pooh thought
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: how nice it would be if they met Christopher Robin suddenly,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: but quite accidentally, and only because he liked Christopher Robin
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: so much. And then all of a sudden, Winnie the
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Pooh stopped again and licked the tip of his nose
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: in a cooling manner, for he was feeling more hot
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and anxious than ever in his life before. There were
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: four animals in front of them, do you see, Piglet,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: look at their tracks, Three as it were woozles, and
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: one as it was whizzle. Not the Woozle has joined them,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: And so it seemed to be there were tracks crossing
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: over each other here, getting muddled up with each other there,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: but quite plainly every now and then the tracks of
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: four sets of pause, I think, said Picklet, when he
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: had licked the tip of his nose too, and found
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: that it brought very little comfort. I think that I
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: have just remembered something. I have just remembered something that
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I forgot to do yesterday and shan't be able to
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: do tomorrow. So I suppose I really ought to go
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: back and do it now. We'll do it this afternoon,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: and I'll come with you, said Pooh. It isn't the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: sort of thing you can do in the afternoon, said
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Picklet quickly. It's a very particular morning thing that has
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: to be done in the morning, and if possible, between
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the hours of what would you say? The time was
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: about twelve, said Winnie the Pooh, looking at the sun
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: between as I was saying, the hours of twelve and
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: twelve five. So really, dear old Pooh, if you'll excuse me,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: what's that? Pooh looked up in the sky, and then
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: as he heard the whistle again, he looked up into
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the branches of a big oak tree, and then he
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: saw a friend of his. It's Christopher Robin. He said, Ah,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: then you'll be all right, said Piglet. You'll be quite
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: safe with him. Goodbye, and he trotted it off home
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: as quickly as he could, very glad to be out
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: of all danger again. Christopher Robin came slowly down his tree.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Silly old bear, he said, what were you doing? First
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: you went round the spinny twice by yourself, and then
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Piglet ran after you, and you went round again together,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and then you were just going round the fourth time.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Wait a moment, said Winnie the Pooh, holding up his paw.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: He sat down and thought in the most thoughtful way
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: he could think. Then he fitted his paw into one
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: of the tracks. And then he scratched his nose twice
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: and stood up. Yes, said Winnie the Pooh. I see now,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: said Winnie the Pooh. I have been foolish and deluded,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: said he, And I'm a bear of no brain at all.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: You're the best bear in all the world, said Christopher
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Robin soothingly. Am I said Pooh hopefully, And then he
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: brightened up suddenly. Anyhow, he said, it is nearly luncheon time,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: so he went home for it. End of chapter three,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Chapter four, in which Ere loses a tale and Pooh
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: finds one. The old gray donkey Eol stood by himself
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: in a thirsty corner of the forest, his front feet
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Sometimes he thought sadly to himself why, And sometimes he
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: thought where for? And sometimes he thought in so much
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: as which, and sometimes he didn't quite know what he
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: was thinking about. So when Winnie the Pooh came stumping along,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Or was very glad to be able to stop thinking
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: for a little in order to say how do you do?
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: In a gloomy manner to him? And how were you,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: said Winnie the Pooh, Eor shook his head from side
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: to side. Not very holl he said, I don't seem
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: to have felt at all how for a long time. Dear, dear,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: at you. So Eor stood there, gazing sadly at the ground,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: and Winnie the Pooh walked all round him once. Why oh,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: what's happened to your tail? He said, in surprise. What
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: has happened to it? Said Eor? It isn't there? Are
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: you sure? Well? Either a tail is there or isn't there?
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: You can't make a mistake about that, and yours isn't there?
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Then what is gnahing? Let's have a look, said Eor,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: and he turned slowly round to the place where his
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: tail had been a little while ago, and then, finding
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: that he couldn't catch it up. He turned round the
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: other way until he came back to where he was
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: at first, and then he put his head down and
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: looked between his front legs, and at last he said,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: with a long, sad sigh, Oh, I believe you're right.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Of course I'm right, said Pooh. That accounts for a
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: good deal, said Ere gloomily. Hmmm, it explains everything. No wonder.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: You must have left it somewhere, said Winnie the Pooh.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Somebody must have taken it, said Eore. How like them,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: he added, after a long silence, Pooh felt that he
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: ought to say something helpful about it, but didn't quite
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: know what, so he decided to do something helpful instead. Ere,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: he said solemnly, I, Winnie the Pooh will find your
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: tail for you. Thank you, Pooh answered Ere. You're a
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: real friend, said he, not like some, he said, so
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh went off to find yours tail. It
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: was a fine spring morning in the forest. As he
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: started out, little soft clouds played happily in a blue sky,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: skipping from time to time in front of the sun
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: as if they had come to put it out, and
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: then sliding away suddenly so that the next might have
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: his turn through them, and between them the sun shone bravely,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: and a copse, which had worn its furs all the
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: year round, seemed old and dowdy now beside the new
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: green lace which the beeches had put up so prettily.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Through copse and Spinny marched bare down open slopes of
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: gorse and heather, over rocky beds of streams, up steep
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: banks of sandstone, into the heather again, and so at last,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: tired and hungry, to the hundred acre wood. For it
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: was in the hundred acre Wood that owl lived. And
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: if anyone knows anything about anything, said bear to himself.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: It's all who knows something about something? He said. Oh,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: my name's not Winnie the Pooh, he said, which it is,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: he added, So there you are. I will lived in
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: the Chestnuts, an old world residence of great charm, which
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: was grander than anybody else's, or seems so to bear,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: because it had both a knocker and a bell pull.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Underneath the knocker there was a notice which said, please
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: ring if an arn sir is re Underneath the bell
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: pull there was a notice which said please knock if
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: an earned sir is not required. These notices had been
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: written by Christopher Robin, who was the only one in
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: the forest who could spell for owls. Wise though he
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: was in many ways able to read and write and
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: spell his own name w l, yet somehow went all
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: to pieces over delicate words like measles and buttered toast.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh read the two notices very carefully, first
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: from left to right, and afterwards, in case he had
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: missed some of it, from right to left. Then, to
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: make quite sure, he knocked and pulled the knocker, and
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: he pulled and knocked the bell rope, and he called
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: out in a very loud voice, Oh, I require an answer.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: It's bear speed. And the door opened, and Owl looked out,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Hello Pooh. He said, how's things terrible? And sad, said Pooh,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: because Ere, who is a friend of mine, has lost
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: his tail and he's moping about it. So could you
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: very kindly tell me how to find it for him? Well,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: said Owl. The customary procedure in such cases is as follows.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: What does custom mooney proceed cake mean?
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Said Pooh?
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: For I am a bear of very little brain and
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: long words to bother me. It means the thing to do,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: as long as it means that I don't mind, said
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Pooh humbly. The thing to do is as follows. First,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: iss you a reward. Then, just the moment, said Pooh,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: holding up his paw, What do we do to this?
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: What were you saying? You sneezed just as you were
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: going to tell me I didn't sneeze, Yes you did, Owl,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, Pooh, I didn't. You can't sneeze without knowing it. Well,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: you can't know it without something having been sneezed. What
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: I said was first issue a reward. You're doing it again,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, sadly. A reward, said Owl, very loudly. We
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: write a notice to say that we will give a
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: large something to anyone who finds e Or's tail. I see,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I see, said Pooh, nodding his head. Talking about large somethings,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: he went on dreamily, I generally have a small something
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: about now, about this time in the morning, and he
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: looked wistfully at the cupboard in the corner of Owl's parlor,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: just a mouthful of condensed milk or what not, with
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: perhaps a lick of honey. Well, then, said Owl, we
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: write out this notice, and we put it up all
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: over the forest. A look of Honey murmured bear to himself,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: or or not, as the case may be, and he
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: gave a deep sigh and tried very hard to listen
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: to what Owl was saying. But Owl went on and on,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: using longer and longer words, until at last he came
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: back to where he started, and he explained that the
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: person to write out this notice was Christopher Robin. It
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: was he who wrote the ones on my front door
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: for me? Did you see them? Pooh? For some time now,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Pooh had been saying yes and no in turn, with
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: his eyes shut to all that Owl was saying, and
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: having said yes yes last time, he said no, not
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: at all now, without really knowing what Owl was talking about.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Didn't you see them? Said Owl, a little surprised. Come
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: and look at them now. So they went outside, and
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Pooh looked at the knocker and the notice below it,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: and he looked at the bell rope and the notice
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: below it. And the more he looked at the bell rope,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: the more he felt that he had seen something like
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: it somewhere else some time before. Hans bell rope, isn't it?
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Said Owl? Pooh nodded. It reminds me of something, he said,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: But I can't think. What where did you get it?
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: I just came across it in the forest. It was
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: hanging over a bush, and I thought at first somebody
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: lived there, so I rang it and nothing happened. And
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: then I rang it again, very loudly, and it came
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: off in my hand, And as nobody seemed to want it,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: I took it home, and all said, Pooh, solemnly, you
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: made a mistake. Somebody did want it. Who Eyore, my
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: dear friend, Eyore, he was. He was fond of it,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: fond of it, attached to it, said Winnie the Pooh sadly.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: So with these words he unhooked it and carried it
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: back to eor. And when Christopher Robin had nailed it
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: on in its right place again, ere frisked about the forrest,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: waving his tail so happily that Whennie the Pooh came
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: all over funny and had to hurry home for a
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: little snack of something to sustain him, and wiping his mouth.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Half an hour afterward, he sang to himself proudly, who
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: found the tail? I said, Pooh at a quarter two too,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Only it was our quarter two eleven. Really, I found
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: the tail end of Chapter four chapter five, in which
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Piglet meets a helf a lump. One day, when Christopher
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Robin and Whinnie the Pooh and Pikelet were all talking together,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin finished the mouthful he was eating and said, carelessly,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: I saw a helf a lump today, Picklet. What was
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: it doing, asked Piglet, Just lumping along, said Christopher Robin.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think it saw me. I saw one once,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: said Piglet. At least I think I did, he said,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Only perhaps it wasn't, so did, I said Pooh, wondering
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: what a hell a lump was like. You don't often
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: see them, said Christopher Robin carelessly. Not now, said Picklet,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Not at this time of year, said Pooh. Then they
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: all talked about something else until it was time for
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Pooh and Piglet to go home together. At first, as
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: they stumped along the path which edged the hundred acre wood,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: they didn't say much to each other. But when they
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: came to the stream and had helped each other across
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: the stepping stones and were able to walk side by
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: side again over the heather, they began to talk in
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: a friendly way about this and that, and Piglet said,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: if you see what I mean, Pooh, and Pooh said,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: it's just what I think myself Piglet. And Piglet said,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: but on the other hand, Pooh, we must remember, And
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Pooh said, why true, Piglet, although I had forgotten it
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: for the moment. And then, just as they came to
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: the six pine trees, Pooh looked round to see that
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: nobody else was listening and said, in a very solemn voice, Piglet,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I have decided something. What have you decided, Pooh? I
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: have decided to catch a heff a lump. Pooh nodded
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: his head several times as he said this, and waited
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: for Piglet to say how, or Pooh, you couldn't, or
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: something helpful of that sort, but Picklet said nothing. The
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: fact was Picklet was wishing that he had thought about
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: it first. I shall do it, said Pooh, after waiting
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: a little longer, by means of a trap, and must
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: be a conning trap. So you will have to help me, Piglet,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Pooh said Picklet, feeling quite happy again. Now I will,
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: And then he said how shall we do it? And
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Pooh said that's just it. How And then they sat
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: down together to think it out. Pooh's first idea was
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: that they should dig a very deep pit, and then
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: the heffalump would come along and fall into the pit.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: And why, said Piglet, Why what said Pooh? Why would
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: he fall in? Pooh rubbed his nose with his paw
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: and said that the heffalump might be walking along, humming
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: a little song and looking up at the sky and
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: wondering if it would rain, and so he wouldn't see
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: the very deep pit until he was half way down,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: when it would be too late. Pickelet said that this
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: was a very good trap, but supposing it were raining already,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Pool rubbed his nose again and said that he hadn't
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: thought of that, And then he brightened up and said
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: that if it were raining already, the heffalump would be
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: looking at the sky wondering if it would clear up,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: and so he wouldn't see the very deep pit until
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: he was half way down, when it would be too late.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Pickelet said that now that this point had been explained,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: he thought it was a cunning trap.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: Pooh was very.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Proud when he heard this, and he felt that the
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: heffalump was as good as caught already. But there was
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: just one other thing which had to be thought about,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: and it was this, Where should they dig the very
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: deep pit? Pickelet said that the best place would be
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: somewhere where a heffalump was just before he fell into it,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: only about a foot further on. But then he would
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: see us digging it, said Pooh. Not if he was
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: looking at the sky, he would suspect, said Pooh. If
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: he happened to look down. He thought for a long time,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: and then added, sadly, it isn't as easy as I thought.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: I suppose that's why heffalumps hardly ever get caught. That
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: must be it, said Picklet. They sighed and got up,
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: and when they had taken a few gorse prickles out
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: of themselves, they sat down again. And all the time
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Pooh was saying to himself, and if only I could
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: think of something, for he felt sure that a very
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: clever brain could catch a hefflump, if only he knew
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: the right way to go about it. Suppose he said
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: to Pilet, you wanted to catch me, Ah, how would
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: you do it? Well? Said Picklett, I should do it
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: like this. I should make a trap, and I should
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: put a jar of honey in the trap, and you
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: would smell it, and you would go in after it,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: and and I would go in after it, said Pooh excitedly,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: only very carefully so as not to hurt myself. And
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: I would get to the jar of honey, and I
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: should lick round the edges first of all, pretending that
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: there wasn't any more, you know, And then I should
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: walk away and think about it a little, and then
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: I should come back and start looking in the middle
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: of the jar. And then yes, well, never mind about that.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: There you would be, and there I should catch you. Now.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: The first thing to think of is what do hefalums like?
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: I should think acorns, shouldn't you? We'll get a lot
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: of of, I say, Wake up Pooh. Pooh, who had
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: gone into a happy dream, woke up with a start
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: and said that honey was a much more trappy thing
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: than hacorns. Picclet didn't think so, and they were just
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: going to argue about it when Picklet remembered that if
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: they put acorns in the trap, he would have to
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: find the acorns, but if they put honey, Pooh would
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: have to give up some of his own honey. So
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: he said, all right, honey. Then, just as Pooh remembered
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: it too and was going to say, all right, hacorns honey,
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: said picklet to himself in a thoughtful way, as if
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: it were now settled. I'll dig the pit while you
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: go and get the honey. Very well, said Pooh, and
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: he stumped off. As soon as he got home. He
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: went to the lorder and he stood on a chair
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: and took down a very low jar of honey from
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: the top shelf. It had honey written on it, but
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: just to make sure, he took off the paper cover
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: and looked at it, and it looked like honey. But
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: you never can tell, said Pooh. I remember my uncle
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: saying once that he had seen cheese jost this color.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: So he put his tongue in and took a large lick. Yes,
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: he said, it is no doubt about that, And honey,
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: I should say, right down to the bottom of the jar, unless,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: of course, he said, tombbody put cheese in it at
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: the bottom just for a joke. Perhaps I had better
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: go a little further, Josh, in case. In case, huffalumps
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: don't like cheese, same as me. Ah, And he gave
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: a deep sigh. Ah, I was right, it is, honey,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: right the way down. Having made certain of this, he
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: took the jar back to Picklet, and Picklet looked up
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: from the bottom of his very deep pit and said,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: got it. And Pooh said yes, but it isn't quite
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: a full jaw, and he threw it down to Picklet,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: and Picklet said, no, it isn't. Is that all you've
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: got left? And Pooh said yes, because it was so.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: Picklet put the jaw at the bottom of the pit
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: and climbed out, and they went home together. Well, good night, Pooh,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: said Picklet, when they had got to Pooh's house. And
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: we meet at six o'clock tomorrow morning by the pine trees,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: and see how many heva lumps we've got in our trap.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Six o'clock, Piglet, And have you got any string? No,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: why do you want string? To lead him home? With?
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: I think heffelumps come if you whistle, some do and
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: some don't. You never can tell with heffalumps. Well, good night,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: good night, and off Piglet trotted to his house. Trespassers
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: w while Pooh made his preparations for bed. Some hours later,
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: just as the night was beginning to steal away Pooh
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: woke up suddenly with a sink ding feeling. He had
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: had that sinking feeling before, and he knew what it meant.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: He was hungry, so he went to the larder and
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: he stood on a chair and reached up to the
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: top shelf and found nothing. That's funny, he thought, I
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: know why I had a jar of honey. There, a
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: full jar full of honey right up to the top,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: and it had honey written on it so that I
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: should know it was honey. That's very funny. And then
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: he began to wander up and down, wondering where it was,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: and murmuring a murmur to himself like this, it's very
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: very funny, cause I know I had some honey cause
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: it had a label on it saying honey, A galoptious
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: full up pot too. And I don't know where it's
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: got to. No, I don't know where it's gone. Well,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: it's funny. He murmured this to himself three times in
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: a singing sort of way, when suddenly he remembered he
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: had put it into the cunning trap to catch the
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: heff a lump. Mother said, Pooh, it all comes of
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: trying to be kind to heflumps, and he got back
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: into bed, but he couldn't sleep. The more he tried
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: to sleep, the more he couldn't. He tried counting sheep,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: and as that was no good, he tried counting heffalumps,
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: and that was worse, because every heffalump that he counted
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey and
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: eating it all. For some minutes, he lay there miserably,
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: But when the five hundred and eighty seventh hefflump was
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: licking its jaws and saying to itself, very good honey. This.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know when I've tasted better, Pooh could bear
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: it no longer. He jumped out of bed, ran out
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: of the house, and he ran straight to the six
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: pine trees. The sun was still in bed, but there
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: was a lightness in the sky over the hundred acre wood,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: which seemed to show that it was waking up and
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: would soon be kicking off the clothes. In the half light,
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: the pine trees looked cold and lonely, and the very
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: deep pit seemed deeper than it was, and Pooh's jar
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: of honey at the bottom was something mysterious a shape
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: and no more. But as he got nearer to it,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: his nose told him that it was indeed honey, and
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: his tongue came out and began to polish up his
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: mouth ready for it. Bother said pooh. As he got
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: his nose inside the jar, A euff lump has been
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: eating it. And then he thought a little and said, oh, no,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: did I forgot? Indeed he had eaten most of it,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: but there was a little left at the very bottom
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: of the jar. And he pushed his head right in
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: and began to lick by and bye picklet woke up.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: As soon as he woke he said to himself. Oh,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: then he said bravely, yes, and then still more bravely,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: quite so, But he didn't feel very brave, for the word,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: which was really jiggeting about in his brain was half
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: a lumps? What was a heff a lump like? Was
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: it fierce? Did it come when you whistled? And how
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: did it come? Was it fond of pigs at all?
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: If it was fond of pigs, did it make any
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: difference what sort of pig? Supposing it was fierce with pigs,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: would it make any difference? If the pig had a
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: grandfather called trespassers William. He didn't know the answer any
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: of these questions, and he was going to see his
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: first heflump in about an hour from now. Of course,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Pooh would be with him, and it was much more
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: friendly with two. But suppose hefalumps were very fierce with
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: pigs and bears. Wouldn't it be better to pretend that
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: he had a headache and couldn't go up to the
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: six pine trees this morning? But then suppose that it
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: was a very fine day and there was no heflump
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: in the trap here, he would be in bed all
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: the morning, sceptly, wasting his time for nothing. What should
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: he do? And then he had a clever idea. He
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: would go up very quietly to the six pine trees, now,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: peep very cautiously into the trap, and see if there
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: was a hefolump there, and if there was, he would
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: go back to bed, and if there wasn't, he would
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: so off he went. At first he thought that there
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be a heff a lump in the trap, and
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: then he thought that there would, And as he got
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: nearer he was sure that there would, because he could
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: hear it hef a lumping about like anything. Oh dear,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: oh dear, oh dear, said Picklet to himself, and he
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: wanted to run away, but somehow, having got so near,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: he felt that he must just see what a heff
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: a lump was like. So he crept to the side
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: of the trap and looked in, and all the time
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh had been trying to get the honey
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: jar off his head. The more he shook it, the
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: more tightly it stuck. Bother, he said, inside the jar,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: and oh help and mostly owl, and he tried bumping
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: it against things, but as he couldn't see what he
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: was bumping it against, it didn't help him. And he
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: tried to climb out of the trap, but as he
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: could see nothing but jar and not much of that,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: he couldn't find his way. So at last he lifted
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: up his head, jar and all, and made a loud,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: roaring noise of sadness and despair. And it was at
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: that moment that Piglet looked down. Help Help, cried Picklet.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: He hellolump, a horrible he alump, and he scampered off
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: as hard as he could, still crying out help help,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: A horrible hauffalump half half hellible horrorlump hole hole a
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: hoffable hellow rump. And he didn't stop crying and scampering
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: until he got to Christopher Robin's house. What's the matter, Piglet,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin, who was just getting up helf, said Piglet,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: breathing so hard that he could hardly speak. Hey hef
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: have hey heflump? Where up there? Said Picklet, waving his pawn.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: What did it look like?
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: Like? Like?
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: It had the biggest had you ever saw, Christopher Robin,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: A great enormous.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: Thing like like nothing a huge big well, like a
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 4: I don't know, like an enormous big nothing like a jar.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: Well, said Christopher Robin, putting on his shoes. I shall
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: go and look at it. Come on. Piglet wasn't afraid
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: if he had Christopher Robin with him, so off they went.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: I can hear it, can't you? Said Picklet anxiously as
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: they got near. I can hear something, said Christopher Robin.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: It was Pooh, bumping his head against a tree root
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: he had found there, said, isn't it awful? And he
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: held on tight to Christopher Robin's hand. Suddenly Christopher Robin
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: began to laugh, and he laughed, and he laughed and
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: he laughed. And while he was laughing, krash went the
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: heffalump's head against the tree root, smash went the jar,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: and now it came Pooh's head again. Then Pickolet saw
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: what a foolish picklet he had been, and he was
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: so ashamed of himself that he ran straight off home
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: and went to bed with the headache. But Christopher Robin
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: and Pooh went home to breakfast together. Oh bear, said
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. How I do love you, so do? I
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. End of chapter five, Chapter six, in which
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: Eor has a birthday and gets two presents. Eor, the
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: old gray donkey stood by the side of the stream
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: and looked at himself in the water. P'thetic, he said,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: that's what it is. Pathetic. He turned and walked slowly
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: down the stream for twenty yards, splashed across it, then
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: walked slowly back on the other side. Then he looked
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: at himself in the water again. Has I thought, he said,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: no better from this side. But nobody minds, nobody cares. Pothetic,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: That's what it is. There was a crackling noise in
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: the bracken behind him, and out came Pooh. Good morning.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: Yore said Pooh, good morning. Pooh Bear said Eore gloomily.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: If it is a good morning, he said, which I doubt,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: said he. Why, what's the matter, gnahing Pooh Bear. Nothing.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: We can't all and some of us don't. That's all
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: there is to it. Can't all want, said Pooh, rubbing
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: his nose. Hoh, gaiety, song and dance. Here we go
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: round the bulberry bush.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, said Pooh.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: He thought for a long time, and then he asked
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: what mulberry bush is that? Bon hommie went on ere
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: gloomily French word meaning bon hommie. He explained, Oh, I'm
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: not complaining, but there it is. Pooh sat down on
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: a large stone and tried to think this out. It
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: sounded to him like a riddle, and he was never
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: much good at riddles, being a bear of very little brain,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: so he sang Cardleston pie instead, Cardleston, Cardleston, Cardleston pie.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: A fly can't bird, and a bird can't fly. Ask
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: me a riddle, and I reply, Cardleston Carlston, Cardleston Pie.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: That was the first verse. When he had finished it,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: or didn't actually say that he didn't like it, so
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: Pooh very kindly sang the second verse to him Cardleston, Cardleston,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: Cardleston Pie. A fish can't whistle, and neither can. I
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: ask me a riddle, and I reply Cardleston, Cardleston, Cardleston Pie.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: Or still said nothing at all, So Pooh hummed the
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: third verse quietly to himself. Carleston Cardleston, Carlston pie. Why
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: does the chicken I don't know? Why? Ask me a riddle?
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: And I reply Carlston Cardleston, Carleston Pie. That's right, said
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: or saying, umptyly empty too. Here we go gathering nuts,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: and may enjoy yourself, I am, said poo. Some can said,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: oron why what's the matter? Is anything the matter? You
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: seem so sad or sad? Why should I be sad?
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: It's my birthday, the happiest day of the year. Your birthday,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: said Pooh in great surprise. No, of course it is.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: Can't you see Look at all the presents I have had.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: He waved a foot from side to side, Look at
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: the birthday cake, candles, hand, pink sugar. Pooh looked first
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: to the right, then to the left. Presence, said Pooh,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: birthday cake, said Pooh. Where can't you see them? No,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. Neither can, I said e Or. Joke, he explained,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: haw haw. Pooh scratched his head, being a little puzzled
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: by all this. But is it really you birthday? He asked?
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: Here it is? Oh, well, many happy returns of the
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: day ere, and many happy returns to you, Pooh bear,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: But it isn't my birthday, No, it's mine, But you
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: said many happy returns? Well why not? You don't always
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: want to be miserable on my birthday? Do you?
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: I see, said Pooh. It's bad enough, said he are
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: almost breaking down being miserable myself, what with no presents
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: and no cake and no candles and no proper notice
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: taking of me at all. But if everybody else is
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: going to be miserable too, this was too much for Pooh.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: Stay here, he called to Or as he turned and
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: hurried back home as quick as he could, for he
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: felt that he must get poor Eore a present of
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: some sort at once, and he could always think of
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: a proper one afterwards. Outside his house, he found Picklet
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: jumping up and down trying to reach the knocker. Hello, Piglet,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: he said, Hello, Pooh said, Picklet, what are you trying
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: to do? I was trying to reach the knocker, said Picklet.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: I just came round. Let me do it for you,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: said Pooh kindly, so he reached up and knocked at
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: the door. I have just seen Eyore, he began. And
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: poor Eore is in a very sad condition because it's
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: his birthday and nobody has taken any notice of it.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: And he's very gloomy, you know what Eore is? And
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: there he was, and what a long time whoever lives
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: here is answering this door? And he knocked again, But
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: Pooh said, Picklet, it's your own house. Oh, said Pooh,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: So it is. He said, well, let's go in, so
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: in they went. The first thing Pooh did was to
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: go to the cupboard to see if he had quite
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: a small jar of honey left, and he had, so
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: he took it down. I'm giving this to Eore, he explained,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: as a present. What are you going to give? Couldn't
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: I give it too, said Picklet. From both of us, No,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, that would not be a good plan. All right,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: then I'll give him a balloon. I've got one left
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: from my party. I'll go and get it now, shall I?
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: That piglet is a very good idea. It is just
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: what Eore wants to cheer him up. Nobody can be
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: iron cheered with a balloon. So off Piglet trotted, and
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: in the other direction went Pooh with his jar of honey.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: It was a warm day and he had a long
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: way to go. He hadn't gone more than halfway when
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: a sort of funny feeling began to creep all over him.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: It began at the tip of his nose and trickled
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: all through him and out at the soles of his feet.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: It was just as.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: If somebody inside him were saying, now, then, Pooh, time
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: for a little something. Dear, dear, said Pooh. I didn't
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: know it was as late as that. So he sat
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: down and took the top off his jar of honey. Locally,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: I brought this with me, he thought. Many a bear
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: going out on a warm day like this would never
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: have thought of bringing a little something with him. And
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: he began to eat. Now, let me see, he thought,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: as he took his last lick of the inside of
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: the jar. Where was I going? Ah? Yes, eyore. He
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: got up slowly, and then suddenly he remembered he had
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: eaten Ere's birthday present. Bother said, Pooh, what shall I do?
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: I must give him something. For a little while, he
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: couldn't think of anything. Then he thought, well, it's a
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: very nice pot, even if there's no honey in it,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: And if I washed it clean and got somebody to
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: write a happy birthday on it, yor could keep things
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: in it which might be useful. So, as he was
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: just passing the hundred acre wood, he went inside to
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: call on Owl, who lived there. Good morning, Owl, he said.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Pooh, said Owl. Many happy returns of e
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: your's birthday.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: Said Pooh. Oh?
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: Is that what it is? What are you giving him? Owl?
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: What are you giving him? Pooh? I'm giving him a
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: useful pot to keep things in. And I wanted to
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: ask you, is this it, said Owl, taking it out
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: of Pooh's paw. Yes, And I wanted to ask you
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: somebody has been keeping honey in it, said Owl. You
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: can keep anything in it, said Pooh, earnestly. It's very
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: useful like that. And I wanted to ask you you
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: ought to write a happy birthday on it? That was
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: what I wanted to ask you, said Pooh, Because my
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: spelling is wobbly. It's good spelling, but it wobbles and
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: the letters get in the wrong places. Would you write
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: a happy birthday on it for me? It's a nice pot,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: said Al, looking at it all round. Couldn't I give
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: it too from both of us? No, said Pooh, that
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: would not be a good plan. Now, I'll just wash
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: it first and then you can write on it. Well,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: he washed the pot out and dried it, while I
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: will lick the end of his pencil and wondered how
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: to spell birthday? Can you read?
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: Pooh?
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: He asked a little anxiously. There's a notice about knocking
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: and ringing outside my door, which Christopher Robin wrote. Could
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: you read it? Christopher Robin told me what it said,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: and then I could. Well, I'll tell you what this
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: says and then you'll be able to. So Owl wrote,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: and this is what he wrote, Hippy Pappy Berthundy third
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: mum day, birthen Day. Pooh looked on admiringly. It's just
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: saying a happy birthday, said Owl carelessly. It's a nice
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: long one, said Pooh, very much impressed by it. Well, actually,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: of course, I'm saying a very happy birthday. With love
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: from Pooh. Naturally, it took a good deal of pencil
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: to say a long.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: Thing like that.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, I see, said Pooh. While all this was happening,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: Piglet had gone back to his own house to get
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: Eor's balloon. He held it very tightly against himself so
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: that it shouldn't blow away, and he ran as fast
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: as he could so as to get to Yor before
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: Pooh did, For he thought that he would like to
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: be the first one to give a present, just as
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: if he had thought of it without being told by anybody.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: And running along and thinking how pleased Yorre would be,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: he didn't look where he was going, and suddenly he
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: put his foot in a rabbit hole and fell down
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: flat on his face. Bang. Piglet lay there, wondering what
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: had happened. At first he thought that the whole world
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: had blown up, and then he thought that perhaps only
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: the forest part of it had and then he thought
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: that perhaps only he had, and he was now alone
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: in the moon somewhere and would never see Christopher, Robin
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: nor poor Or again. And then he thought, well, even
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: if I'm in the moon, I needn't be faced downward
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: all the time. So he got cautiously up and looked
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: about him. He was still in the forest. Well that's funny,
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: he thought, I wonder what that bang was. I couldn't
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: have made such a noise just falling down. And where's
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: my balloon? And what's that small piece of damp rag doing? It?
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: Was the balloon? Oh dear, said picklets. Oh dear, oh
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: deary deary dear. Well it's too late now. I can't
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: go back, and I haven't another balloon, And perhaps Eore
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: doesn't like balloons so very much. So he trotted on
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: rather sadly now and down. He came to the side
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: of the stream where Eroror was and called out to
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: him good morning, or shout did picklet? Good morning, little piglet,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: said Eore. If it is a good morning, he said,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: which I doubt said he not, that it matters, he said,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: many happy returns of the day, said Picklet. Heavy now
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: got closer Or stopped looking at himself in the stream
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: and turned to stare at Picklet. Just say that again,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: he said, many happy Wait a moment. Balancing on three legs,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: he began to bring his fourth leg very cautiously up
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: to his ear. I did this yesterday he explained, as
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: he fell down for the third time. This quite easy.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: It's so I can hear better. There that done it?
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: Now then what were you saying? He pushed his ear
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: forward with his hoof. Many happy returns of the day,
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: said Piglet again, meaning me, of course, ere my birthday, Yes,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: me having a real birthday. Yes, your and I brought
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: you a present? Or took down his right hoof from
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: his right ear, turned round, and with great difficulty put
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: up his left hoof. I must have that in the
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: other ear, he said. Now then a present, said Piglet,
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: very loudly, meaning me again, yes my birthday. Still of
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: course your me going on, having a real birthday. Yes,
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: your and I brought you a balloon. Balloon, said eore,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: You did say, balloon, one of those big colored things
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: you blow up, guyety song and dance. Here we are
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: and there we are. Yes, but I'm afraid I'm very sorry. Ere.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: But when I was running along to bring it to you,
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: I fell down. Dear, dear, how unlucky you ran too fast.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: I expect you didn't hurt yourself, little Piglet, No, but
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: I I, oh, yore, I burst the balloon. There was
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: a very long silence. My balloon, said Ere. At last,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: Piglet nodded, my birth day balloon. Yes, Eyore, said Piglet,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: sniffling a little. Here it is with many happy returns
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: of the day. And he gave Eore the small piece
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: of damp rag. Is this it? Said Ere, a little surprised,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: Piglet nodded my present. Piglet nodded again the balloon. Yes,
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: thank you, Piglet said Eor. You don't mind my asking.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: He went on, but what color was this balloon? When
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: it When it was a balloon? Red, I just wondered Red,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: he murmured to himself, my favorite color. How big was it?
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: About as big as me? I just wondered, about as
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: big as piglet, he said to himself, sadly, my favorite
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: sighe well, well, Piglet felt very miserable and didn't know
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: what to say. He was still opening his mouth to
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: begin something, and then deciding that it wasn't any good
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: saying that when he heard a shout from the other
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: side of the river, and there was Pooh. Many happy
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: returns of the day, called out Pooh, forgetting that he
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: had said it already, Thank you, Pooh, I'm having them
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: said eyorre gloomily. I've brought you a little present, said
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: Pooh excitedly. I've had it, said Eyor. Pooh had now
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: splashed across the stream to Eore, and Piglet was sitting
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: a little way off his head in his paws, sniffling
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: to himself. It's a useful pot, said Pooh. Here it is,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: and it's got a very happy birthday with love from
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: Pooh written on it. That's what all that writing is.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: And it's for putting things in there. When Or saw
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: the pot, he became quite excited. Why he said, I
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: believe my balloon will just go into that pot. Oh no,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: Eore said Pooh. Balloons are much too big to go
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: into pots. What you do with a balloon is you
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: hold the balloon, not mine, said Eore, proudly look Piglet,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: And as Piglet looked sorrowfully, round Or picked the balloon
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: up with his teeth and placed it carefully in the pot,
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: picked it out and put it on the ground, and
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: then picked it up again and put it carefully back.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: So it does, said Pooh. It goes in, So it does,
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: said Picklet. And it comes out, doesn't it? Said Eor.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: It goes in and how like anything. I'm very glad,
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: said Pooh happily, that I thought of giving you a
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: useful pot to put things in. I'm very glad, said
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: Picklet happily, that I thought of giving you something to
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: put in a useful pot. But he or wasn't listening.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: He was taking the balloon out and putting it back again,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: as happy as could be. And didn't I give him anything,
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: asked Christopher Robin, sadly. Of course you did, I said,
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: you gave him, don't you remember a little? A little?
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: I gave him a box of paints to paint things with.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: That was it. Why didn't I give it to him
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: in the morning? You were so busy getting his party
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: ready for him. He had a cake with icing on
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: the top and three candles and his name in pink sugar.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: And yes, I remember, said Christopher Robin. End of chapter six,
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: Chapter seven, in which Kanga and baby Roo come to
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: the forest and Piglet has a bath. Nobody seemed to
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: know where they came from, but there they were in
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: the forest, Kanga and baby Roo. When Pooh asked Christopher Robin,
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: how did they come here? Christopher Robin said, in the
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: usual way, if you know what I mean, Pooh and Pooh,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: who didn't said oh. Then he nodded his head twice
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: and said in the usual way. Ah. Then he went
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: to call upon his friend Picklet to see what he
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: thought about it. And at Picklu's house he found rabbit.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: So they all talked about it together. What I don't
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: like about it is this, said rabbit. Here are we
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: you Pooh, and you Piglet, and me, and suddenly and
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: your said pooh, and ere, and then suddenly and all
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: said pooh and owl, and then all of us sudden oh,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: and ere said Pooh. I was forgetting him. Here we are,
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: said rabbit, very slowly and carefully, all of us. And
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: then suddenly we wake up one morning, and what do
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: we find? We find a strange animal among us, an
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: animal of whom we have never even heard before, an
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: animal who carries her family about with her in her pocket.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: Suppose I carried my family about with me in my pocket.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: How many pockets should I want? Sixteen, said Picklet. Seventeen,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: isn't it, said rabbit. And one more for a handkerchief.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: That's eighteen eighteen pockets in one suit. I haven't time.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: There was a long and thoughtful silence, and then Pooh,
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: who had been frowning very hard for some minutes, said,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: I make it fifteen, What said rabbit? Fifteen fifteen? What
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: your family? What about them? Pooh rubbed his nose and
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: said that he thought Rabbit had been talking about his family,
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: did I, said rabbit carelessly? Yes, you said never mind,
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: Pooh said picklet impatiently. The question is what are we
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: to do about Kanga? Oh I see, said Pooh. The
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: best way, said Rabbit, would be. This way would be
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: to steal baby Roo and hide him. And then when
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: Tanga says where's baby Roo, we say ah ha ah haw,
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, practicing ah ha ah haw. Of course, he
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: went on, we could say ah haw even if we
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: hadn't stolen baby Roo. Pooh said rabbit kindly, you haven't
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: any brain, I know, said Pooh. Humbly. We say aha
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: so that Kanga knows that we know where baby Roo is.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: Aha means we'll tell you where baby Roo is if
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: you promised to go away from the forest and never
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: come back. Now, don't talk while I think. Pooh went
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: into a corner and try saying aha in that sort
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: of voice. Sometimes it seemed to him that it did
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: mean what Rabbit said, and sometimes it seemed to him
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: that it didn't. I suppose it's just practice, he thought.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: I wonder if kanga will have to practice too, so
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: west to understand it. There's just one thing, said Picklet,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: fidgeting a lot. I was talking to Christopher Robin, and
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: he said that a kanga was generally regarded as one
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: of the fiercer animals. I am not frightened to fierce
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: animals in the ordinary way, but it is well known
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: that if one of the fiercer animals is deprived of
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: its young, it becomes as fierce as two of the
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: fiercer animals, in which Kai saha is perhaps a foolish
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: thing to say, Pillot, said Rabbit, taking out a pencil
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: and licking the in of it. You haven't any pluck.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to be brave, said Picklet, sniffling slightly when
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: you're only a very small animal. Rabbit, who had begun
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: to write very busily, looked up and said, it is
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: because you are a very small animal that you will
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: be useful in the adventure before us. Piglet was so
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: excited at the idea of being useful that he forgot
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: to be frightened anymore. And when Rabbit went on to
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: say that kangas were only fierce during the winter months,
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: being at other times of an affectionate disposition, he could
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: hardly sit still. He was so eager to begin being
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: useful at once. What about me, said Pooh sadly. I
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: suppose I shan't be useful. Never mind, Pooh, said Picklet comfortingly.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: Another time, perhaps without Pooh, said Rabbit solemnly, as he
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: sharpened his pencil. The adventure would be impossible, Oh, said Picklet,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: and tried not to look disappointed. But Pooh went into
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: a corner of the room and said proudly to himself,
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: impossible without me, that sort of bear. Now listen, all
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: of you, said Rabbit when he had finished writing, and
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: Pooh and Piglet sat listening very eagerly, with their mouths open.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: This was what Rabbit read out plan to capture baby Rou.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: One general remarks, Kanga runs faster than any of us,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: even me. Two more general remarks, Kanga never takes her
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: eye off baby Ru, except when he safely buttoned up
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: in her pocket. Wee therefore, if we are to capture
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: baby Roo, we must get a long start, because Kanga
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: runs faster than any of us, even me see one. Four.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: A thought. If Ru had jumped out of Hanka's pocket
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: and Picklet had jumped in, Kanga wouldn't know the difference,
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: because Piglet is a very small animal five like Ru. Six.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: But Kanga would have to be looking the other way first,
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: so as not to see Picklet jumping in seven c
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: Two eight. Another thought, But if Pooh were talking to
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: her very excitedly, she might look the other way for
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: a moment nine, and then I could run away with
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: Rue ten quickly eleven, and Kanga wouldn't discover the difference
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: until afterwards. Well, Rabbit read this out proudly, and for
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: a little while after he had read it, nobody said anything.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: And then Piglet, who had been opening and shutting his
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: mouth without making any noise, managed to say, very huskily,
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: and afterwards, how do you mean when Kanga does discover
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: the difference, then we all say ah ha, all three
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: of us, Yes, oh, why what's the trouble pilet? Nothing,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: said Picklet. As long as we all three say it,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: As long as we all three say it, said Picklet.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: I don't mind, he said, but I shouldn't care to
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: say aha by myself. It wouldn't sound nearly so well,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: by the way, he said, you are quite sure about
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: what you said about the winter months. The winter months, yes,
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: only being fierce in the winter months. Oh, yes, yes,
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: that's all right. Well, Pooh you see what you have
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: to do?
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: No, said Pooh.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: Bear, Not yet, he said, what do I do? Well,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: you just have to talk very hard to Kanga so
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: she doesn't notice anything. Oh, what about anything you like?
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: You mean, like telling her a little bit of poetry
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: or something. That's it, said, rabbit splendid. Now come along,
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: So they all went out to look for Kanga. Kanga
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: and Rue were spending a quiet afternoon in a sandy
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: part of the forest. Maybe. Ru was practicing very small
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: jumps in the sand and falling down mouse holes and
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: climbing out of them, and Kanga was fidgeting about and saying,
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: just one more jump, dear, and then we must go home.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: And at that moment who should come stumping up the hill?
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: But pooh, good afternoon, Kangle, good afternoon, Pooh, look at
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: me jumping, sweet Rue and fell into another mousehole. Hallo, Rue,
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: my little fellow. We were just going home, said Kanga.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Rabbit, Good afternoon, Picklet. Rabbit and Piglet, who
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: had now come up from the other side of the hill,
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: said good afternoon and hello Ru. And Ru asked them
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: to look at him jumping, so they stayed and looked,
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: and Kanga looked too. Oh, Kango, said Pooh, after Rabbit
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: had winked at him twice. I don't know if you
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: were interested in poetry at all. Hardly at all, said Kanga. Oh,
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, Ru dear, just one more jump and then
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: we must go home. There was a short silence while
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: Rue fell down another mousehole. Go on, said Rabbit, in
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: a loud whisper behind his paw. Talking of Poe, said Pooh.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: I made up a little piece as I was coming along.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: It went like this.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: Now, let me see fancy, said Kanka. Now, Rue deer,
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: you'll like this piece of poetry, said Rabbit. You love it,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: said Pilet. You must listen very carefully, said rabbit, so
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: is not to miss any of it, said Pikelet. Oh. Yes,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: said Kanga, but she still looked at baby room. How
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: did it go, pooh, said rabbit.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 2: Pooh gave a.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: Little cough and began lines written by a bear of
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: very little brain. On Monday, when the sun is hot,
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: I wonder to myself a lot, Now, is it true
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: or is it not? That what is which? And which
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: is what? On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, the
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: feeling on me grows and grows that hardly anybody knows
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: if those are these are? These are those? On Wednesday,
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: when the guy is blue and I have nothing else
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: to do, I sometimes wonder if it's true that who
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: is what and what is who? On Thursday, when it
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: starts to freeze and woar frost twinkles on the trees,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: how very readily one sees that these are whose and
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: whose are these? On Friday? Yes it is, isn't it?
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: Said Kanga, not waiting to hear what happened on Friday.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: Just one more job, routier, and then we really must
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: be going. Rabbit gave Pooh a hurrying up sort of nudge,
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: talking of poetry, said Pooh, quickly, have you ever noticed
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: that tree right over there where? Said keangkum? Now ru
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: right over there, said Pooh, pointing behind Kanga's back. No,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: said kenkm Now jump in, rud ear, and we'll go home.
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: You ought to look at that tree right over there,
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: said rabbit. Shall I lift you in, Ru? And he
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: picked up Ru in his paws. I can see a
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: bird in it from here.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: Said Pooh.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: Or is it a fish? You ought to see that
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: bird from here, said rabbit. Unless it's a fish, It
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: isn't a fish. It's a bird, said Piglet. So it is,
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: said rabbit. Is it a starling or a blackbird? Said pooh.
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: That's the whole question, said rabbit. Is it a blackbird
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: or a starling? And then at last Kanga did turn
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: her head to look, and at the moment that her
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: head was turned, Rabbit said in a loud voice, in
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: you go, Rue, And in jumped Piglet into Kanga's pocket
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: and off scampered Rabbit with Ru in his paws as
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: fast as he could. Why where's rabbit, said Kanga, turning
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: round again. Are you all right? Rue? Deer? Picklet made
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: a squeaky rue noise from the bottom of Kanga's pocket.
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: Rabbit had to go away, said Pooh. I think he
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: thought of something he had to go and see about suddenly,
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: and Picklet, I think Piglet thought of something at the
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: same time. Suddenly, well, we must be getting home, said
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: Kangum goodbye Pooh, and in three large jumps she was gone.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: Who looked after her as she went? I wish I
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: could jump like that, he thought, some can and some can't. Ah,
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: that's how it is. But there were moments when Piclet
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: wished that Kanga couldn't. Often, when he had had a
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: long walk home through the forest, he had wished that
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: he were a bird. But now he thought jerkily to himself,
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: at the bottom of a Kanga's pocket, this takes if
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: is shell really two flying, I never get And as
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: he went up in the air, he said ooh, And
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: as he came down.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 2: He said oh.
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: And he was saying.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: Ooh ow ooh ow ooh ow.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: All the way to Conga's house. Of course, as soon
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: as Kanga unbuttoned her pocket, she saw what had happened.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: Just for a moment she thought she was frightened, and
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: then she knew she wasn't, for she felt quite sure
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: that Christopher Robin would never let any harm happen to Rue.
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: So she said to herself, if they are having a
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: joke with me, I will have a joke with them
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: now then, Rue, dear, she said, as she took Picklet
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: out of her pocket bedtime. Ah Ha, said Picklet, as
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: well as he could after his terrifying journey. But it
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: wasn't a very good aha, and Kanga didn't seem to
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: understand what it meant. Bath first, said Kangum in a
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: cheerful voice. Ah Ha, said Picklet, again, looking round anxiously
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: for the others. But the others weren't there. Rabbit was
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: playing with baby rou in his own house and feeling
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: more fond of him every minute, and Pooh, who had
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: decided to be a kanga, was still at the sandy
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: place on the top of the forest, practicing jumps. I
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: am not at all sure, said Kanga, in a thoughtful voice,
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: that it wouldn't be a good idea to have a
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: cold bath this evening? Will you like that? Rude eer. Piglet,
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: who had never been really fond of baths, shuddered a long,
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: indignant shudder and said in as brave a voice as
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: he could, Kanga, I see that the time has come
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: to speak plainly, funny little rue, said Kanga, as she
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: got the bath water ready. I am not rue, said
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: Picklet loudly. I am Piglet, Yes, dear yes, said Kanga,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: soothingly and imitating Piglet's voice too. So clever of him,
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: she went on as she took a large bar of
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: yellow soap out of the cupboard. What will he be
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: doing next?
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: Can't you see?
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: Shouted Piglet. Haven't you got eyes? Look at me? I
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: am looking rude, dear, said Kanga rather severely. And you
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: know what I told you yesterday about making faces. If
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: you go on making faces like picklets, you will grow
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: up to look like Picklet, and then think how sorry
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: you will be. Now then into the bath and don't
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: let me have to speak to you about it again.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: Before he knew where he was, Piglet was in the
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: bath and Kanga was scrubbing him firmly with a large
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: leathery flannel. Oh, cried Piglet. Let me out. I'm Piglet.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: Don't open your mouth, dear, or the soap goes in,
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: said Kanga. There, what did I tell you you? You
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: did it on purpose, spluttered Picklet as soon as he
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: could speak again, and then accidentally had another mouthful of
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: lathery flannel. That's right, dear, don't say anything, said Kenka,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: and in another minute Pilet was out of the bath
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: and being rubbed dry with a towel. Now said Kenka,
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: there's your medicine, and then bed woo, whoa what medicine,
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: said Picklet? To make you grow big and strong, dear,
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: you don't want to grow up small and weak like pilet,
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: do you. Well? Then at that moment there was a
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: knock at the door. Come in, said Kenka, and in
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: came Christopher Robin. Christopher Robin. Christopher Robin cried, Picklet, tell
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: Kanga who I am? She keeps saying, I'm rude, I'm
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: not rue. Who am I? Christopher Robin looked at him
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: very carefully and shook his head. You can't be rue,
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: he said, because I've just seen Rue playing in Rabbit's house. Well,
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: said kangam. Fancy that. Fancy my making a mistake like that.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: There you are, said Picklet. I told you so. I'm Piglet.
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin shook his head again. Oh you're not piglet,
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: he said. I know Piglet well, and he's quite a
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: different color. Piglet began to say that this was because
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: he had just had a bath, and then he thought
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: that perhaps he wouldn't say that, and as he opened
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: his mouth to say something else. Kangas slipped the medicine
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: spoon in and then patted him on the back and
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: told him that it was really quite a nice taste
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: when you got used to it. I knew it wasn't piglet,
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: said Kangum. I wonder who who it can be. Perhaps
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: it's some relations of poos, said Christopher Robin. What about
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: a nephew or an uncle or something. Kang agreed that
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: this was probably what it was, and said that they
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: would have to call it by some name. I shall
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: call it poodle, said Christopher Robin, Henry Poodle for short,
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: And just when it was decided, Henry Poodle wriggled out
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: of Kanga's arms and jumped to the ground. To his
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: great joy, Christopher Robin had left the door open. Never
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: had Henry poodle picklet run so fast as he ran then,
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: and he didn't stop running until he had got quite
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: close to his house. And when he was one hundred
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: yards away, he stopped running and rolled the rest of
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: the way home so as to get his own nice,
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: comfortable color again. So Kanga and Rue stayed in the forest,
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: and every two Tuesday, Rue spent the day with his
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: great friend rabbit, and every Tuesday Kangus spent the day
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: with her great friend Pooh, teaching him to jump. And
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: every Tuesday Picklets spent the day with his great friend
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. So they were all happy again. End of
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: chapter seven. Chapter eight, in which Christopher Robin leads an
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: expedition to the North Pole. One fine day, Pooh had
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: stumped up to the top of the forest to see
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: if his friend Christopher Robin was interested in bears at all.
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: At breakfast that morning, a simple meal of marmalade spread
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: lightly over a honeycomb or two, he had suddenly thought
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: of a new song. It began like this, same O
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: for the Life of a Bear. When he had got
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: as far as this, he scratched his head and thought
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: to himself, that's a very good story for a song.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: But what about the second line. He tried singing whole
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: two or three times, but it didn't seem to help.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: Perhaps it would be better, he thought, if I sang
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: Hi for the Life of a Bear. So he sang it,
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: but it wasn't hm very well. Then he said, I
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: shall sing the first line twice, and perhaps if I
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: sing it very quickly, I shall find myself singing the
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: third and fourth lines before I have time to think
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: of them, and that will be a good song. Now
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: then sing Hole for the Life of a bear. Sing
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: Hole for the life of a bear. I don't much
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: mind if it rains or snows, because I've got a
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: lot of honey on my nice snoo nose. I don't
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: much care if it snows or thaws, because I've got
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of honey on my nice clean paws. Sing
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: ho for a bear, sing Hole for a pooh, and
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: I'll have a little something in an hour or two.
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: He was so pleased with this song that he sang
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: it all the way to the top of the forest.
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: And if I go on singing it much longer, he thought,
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: it will be time for the little something, and then
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: the last line won't be true, so he turned it
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: into a hum instead. Christopher Robin was sitting outside his
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: door putting on his big boots. As soon as he
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: saw the big boots, poo knew that an adventure was
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: nose with the back of his paw and spruced himself
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: up as well as he could so as to look
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: ready for anything. Good morning, Christopher Robin, He called out, Hello,
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: Pooh bear, I can't get this boot on. That's bad,
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. Do you think you could very kindly lean
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: against me because I keep pulling so hard that I
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: fall over backward? Pooh sat down, dug his feet into
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: the ground, and pushed hard against Christopher Robin's back, and
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin pushed hard against his and pulled and pulled
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: at his boot until he had got it on. And
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: that's that, said Pooh. What do we do next? We
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: are all going on an expedition, said Christopher Robin as
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: he got up and brushed himself. Thank you, Pooh, going
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: on an expetition, said Pooh eagerly. I don't think I've
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: ever been on one of those. Where are we going
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: on this expedition? Expedition? Silly old bear. It's got an
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: X in it, Oh, said Pooh. I know, but he didn't. Really.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: We're going to discover the North Pole, oh, said Pooh again.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: What is the North Pole? He asked. It's just a
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: thing you discover, said Christopher Robin carelessly, not being quite
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: sure himself.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 2: Oh I see, said Pooh.
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: Or a bear's any good at discovering it, of course
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: they are, and Rabbit and Kanga and all of you.
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: It's an expedition. That's what an expedition means. A long
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: line of everybody. You'd better tell the others to get ready,
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: while I see if my gun's all right. And we
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: must all bring provisions, bring what things to eat? Oh,
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, happily. I thought you said provisions. I'll go
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: and tell them. And he's stumped off. The first person
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: he met was Rabbit. Hello, Rabbit, he said, is that you?
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: Let's pretend it isn't, said rabbit, and see what happens.
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: I've got a message for you. I'll give it to him.
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: We're all going on an expedition with Christopher Robin. What
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: is it when we're on it? A sort of boat,
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: I think, said pooh Oh. That's sorting, yes, And we're
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: going to discover a pole or something or was it
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: a mole? Anyhow, we're going to discover over it. We are,
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: are we, said Rabbit, yes, And we've got to bring
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: pro things to eat with us in case we want
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: to eat them. Now, I'm going down to Piglets tell Kanga,
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: will you. He left Rabbit and hurried down to Piglet's house.
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: The Piglet was sitting on the ground at the door
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: of his house, blowing happily at a dandelion and wondering
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: whether it would be this year, next year, some time,
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: or never. He had just discovered that it would be never,
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: and was trying to remember what it was and hoping
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: it wasn't anything nice. When Pooh came up. Oh, Piglet
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: said Pooh excitedly. We're going on an expetition, all of
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: us with things to eat, to discover. Something to discover,
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: what said Piglet anxiously, Oh, just something not fierce. Christopher
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: Robin didn't say anything about fierce. He just said it
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: had an x. It isn't their next I mind, said
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: Picklet earnestly. It's their teeth. But if Christopher Robbin is coming,
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: I don't mind anything. In a little while, they were
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: already at the top of the forest and the expedition started.
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: First came Christopher Robin and Rabbit, then Piglet and Pooh,
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: then Kanga with ru in her pocket, and owl, then Eyre,
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: and at the end, in a long line, all Rabbit's
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: friends and relations. I didn't ask them, he explained. Rabbit carelessly.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: They just came. They always do. They can mark at
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: the end after ey or what I say said, or
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: here's that. It's unsettling. I didn't want to come on
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: this sexxpo Wa Pooh, said, I only came to oblige.
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: But here I am. And if I am the end
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: of the expo what we're talking about, then let me
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: be the end. But if every time I want to
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: sit down for a little rest, I have to brush
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: away half a dozen of rabbits, smaller friends and relations first,
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: then this isn't an expose whatever it is at all.
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: It's simply a confused noise. That's what I say. I
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: see what ear means, said Owl. If you ask me,
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not asking anybody, said e. Or I'm just telling everybody.
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: We can look for the north pole, or we can
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: play here we go gathering nuts and may with the
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: import of finance, nest. It's all the same to me.
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: There was a shout from the top of the line.
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: Come on, called Christopher, Robin, come on, called Pooh, and piglet,
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: come on, called Owl. We're starting, said Rabbit. I must go,
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: and he hurried off to the front of the expetition
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: with Christopher Robin. All right, said Eorn, We're going, only
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: don't blame me. So off they all went to discover
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: the pole, and as they walked, they chattered to each
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: other of this and that, all except Pooh, who was
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: making up a song. This is the first verse, he
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: said the piglet when he was ready with it, first
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: verse of what my song? What song? This one? Which one? Well,
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: if you listen, Piglet, you will hear it. How do
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: you know I'm not listening? Pooh couldn't answer that one,
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: so he began to sing. They all went off to
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: discover the pole. Owl and piglet and rabbit and all.
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: It's the thing you discover, as I've been told by
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: Owl and pigling and rabbit and all e your Christopher,
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: Robin and Pooh and Rabbit's relations all went to and
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: where the pole was. None of them knew sing Hey
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: for owl and rabbit and all. Hush, said Christopher Robin,
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: turning round to Pooh. We're just coming to a dangerous place. Hush,
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, turning round quickly to Picklet. Hush said Picklet
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: to Kang, Hush said Kanga to owl, while Ru said
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: hush several times to himself very quietly. Hush, said Owl
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: to Eyore. Hush, said Eoor, in a terrible voice, to
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: all rabbits friends and relations, and hush they said hastily
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: to each other, all down the line, until it got
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: to the last one of all, and the last and
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: smallest friend in relation was so upset to find that
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: the whole expedition was saying hush to him that he
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: buried himself head downward in a crack in the ground,
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: and stayed there for two days until the danger was over,
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: and then went home in a great hurry, and lived
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: quietly with his aunt ever afterwards. His name was Alexander Beadle.
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: They had come to a stream which twisted and tumbled
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: between high rocky banks, and Christopher Robbins saw at once
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: how dangerous it was. It's just the place, he explained,
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: for an ambush. What sort of bush, whispered Pooh to Pikelet,
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: A gorse bush, My dear Pooh, said Owl in his
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: superior way. Don't you know what an ambush is, Owl
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: said Picklet, looking round at him severely. Pooh's whisper was
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: a perfectly private whisper, and there was no need an ambush,
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: said Owl. Is a sort of surprise. So is a
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: gorse bush sometimes, said Pooh. An ambush. As I was
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: about to explain to Pooh, said Picklet, is a sort
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: of surprise. If people jump out at you suddenly, that's
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: an ambush, said Owl. It's an ambush, Pooh, when people
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: jump at you suddenly, explained Picklet. Pooh, who now knew
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: what an ambush was, said that a gorse bush had
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: sprung at him suddenly one day when he fell off
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 1: a tree, and he had taken six days to get
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: all the prickles out of himself. We are not talking
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: about garse bushes, said Owl, a little crossly, I am,
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. They were climbing very cautiously up the stream now,
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: going from rock to rock, And after they had gone
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: a little way, they came to a place where the
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: banks widened out at each side, so that on each
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: side of the water there was a level strip of
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: grass on which they could sit down and rest. As
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: soon as he saw this, Christopher Robin called halt, and
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: they all sat down and rested. I think, said Christopher Robin,
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: that we ought to eat all our provisions now, so
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: that we shan't have so much to carry eat all
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: are what.
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 2: Said Pooh?
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: All that we've brought, said piglet. Getting to work. That's
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: a good idea, said Pooh, and he got to work.
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: To have you all got something, asked Christopher Robin with
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: his mouthful. All except me, said eore, as usual, He
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: looked round at them in his melancholy way. I suppose
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: none of you are sitting on a thistle by any chance?
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: I believe I am, said pooh Oh. He got up
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: and looked behind him. Yes I was, I thought, so,
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Pooh. If you've quite finished with it, he
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: moved across the Pooh's place and began to eat.
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 4: It.
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: Don't do them any good, you know, sitting on them,
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: he went on as he looked up, munching takes all
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: the life out of them. Remember that another time, all
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: of you, eh, look consideration. Her little thought for others
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: makes all the difference. As soon as he had finished
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: his lunch, Christopher Robin whispered to Rabbit, and Rabbit said yes, yes,
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: of course, and they walked a little way up the
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: stream together. I didn't want the others to hear, said
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. Quite so, said Rabbit, looking important. It's I wondered.
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 1: It's only rabbit. I suppose you don't know what does
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: the north pole look like? Well, said Rabbit, stroking his whiskers.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: Now you're asking me. I did know once, only i've
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: sort of forgotten, said Christopher Robin carelessly. It's a funny thing,
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit. But I've sort of forgotten too, Although I
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: did know once, I suppose it's just a pole stuck
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: in the ground. Sure to be a pole, said Rabbit,
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: because of calling it a pole. And if it's a pole,
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: well I should think it would be sticking in the ground,
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: shouldn't you, because there'd be nowhere else to stick it. Yes,
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: that's what I thought. The only thing, said Rabbit, is
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: where is it sticking? That's what we're looking for, said
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. Then they went back to the others. Piglett
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: was lying on his back, sleeping peacefully. Ru was washing
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: his face and paws in the stream, while Kanga explained
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: to everybody proudly that this was the first time he
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: had ever washed his face himself. And Owl was telling
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: Kanga an interesting anecdote full of long words like encyclopedia
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: and rhododendron, to which Kanga wasn't listening. I don't hold
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: with all this washing, grumbled this modern behind the ear's nonsense.
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: What do you think, Pooh whoa, said Pooh. I think,
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: But we shall never know what Pooh thought, for there
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: came a sudden squeak from Rue, a splash, and a
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: loud cry of alarm from Kangam. So much for washing,
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: said Eor. Ruth's fallen in, cried Rabbit, and he and
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin came rushing down to the rescue. Look at
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: me swimming, squeaked Rue from the middle of his pool
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 1: and was hurried down a waterfall into the next pool.
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: Are you all right, ru Deer, called Kanga anxiously, yes,
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: said Rue, look at me swat and down he went
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: over the next waterfall into another pool. Everybody was doing
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: something to help Picklet Wide Awake suddenly was jumping up
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: and down and making oh, I say noises. Awl was
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: explaining that in a case of sudden and temporary immersion,
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: the important thing was to keep the head above water.
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: Kanga was jumping along the bank, saying, are you sure
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: you're all right, Ru Deer, to which Ru, from whatever
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: pool he was in at the moment, was answering, look
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: at me swimming. Ere had turned round and hung his
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: tail over the first pool into which Rue fell, and
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: with his back to the accident, was grumbling quietly to
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: himself and saying, all this washing, but catch on to
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: my tail, little Rue, and you'll be all right. And Christopher,
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: Robin and Rabbit came hurrying past Ere and were calling
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: out to the others in front of them. All right,
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: Rue on coming, called Christopher Robin. Something across the stream
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: lowered down, some of you fellows called rabbit. But Pooh
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: was getting something two pools below Rou. He was standing
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: with a long pole in his paws, and Kanga came
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: up and took one end of it, and between them
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: they held it across the lower part of the pool,
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: and Rue, still bubbling proudly look at me swimming, drifted
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: up against it and climbed out. Did you see me swimming?
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: Sweeked Rue excitedly, while Kanga scolded him and rubbed him down. Pooh,
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: did you see me swimming? That's called swimming? What I
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: was doing? Rabbit? Did you see what I was doing? Swimming? Hello, Pimot,
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: I say, piclet, what do you think I was doing? Swimming?
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin, did you see me? But Christopher Robin wasn't listening.
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: He was looking at Pooh Pooh. He said, where did
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: you find that pole? Pooh looked at the pole in
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: his hands. I just found it, he said. I thought
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: it ought to be useful. I just picked it up. Pooh,
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin solemnly. The expedition is over. You have
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: found the north pole. Oh, said poop Or was sitting
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: with his tail in the water when they all got
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: back to him. Tell rude of you quick, somebody, He said,
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: my tail's getting cold. I don't want to mention it,
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: but I just mention it. I don't want to complain,
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: but there it is. My tail's cold. Here I am,
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: squeaked rue. Oh, there you are. Did you see me swimming?
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: Eorre took his tail out of the water and swished
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: it from side to side as I expected, he said,
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: lost all feeling numbed it. That's what it's done, numbed it. Well.
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: As long as nobody minds, I suppose it's all right,
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: poor old Eyore. I'll dry it for you, said Christopher Robin,
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: and he took out his handkerchief and rubbed it up.
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Christopher Robin, you're the only one who seems
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: to understand about tales. They don't think. That's what's the
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: matter with some of these others. They've no imagination. A
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: tail isn't a tail to them. It's just a little
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: bit extra at the back. Never mind, ere, said Christopher Robin,
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 1: rubbing his hardest. Is that better? It's feeling more like
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: a tail. Perhaps it longs again, if you know what
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: I mean. Hello your said Pooh, coming up to them
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: with his pole. Hello Pooh, thank you for asking, But
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: I shall be able to use it again in a
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: day or two.
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 5: Use what, said Pooh?
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: What we are talking about? I wasn't talking about anything,
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, looking puzzled. Oh, my mistake again. I thought
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 1: you were saying how sorry you were about my tale
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: being all numb, and could you do anything to help?
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 2: No, said Pooh.
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: That wasn't me, he said. He thought for a little,
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: then suggested helpfully, perhaps it was somebody else. Well, thank
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: him for me when you see him. Pooh looked anxiously
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: at Christopher Robin. Poo's found the north pole, said Christopher Robin.
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: Isn't that lovely? Pooh looked modestly down is that, it,
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: said Eorre, Yes, said Christopher Robin. Is that what we
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: were looking for? Yes, said Pooh Oh, said Eorre. Well, anyhow,
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: it didn't rain, he said. They stuck the pole in
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 1: the ground, and Christopher Robin tied a message onto it.
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 1: North pole discovered by Pooh. Pooh found it. Then they
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: all went home again. And I think, but I'm not
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: quite sure, that Rue had a hot bath and went
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: straight to bed. But Pooh went back to his own house, and,
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: feeling very proud of what he had done, had a
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: little something to revive himself. End of chapter eight. Chapter nine,
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 1: in which Piglet is entirely surrounded by water. It rained,
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: and it rained, and it rained. Piglet told himself that
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 1: never in all his life, and he was goodness knows
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: how old three was it or four, never had he
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 1: seen so much rain, days and days and days. If only,
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: he thought, as he looked out of the window, I
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: had been in Pooh's house or Christopher Robin's house, a
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: rabbit's house when it began to rain, then I should
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: have had company all this time, instead of being here
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: all alone with nothing to do except wonder when it
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: will stop. And he imagined himself, with Pooh saying, did
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 1: you ever see such rain? Pooh? And Pooh saying isn't
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: it awful? Piglet, and Piglet saying, I wonder how it
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: is over Christopher Robbin's way, and Pooh saying, I should
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 1: think poor old rabbit is about flooded out. By this time.
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: It would have been jolly to talk like this, And
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 1: really it wasn't much good having anything exciting like floods
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: if you couldn't share them with somebody, For it was
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: rather exciting. The little dry ditches in which Pikelet had
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 1: nosed about so often had become streams. The little streams
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 1: across which he had splashed were rivers, and the river
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: between whose deep banks they had played so happily, had
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 1: sprawled out of its own bed and was taking up
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 1: so much room everywhere that Picklet was beginning to wonder
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: whether it would be coming into his bed soon. It's
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 1: a little anxious, he said to himself, to be a
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 1: very small animal entirely surrounded by water. Christopher Robin and
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 1: Pooh could escape by climbing trees, and can could escape
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 1: by jumping, and rabbit could escape by burrowing at Owl
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 1: could escape by flying, and e Or could escape by
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: by making a loud noise until rescued. And here am
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 1: I surrounded by water, and I can't do anything. He
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 1: went on raining, and every day the water got a
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: little higher, until now it was nearly up to pickless window,
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 1: and still he hadn't done anything. There's Pooh, he thought
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: to himself. Pooh hasn't much brain, but he never comes
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 1: to any harm. He does silly things and they turn
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 1: out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got brain, but
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 1: he knows things. He would know the right thing to do.
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: And surrounded by water, there's Rabbit. He hasn't learned in books,
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: but he can always think of a clever plan. Hanga
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: she isn't clever. Kanga isn't, but she would be so
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 1: anxious about rue that she would do a good thing
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 1: to do without thinking about it. And then there's Eore.
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 1: And Eor is so miserable anyhow, that he wouldn't mind
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 1: about this. But I wonder what Christopher Robin would do.
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 1: Then suddenly he remembered a story which Christopher Robin had
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 1: told him about a man on a desert island who
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: had written something in a bottle and thrown it in
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 1: the sea, and Piglet thought that if he would write
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 1: something in a bottle and throw it in the water,
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 1: perhaps somebody would come and rescue him. He left the
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 1: window and began to search his house, all of it
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 1: that wasn't underwater, And at last he found a pencil
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: and a small piece of dry paper, and a bottle
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: with a cork in it, and he wrote on one
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 1: side of the paper, help Piglet me, and on the
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: other side, it's me. He pickle it. Help help. Then
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 1: he put the paper in the bottle, and he corked
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: the bottle up as tightly as he could, and he
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 1: leaned out of his window as far as he could
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 1: lean without falling in, and he threw the bottle as
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: far as he could throw splash, And in a little
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: while it bobbed up again on the water, and he
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 1: watched it floating slowly away in the distance until his
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: eyes ached with looking. And sometimes he thought it was
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: the bottle, and sometimes he thought it was just a
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 1: ripple on the water which he was following. And then
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: suddenly he knew that he would never see it again,
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 1: and that he had done all that he could do
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: to save himself. So now he thought, somebody else will
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: have to do something, and I hope they will do
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 1: it soon, because that they don't, I shall have to swim,
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: which I can't, so I hope they'd do it soon.
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: And then he gave a very long sigh and said,
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: I wish Pooh were here. It's so much more friendly
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: with too. When the rain began, Pooh was asleep. It
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 1: rained and it rained, and it rained, and he slept
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 1: and he slept and he slept. He had had a
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: tiring day. You remember how he discovered the North Pole. Well,
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: he was so proud of this that he asked Christopher
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 1: Robin if there were any other poles, such as a
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 1: bear of little Rain might discover. There's a South pole,
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 1: and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 1: Pooh was very excited when he heard this, and suggested
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 1: that they should have an expedition to discover the East Pole,
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 1: but Christopher Robin had thought of something else to do
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: with Kanga, so Pooh went out to discover the East
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 1: Pole by himself. Whether he discovered it or not, I forget,
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: But he was so tired when he got home that
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 1: in the very middle of his supper, after he had
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: been eating for a little more than half an hour,
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: he fell fast asleep in his chair, and slept and
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: slept and slept. Then suddenly he was dreaming. He was
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 1: at the East Pole, and it was a very cold
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 1: pole with the coldest sort of snow when I saw
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 1: over it. He had found a beehive to sleep in,
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 1: but there was a room for his legs, so he
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 1: had left him outside, and wild woozles such as inhabit
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: the East Pole came and nibbled all the fur off
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: his legs to make nests for their young. And the
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 1: more they nibbled, the colder his legs got, until suddenly
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 1: he woke up with an oh. And there he was
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: sitting in his chair with his feet in the water,
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 1: and water all round him. He splashed to his door
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: and looked out. This is serious, said Pooh. I must
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: have an escape. So he took his largest pot of
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 1: honey and escaped with it to a broad branch of
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 1: his tree, well above the water. And then he climbed
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: down again and escaped with another pot. And when the
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 1: whole escape was finished, there was Pooh sitting on his branch,
• 2:21:22
  Speaker 1: dangling his legs, and there beside him were ten pots
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: of honey. Two days later there was Pooh sitting on
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: his branch, dangling his legs, and there beside him were
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: four pots of honey. Three days later, there was Pooh
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: sitting on his branch, dangling his legs, and there beside
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: him was one pot of honey. Four days later there
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 1: was Pooh. And it was the morning of the fourth
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 1: day that Picklet's bottle came floating past him, and with
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 1: one loud cry of Pooh, plunged into the water, seized
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: the bottle and struggled back to his tree again. Bother
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 1: said Pooh as he opened it, All that wet for nothing.
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: What's that bit of paper doing. He took it out
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 1: and looked at it. It's a missage, he said to himself.
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 1: That's what it is. And that letter is a pee,
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: and so is that, and so is that and pee
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 1: means pooh. So it's a very important message to me,
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: and I can't read it. I must find Christopher, Robin,
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 1: nor Owl or Biglet, one of those clever readers who
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 1: can read things, and they will tell me what this
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: message means. Only I can't swim oh bother. He had
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: an idea, and I think that for a bear of
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 1: very little brain, it was a good idea. He said
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 1: to himself. If a bottle can float, then a jar
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 1: can float. And if a jar floats, I can sit
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 1: on the top of it, if it's a very big jar.
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 1: So he took his biggest jar and corked it up.
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: All boats have a name, he said, so I shall
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: call mine the floating Bear. And with these words he
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 1: dropped his boat into the water and jumped in after it.
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: For a little while, Pooh and the floating Bear were
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: uncertain as to which of them was meant to be
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: on the top, but after trying one or two different positions,
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 1: they settled down with the floating bear underneath, and Pooh
• 2:23:55
  Speaker 1: triumphantly astride it, paddling variously with his feet. Christopher Robin
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 1: lived at the very top of the forest. It rained,
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: and it rained, and it rained, but the water couldn't
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 1: come up to his house. It was rather jolly to
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 1: look down into the valleys and see the water all
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 1: round him. But it rained so hard that he stayed
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 1: indoors most of the time and thought about things. Every
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: morning he went out with his umbrella and put a
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 1: stick in the place where the water came up to.
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 1: And every next morning he went out and couldn't see
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: his stick anymore, so he put another stick in the
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 1: place where the water came up to, and then he
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 1: walked home again, and each morning he had a sharper
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 1: way to walk than he had had the morning before.
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: On the morning of the fifth day, he saw the
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 1: water all round him, and he knew that, for the
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: first time in his life, he was on a real island,
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: which was very exciting. It was on this morning that
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: aoul came flying over the water to say how do
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 1: you do to his friend Christopher Robin, I say, Owl,
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin. Isn't this fun? I'm on an island.
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: The atmospheric conditions have been very unfavorable lately, said Owl.
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 1: The what it has been raining, explained Owl? Yes, said
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. It has. The flood level has reached an
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 1: unprecedented height. The who there's a lot of water about,
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 1: explained Owl. Yes, said Christopher Robin. There is. However, the
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: prospects are rapidly becoming more favorable. At any moment, have
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 1: you seen Pooh, No, at any moment, I hope he's
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 1: all right, said Christopher Robin. I've been wondering about him.
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 1: I expect pickles with him. Do you think they're all right? Owl?
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 1: I expect. So you see, at any moment, do go
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: and see Owl, because Pooh hasn't got very much brain
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: and he might do something silly, and I do love him,
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 1: so Owl, do you see Owl? That's all right? Said Owl.
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 1: I'll go back directly, and he flew off. In a
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 1: little while he was back again. Pooh, isn't there, he said,
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 1: not there, He's been there. He's been sitting on a
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 1: branch of his tree outside his house with nine pots
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: of honey. But he isn't there now, Oh, Pooh, cried
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. Where are you here? I am, said a
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 1: growly voice behind him, Pooh. They rushed into each other's arms.
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 1: How did you get here, Pooh, asked Christopher Robin when
• 2:26:48
  Speaker 1: he was ready to talk again. On my boat, said
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 1: Pooh proudly. I had a very important message sent me
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: in a bottle, and owing, having got some water in
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 1: my eyes, I couldn't read it, so I brought it
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 1: to you on my boat. With these proud words, he
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: gave Christopher Robin the missage. But it's from piglet, cried
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin when he had read it. Isn't there anything
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 1: about Pooh, isn't it? Asked Bear, looking over his shoulder.
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin read the message aloud. Oh, are those peas piglets?
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 1: I thought they were poos. We must rescue him at once?
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 1: I thought he was with you, Pooh, Owl, could you
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 1: rescue him on your back? I don't think so, said Owl,
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 1: after grave thought it is doubtful if the necessary dorsal muscles.
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 1: Then would you fly to him at once and say
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 1: that rescue is coming? And Pooh and I will think
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 1: of a rescue and come as quick as ever we can. Oh,
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: don't talk, Owl, go on quick and still thinking of
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 1: something to say, Owl flew off now then, Pooh, said
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. Where's your boat? I ought to say? Explained
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 1: Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island.
• 2:28:17
  Speaker 1: That it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: it's a boat, and sometimes it's more of an accident.
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 1: It all depends depends on what on whether I'm on
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 1: the top of it or underneath it. Oh, well, where
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: is it there? Said Pooh, pointing proudly to the floating bear.
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: It wasn't what Christopher Robin expected. And the more he
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 1: looked at it, the more he thought what a brave
• 2:28:48
  Speaker 1: and clever bear Pooh was. And the more Christopher Robin
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 1: thought this, the more Pooh looked modestly down his nose
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 1: and tried to pretend he wasn't. But it's too small
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 1: for two of us, said Christopher Robin, sadly three of
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 1: us with piglet. That makes it smaller. Still, Oh, Pooh bear,
• 2:29:11
  Speaker 1: what shall we do? And then this bear, Pooh Bear,
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh f O P Friend of Piglets, or
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 1: C Rabbit's Companion p D Poh Discoverer E C and
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 1: T F e Or's comforter and tail finder. In fact,
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 1: Pooh himself said something so clever that Christopher Robin could
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 1: only look at him with mouth open and eyes staring,
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 1: wondering if this was really the bear of very little Brain,
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 1: whom he had known and loved so long. We might
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 1: go in your umbrella, said Pooh. Huh. We might go
• 2:29:55
  Speaker 1: in your umbrella, said Pooh huh. We might go in
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 1: your umbrella, said Pooh ah. For suddenly Christopher Robin saw
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 1: that they might. He opened his umbrella and put it
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 1: point downward in the water. It floated, but wobbled. Pooh
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 1: got in. He was just beginning to say that it
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: was all right now when he found that it wasn't so.
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 1: After a short drink, which he didn't really want, he
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 1: waded back to Christopher Robin. Then they both got in together,
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 1: and it wobbled no longer. I shall call this boat
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 1: the Brain of Pooh, said Christopher Robin. And the Brain
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 1: of Pooh set sail forthwith in a southwesterly direction, revolving gracefully.
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 1: You can imagine Picklet's joy when at last the ship
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 1: came in sight of him. In after years, he liked
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 1: to think that he had been in very great danger
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 1: during the terrible flood, But the only danger he had
• 2:31:02
  Speaker 1: really been in was in the last half hour of
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 1: his imprisonment, when Owl, who had just flown up, sat
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 1: on a branch of his tree to comfort him and
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 1: told him a very long story about an aunt who
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 1: had once laid a seagull's egg by mistake. And the
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 1: story went on and on rather like this sentence until Piglet,
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 1: who was listening out of his window without much hope,
• 2:31:24
  Speaker 1: went to sleep quietly and naturally, slipping slowly out of
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 1: the window towards the water, until he was only hanging
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 1: on his toes, at which moment, luckily, a sudden loud
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 1: squawk from Owl, which was really part of the story,
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 1: being what his aunt said, woke the pikelet up and
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 1: just gave him time to jerk himself back into safety
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 1: and say, how interesting and did she when well, you
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 1: can imagine his joy when at last he saw the
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: good chip brain of Pooh. Captain c Robin first made
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 1: be bear coming over the sea to rescue him. Christopher
• 2:32:04
  Speaker 1: Robin and Pooh again. And that is really the end
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 1: of the story. And I am very tired after that
• 2:32:11
  Speaker 1: last sentence. I think I shall stop there. End of
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: chapter nine, Chapter ten, in which Christopher Robin gives Pooh
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 1: a party and we say goodbye. One day, when the
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 1: sun had come back over the forest, ringing with it
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 1: the scent of May, and all the streams of the
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 1: forest were tinkling happily to find themselves their own pretty
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 1: shape again, and the little pools lay dreaming of the
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 1: life they had seen and the big things they had done.
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 1: And in the warmth and quiet of the forest. The
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 1: cuckoo was trying over his voice carefully and listening to
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: see if he liked it, and woodpigeons were complaining gently
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: to themselves in their lazy, comfortable way that it was
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 1: the other fellow's fault, but it didn't matter very much
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 1: on such a day as this. Christopher Robin whistled in
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: a special way he had, and Owl came flying out
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: of the hundred acre wood to see what was wanted.
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 1: Owl said Christopher Robin. I am going to give a party.
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 1: You are are you? Said Owl? And it's to be
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 1: a special sort of party because it's because of what
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 1: Pooh did when he did what he did to save
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 1: pill it from the flood. Oh that's what it's for,
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 1: is it? Said Owl? Yes, So will you tell Pooh
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 1: as quickly as you can and all the others because
• 2:33:37
  Speaker 1: it will be tomorrow. Oh it will, will it? Said Owl,
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 1: still being as hopeful as possible. So will you go
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 1: and tell them? Owl? I'll try to think of something
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 1: very wise to say, but couldn't, so he flew off
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 1: to tell the others, and the first person he told
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 1: was Pooh Pooh. He said, Christopher is giving a party.
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, said Pooh?
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 1: And then, seeing that Owl expected him to say something else,
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 1: he said, will there be those little cake things with
• 2:34:12
  Speaker 1: pink sugar icing? Owl felt that it was rather beneath
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 1: him to talk about little cake things with pink sugar icing,
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 1: so he told Pooh exactly what Christopher Robbin had said,
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 1: and flew off to Eore A party for me, thought
• 2:34:28
  Speaker 1: Poo to himself. Oh grand, And he began to wonder
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 1: if all the other animals would know that it was
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 1: a special Pooh party, and if Christopher Robin had told
• 2:34:39
  Speaker 1: him about the floating bear and the brain of Poo
• 2:34:43
  Speaker 1: and all the wonderful ships he had invented and sailed on.
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 1: And he began to think how awful it would be
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 1: if everybody had forgotten about it, and nobody quite knew
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 1: what the party was for. And the more he thought
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 1: like this, the more the party got muddled in his mind,
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: like when nothing goes right, And the dream began to
• 2:35:03
  Speaker 1: sing itself over in his head until it became a
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 1: sort of song. It was an anxious Pooh song. Three
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: cheers for Pooh? For who for Pooh? Why what did
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 1: he do? I thought you knew? He saved his friend
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: from a wedding three cheers for Bear, forwear for Bear.
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 1: He couldn't swim, but he rescued him, He rescued who Oh. Listen,
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 1: do I'm talking of Pooh?
• 2:35:38
  Speaker 2: Of who of Pooh?
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I keep forgetting Well, Pooh was a bear
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 1: of enormous sprain, just say it again, of enormous sprain
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 1: of enormous sweat. Well, he ate a lot, and I
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 1: don't know if he could swim or not, but he
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 1: managed to float on a sort of boat, on a
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 1: sort of what, well, a sort of pot. So now
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 1: let's give him three hearty cheers. So now let's give
• 2:36:12
  Speaker 1: him three hearty witches, and hope he'll be with us
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 1: for years and years and grow in health and wisdom
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 1: and riches. Three cheers for Pooh, for who for Pooh,
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 1: three cheers for Bear, for where for Bear? Three cheers
• 2:36:34
  Speaker 1: for the wonderful Winnie the Pooh. Just tell me, somebody,
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 1: what did he do? While this was going on inside him?
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 1: Nowoul was talking to eor Or, said Owl. Christopher Robbin
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 1: is giving a party, very interesting, said ere. I suppose
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 1: they will be sending me down the odd bits which
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 1: got trodden on, kind and thoughtful, not at all, don't
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 1: mention it. There is an invitation for you. What's that
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 1: like an invitation? Yes, I heard you who dropped it?
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 1: This isn't anything to eat. It's asking you to the
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 1: party tomorrow. Eor shook his head slowly. You mean Piglet,
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 1: the little fellow with the excited ears. That's Piglet. I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell him. No, No, said Owl, getting quite fussy. It's you.
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  Speaker 1: Are you sure? Of course? I'm sure, Christopher Robin said,
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  Speaker 1: all of them, Tell all of them, all of them
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  Speaker 1: except your All of them, said Owl, suckling. Ah said
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  Speaker 1: eore h, mistake, no doubt. But still I shall come.
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  Speaker 1: Only don't blame me if it rains. But it didn't rain.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin had made a long table out of some
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  Speaker 1: long pieces of wood, and they all sat round it.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin sat at one end, and Pooh sat at
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  Speaker 1: the other. And between them on one side were Owl
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  Speaker 1: and Ewore and Picklet, And between them on the other
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  Speaker 1: side were Rabbit and rou and Kanga and all Rabbit's
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  Speaker 1: friends and relations. Spread themselves about on the grass and
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  Speaker 1: waited hopefully in case anybody spoke to them, or dropped anything,
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  Speaker 1: or asked them to the time. It was the first
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  Speaker 1: party to which Ru had ever been, and he was
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  Speaker 1: very excited. As soon as ever they sat down, he
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  Speaker 1: began to talk. Hello Pooh, he squeaked, Hello, Roo said pooh.
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  Speaker 1: Ru jumped up and down in his seat for a
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  Speaker 1: little while, and then began again, Hello piglet. He squeaked
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  Speaker 1: piglet waved. They poe at him, being too busy to
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  Speaker 1: say anything. Hello, Eore, said Ru. Eore nodded gloomily at him.
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  Speaker 1: It will rain soon, you see if it doesn't, he said.
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  Speaker 1: Ru looked to see if it didn't, and it didn't,
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  Speaker 1: so he said hello Owl, and Owl said hello, my
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  Speaker 1: little fellow in a kindly way, and went on telling
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin about an accident which had nearly happened to
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  Speaker 1: a friend of his whom Christopher Robin didn't know. And
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  Speaker 1: Kanga said to Rue, drink up your milk first, deer,
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  Speaker 1: and talk afterwards. So Ru, who was drinking his milk,
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  Speaker 1: tried to say that he could do both at once,
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  Speaker 1: and had to be patted on the back and dried
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  Speaker 1: for quite a long time afterwards, When they had all
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  Speaker 1: nearly eaten enough, Christopher Robin banged on the table with
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  Speaker 1: a spoon and everybody stopped talking and was very silent,
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  Speaker 1: except Ru, who was just finishing a loud attack of
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  Speaker 1: hiccups and trying to look as if it was one
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  Speaker 1: of Rabbit's relations. This party, said Christopher Robin, is a
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  Speaker 1: party because of what someone did, and we all know
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  Speaker 1: who it was. And it's his party because of what
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  Speaker 1: he did. And I've got a present for him, and
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  Speaker 1: here it is. Then he felt about a little and
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  Speaker 1: whispered where is it? While he was looking, he or
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  Speaker 1: coughed in an impressive way and began to speak the friends.
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  Speaker 1: He said, including oddments. It is a great pleasure, or
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  Speaker 1: perhaps I had better say, it has been a pleasure
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  Speaker 1: so far to see you. It my partine, what I
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  Speaker 1: did was nothing Any of you except Rabbit and Owl
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  Speaker 1: and Kanga would have done the same. Oh and pooh.
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  Speaker 1: My remarks do not of course supply to Piglet and
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  Speaker 1: Rue because they are too small. Any of you would
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  Speaker 1: have done the same. But it just happened to be me.
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  Speaker 1: It was not I need hardly say with an idea
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  Speaker 1: of getting what Christopher Robin is looking for now. And
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  Speaker 1: he put his front leg to his mouth and said,
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  Speaker 1: in a loud whisper, try under the table that I
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  Speaker 1: did what I did, but because I feel that we
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  Speaker 1: should all do what we can to help. I feel
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  Speaker 1: that we should all, said Ru accidentally. Root dear, said
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  Speaker 1: Kanga reproachfully, Was it me, asked Rue, a little surprised.
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  Speaker 1: What's ere talking about? Piglet whispered to Pooh. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh rather dolefully. I thought this was your party.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was once, but I suppose it isn't.
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  Speaker 1: I'd sooner it was yours than yours, said Picklet, So
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  Speaker 1: would I, said Pooh Hillo, said Rue again, as I
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  Speaker 1: was saying, said Eore, loudly and sternly, as I was saying,
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  Speaker 1: when I was interrupted by various loud sounds. I feel
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  Speaker 1: that here it is, cried Christopher Robin, excitedly. Pass it
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  Speaker 1: down to silly old Pooh. It's for Pooh, for Pooh,
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  Speaker 1: said Eore. Of course it is the best bear in
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 1: all the world I might have known, said Eore. After all,
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  Speaker 1: one can't complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to
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  Speaker 1: me only yesterday, and it was last week or the
• 2:43:23
  Speaker 1: week before that. Rabbit bumped into me and said, bother.
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  Speaker 1: The social round always something going on. Nobody was listening
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  Speaker 1: for they were all saying open it, Pooh, what is it? Pooh,
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  Speaker 1: I know what it is, No, you don't, and other
• 2:43:43
  Speaker 1: helpful remarks of this sort. And of course Pooh was
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  Speaker 1: opening it as quickly as ever he could, but without
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  Speaker 1: cutting the string, because you never know when a bit
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: of string might be useful. At last, it was undone.
• 2:43:57
  Speaker 1: When Pooh saw what it was, he nearly fell down
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  Speaker 1: he was so pleased. It was a special pencil case.
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  Speaker 1: There were pencils and it marked B for bear, and
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 1: pencils marked HB for helping bear, and pencils marked BB
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  Speaker 1: for brave bear. There was a knife for sharpening the pencils,
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  Speaker 1: and India rubber for rubbing out anything which you had
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  Speaker 1: spelt wrong, and a ruler for ruling lines for the
• 2:44:26
  Speaker 1: words to walk on, and inches marked on the ruler
• 2:44:29
  Speaker 1: in case you wanted to know how many inches anything was.
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  Speaker 1: And blue pencils and red pencils and green pencils for
• 2:44:37
  Speaker 1: saying special things in blue and red and green. All
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  Speaker 1: these lovely things were in little pockets of their own
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  Speaker 1: in a special case which shut with a click when
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 1: you clicked it, and they were all for.
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  Speaker 5: Pooh, Oh said Pooh, Oh, Pooh, said everybody else except
• 2:44:58
  Speaker 5: e or thank you, growled Pooh.
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  Speaker 1: But Orre was saying to himself this writing business, pencils
• 2:45:08
  Speaker 1: and what not. Overrated, if you ask me, silly stuff,
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  Speaker 1: nothing in it. Later on, when they had all said
• 2:45:17
  Speaker 1: good bye and thank you to Christopher Robin, Pooh and
• 2:45:21
  Speaker 1: Picklet walked home thoughtfully together in the golden evening, and
• 2:45:25
  Speaker 1: for a long time they were silent. When you wake
• 2:45:29
  Speaker 1: up in the morning, Pooh, said Picklet. At last, what's
• 2:45:33
  Speaker 1: the first thing you say to yourself? What's for breakfast?
• 2:45:37
  Speaker 1: Said Pooh. What do you say, Picklet? I say, I
• 2:45:42
  Speaker 1: wonder what's going to happen? Exciting to day, said Picklet.
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  Speaker 1: Pooh nodded thoughtfully. It's the same thing, he said. And
• 2:45:53
  Speaker 1: what did happen, asked Christopher Robin when next morning? I
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 1: don't know. Could you think and tell me and Pooh
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  Speaker 1: sometime if you wanted it very much? Pooh does, said
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. He gave a deep sigh, picked up his
• 2:46:11
  Speaker 1: bear by the leg, and walked off to the door,
• 2:46:14
  Speaker 1: trailing Winnie the pool behind him. At the door, he
• 2:46:17
  Speaker 1: turned and said, coming to see me have my bath?
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  Speaker 1: I might, I said, was Pooh's pencil case any better
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 1: than mine. It was just the same, I said. He
• 2:46:31
  Speaker 1: nodded and went out, and in a moment I heard
• 2:46:34
  Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh bump bump bump, going up the stairs
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  Speaker 1: behind him. End of chapter ten. End of Winnie the
• 2:46:43
  Speaker 1: Pooh by A. A. Milney