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03 - In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place · Winnie-the-Pooh

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  Speaker 1: Chapter two of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne.
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Chapter two, in which Pooh goes
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  Speaker 1: visiting and gets into a tight place. Edward Baar, known
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  Speaker 1: to his friends as Winnie the Pooh or Pooh for short,
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  Speaker 1: was walking through the forest one day, humming proudly to himself.
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  Speaker 1: He had made up a little hum that very morning
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  Speaker 1: as he was doing his stoutness exercises in front of
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  Speaker 1: the glass trala la tra la lah as he stretched
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  Speaker 1: up as high as he could go, and.
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  Speaker 2: Then trala la tra la la oh hope.
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  Speaker 1: La as he tried to reach his toes after break breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: He had said it over and over to himself until
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  Speaker 1: he had learnt it off by heart, and now he
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  Speaker 1: was humming it right through properly. It went like this,
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  Speaker 1: tra la la travel la tra ve la tra la
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  Speaker 1: la rum tum tum tum tirtle, little title, little tittle,
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  Speaker 1: little title, little rum tum tum tirtleum. 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. Uh huh,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh.
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  Speaker 2: Rum tumturtletum. If I know anything about anything, That hole
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  Speaker 2: means rabbit, he said. And rabbit means company, he said,
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  Speaker 2: And company means food and listening to me, humming and
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  Speaker 2: such like. Rum tum tiddalum.
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  Speaker 1: So he bent down, put his head into the hole
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  Speaker 1: and called.
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  Speaker 2: Out, is anybody at home?
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  Speaker 1: There was a sudden scuffling noise from inside the hole,
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  Speaker 1: and then silence.
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  Speaker 2: What I said was, is anybody at home?
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  Speaker 1: Called out pooh, very loudly. No, said a voice, and
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  Speaker 1: then added.
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  Speaker 3: You needn't shout so loud. I heard you quite well
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  Speaker 3: the first time.
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  Speaker 2: Bother said, pooh, isn't there anybody here at all?
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  Speaker 3: Nobody?
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  Speaker 1: Winnie the Poo took his head out of the hole
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  Speaker 1: and thought for a little and he thought to himself.
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  Speaker 2: There must be somebody there, because some must have said nobody.
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  Speaker 1: So he put his head back into the hole and.
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  Speaker 2: Said, hello, rabbit, isn't that you?
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  Speaker 1: No, said rabbit in a different sort of voice this time.
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  Speaker 2: But isn't that rabbit's voice? I don't think so, said rabbit.
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  Speaker 3: It isn't meant to be, 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 think, and then he put it back and said.
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  Speaker 2: Well, could you very kindly tell me where Rabbit is.
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  Speaker 3: He has gone to see his friend Pooh Bear, who
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  Speaker 3: is a great friend of his.
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  Speaker 1: But this is me, said bear, very much surprised.
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  Speaker 2: What sort of me, Pooh Bear?
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  Speaker 1: Are you sure, he said Rabbit, still more surprised. Quite right, sure,
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  Speaker 1: said pooh Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Well then come in.
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  Speaker 1: So Pooh pushed and pushed and pushed his way through
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  Speaker 1: the hole, and at last he got in.
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  Speaker 3: You were quite right.
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  Speaker 1: Said rabbit, looking at him all over.
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  Speaker 3: It is you glad to see you.
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  Speaker 2: Who did you think it was?
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  Speaker 3: Well? I wasn't sure, you know how it is in
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  Speaker 3: the forest. One can't have anybody coming into one's house.
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  Speaker 3: One has to be careful. What about a mouthful of something?
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  Speaker 1: Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit
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  Speaker 1: getting out the plates and mugs. And when Rabbit said.
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  Speaker 3: Honey or 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 as not to seem greedy, he.
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  Speaker 2: Added, but don't bother about the bread, please.
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  Speaker 1: And for a long time after that he said nothing,
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  Speaker 1: until at last, humming to himself in a rather sticky voice,
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  Speaker 1: he got up, shook Rabbit lovingly by the paw, and said.
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  Speaker 3: That he must be going on, must you?
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  Speaker 1: Said rabbit politely? Well, said Pooh.
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  Speaker 2: I could say 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.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, said Rabbit, I was going
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  Speaker 3: out myself directly.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, then I'll be going on.
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  Speaker 3: Goodbye, Well, goodbye, if you're sure you won't have any more?
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  Speaker 2: 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.
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  Speaker 2: No, there wasn't I thought not.
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  Speaker 1: Said Pooh, nodding to himself.
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  Speaker 2: Well, goodbye, I must be going.
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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 his ears, and then his
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  Speaker 1: front paws and then his shoulders. And then Oh, help, said.
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  Speaker 2: Pooh, I'd better go back.
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  Speaker 1: Oh bother, said Pooh.
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  Speaker 2: I shall have to go on. I can't do either,
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  Speaker 2: said Pooh. Oh help and bother.
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  Speaker 1: Now, by this time, Rabbit wanted to go for a
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  Speaker 1: walk too, and, finding the front door full, he went
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  Speaker 1: out by the back door and came around to Pooh
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  Speaker 1: and looked at him.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, are you stuck, he.
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  Speaker 1: Asked, No, said Pooh, carelessly, just resting and thinking and
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  Speaker 1: humming to myself.
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  Speaker 3: Here, give us a paw, poo.
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  Speaker 1: Bear stretched out a paw, and Rabbit pulled and pulled
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  Speaker 1: and pulled. How 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 2: Of not having front doors big enough.
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  Speaker 1: It all comes, said Rabbit, sternly.
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  Speaker 3: Of eating too much. I thought at the time, said rabbit.
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  Speaker 3: Only I didn't like to say anything.
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  Speaker 1: Said Rabbit.
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  Speaker 3: That one of us was eating too much.
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  Speaker 2: Said rabbit, and I knew it wasn't me.
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  Speaker 3: He said, Well, well, I shall go and fetch Christopher.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin lived at the other end of the forest,
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  Speaker 1: and when he came back with Rabbit and saw the
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  Speaker 1: front half of Pooh, he said, silly old bear, in
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  Speaker 1: such a loving voice that everybody felt quite hopeful. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I was just beginning to think, said bear, sniffing slightly.
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  Speaker 2: The rabbit might not ever be able to use his
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  Speaker 2: front door again, and I should hate.
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  Speaker 4: That, he said, so should I?
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  Speaker 5: Said, Rabbit, use his front door again, said Christopher Robin.
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  Speaker 5: Of course he'll use his front door again, good, said rabbit.
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  Speaker 5: If we can't pull you out, Pooh, we might push
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  Speaker 5: you back.
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  Speaker 1: Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully and pointed out that when
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  Speaker 1: one's Pooh was pushed back, he was back, and of
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  Speaker 1: course nobody was more glad to see Poo than he
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  Speaker 1: was still there. It was some lived in trees and
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  Speaker 1: some lived underground.
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  Speaker 2: And you mean I'd never get out.
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  Speaker 1: Said Pooh. I mean, said rabbit.
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  Speaker 3: That's having got so far, it seems a pity to
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  Speaker 3: waste it.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin nodded.
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  Speaker 5: Then there's only one thing to be done, he said.
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  Speaker 5: We shall have to wait for you to get thin again.
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  Speaker 2: How long does getting thin.
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  Speaker 1: Take, asked Pooh anxiously.
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  Speaker 5: About a week, I should think, But I can't stay
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  Speaker 5: here for a week. You can stay here, all right, silly,
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  Speaker 5: old bear, it's just getting you out, which is so difficult.
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  Speaker 4: We'll read to you, said Rabbit cheerfully. And I hope
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  Speaker 4: it won't snow, he added. And I say, old fellow,
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  Speaker 4: you're taking up a good deal of room my house.
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  Speaker 4: Do you mind if I use your back legs as
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  Speaker 4: a towel horse, because I mean, there they are doing nothing,
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  Speaker 4: and it would be very convenient just to hang towels
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  Speaker 4: on them.
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  Speaker 1: A week, said Pooh gloomily.
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  Speaker 2: What about meals?
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid no meals, said Christopher Robin.
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  Speaker 5: Because of getting thin quicker. But we will read to you.
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  Speaker 1: Bear began to sigh, and then found he couldn't because
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  Speaker 1: he was so tightly stuck, and a tear rolled down
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  Speaker 1: his eye as he said.
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  Speaker 2: Then would you read a sustaining book such as would
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  Speaker 2: help and comfort a wedged bear in great tightness?
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  Speaker 1: So for a week Christopher Robin read that sort of
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  Speaker 1: book at the north end of Pooh and Rabbit hung
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  Speaker 1: his washing on the south end, and in between Bear
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  Speaker 1: felt himself getting slenderer and slender, and at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the week, Christopher Robin said, now, so he took
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  Speaker 1: hold of Poo's front paws and rabbit took hold of
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin, and all rabbit's friends and relations took hold
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  Speaker 1: of a rabbit, and they all pulled together, and for
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  Speaker 1: a long time who only said ow and all. And
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden he said pop, just as
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  Speaker 1: if a cork were coming out of a bottle, And
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin and rabbit and all rabbits friends and relations
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  Speaker 1: went head over heels backwards, and on the top of
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  Speaker 1: them came Winnie the Pooh free. So with a nod
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  Speaker 1: of thanks to his friends, he went on with his
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  Speaker 1: walk through the forest, humming proudly to himself. But Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Robin looked after him lovingly and said to himself, silly
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  Speaker 1: old end of Chapter twom