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11 - In Which Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party and We Say Good-bye · Winnie-the-Pooh

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  Speaker 1: Chapter ten of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne.
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Chapter ten, in which Christopher Robin
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  Speaker 1: gives Pooh a party and we say good bye. One
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  Speaker 1: day when the sun had come back over the forest,
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  Speaker 1: bringing with it the scent of may, and all the
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  Speaker 1: streams of the forest were tinkling happily to find themselves
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  Speaker 1: their own pretty shape again, and the little pools lay
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  Speaker 1: dreaming of the life they had seen and the big
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  Speaker 1: things they had done. And in the warmth and quiet
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  Speaker 1: of the forest, the cuckoo was trying over his voice
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  Speaker 1: carefully and listening to see if he liked it. And
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  Speaker 1: wood pigeons were complaining gently to themselves in their lazy,
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  Speaker 1: comfortable way that it was the other fellow's fault, but
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  Speaker 1: it didn't matter very much on such a day as this.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin whistled in a special way he had, and
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  Speaker 1: owl came flying out of the hundred acre wood to
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  Speaker 1: see what was wanted. Owl, said Christopher Robin.
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  Speaker 2: I am going to give a party.
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  Speaker 1: You are are?
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  Speaker 3: You?
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  Speaker 2: Said Owl, and it's to be a special sort of
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  Speaker 2: party because it's because of what Poo did when he
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  Speaker 2: did what he did to save Piglet from the flood.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's what it's for, is it?
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  Speaker 1: Said Owl?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So will you tell Pooh as quickly as you
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  Speaker 2: can and all the others because it will be tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it will, will it, said Owl, still being as
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  Speaker 1: helpful as possible.
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  Speaker 2: So will you go and tell them?
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  Speaker 5: Owl?
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  Speaker 1: Awl tried to think of something very wise to say,
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  Speaker 1: but couldn't, so he flew off to tell the others,
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  Speaker 1: and the first person he told was Pooh Pooh. He said,
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin is giving a party, Oh, said Pooh, And then,
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  Speaker 1: seeing that Owl expected him to say something else, he said.
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  Speaker 5: Will there be those little cake things with a pink
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  Speaker 5: sugar icing.
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  Speaker 1: Awl felt that it was rather beneath him to talk
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  Speaker 1: about little cake things with pink sugar icing, so he
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  Speaker 1: told Poo exactly what Christopher Robin had said and flew
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  Speaker 1: off to ere a party for me, thought Poo to himself,
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  Speaker 1: how grand, And he began to wonder if all the
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  Speaker 1: other animals would know that it was a special Pooh party,
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  Speaker 1: and if Christopher Robin had told them about the floating
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  Speaker 1: bear and the brain of Poo and all the wonderful
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  Speaker 1: ships he had invented and sailed on. And he began
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  Speaker 1: to think how awful it would be if everybody had
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  Speaker 1: forgotten about it, and nobody quite knew what the party
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  Speaker 1: was for. And the more he thought like this, the
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  Speaker 1: more the party got muddled in his mind, like a
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  Speaker 1: dream when nothing goes right. And the dream began to
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  Speaker 1: sing itself over in his head until it became a
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  Speaker 1: sort of song.
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  Speaker 5: It was an anxious Pooh song. Three cheers for Pooh,
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  Speaker 5: for Who? For Pooh? Why? What did he do? I
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  Speaker 5: thought you knew he saved his friend from a wedding.
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  Speaker 5: Three cheers for Bear, for whear for Bear. He couldn't swim,
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  Speaker 5: but he rescued him, he rescued who. I'll listen do
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  Speaker 5: I'm talking of Pooh? Of who of Pooh? I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 5: I keep forgetting well. Pooh was a bear of enormous brain.
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  Speaker 5: Just say it again, of enormous brain, of enormous what.
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 5: He ate a lot and I don't know if he
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  Speaker 5: could swim or not, but he managed to float on
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  Speaker 5: a sort of boat, on a sort of what well,
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  Speaker 5: a sort of pot. So now let's give him three
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  Speaker 5: hearty cheers. So now let's give him three hearty witches.
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  Speaker 5: And I hope he'll be with us for years and
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  Speaker 5: years and grow in health and wisdom and riches. Three
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  Speaker 5: cheers for Pooh, for who for Pooh? Three cheers for Bear,
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  Speaker 5: for where for Bear? Three cheers for the wonderful Winnie
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  Speaker 5: the Pooh. Just tell me, somebody, what did he do?
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  Speaker 1: While this was going on inside him, Owl was talking
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  Speaker 1: to ere Yor, said Owl.
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  Speaker 4: Christopher Robin is giving a party.
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  Speaker 6: Very interesting, said Eyre. I suppose they will be sending
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  Speaker 6: me down the odd bits which get trodden on, kind
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  Speaker 6: and thoughtful, not at all. Don't mention it.
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  Speaker 4: There is an invitation for you.
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  Speaker 6: What's that like?
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  Speaker 2: An invitation?
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  Speaker 6: Yes? I heard you? Who dropped it?
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  Speaker 4: This isn't anything to eat. It's asking you to the
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  Speaker 4: party tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Or shook his head slowly.
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  Speaker 6: You mean Piglet, the little fellow with the excited ears.
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  Speaker 6: That's Piglet. I'll tell him.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, said Owl, getting quite fussy.
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  Speaker 6: It's you, Are you sure?
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  Speaker 4: Of course? I'm sure, Christopher Robin said, all of them,
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  Speaker 4: Tell all of.
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  Speaker 6: Them, all of them, except Yore.
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  Speaker 1: All of them said Owl sulkily. Ah said Eyoorre.
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  Speaker 6: A mistake, no doubt, but still I shall come. Only
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  Speaker 6: don't blame me if it rains.
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  Speaker 1: But it didn't rain. Christopher Robin had made a long
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  Speaker 1: table out of some long pieces of wood, and they
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  Speaker 1: all sat round it. Christopher Robin sat at one end,
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  Speaker 1: and Pooh sat at the other. And between them on
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  Speaker 1: one side were Owl and Eore and Piglet. And between
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  Speaker 1: them on the other side were Rabbit and Rue and
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  Speaker 1: Kanga and all rabbits friends and relations. Spread themselves about
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  Speaker 1: on the grass and waited hopefully in case anybody spoke
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  Speaker 1: to them, or dropped anything or asked them the time.
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  Speaker 1: It was the first party to which Ru had ever been,
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  Speaker 1: and he was very excited. As soon as ever they
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  Speaker 1: had sat down, he began to talk. Hello Pooh, he squeaked, Hello, Rue,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh. Ru jumped up and down in his seat
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  Speaker 1: for a little while, and then began again, Hello Piglet.
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  Speaker 1: He squeaked. Piglet waved upon him, being too busy to
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  Speaker 1: say anything. Hello Eure, said Ru. Eore nodded gloomily at him.
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  Speaker 6: It will rain soon, you see if it.
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  Speaker 1: He said, Ru looked to see if it didn't, and
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  Speaker 1: it didn't, so he said hello, Awl, and Owl said hello,
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  Speaker 1: my little fellow, in a kindly way, and went on
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  Speaker 1: telling Christopher Robin about an accident which had nearly happened
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  Speaker 1: to a friend of his whom Christopher Robin didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: And Kenga said to Rue, drink up your milk first, dear,
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  Speaker 1: and talk afterwards. So Rue, 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: his spoon, and everybody stopped talking and was very silent,
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  Speaker 1: except Rue, 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.
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  Speaker 2: A party because of what someone did, and we all
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  Speaker 2: know who it was, and it's his party because of
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  Speaker 2: what he did, and I've got a present for him,
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  Speaker 2: and here it is.
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  Speaker 1: Then he felt about a little and whispered where is it?
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  Speaker 1: While he was looking York coughed in an impressive way,
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  Speaker 1: and began to speak friends.
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  Speaker 6: He said, including oddments, it is a great pleasure, or
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  Speaker 6: perhaps I had better say, it has been a pleasure
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  Speaker 6: so far to see you at my party. What I
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  Speaker 6: did was nothing. Any of you, except Rabbit and Owl
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  Speaker 6: and Kanga would have done the same. Oh and Pooh.
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  Speaker 6: My remarks do not, of course apply to Piglet and Rue,
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  Speaker 6: because they are too small. Any of you would have
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  Speaker 6: done the same. But it just happened to be me.
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  Speaker 6: It was not I need hardly say with an idea
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  Speaker 6: of getting what Christopher Robin is looking for now.
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  Speaker 1: And he put his front leg to his mouth and said,
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  Speaker 1: in a loud whisper try.
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  Speaker 6: Under the table, that I did what I did, but
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  Speaker 6: because I feel that we should all do what we
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  Speaker 6: can to help. I feel that we should all.
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  Speaker 1: Humph, said Rue accidentally, Rue dear, said kinga Reproachfully, was
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  Speaker 1: it me, asked Rue, a little surprised.
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  Speaker 3: What's your talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Piglet whispered to Pooh. I don't know, said Pooh rather dolefully.
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  Speaker 3: I thought this was the old partty.
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was once, but I suppose it isn't.
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  Speaker 3: I'd sooner it was yours and eos.
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  Speaker 1: Said piglet, So would I said pooh hup, said Rue again.
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  Speaker 1: As I was saying, said Eore, loudly and sternly, as.
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  Speaker 6: I was saying, when I was interrupted by various loud sounds.
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  Speaker 6: I feel that here.
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  Speaker 1: It is, cried Christopher Robin, excitedly.
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  Speaker 2: Pass it down to silly old Pooh.
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  Speaker 1: It's for Pooh, for Pooh, said Eyore.
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  Speaker 2: Of course it is the best bear in all the world.
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  Speaker 6: I might have known, said Eyore. After all, one can't complain.
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  Speaker 6: I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday,
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  Speaker 6: and was it last week or the week before that?
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  Speaker 6: Rabbit bumped into me and said bother. The social round
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  Speaker 6: always something going on.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody was listening for They were all saying.
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  Speaker 2: Open it, Pooh, what is it?
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  Speaker 5: Pooh?
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  Speaker 1: I know what it is, No, you don't, and other
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  Speaker 1: helpful remarks of this sort. And of course who 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
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  Speaker 1: of string might be useful. At last, it was undone.
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  Speaker 1: When Poo 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 in it marked B for bear, and
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  Speaker 1: pencils marked h B for helping bear, and pencils marked
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  Speaker 1: b B for brave Bear. There was a knife for
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  Speaker 1: sharpening the pencils, and India rubber for rubbing out anything
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  Speaker 1: which you had spelt wrong, and a ruler for ruling
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  Speaker 1: lines for the words to walk on, and inches marked
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  Speaker 1: on the ruler in case you wanted to know how
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  Speaker 1: many inches anything was. And blue pencils and red pencils
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  Speaker 1: and green pencils for saying special things in blue and
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  Speaker 1: red and green. And all these lovely things were in
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  Speaker 1: little pockets of their own in a special case which
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  Speaker 1: shut with a click when you clicked it, and they
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  Speaker 1: were all for Pooh, Oh, said Pooh, Pooh, Pooh, said
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  Speaker 1: everybody else except Eyore. Thank you, growled Pooh. But Eore
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  Speaker 1: was saying to himself.
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  Speaker 6: This riding business, pencils and what not overrated, if you
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  Speaker 6: ask me, silly stuff. Nothing in it.
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  Speaker 1: Later on, when they all had said good bye, bye
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  Speaker 1: bye and.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: To Christopher Robin, Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together
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  Speaker 1: in the golden evening, and for a long time they
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  Speaker 1: were silent.
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  Speaker 3: When you wake up in the morning pill.
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  Speaker 1: Said Piglet. At last, what's.
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  Speaker 3: The first thing you say to yourself?
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  Speaker 5: What's for breakfast?
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  Speaker 1: Said Pooh?
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  Speaker 5: What do you say, Piglet?
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  Speaker 3: I say, I wonder what's going to happen? Exciting to day.
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  Speaker 1: Said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. It's the same thing, he said.
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  Speaker 2: And what did happen?
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  Speaker 1: Asked Christopher Robin when next morning?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Could you think and tell me in Pooh sometime.
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  Speaker 1: If you wanted it very much? Pooh does, said Christopher Robin.
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  Speaker 1: He gave a deep sigh, picked his bear up by
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  Speaker 1: the leg, and walked off to the door, trailing Winnie
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  Speaker 1: the Pooh behind him. At the door, he turned.
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  Speaker 2: And said, coming to see me have my bath?
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  Speaker 1: I might, I said.
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  Speaker 2: Was Pooh's pencil case any better than mine?
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  Speaker 1: It was just the same, I said. He nodded and
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  Speaker 1: went out, and in a moment I heard Winnie the
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  Speaker 1: Pooh bom bom bomp going up the stairs behind him.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter ten. End of Winnie the Pooh by A. A.
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  Speaker 1: Milne