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House at Pooh Corner - A. A. Milne · Winnie The Pooh - A.A. Milne

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  Speaker 1: Introduction of the House at Pooh Corner. This is a
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  Speaker 1: The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne. You gave
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  Speaker 1: me Christopher Robin, and then you breathed new life in Pooh.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever of each has left, my pen goes homing back
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  Speaker 1: to you. My book is ready and comes to greet
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  Speaker 1: the mother it longs to see. It would be my
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  Speaker 1: present to you, my suite, if it weren't your gift
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  Speaker 1: to me. Contradiction. An introduction is to introduce people. But
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin and his friends, who have already been introduced
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  Speaker 1: to you, are now going to say good bye. So
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  Speaker 1: this is the opposite. When we asked Pooh what the
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  Speaker 1: opposite of an introduction was, he said the what of
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  Speaker 1: a what, which didn't help us as much as we
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  Speaker 1: had hoped. But luckily al kept his head and told
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  Speaker 1: us that the opposite of an introduction, my dear Pooh,
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  Speaker 1: was a contradiction. And as he is very good at
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  Speaker 1: long words, I am sure that that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Why we are having a contradiction is because last week,
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  Speaker 1: when Christopher Robin said to me, what about that story
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  Speaker 1: you were going to tell me about what happened to Pooh?
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  Speaker 1: When I happened to say, very quickly, what about nine
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  Speaker 1: times one hundred and seven? And when he had done
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  Speaker 1: that one, we had one about cows going through a
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  Speaker 1: gate at two a minute? And there are three hundred
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  Speaker 1: in the field, so how many are left after an
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  Speaker 1: hour and a half. We find these very exciting, And
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  Speaker 1: when we have been excited quite enough, we curl up
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  Speaker 1: and go to sleep, and Pooh, sitting wakeful a little
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  Speaker 1: longer on his chair by our pillow, thinks grand thoughts
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  Speaker 1: to himself about nothing, until he too closes his eyes
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  Speaker 1: and nods his head, and follows us on tiptoe into
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  Speaker 1: the forest. There still we have magic adventures, more wonderful
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  Speaker 1: than any I have told you about. But now when
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  Speaker 1: we wake up in the morning, they are gone before
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  Speaker 1: we can catch hold of them. How did the last
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  Speaker 1: one begin? One day? When Pooh was walking in the
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  Speaker 1: forest there were one hundred and seven cows on a gate. No,
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  Speaker 1: you see, we have lost it. It was the best
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  Speaker 1: I think. Well, here are some of the other ones,
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  Speaker 1: all that we shall remember now. But of course it
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  Speaker 1: isn't really goodbye, because the forest will always be there,
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  Speaker 1: and anybody who is friendly with bears can find it.
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  Speaker 1: End of introduction, chapter one of the House at Pooh
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  Speaker 1: Corner by AA. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, in which a house is built at Pooh
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  Speaker 1: Corner for Eyore. One day, when Pooh mar had nothing
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  Speaker 1: else to do, he thought he would do something, so
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  Speaker 1: he went round to Piglet's house to see what Piglet
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  Speaker 1: was doing. It was still snowing as he stumped over
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  Speaker 1: the white forest track, and he expected to find Piglet
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  Speaker 1: warming his toes in front of his fire. But to
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  Speaker 1: his surprise, he saw that the door was open, and
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  Speaker 1: the more he looked inside, the more Piglet wasn't there.
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  Speaker 1: He's out, said Pooh sadly. That's what it is. He's
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  Speaker 1: not in. I shall have to go a fast, thinking
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  Speaker 1: walk by myself, Pather. But first he thought that he
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  Speaker 1: would knock very loudly, just to make quite sure. And
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  Speaker 1: while he waited for Piglet not to answer, he jumped
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  Speaker 1: up and down to keep warm, and a hum came
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  Speaker 1: suddenly into his head, which seemed to him a good
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  Speaker 1: hum such as is hummed hopefully to others. The more
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  Speaker 1: it snows tiddly palm, the more it goes tiddly palm,
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  Speaker 1: the more it goes tiddly palm on snowing, And nobody
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  Speaker 1: knows tiddley palm, how cold my toes tiddly palm, how
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  Speaker 1: cold my toes tiddly palm are growing. So what I'll do,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh, is I'll do this. I'll just go home
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  Speaker 1: first and see what the time is, and perhaps i'll
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  Speaker 1: put a muffler round my neck, and then I'll go
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  Speaker 1: and see Eore and sing it to him. He hurried
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  Speaker 1: back to his own house, and his mind was so
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  Speaker 1: busy on the way with the hum that he was
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  Speaker 1: getting ready for eoor that when he suddenly saw a
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  Speaker 1: piglet sitting in his best arm chair, he could only
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  Speaker 1: stand there, rubbing his head and wondering whose house he
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  Speaker 1: was in. Hullo, Piglet, he said, I thought you were out, No,
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  Speaker 1: said piglet, it's you who were out, Pooh. So it was,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh, I knew one of us was. He looked
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  Speaker 1: up at his clock, which had stopped at five minutes
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  Speaker 1: to eleven some weeks ago, nearly eleven o'clock, said Pooh, happily,
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  Speaker 1: you're just in time for a little smackrel of something,
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  Speaker 1: and he put his head into the cupboard. And then
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  Speaker 1: we'll go out, Piglet and sing my song to Eyore?
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  Speaker 1: Which song, Pooh, the one we're going to sing to Eyore?
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  Speaker 1: Explained Pooh. The clock was still saying five minutes to
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  Speaker 1: eleven when Pooh and Piglets set on their way. Half
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  Speaker 1: an hour later, the wind had dropped, and the snow,
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  Speaker 1: tired of rushing round in circles trying to catch itself up,
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  Speaker 1: now fluttered gently down until it found a place on
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  Speaker 1: which to rest. And sometimes the place was Pooh's nose,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes it wasn't. And in a little while Piglet
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  Speaker 1: was wearing a white muffler round his neck and feeling
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  Speaker 1: more snowy behind the ears than he had ever felt before. Pooh,
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  Speaker 1: he said at last, and a little timidly, because he
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  Speaker 1: didn't want Pooh to think he was giving in. I
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  Speaker 1: was just wondering, how what would it be if we
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  Speaker 1: went home now and practiced your song and then sang
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  Speaker 1: it to your tomorrow or the next day, when we
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  Speaker 1: happen to see him. That's a very good idea, Piglet said, Pooh.
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  Speaker 1: We'll practice it now as we go along. But it's
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  Speaker 1: no good going home to practice it, because it's a
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  Speaker 1: special outdoor song which has to be sung in the snow.
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  Speaker 1: Are you sure, asked Piglet, anxiously. Well, you'll see, Piglet
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  Speaker 1: when you listen, because this is how it begins. The
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  Speaker 1: more it snows tittly palm, tittally, what said piglet, Palm,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh. I put that in to make it more honey.
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  Speaker 1: The more it goes tittly palm, the more didn't you say, snows, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: but that was before, before the tittly palm, it was
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  Speaker 1: a different tittly palm, said Pooh, feeling rather muddled. Now
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  Speaker 1: i'll sing it to you properly, and then you'll see.
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  Speaker 1: So he sang it again. The more it snows tittly palm,
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  Speaker 1: the more it goes tittly palm, The more it goes
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  Speaker 1: tittaly palm on snowing, And nobody knows tiddly palm, how
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  Speaker 1: cold my toes tiddly palm, how cold my toes tittally
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  Speaker 1: palm are growing? He sang it like that, which is
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  Speaker 1: much the best way of singing it. And when he
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  Speaker 1: had finished, he waited for Piglet to say that of
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  Speaker 1: all the outdoor homs for snowy weather he had ever heard,
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  Speaker 1: this was the best. And after thinking the matter out carefully,
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  Speaker 1: Piglet said, Pooh, he said solemnly, it isn't the toes
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  Speaker 1: so much as the ears. By this time they were
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  Speaker 1: getting near Eore's gloomy place, which was where he lived,
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  Speaker 1: And as it was still very snowy behind Piglet's ears,
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  Speaker 1: and he was getting tired of it, they turned into
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  Speaker 1: a little pine wood and sat down on the gate
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  Speaker 1: which led into it. They were out of the snow now,
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  Speaker 1: but it was very cold, and to keep themselves warm
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  Speaker 1: they sang Pooh's song right through six times, Piglet doing
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  Speaker 1: the tiddley palms and Pooh doing the rest of it,
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  Speaker 1: and both of them thumping on the top of the
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  Speaker 1: gate with pieces of stick at the proper places, And
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  Speaker 1: in a little while they felt much warmer and were
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  Speaker 1: able to talk again. I've been thinking, said Pooh. And
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  Speaker 1: what I've been thinking is this, I've been thinking about Eyore.
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  Speaker 1: What about Eore? Well, poor Eyore has nowhere to live
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  Speaker 1: nor he has said, Piglet, you have a house. Piglet
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  Speaker 1: and I have a house, and they are very good houses.
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  Speaker 1: And Christopher Robin has a house an owl, and Kanga
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  Speaker 1: and Rabbit have houses, and even Rabbit's friends and relations
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  Speaker 1: have houses or somethings. But poor Eore has nothing. So
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  Speaker 1: what I've been thinking is let's build him a house. That,
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  Speaker 1: said Piglet, is a grand idea. Where shall we build it?
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  Speaker 1: We will build it here, said Pooh, just by this
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  Speaker 1: wood out of the wind, because this is where I
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  Speaker 1: thought of it. And we will call this Pooh corner,
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  Speaker 1: and we will build an ere house with sticks at
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  Speaker 1: Pooh corner for Eyore. There was a heap of sticks
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  Speaker 1: on the other side of the wood, said Piglet. I
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  Speaker 1: saw them, lots and lots all piled up. Thank you, Piglet,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh. What you have just said will be a
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  Speaker 1: great help to us. And because of it, I could
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  Speaker 1: call this place Pooh and Piglet corner. If Pooh corner
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  Speaker 1: didn't sound better, which it does, being smaller and more
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  Speaker 1: like a corner, come along. So they got down off
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  Speaker 1: the gate and went around to the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the wood to fetch the sticks. Christopher Robin had spent
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  Speaker 1: the morning indoors going to African back, and he had
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  Speaker 1: just got off the boat and was wondering what it
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  Speaker 1: was like outside. When who should come knocking at the door?
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  Speaker 1: But Yoor, Hello, Eyore, said Christopher Robin as he opened
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  Speaker 1: the door and came out. How are you? It's snowing still,
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  Speaker 1: said Eorre gloomily. So it is, and freezing, is it? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Said Yore? However, he said, brightening up a little. We
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  Speaker 1: haven't had an earthquake lately. What's the matter, eyor nothing,
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin? Nothing important. I suppose you haven't seen a
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  Speaker 1: house or what not anywhere about what sort of a house?
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  Speaker 1: Just a house? Who lives there? I do, at least
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  Speaker 1: I thought I did. But I suppose I don't. After all,
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  Speaker 1: we can't all have houses. But Eor, I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I always thought, I don't know how it is, Christopher Robin.
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  Speaker 1: But what with all this snow and one thing and another,
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  Speaker 1: not to mention icicles and such like, It isn't so
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  Speaker 1: hot in my field about three o'clock in the morning
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  Speaker 1: as some people think it is. It isn't close, if
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, not so as to be uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't stuffy. In fact, Christopher Robin. He went on
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  Speaker 1: in a loud whisper, quite between ourselves, and don't tell
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  Speaker 1: anybody it's cold. Oh eoorre, And I said to myself.
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  Speaker 1: The others will be sorry if I'm getting myself all cold.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't got brains, any of them, only gray fluff
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  Speaker 1: that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't think.
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  Speaker 1: But if it goes on snowing for another six weeks
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  Speaker 1: or so, one of them will begin to say to himself,
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  Speaker 1: or can't be so very much too hot about three
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, and then it will get about
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  Speaker 1: and I'll be sorry. Oh eyor, said Christopher Robin, feeling
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  Speaker 1: very sorry already. I don't mean you, Christopher Robin. You're different.
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  Speaker 1: So what it all comes to is that I built
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  Speaker 1: myself a house down by my little wood. Did you
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  Speaker 1: really how exciting? The really exciting part, said e Or,
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  Speaker 1: in his most melancholy voice, is that when I left
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  Speaker 1: it this morning, it was there, and when I came
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  Speaker 1: back it wasn't not at all very natural, and it
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  Speaker 1: was only Eor's house. But still I just wondered Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Robin didn't stop to wonder. He was already back in
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  Speaker 1: his house, putting on his waterproof hat, his waterproof boots,
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  Speaker 1: and his waterproof macintosh as fast as he could. We'll
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  Speaker 1: go and look for it at once, he called out
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  Speaker 1: to Eyore. Sometimes said Yore, when people have quite finished
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  Speaker 1: taking a person's house, they're one or two bits which
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  Speaker 1: they don't want, and are rather glad for the person
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  Speaker 1: to take back, if you know what I mean. So
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  Speaker 1: I thought, if we just went, come on, said Christopher Robin,
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  Speaker 1: and off they hurried, and in a very little time
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  Speaker 1: they got to the corner of the field, by the
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  Speaker 1: side of the pinewood, where Eor's house wasn't any longer there,
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  Speaker 1: said Yor not a stick of it left. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: I've still got all this snow. Oh to do what
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  Speaker 1: I like with one mustn't complain. But Christopher Robin wasn't
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  Speaker 1: listening to Yore. He was listening to something else. Can't
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  Speaker 1: you hear it? He asked, what is it? Somebody laughing? Listen?
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  Speaker 1: They both listened, and they heard a deep, gruff voice
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  Speaker 1: sang in his singing voice that the more it snowed,
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  Speaker 1: the more it went on snowing, and a small high
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  Speaker 1: voice tiddly palming in between. It's Pooh, said Christopher Robin excitedly,
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  Speaker 1: possibly said Eyore. And Piglet said Christopher Robin excitedly, probably
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  Speaker 1: said Eyore. What we want is a trained bloodhound. The
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  Speaker 1: words of the song changed. Suddenly, we've finished our house,
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  Speaker 1: sang the gruff voice. Tidley palm, sang the squeaky one.
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  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful house, tiddly palm. I wish it were mine,
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  Speaker 1: tiddly palm. Pooh, shouted Christopher Robin. The singers on the
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  Speaker 1: gate stopped. Suddenly it's Christopher Robin, said Pooh eagerly. He's
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  Speaker 1: round by the place where we got all those sticks from,
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  Speaker 1: said Piglet. Come on, said Pooh. They climbed down their
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  Speaker 1: gate and hurried round the corner of the wood, Pooh
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  Speaker 1: making welcoming noises all the way. Why here is ere,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh, when he had finished hugging Christopher Robin, and
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  Speaker 1: he nudged Piglet, and Piglet nudged him, and they thought
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  Speaker 1: to themselves what a lovely surprise they had got. Ready.
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  Speaker 1: Hello ere, same to you, Pooh bear, And twice on
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  Speaker 1: Thursdays said yorre gloomily. Before Pooh could say why Thursdays,
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eyore's
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  Speaker 1: lost house, and Pooh and Piglet listened, and their eyes
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  Speaker 1: seemed to get bigger and bigger. Where did you say? It? Was?
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  Speaker 1: Asked Pooh? Just here, said Eyore, made of sticks? Yes, oh,
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  Speaker 1: said Piglet. What said he? Or? I just said oh?
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  Speaker 1: Said Piglet nervously, and so as to see him quite
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  Speaker 1: at ease, he hummed tiddley palm once or twice in
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  Speaker 1: a what shall we do now kind of way. You're
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  Speaker 1: sure it was a house, said Pooh. I mean you're
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  Speaker 1: sure the house was just here? Of course, I am,
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  Speaker 1: said Eore, and he murmured to himself. No brain at all,
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  Speaker 1: some of them. Why what's the matter, Pooh, asked Christopher Robin. Well,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh, The fact is, said Pooh. Well, the fact is,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh. You see, said Pooh. It's like this, said Pooh,
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  Speaker 1: And something seemed to tell him that he wasn't explaining
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  Speaker 1: very well, and he nudged Piglet again. It's like this,
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  Speaker 1: said Piglet quickly, only warmer, he added, after deep thought,
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  Speaker 1: what's warmer. The other side of the wood where your's
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  Speaker 1: house is my house, said he? Or my house was here, No,
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  Speaker 1: said Piglet firmly, the other side of the wood, because
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  Speaker 1: of being warmer, said Pooh. But I ought to know.
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  Speaker 1: Come and look, said Piglet simply, and he led the way.
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  Speaker 1: There wouldn't be two houses, said Pooh, not so close together.
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  Speaker 1: They came round the corner and there was yours house,
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  Speaker 1: looking as comfy as anything. There you are, said Piglet,
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  Speaker 1: inside as well as outside, said Pooh, proudly. Yore went
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  Speaker 1: inside and came out again. It's a remarkable thing, he said.
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  Speaker 1: It is my house. And I built it where I
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  Speaker 1: said I did. So the wind must have blown it here,
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  Speaker 1: and the wind blew it right over the wood and
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  Speaker 1: blew it down here and here it is as good
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  Speaker 1: as ever, in fact better in places, much better, said
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  Speaker 1: Pooh and Piglet together. It just shows what can be
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  Speaker 1: done by taking a little trouble, said Your. Do you see, Pooh?
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  Speaker 1: Do you see? Piglet? Brains first, and then hard work.
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  Speaker 1: Look at it. That's the way to build a house,
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  Speaker 1: said Your proudly. So they left him in it, and
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin went back to lunch with his friends Pooh
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  Speaker 1: and Piglet, and on the way they told him of
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  Speaker 1: the awful mistake they had made, And when he had
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  Speaker 1: finished laughing, they all sang the outdoor song for snowy
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  Speaker 1: weather the rest of the way home, Piglet, who is
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  Speaker 1: still not quite sure of his voice, putting in the
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  Speaker 1: tiddley palms again. And I know it seems easy, said
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  Speaker 1: Piglet to himself, but it isn't everyone who could do it.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter one, chapter two of The House at
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  Speaker 1: Pooh Corner by AA mil This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Chapter two, in which Tigger comes to
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  Speaker 1: the forest and has breakfast. Winnie the Pooh woke up
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  Speaker 1: suddenly in the middle of the night and listened. Then
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  Speaker 1: he got out of bed and lit his candle and
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  Speaker 1: stumped across the room to see if anybody was trying
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  Speaker 1: to get into his honeycupboard. And they weren't, so he
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  Speaker 1: stumped back again, blew out his candle, and got into bed.
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  Speaker 1: Then he heard the noise again. Is that you, Piglet,
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  Speaker 1: he said, But it wasn't come in Christopher Robin, he said.
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  Speaker 1: But Christopher Robin didn't tell me about it tomorrow, you,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh sleepily. But the noise went on. WHOA said
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was? And Pooh found that he wasn't asleep
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  Speaker 1: after all. What can it be? He thought? There are
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  Speaker 1: lots of noises in the forest, but this is a
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  Speaker 1: different one. It isn't a growl, and it isn't a purr,
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  Speaker 1: and it isn't a bark, and it isn't the noise
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  Speaker 1: you make before beginning a piece of poetry. But it's
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  Speaker 1: a noise of some kind, made by a strange animal.
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  Speaker 1: And he's making it outside my door. So I shall
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  Speaker 1: get up and ask him not to do it. He
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  Speaker 1: got out of bed and opened his front door. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh, in case there was anything outside, Hello said
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was? Oh said Pooh. Hello, Hello, Oh, there
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  Speaker 1: you are, said Pooh. Hello, Hello, said the strange animal.
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  Speaker 1: Wondering how long this was going on, Pooh was just
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  Speaker 1: going to say hello for the fourth time when he
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  Speaker 1: thought that he wouldn't, so he said who is it instead? Me?
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  Speaker 1: Said a voice? Oh said Pooh, Well come here. So
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was came here, and in the light of
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the candle, he and Pooh looked at each other. I'm Pooh,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. I'm tiger, said tiger. Oh said Pooh, for
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: he had never seen an animal like this before. Does
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin know about you? Of course he does, said Tiger. Well,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. It's the middle of the night, which is
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a good time for going to sleep. And tomorrow morning
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: we'll have some honey for breakfast. Do tiggers like honey?
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: They like everything, said Tigger cheerfully. Then if they like
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: going to sleep on the floor, I'll go back to bed,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, and we'll do things in the morning. Good night,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and he got back into bed and went fast to sleep.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: When he awoke in the morning, the first thing he
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: saw was Tigger sitting in front of the glass and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: looking at himself. Hello, said Pooh. Hello, said Tiger. I've
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: found somebody just like me. I thought I was the
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: only one of them. Pooh got out of bed and
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: began to explain what a looking glass was, but just
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: as he was getting to the interesting part, Tigger said,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: excuse me a moment, but there's something climbing up your
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: table and with one loud worm he jumped at the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: end of the tablecloth, pulled it to the ground, wrapped
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: himself up in it three times, rolled to the other
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: end of the room, and after a terrible struggle, got
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: his head into the daylight again and said, cheerfully, have
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I won. That's my tablecloth, said Pooh as he began
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: to unwind Tigger. I wondered what it was, said Tigger.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: It goes on the table and you put things on it.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Then why did it try to bite me when I
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: wasn't looking. I don't think it did, said Pooh. It tried,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: said Tigger, but I was too quick for it. Pooh
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: put the cloth back on the table, and he put
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: a large honeypot on the cloth, and they sat down
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: to breakfast. And as soon as they sat down, Tigger
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: took a large mouthful of honey, and he looked up
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: at the ceiling with his head on one side, and
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: made exploring noises with his tongue and considering noises and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: what have we got here? Noises? And then he said,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: in a very decided voice, tigers don't like honey, Oh,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, and he tried to make it sound sad
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and regretful. I thought they liked everything, everything except honey,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: said Tigger. Pooh felt rather pleased about this and said
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: that as soon as he had finished his own breakfast,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: he would take Tigger round to Piglet's house and Tigger
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: could try some of piglets hayhorns. Thank you, Pooh, said Tigger,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: because haghorns is really what tiggers like best. So after
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: breakfast they went round to see Piglet, and Pooh explained
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: as they went that Piglet was a very small animal
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: who didn't like bouncing, and asked Tigger not to be
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: too bouncy just at first, and Bigger, who had been
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: hiding behind trees and jumping out on Pooh's shadow when
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: it wasn't looking, said that tiggers were only bouncy before breakfast,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and that as soon as they had had a few
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: haycorns they became quiet and refined. So by and bye.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: They knocked at the door of Piglet's house. Hello, Pooh,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: said Piglet. Hello Piglet, This is Tigger. Oh is it?
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Said Piglet, and he edged round to the other side
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: of the table. I thought tiggers were smaller than that,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: not the big ones, said Tigger. They like hacorns, said Pooh.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: That's what we've come for, because poor Tigger hasn't had
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: any breakfast. Yet Piglet pushed the bowl of haycorns towards
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Tigger and said, help yourself. And then he got close
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: up to Pooh and felt much braver and said, so
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: your tigger, well well, in a careless sort of voice.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: But Tigger said nothing because his mouth was full of haycorns.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: After a long munching noise, he said, oh oh. And
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: when Pooh and Piglet said what, he said ooh, and
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: went outside for a moment. And when he came back in,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: he said firmly, tigers don't like hacorns. But you said
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: they liked everything except honey, said Pooh, everything except honey
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and hackhorns, explained Tigger. When he heard this, Pooh said, oh,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I see. And Piglet, who is rather glad that tiggers
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: didn't like hacorns, said what about thistles? That's All's said Tigger,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: is what tigers like best. Then let's go along and see, Eyre,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: said Piglet. So the three of them went, and after
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: they had walked and walked and walked, they came to
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: the part of the forest where Ere was. Hello. Eyre said, Pooh,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: this is Tigger. What is said ere? This explained Pooh
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: and Piglet together, and Tigger smiled his happiest smile and
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: said nothing. Eyor walked all round Tigger one way, and
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: then turned and walked all round him the other way.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: What did you say it was, he asked Tigger. Ah said, Eyre,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: he's just come, explained Piglet. Ah said ey Or again.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: He thought for a long time, and then said, when
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: is he going. Pooh explained to Eoor that Tigger was
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: a great friend of Christopher Robbins, who had come to
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: stay in the forest. And Piglet explained to Tigger that
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: he mustn't mind what Eyure said because he was always gloomy.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: And Eyor explained to Piglet that, on the contrary, he
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: was feeling particularly cheerful this morning. And Tigger explained to
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: anybody who was listening that he hadn't had any breakfast yet.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I knew there was something, said Pooh. Tiggers always eat thistles,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: so that was why we came to see you, Eyoor.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Don't mention it, Pooh Oh, Eyor, I didn't mean that
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to see you quite quite by your
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: stripey new friend. Naturally, he wants his breakfast. What did
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: you say? His name was Tigger. Then come this way,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Tigger eyre led the way to the most thistly looking
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: patch of thistles that ever was, and waved a hoof
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: at it. A little patch I was keeping for my birthday,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: he said, But after all, what are birthdays here today
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: and gone tomorrow? Help yourself, tiger. Tigger thanked him and
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: looked a little anxiously at Pooh. Are these really thistles?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: He whispered, yes, said Pooh, What Tiger's like best? That's right,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: said Poo. I see, said Tigger. So he took a
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: large mouthful, and he gave a large crunch. Ow, said Tigger.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: He sat down and put his paw in his mouth.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: What's the matter, asked Poo, What, mumbled tigger. Your friend said,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: your appears to have bitten on a bee. Poo's friend
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: stop shaking his head to get the prickles out, and
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: explain that tiggers didn't like thistles. Then why bend a
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: perfectly good one, asked your But you said, began Pooh.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: You said that tiggers like everything except honey and haycorns
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and thettles, said Tigger, who was now running round in
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: circles with his tongue hanging out. Pooh looked at him sadly.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: What are we going to do? He asked Piglet. Piglet
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: knew the answer to that, and he said at once
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: that they must go and see Christopher Robbin. You'll find
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: him with Kanga, said Eyre. He came close to Pooh
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: and said, in a loud whisper, could you ask your
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: friend to do his exercises somewhere else? I shall be
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: having lunch directly and don't want it bounced on just
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: before I begin a trifling matter and fussy of me.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: But we all have our little ways. Pooh nodded solemnly
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: and called to take come along, and we'll go and
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: see Kanga. She's sure to have lots of breakfast for you.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Tigger finished his last circle and came up to Pooh
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and Piglet hat he explained, with a large and friendly smile,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: come on, and he rushed off. Pooh and Piglet walked
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: slowly after him. And as they walked, Piglet said nothing
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: because he couldn't think of anything, and Pooh said nothing
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: because he was thinking of a poem. And when he
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: had thought of it, he began, what shall we do
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: about poor little tigger. He never eats nothing, he'll never
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: get bigger. He doesn't like honey and haycorns and thistles
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: because of the taste, and because of the bristles, and
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: all the good things which an animal likes have the
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: wrong sort of swallow or too many spikes. He's quite
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: big enough, anyhow, said Piglet. He isn't really very big. Well,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: he seems so. Pooh's thoughtful when he heard this, and
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: then he murmured to himself. But whatever his weight in pounds,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: shillings and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: And that's the whole poem, he said. Do you like it, Piglet?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: All except the shillings, said Piglet. I don't think they
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: ought to be there. They wanted to come in after
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the pounds, explained Pooh, So I let them in. It
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: is the best way to write poetry, letting things come. Oh,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I didn't know, said Piglet. Tigger had been bouncing in
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: front of them all this time, turning round every now
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: and then to ask is this the way? And now
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: at last they came in sight of Kanga's house and
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: there was Christopher Robin. Tigger rushed up to him. Oh
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: there you are, Tigger, said Christopher Robin. I knew you'd
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: be somewhere. I've been finding things in the forest, said
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Tigger importantly. I found a Pooh and a Piglet and
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: an Eyore, but I can't find any breakfast. Pooh and
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Piglet came up and hugged Christopher Robin and explained what
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: had been happening. Don't you know what tiggers like, asked Pooh.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: I expect if I thought very hard, I should, said
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. But I thought, Tigger knew I do, said Tigger.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Everything there was in the world except honey and hahorns
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and what were those hot things called thissels? Yes? And those?
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Oh well, then Kanga can give you some breakfast. So
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: they went into Kanga's house, and when rou had said
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Hello Boo and Hellopiglet once and Hello Tiger twice because
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: he had never said it before and it sounded funny,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: they told Kanga what they wanted, and Kangis said, very kindly, well,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: look in my cupboard, Tigger dear, and see what you'd like,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: because she knew at once that, however, big Tigger seemed
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: to be he wanted as much kindness as Rue. Shall
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I look too, said Pooh, who was beginning to feel
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: a little eleven o'clockish. And he found a small tin
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: of condensed milk, and something seemed to tell him that
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: tiggers didn't like this, So he took it into a
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: corner by itself and went with it to see that
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: nobody interrupted it. But the more Tigger put his nose
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: into this and his paw into that, the more things
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: he found which tiggers didn't like. And when he had
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: found everything in the cupboard and couldn't eat any of it,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: he said to Kanga, what happens? No? But Kanga and Christopher,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Robin and Piglet were all standing round Rue watching him
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: have his extract of malt, and Ru was saying must i,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: and Kanga was saying, now, Ru, dear, you remember what
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: you promised. What is it? Whispered Tigger to Piglet his
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: strengthening medicine, said Piglet, he hates it. So Tigger came closer,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: and he leaned over the back of Rue's chair, and
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: suddenly he put out his tongue and took one large gollalop,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: and with a sudden jump of surprise, Kega said oh,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: and then clutched the spoon again just as it was disappearing,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: and pulled it safely back out of Tigger's mouth, but
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: the extract of malt had gone. Tigger dear, said Kanga.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: He's taken my medicine. He's taken my medicine. He's taken
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: my medicine, sang Rue, happily, thinking it was a tremendous joke.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Then Tigger looked up at the ceiling and closed his eyes,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: and his tongue went round and round his chops in
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: case he had left any outside, and a peaceful smile
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: came over his face as he said, So that's what
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Tiger's like, which explains why he always lived at Kanga's
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: house afterwards and had extract of malt for breakfast, dinner,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: and tea, and sometimes when Kanga thought he wanted strengthening,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: he had a spoonful or two of Rue's breakfast after
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: meals as medicine. But I think, said Piglet Tapoo, that
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: he's been strengthened quite enough. End of chapter two, Chapter
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: three of the House at Pooh Corner by a A mel.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter three,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: in which a search is organdized and Piglet nearly meets
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the Heffalump again. Pooh was sitting in his house one day,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: counting as pots of honey when there came a knock
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: on the door. Fourteen, said Pooh, Come in fourteen? Or
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: is it fifteen? Bother? That's muddled me? Hello Pooh, said rabbit,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Hello Rabbit. Fourteen, wasn't it? What was my pots of honey?
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: What I was counting? Fourteen? That's right? Are you sure? No,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit. Does it matter. I'd just like to know,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: said Pooh humbly, so as I can say to myself,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I've got fourteen pots of honey left, or fifteen, as
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the case may be. It's sort of comforting. Well, let's
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: call it sixteen, said Rabbit. What I came to say
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: was have you seen small anywhere about? I don't think so,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, And then, after thinking a little more, he said,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: who is small? One of my friends and relations? Said
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Rabbit carelessly. This didn't help Pooh much because Rabbit had
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: so many friends and relations and of such different sorts
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: and sizes that he didn't know whether he ought to
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: be looking for Small at the top of an oak
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: tree or in the pedal of a buttercup. I haven't
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: seen anybody today, said Pooh, not so as to say hello,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Small too. Did you want him for anything? I don't
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: want him, said Rabbit. But it's always useful to know
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: where a friend in relation is, whether you want him
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: or whether you don't. Oh, I see, said Pooh. Is
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: he lost? Well, said rabbit. Nobody has seen him for
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: a long time, so I suppose he is anyhow, he
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: went on importantly. I promised Christopher Robin I'd organize a
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: search for him. So come on, Pooh said goodbye affectionately
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: And he and Rabbit went out into the forest. Now,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit, this is a search, and I've organized it.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Done What to it? Said Pooh? Organized it, which means, well,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: it's what you do to a search when you don't
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: all look in the same place at once. So I
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: want you, Pooh, to search by the six pine trees first,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: and then work your way towards Owl's house and look
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: out for me there. Do you see no, said Pooh?
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: What then I'll see you at Owl's house in about
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: an hour's time. Is piglet organized? To we all are?
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Said Rabbit, and off he went. As soon as Rabbit
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: was out of sight, Pooh remembered that he had forgotten
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: to ask who Small was, and whether he was the
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: sort of friend and relation who settled on one's nose
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: or the sort who got trodden on by mistake. And
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: as it was too late now, he thought he would
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: begin the hunt by looking for Piglet and asking him
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: what they were looking for before he looked for it.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: And it's no good looking at the six pine trees
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: for Piglet, said Pooh to himself, because he's been organdized
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: in a special place of his own. So I shall
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: have to look for the special place first. I wonder
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: where it is, And he wrote it down in his head,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: like this order of looking for things. One special place
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: to find piglet. Two piglet, to find who small is?
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Three small to find small, four rabbit to tell him
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I found small, five small again, to tell him I
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: found rabbit. Which makes it look like a bothering sort
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: of day, thought Pooh as he stumped along. The Next moment,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the day became very bothering. Indeed, because Pooh was so
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: busy not looking where he was going, that he stepped
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: on a piece of the forest which had been left
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: out by mistake, and he only just had time to
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: think to himself, I'm flying, what awl does? I wonder
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: how you stop? When he stopped, bump Oh squeaked something
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: that's funny, thought Pooh, I said ow without really oohing. Hoop,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: said a small high voice. That's me again, thought Pooh.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I've had an accident and fallen down a well, and
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: my voice has gone all squeaky and works before I'm
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: ready for it because I've done something to myself bother
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: herp Hoop, there you are. I say things when I'm
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: not trying, so it must be a very bad accident.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: And when he thought that perhaps when he did try
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: to say things, he wouldn't be able to, so as
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: to make sure, he said loudly, a very bad accident
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: to Pooh Bear, Pooh squeaked the voice. It's piglet, cried
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Pooh eagerly. Where are you underneath? Said Piglet, in an
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: underneath sort of way? Underneath what you? Squeaked Piglet? Get up, Oh,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. And scrambled up as quickly as he could.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: You fell on me, said Piglet, feeling himself all over.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't mean to, said Pooh sorrowfully. I didn't mean
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: to be underneath, said Piglet sadly. But I'm all right now, Pooh,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: and I am so glad it was you. What's happened?
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Said Pooh? Where are we? I think we're in a
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: sort of pit. I was walking along looking for somebody,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: and then suddenly I wasn't any more, And just when
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: I got up to see where I was, something fell
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: on me. And it was you, So it was, said Pooh, Yes,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: said Piglet. Pooh, he went on nervously and came a
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: little closer. Do you think we're in a trap? Pooh
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: hadn't thought about it at all, but now he nodded.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: For suddenly he remembered how he and Piglet had once
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: made a Pooh trap for heffalumps, and he guessed what
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: had happened. He and Piglet had fallen into a heffalump
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: trap for poos. That was what it was. What happens
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: when the heffalump comes, asked Piglet, tremblingly. When he had
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: heard the news. Perhaps he won't notice you, Piglet, said
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Pooh encouragingly, because you are a very small animal. But
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: he'll notice you, Pooh. He'll notice me, and I shall
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: notice him, said Pooh, thinking it out. We'll notice each
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: other for a long time, and then he'll say Ho ho.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Piglet shivered a little at the thought of that ho ho,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: and his ears began to twitch. Well, what will you say,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: he asked. Pooh tried to think of something he would say,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: but the more he thought, the more he felt that
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: there is no real answer to ho ho said by
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: a heffalump, in the sort of voice this heffalump was
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: going to say it in. I shan't say anything, said Poo.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: At last, I shall just hum to myself, as if
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: I was waiting for something. Then perhaps he'll say ho
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: ho again, suggested Piglet, anxiously. He will, said Pooh. Piglet's
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: ears twitched so quickly that he had to lean them
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: against the side of the trap to keep them quiet.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: He will say it again, said Pooh, And I shall
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: go on humming, and that will upset him, because when
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: you say ho ho twice in a gloating sort of way,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: and the other person only hums. You suddenly find, just
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: as you begin to say it the third time, that,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: well you find what that it isn't, said Pooh. Isn't
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: what Pooh knew what he meant, but being a bear
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: of very little brain, couldn't think of the words. Well,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: it just isn't. He said again, You mean it isn't
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: ho hoish any more, said Piglet hopefully. Pooh looked at
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: him admiringly and said that that was what he meant
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: if you went on humming all the time, because you
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: couldn't go on saying ho ho forever. But he'll say
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: something else, said Piglet. That's just it. He'll say, what's
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: all wish? And then I shall say, and this is
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: a very good idea, Piglet, which I've just thought of.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: I shall say it's a trap for a heff lump,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: which I've made, and I'm waiting for the heff lump
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: to fall in, and I shall go on humming. That
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: will unsettle him, Pooh, cried Piglet. And now it was
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: his turn to be the admiring one. You saved us, have,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I said Pooh, not feeling quite sure, But Piglet was
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: quite sure, and his mind ran on, and he saw
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Pooh and the Heffalump talking to each other, and he thought, suddenly,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: and a little sadly, that it would have been rather
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: nice if it had been Piglet and the Heffalump talking
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: so grandly to each other, and not Pooh, much as
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: he loved Pooh, because he really had more brain than Pooh,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: and the conversation would go better if he and not
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Pooh were doing one side of it, and it would
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: be comforting afterwards in the evenings to look back on
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: the day when he answered a hefflump back as bravely
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: as if the Heffalump wasn't there. It seemed so easy
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: now he knew just what he would say. Heffalump clothingly,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: ho Ho, Piglet carelessly trala la trema la Heffalump, surprised
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: and not quite so sure of himself. Hollo, Piglet more carelessly,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: still tittalum tum tittalum tum, Heffalump to say, ho ho,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: and turning it awkwardly into a cough her, what's all this?
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Piglet surprised, Hello, this is a trap I've made, and
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I'm waiting for a hefflump to fall into it. Heffalump,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: greatly disappointed. Oh, after a long silence, are you sure, Piglet, yes, heffalump. Oh, nervously,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a trap i'd made to catch piglets.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Piglet surprised. Oh no, heffalump. Oh, apologetically, I must have
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: got it wrong, done, Piglet, I'm afraid, so politely I'm sorry.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: He goes on humming. Hefflum. Well, Well, well, I suppose
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: i'd better be getting back, Piglet, looking up carelessly, must you. Well,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: if you see Christopher Robbin anywhere, you might tell him
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: I want him. Heffalump, eager to please. Certainly, certainly, he
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: hurries off Pooh, who wasn't going to be there, But
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: we find we can't do without him. Oh, Piglet, how
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: brave and clever you are, Piglet modestly, not at all, Pooh.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: And then when Christopher Robin comes, Pooh can tell him
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: all about it. Well, Piglet was dreaming this happy dream,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: and Pooh was wondering again whether it was fourteen or fifteen.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: The search for Small was still going on all over
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: the forest. Small's real name was very Small Beadle, but
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: he was called small for short when he wasn't spoken
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: to at all, which hardly ever happened, except when somebody
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: said really small. He had been staying with Christopher Robin
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: for a few seconds, and he started round a gorse
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: bush for exercise, but instead of coming back the other
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: way as expected, he hadn't, so nobody knew where he was.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I expect he's just gone home, said Christopher Robin to rabbit.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Did he say good bye and thank you for a
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: nice time? Said rabbit. He's only just said. How do
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: you do? Said Christopher Robin. Ha, said rabbit. After thinking
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: a little, he went on, has he written a letter
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: saying how much he enjoyed himself? And how sorry he
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: was he had to go? So suddenly Christopher Robin didn't
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: think he had, ha, said Rabbit again, and looked very important.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: This is serious. He is lost. We must begin the
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: search at once. Christopher Robin, who was thinking of something else,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: said where's Pooh? But Rabbit had gone, So he went
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: into his house and drew a picture of Pooh going
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: a long walk at about seven o'clock in the morning,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: and then he climbed to the top of his tree
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: and climbed down again. And then he wondered what Pooh
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: was doing, and went across the forest to see. It
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: was not long before he came to the gravel pit,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: and he looked down and there were Pooh and Piglet
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: with their backs to him, dreaming happily. Ho ho, said
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin loudly, And suddenly Piglet jumped six inches in
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: the air with surprise and anxiety, but Pooh went on dreaming.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: It's the hef a lump, thought Piglet nervously. Now then
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: he hummed in his throat a little so that none
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: of the words should stick, and then, in the most
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: delightfully easy way, he said tra la la tra la la,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: as if he had just thought of it. But he
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: didn't look round, because if you look round and see
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: a very fierce heffalump looking down at you, sometimes you
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: forget what you are going to say. Rum Tum tum
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: to lum, said Christopher Robin in a voice like Poos,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: because Pooh had once invented a song which went tra
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: la la tra la la, tra la la tra la la,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: rum tum tum to lum. So whatever Christopher Robin sings it.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: He always sings it in a Pooh voice, which seems
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: to suit it better. He said the wrong thing, thought Piglet, anxiously.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: He ought to have said ho ho again. Perhaps I
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: had better say it for him, And as fiercely as
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: he could, Piglet said, ho Ho. How did you get there? Piglet?
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Said Christopher Robin in his ordinary voice. This is terrible,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: thought Piglet. First he talks in Pooh's voice, and then
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: he talks in christ Robin's voice, and he's doing it
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: so as to unsettle me. And being now completely unsettled,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: he said, very quickly and squeakily, this is a traffor poos,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: and I'm waiting to fall in it. Ho Ho? What's
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: all this? And then I say? Ho ho again? What
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin? A trafford ho hoes? Said Piglet huskily.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: I've just made it, and I'm waiting for the ho
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: ho to come come. How long Piglet would have gone
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: on like this I don't know, But at that moment
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Pooh woke up suddenly and decided that it was sixteen.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: So he got up and as he turned his head
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: so as to soothe himself in that awkward place in
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: the middle of the back where something was tickling him,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: he saw Christopher Robin. Hello, he shouted joyfully, Hello, Pooh.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Piglet looked up and looked away again, and he felt
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: so foolish and uncomfortable that he had almost decided to
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: run away to see and be a sailor, when suddenly
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: he saw something. Pooh, he cried, there's something climbing up
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: your back. I thought there was, said Pooh. It's small,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: cried Piglet. Oh that's who it is, is it? Said Pooh?
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin, I found small, cried Piglet. Well done, Piglet,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin. And at these encouraging words, Piglet felt
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: quite happy again and decided not to be a sailor
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: after all. So, when Christopher Robin had helped them out
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: of the gravel pit, they all went off together, hand
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: in hand. And two days later Rabbit happened to meet
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: ere in the forest. Hello, Eyore, he said, what are
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: you looking for? Small, of course, said Eyore, haven't you
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: any brain? Oh? But didn't I tell you, said rabbit.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Small was found two days ago. There was a moment's silence. Ah,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: said Eore bitterly. Mary menton what not. Don't apologize, it's
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: just what would happen. End of chapter three, Chapter four
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: of the House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Miln.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter four,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: in which it is shown that tiggers don't climb trees.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: One day, when Poo was thinking, he thought he would
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: go and see Eyre because he hadn't seen him since yesterday.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: And as he walked through the heather singing to himself,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: he suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen Owl since the
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: day before yesterday. So he thought that he would just
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: look in at the hundred acre wood on the way
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: and see if Owl was at home. Well, he went
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: on singing until he came to the part of the
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: stream where the stepping stones were, And when he in
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: the middle of the third stone, began to wonder how
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Kanga and Ruin Tigger were getting on, because they all
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: lived together in a different part of the forest. And
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: he thought, I haven't seen Rue for a long time,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: and if I don't see him today, it will be
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: a still longer time. So he sat down on the
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: stone in the middle of the stream and sang another
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: verse of his song while he wondered what to do.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: The other verse of the song was like this, I
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: could spend a happy morning singing wru. I could spend
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: a happy morning being Pooh, for it doesn't seem to
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: matter if I don't get any fatter. And I don't
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: get any fatter, what I do. The sun which had
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: been delightfully warm, and the stone, which had been sitting
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: in it for a long time, was so warm too,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: that Pooh had almost decided to go on being Pooh
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the stream for the rest of
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: the morning. When he remembered Rabbit, Rabbit said, Pooh to himself,
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: I like talking to Rabbit. He talks about sensible things.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: He doesn't use long, difficult words like owl. He uses short,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: easy words like what about lunch? And help yourself Pooh,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: I suppose I really ought to go and see rabbit,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: which made him think of another verse. Oh, I like
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: his way of talking. Yes, I do. It's the nicest
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: way of talking, just for two And to help yourself
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: with Rabbit. Though it may become a habit, is a
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: pleasant sort of habit for a Pooh. So when he
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: had sung this, he got up off his stone, walked
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: back across the stream and set off for Rabbit's house.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: But he hadn't got far before he began to say
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: to himself, Yes, but suppose Rabbit is out, or suppose
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: I get stuck in his front door again, coming out
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: as I did once when his front door wasn't big enough,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: because I know I'm not getting fatter, but his front
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: door may be getting thinner, so wouldn't it be better
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: if And all the time he was saying things like this,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: he was going more and more westerly without thinking, until
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: suddenly he found himself at his own front door again,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: and it was eleven o'clock, which was time for a
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: little something. Half an hour later, he he was doing
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: what he had always really meant to do. He was
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: stumping off to Piglet's house, and as he walked, he
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: wiped his mouth with the back of his paw and
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: sang a rather fluffy song through the fur. It went
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: like this, I could spend a happy morning seeing Piglet,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: and I couldn't spend a happy morning not seeing Piglet.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: And it doesn't seem to matter if I don't see
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Alan Ey or or any of the others, and I'm
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: not going to see al Ory or or any of
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: the others or Christopher Robin written down like this, it
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: doesn't seem a very good song, but coming through pale
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: fawn fluff at about half past eleven on a very
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: sunny morning, it seemed to Pooh to be one of
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: the best songs he had ever sung, so he went
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: on singing it. Piglet was busy digging a small hole
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: in the ground outside his house. Hello, Piglet, said Pooh.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Hello Pooh, said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. I
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: knew it was you, so did I said, Pooh? What
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: are you doing? I'm planting a hay acorn, Pooh, so
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: that it can grow up into an oak tree and
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: of having to walk miles and miles. Do you see, Pooh?
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Supposing it doesn't, said Pooh, it will because Christopher Robin
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: says it will. So that's why I'm planting it. Well,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. If I plant a honeycomb outside my house,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: then it will grow up into a beehive. Piglet wasn't
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: quite sure about this, or a piece of a honeycomb,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, so as not to waste too much. Only
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: then I might only get a piece of a beehive,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: and it might be the wrong piece where the bees
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: were buzzing and not honeying. Bother. Piglet agreed that would
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: be rather bothering. Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: planting unless you know how to do it, he said,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: covered it up with earth, and jumped on it. I
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: do know, said Pooh, because Christopher Robin gave me a
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: master shallum seed and I planted it, and I'm going
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: to have master shallums all over the front door. I
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: thought they were called nastchiums, said Piglet timidly, as he
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: went on jumping. No, said Pooh, not, these these are
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: called mastershillums. When Piglet had finished jumping, he wiped his
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: paws on his front and said, what shall we do now?
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: And Pooh said, let's go and see Kanga and Rue
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: and Tigger, and Piglet said yes. Look that's because he
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: was still a little anxious about Tigger, who was a
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: very bouncy animal with a way of saying, how do
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: you do, which always left your ears full of sand,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: even after Kanga had said gently, Tigger, dear, and had
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: helped you up again. So they set off for Conga's house.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Now it happened that Kanga had felt rather motherly that
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: morning and wanting to count things like rous vests and
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: how many pieces of soap there were left, and the
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: two clean spots and Tigger's feeder. So she had sent
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: them out with a pack of watercress sandwiches for Roue
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: and a packet of extract of malt sandwiches for Tigger
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: to have a nice long morning in the forest, not
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: getting into mischief. And off they had gone. And as
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: they went, Tigger told Rue, who wanted to know all
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: about the things that tiggers can do. Can they fly?
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Asked Ru? Yes, said Tigger. They're very good flyers. Tigers
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: are stornry good flyers. Ooohoo, said Ru. Can they fly
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: as well as awl? Yes, said Tigger. Only they don't
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: want to. Why don't they want to, Well, they just
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: don't like it. Somehow. Ru couldn't understand this, because he
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: thought it would be lovely to be able to fly,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: But Tiger said it was difficult to explain to anybody
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: who wasn't a tigger himself. Well, said Ru. Can they
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: jump as first kengis? Yes, said Tigger, when they want to.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: I love jumping, said Rue. Let's see who can jump
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: farthest you were me? I can, said Tigger. But we
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: mustn't stop now, or we shall be late late for what? For? Whatever?
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: You want to be in time for, said Tigger, hurrying on.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: In a little while, they came to the six pine trees.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: I can swim, said Rue. I fell into the river
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: and I swimmed. Can tiger swim? Of course I can.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Tigers can do everything. Can they climb trees better than pooh?
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Asked Drew, stopping under the tallest pine tree and looking
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: up at it. Climbing trees is what they do best,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: said Tigger, Much better than poos. Could they climb this one?
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: There are always climbing trees like that, said Tigger, up
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: and down all day. Ooh, Tigger, are they really? I'll
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: show you, said Tigger bravely, And you can sit on
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: my back and watch me. For Of all the things
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: which he had said tiggers could do, the only one
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: he felt really certain about suddenly was climbing trees. Ooh, Tigger,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: ooh tigger. Ooh Tigger squeaked Ru excitedly. So he sat
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: on Tigger's back and up they went. And for the
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: first ten feet Tigger said happily to himself, off we go.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: And for the next ten feet he said, I always
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: said tiggers could climb trees. And for the next ten
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: feet he said, not that it's easy, mind you. And
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: for the next ten feet he said, of course there's
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: the coming down two backwards. And then he said, which
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: will be difficult unless one foul, when it would be easy.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: And at the word easy, the branch he was standing
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: on broke suddenly, and he just managed to clutch at
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: the one above him as he felt himself going, And
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: then slowly he got his chin over it, and then
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: one back paw, and then the other, until at last
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: he was sitting on it, breathing very quickly, and wishing
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: that he had gone in for swimming instead. Rue climbed
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: off and sat down next to him. Oh, Tigger, he said, excitedly.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Are we at the tap, No, said Tigger. Are we
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: going to the top? No, said tigger. Oh, said Rue,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: rather sadly, And then he went on hopefully that was
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: a lovely bit just now when you pretend we are
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: going to fall bump to the bottom, and we didn't.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: Will you do that bit again? No, said tigger. Rue
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: was silent for a little while, and then he said,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: shall we eat our sandwiches Tigger? And Tigger said yes?
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: Where are they? And Rue said at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the tree, And Tigger said, I don't think we'd better
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: eat them just yet, so they didn't. By and bye,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Pooh and Piglet came along. Pooh was telling Piglet in
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: a singing voice that it didn't seem to matter if
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: he didn't get any fatter, and he didn't think he
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: was getting any fatter what he did, and Pigolet was
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: wondering how long it would be before his haycorn came up. Look, Pooh,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: said Piglet. Suddenly there's something in one of the pine trees.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: So there is, said Pooh, looking up, wonderingly, there's an animal.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Piglet took Pooh's arm in case Pooh was frightened. Is
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: it one of the fiercer animals? He said, looking the
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: other way. Pooh nodded, it's a jagular. He said, what
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: do jagulars do? Asked Piglet, hoping that they wouldn't. They
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: hide in the branches of trees and drop on you
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: as you go underneath, said Pooh. Christopher Robin told me
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: perhaps we hadn't go underneath Pooh in case he dropped
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: and hurt himself. They don't hurt themselves, said Pooh, they're
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: such very good droppers. Piglet still felt that to be
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: underneath a very good dropper would be a mistake, and
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: he was just going to hurry back for something which
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: he had forgotten when the jagular called out to them.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Help help it called. That's what jagulars always do, said Pooh,
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: much interested. They call help help, and then when you
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: look up, they drop on you. I'm looking down, cried
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Piglet loudly, so as the jagular shouldn't do the wrong
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: thing by accident, Something very excited next to the jagular
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: hurt him and squeaked Pooh, Biglet, Pooh and Piglet. All
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, Piglet felt that it was a much
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: nicer day than he had thought. It was all warm
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: and sunny. Pooh, he cried, I believe it's Tigger and rue,
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: so it is, said Pooh, I thought it was a
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: jagular and another jagular? Hello, Rue called Piglet. What are
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: you doing? We can't get down. We can't get down,
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: cried Rue. Isn't it fun? Pooh, isn't it fun? Tigger
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: and I are living in a tree like al and
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: we're going to stay here forever and ever. I can
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: see Piglet's house, Piglet, I can see our house from here.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Aren't we high? Is Ow's house as high up as this?
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: How did you get up there? Rue asked Piglet on
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Tigger's back. And tickers can't climb downwards because their tails
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: get in the way only upwards, and Tiger forgot about
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: that when he started, and he's only just remembered. So
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: we've got to stay here forever and ever unless we
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: go higher. What did you say, Tigger? Oh? Tigger says,
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: if we go higher, we shan't be able to see
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: Piglet's house so well, so we're going to stay here,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Piglet said Pooh solemnly, when he had heard all this,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: What shall we do? And he began to eat Tigger's sandwiches?
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Are they stuck? Asked Piglet anxiously. Pooh nodded, couldn't you
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: climb up to them? I might, Piglet, and I might
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: bring Rue down on my back, but I couldn't bring
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: Tigger down. So we must think of something else. And
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: in a thoughtful way, he began to eat roue sandwiches too.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Whether he had thought of anything before he had finished
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: the last sandwich, I don't know. But he had just
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: got to the last but one when there was a
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: crackling in the bracken, and Christopher Robin and Eyoorre came
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: strolling along together. I shouldn't be surprised if it hailed
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: a good deal tomorrow. Eyore was saying, blizzards and what not.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Being fine today doesn't mean anything. It has no sig
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: what's that word? Well, it has none of that. It's
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: just a small piece of weather. There's pooh, said Christopher Robin,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: who didn't much mind what it did tomorrow as long
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: as he was out in it. Hello, Pooh, it's Christopher Robin, said, Piglet,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: he'll know what to do. They hurried up to him. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin began pooh, andy Or said yor. Tigger and
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: Rue are right up the six pine trees and they
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: can't get down, and and how was you saying? Put
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: in Piglet that if only Christopher Robin, Andy, Or, if
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: only you were here, then we could think of something
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: to do. Christopher Robin looked up at Tigger and Rue
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  Speaker 1: and tried to think of something. I thought, said Piglet earnestly,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: that if Or stood at the bottom of the tree,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: and if Pooh stood on Ere's back, and if I
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: stood on Poo's shoulders, and if Ere's back snapped suddenly,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: then we could all laugh ha ha amusing in a
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: quiet way, said Yor. But not really helpful, well, said
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: Piglet meekly. I thought, would it break your back? Ere,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: asked Pooh, very much surprised. That's what would be so interesting, Pooh,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: not being quite sure. Till afterwards, Pooh said oh, and
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: they all began to think again. I've got an idea,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: cried Christopher Robin. Suddenly, listen to this, Piglet, said, Yore,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: and then you'll know what we're trying to do. I'll
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  Speaker 1: take off my tunic and we'll each hold a corner,
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  Speaker 1: and then ruined Tigger can jump into it and it
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: will be all soft and bouncy for them. And they
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: won't hurt themselves getting Tigger down, said Eyore, and not
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: hurting anybody. Keep those two ideas in your head, Piglet,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: and you'll be all right. But Piglet wasn't listening. He
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: was so agog at the thought of seeing Christopher Robin's
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: blue braces again. He had only seen them once before,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: when he was much younger, and being a little over
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: excited by them, he had had to go to bed
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: half an hour earlier than usual, and he had always
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: wondered since if they were really as blue and as
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: bracing as he had thought them. So when Christopher Robin
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: took his tunic off and they were, he felt quite
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: to Or again, and held the corner of the tunic
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: next to him and smiled happily at him, and Or
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: whispered back, I'm not saying there won't be an accident now,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: mind you. They're funny things. Accidents You never have them
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: till you're having them. When ru understood what he had
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: to do, he was wildly excited and cried out, Tiger, Tigger,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: we're gonna jump. Look at me jumping, ticker like flying.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: My jumping will be Can tigers do it? And he
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: squeaked out I'm coming, Christopher Robbin, and he jumped straight
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: into the middle of the tunic, and he was going
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: so fast that he bounced up again, almost as high
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: as where he was before, and went on bouncing and
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: saying ooh for quite a long time, and at last
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: he stopped and said ooh, lovely, and they put him
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: on the ground. Come on, Tigger, he called out, it's easy.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: But Tiger was holding onto the branch and saying to himself,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: it's all very well for jumping animals like kangos, but
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: it's quite different for swimming animals like tigers. And he
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: thought of himself floating on his back down a river,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: or striking out from one island to another, and he
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: felt that that was really the life for a tigger.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: Come along, called Christopher Robin. You'll be all right. Just
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: wait a moment, said Tigger nervously. Small piece of bark
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: in my eye, and he moved slowly along his branch.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: Come on, it's easy, squeaked dru And suddenly Tigger found
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: how easy it was. Ow he shouted as the tree
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: flew past him. Look out, cried Christopher Robin to the others.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: There was a crash and a tearing noise, and a
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: confused heap of everybody on the ground. Christopher Robin and
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: Pooh and Piglet picked themselves up first, and then they
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: picked up Tigger, and underneath everybody else was ere Oh.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: Yore cried Christopher Robin, are you hurt? And he felt
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: him rather anxiously, and dusted him and helped him to
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: stand up again, or said nothing for a long time,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: and then he said, is Tiger there? Tigger was there,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: feeling bouncy again. Already, yes, said Christopher Robin. Tigger's here. Well,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: just thank him for me, said Eyore. End of chapter four,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: chapter five of The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter five,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: in which Rabbit has a busy day and we learn
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: what Christopher Robin does in the mornings. It was going
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: to be one of Rabbit's busy days. As soon as
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: he woke up, he felt important, as if everything depended
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: upon him. It was just the day for organizing something,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: or for writing a notice signed Rabbit, or for seeing
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: what everybody else thought about it. It was a perfect
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: morning for hurrying round to Pooh and saying very well,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: then I'll tell Piglet, and then going to Piglet and saying, pooh, thinks,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: but perhaps I'd better see owl first. It was a
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: sort of captainish sort of day when everybody said yes
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: rabbit and no rabbit, and waited until he had told them.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: He came out of his house and sniffed the warm
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: spring morning as he wondered what he would do. Congus's
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: house was nearest, and at Congu's house was Rue, who
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: said yes rabbit and no rabbit, almost better than anybody
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: else in the forest. But there was another animal there nowadays,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: the strange and bouncy tigger. And he was the sort
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: of tigger who was always in front when you were
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: showing him the way anywhere, and was generally out of
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: sight when at last you came to the place and said, proudly,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: here we are. No not kangis, said Rabbit thoughtfully to himself,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: as he curled his whiskers in the sun. And to
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: make quite sure that he wasn't going there, he turned
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: to the left and trotted off in the other direction,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: which was the way to Christopher Robin's house. After all,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit to himself. Christopher Robin depends on me. He's
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: fond of Pooh and Piglet and dew and so am i,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: but they haven't any brain not to notice. And he
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: respects Owl because you can't help respecting anybody who can
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: spell Tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right. But
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesdays simply
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: doesn't count. And Kanga is too busy looking after Ru,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: and Ru is too young, and Tiga is too bouncy
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: to be any help. So there's really nobody but me.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: When you come to look at it, I will go
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: and see if there's anything he wants doing, and then
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: I'll do it for him. It's just the day for
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: doing things. He trotted along happily, and by and by
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: he crossed the stream and came to the place where
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: his friends and relations lived. There seemed to be even
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: more of them about than usual this morning. And having
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: nodded to a hedgehog or two, with whom he was
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: too busy to shake hands, and having said good morning,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: good morning importantly to some of the others, and ah,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: there you are kindly to the smaller ones, he waved
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: a paw at them over his shoulder and was gone,
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: leaving such an air of excitement, and I don't know
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: what behind him that several members of the Beadle family,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: including Henry Rush, made their way at once to the
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: hundred Acre Wood, and began climbing trees in the hope
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: of getting to the top before it happened, whatever it was,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: so that they might see it properly. Rabbit hurried on
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: by the edge of the hundred Acre Wood, feeling more
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: important every minute, And soon he came to the tree
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: where Christopher Robin lived. He knocked at the door, and
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: he called out once or twice, and then he walked
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: back a little way and put his paw up to
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: keep the sun out, and called to the top of
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: the tree. And then he turned all round and shouted hello,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: and I say, it's rabbit. But nothing happened. Then he
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: stopped and listened, and everything stopped and listened with him,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: and the forest was very lone and still and peaceful
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: in the sunshine, until suddenly, a hundred miles above him,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: a lark began to sing. Bother said, Rabbit, he's gone out.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: He went back to the green front door just to
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: make sure. And he was turning away, feeling that his
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: morning had got all spoilt when he saw a piece
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: of paper on the ground and there was a pin
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: in it, as if it had fallen off the door. Ha,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit, feeling quite happy again. Another notice. This is
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: what it said, gone out, baxin busy, baxin c r
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: Ha said Rabbit again, I must tell the others, and
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: he hurried off importantly. The nearest house was Owl's, and
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: to Owl's house in the hundred acre wood he made
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: his way. He came to Owl's door, and he knocked,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: and he rang, and he rang and he knocked, and
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: at last Owls came out and said, go away. I'm thinking,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: Oh it's you, which was how he always began. Owl
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit shortly. You and I have brains. The others
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: in this forest, And when I say thinking, I mean thinking,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: you and I must do it, Yes, said Owl. I
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: was read that. Owl took Christopher Robin's notice from Rabbit
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: and looked at it nervously. He could spell his own
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: name wo l, and he could spell Tuesday so that
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: you knew it wasn't Wednesday, and he could read quite comfortably.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: When you weren't looking over his shoulder and saying well
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: all the time, and he could well, said Rabbit. Yes,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: said Owl, looking wise and thoughtful, I see what you mean.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Undoubtedly well exactly, said Owl, precisely, and he added, after
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: a little thought, if you had not come to me,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: I should have come to you, why, asked Rabbit. For
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: that very reason, said Owl, hoping that something helpful would
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: happen soon. Yesterday morning, said Rabbit solemnly. I went to
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: see Christopher Robin he was out pinned. On his door
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: was a notice, the same notice, a different one, but
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: the meaning was the same. It's very odd, amazing, said Alol,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: looking at the notice again and getting just for a
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: moment a curious sort of feeling that something had happened
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: to Christopher Robbins's back. What did you do? Nothing? The
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: best thing, said Owl wisely, Well, said Rabbit again, as
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: al knew he was going to exactly, said Awl. For
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: a little while, he couldn't think of anything more, and
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden he had an idea. Tell me, Rabbit,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: he said, the exact words of the first notice. This
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: is very important. Everything depends on this. The exact words
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: of the first notice, it was just the same as
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: that one. Really. Owl looked at him and wondered whether
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: to push him off the tree, but feeling that he
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: could always do it. Afterwards, he tried once more to
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: find out what they were talking about. The exact words please,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: he said, as if Rabbit hadn't spoken, it just said
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: gone out baxin, same as this, only this says missy
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: Maaxin too. Owl gave a great sigh of relief. Ah said, Awl,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: Now we know where we are, yes, but where's Christopher Robin?
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: Said Rabbit. That's the point. All looked at the notice again.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: To one of his education, the reading of it was easy,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: gone out Baxen, bussy Baxon, just the sort of thing
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: you'd expect to see on a notice. It is quite
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: clear what has happened, my dear rabbit, he said. Christopher
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: Robin has gone out somewhere with Baxen. He and Baxen
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: are busy together. Have you seen a baxen anywhere about
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: in the forest lately? I don't know, said Rabbit. That's
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: what I came to ask you. What are they like? Well,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: said Owl? The spotted or abacious baxen is just a
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: at least he said, it's really more of a Of course,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: he said, it depends on the well, said owl. The
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: fact is, he said, I don't know what they're like,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: said owl. Frankly. Thank you, said rabbit, and he hurried
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: off to see Pooh. Before he had gone very far,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: he heard a noise, so he stopped and listened. This
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: was the noise noise by pooh Oh. The butterflies are
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: flying now, the winter days are dying, and the primroses
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: are trying to be seen, and the turtle doves are cooing,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: and the woods are up and doing for the violets
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: are blueing in the green Oh. The honey bees are
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: gumming on their little wings and humming that the summer
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: which is coming will be fun. And the cows are
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: almost cooing, and the turtle doves are mooing, which is
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: why a Pooh is pooing in the sun, for the
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: spring is really springing. You can see a skylark singing,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: and the bluebells, which are ringing, can be heard. And
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: the cuckoo isn't cooing, but he's cucking and he's ooing,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: and a Pooh is simply poohing like a bird. Hello, Pooh,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: said rabbit. Hello, rabbit, said Pooh dreamily. Did you make
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: that song up? Well? I sort of made it up,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. It isn't brain, he went on humbly, because
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: you know why, rabbit. But it comes to me sometimes, ah,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: said rabbit, who never let things come to him, but
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: always went and fetch them. Well, the point is, have
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: you seen a spotted or a bacious baxain in the
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: forest at all? No, said Pooh? Not a no, said Pooh.
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  Speaker 1: I saw tagger just now. That's no good. No, said Pooh,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it wasn't. Have you seen piglet, yes, said Pooh.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose that isn't any good either, he asked meekly. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it depends if he saw anything he saw me, said Pooh.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: Rabbit sat down on the ground next to Pooh, and,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: feeling much less important like that, stood up again. What
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: it all comes to is this, he said. What does
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin do in the morning? Now? What sort of thing? Well,
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: can you tell me anything you've seen him do in
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: the morning these last few days? Yes, said Pooh. We
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: had breakfast together yesterday by the pine trees. I'd made
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: up a little basket, just a little fair sized basket.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: An ordinary biggish sort of basket full of Yes, yes,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit. But I mean later than that. Have you
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: seen him between eleven and twelve? Well, said Pooh at
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: eleven o'clock. At eleven o'clock, well, at eleven o'clock. You see,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: I generally get home about then, because I have one
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: or two things to do. Quarter past eleven, then, well,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. Half past, Yes, said Pooh, at half past
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: or perhaps later I might see him. And now that
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: he did think of it, he began to remember that
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: he hadn't seen Christopher Robin about so much lately. Not
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: in the mornings, afternoons, yes, evenings, yes, before breakfast, yes,
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  Speaker 1: just after breakfast, Yes, and then perhaps see you again, Pooh,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: And off he'd go. That's just it, said Rabbit. Where
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: perhaps he's looking for something, what, asked Rabbit. That's just
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: what I was going to say, said Pooh, And then
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: he added, perhaps he's looking for a for a a
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: spotted or abaceous basin, Yes, said Pooh, one of those,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: in case it isn't. Rabbit looked at him severely. I
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: don't think you're helping, he said, No, said Pooh. I
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: do try, he added, humbly, Rabbit thanked him for trying,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: and said that he would now go and see Eyore,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: and Pooh could walk with him if he liked. But Pooh,
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: who felt another verse of his song coming on, said
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: he would wait for Piglet. Goodbye, Rabbit. So Rabbit went off,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: But as it happened, it was Rabbit who saw Piglet first.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: Piglet had got up early that morning to pick himself
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: a bunch of violets, and when he had picked them
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: and put them in a pot in the middle of
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: his house, it suddenly came over him that nobody had
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: ever picked eyoor a bunch of violets. And the more
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: he thought of this, the more he thought how sad
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: it was to be an animal who had never had
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: a bunch of violets picked for him. So he hurried
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: out again, saying to himself, Eyore, violets, and then violets,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: Yore in case he forgot, because it was that sort
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: of day, And he picked a large bunch and trotted along,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: smelling them and feeling very happy, until he came to
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: the place where Yore was. Oh eyoorre, Piglet began a
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: little nervously because Eor was busy Yor put out a
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  Speaker 1: paw and waved him away. Tomorrow, said yoor Or. The
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: next day Piglet came a little closer to see what
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: it was. Ere had three sticks on the ground and
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: was looking at them. Two of the sticks were touching
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: at one end, but not at the other, and the
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: third stick was laid across them. Piglet thought that perhaps
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: it was a trap of some kind. Oh, e Or,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: he began again. Just is that, little piglet said Ere,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: still looking hard at his sticks. Yes, e Or, and
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: I do you know what this is? No, said piglet.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: It's an a, oh, said piglet. Not oh a, said
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: e Or severely. Can't you hear? Or do you think
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: you have more education than Christopher Robin? Yes, said piglet. No,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: said Piglet, very quickly, and he came closer still. Christopher
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: Robin said it was an a and an a it
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  Speaker 1: is until somebody treads on me, E're added sternly. It
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: jumped backwards hurriedly and smelt it as violets. Do you
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: know what a means, little piglet, No, Ere, I don't.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: It means learning, It means education. It means all the
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: things that you and pooh, haven't got that's what A means. Oh,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: said Piglet again. I mean, does it, he explained quickly.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you people come and go in this forest
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: and they say it's only e or so it doesn't count.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: They walk to and fro, saying ha ha. But do
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: they know anything about A. They don't. It's just three
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: sticks to them. But to the educated mark this little piglet.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: To the educated, not meaning poohs and piglets, it's a
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: great and glorious A. Not, he added, just something that
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: anybody can come and breathe on. Piglet stepped back nervously
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: and looked round for help. Here's Rabbit, he said, gladly, Hello, Rabbit.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: Rabbit came up importantly, nodded to Piglet, and said, ah, Eyore,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: in the voice of someone who would be saying goodbye
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: in about two more minutes. There's just one thing I
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: wanted to ask you, Eyore, what happens to Christopher Robin
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: in the mornings nowadays? What's this I'm looking at? Said Eyor.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: Still looking at it? Three sticks, said rabbit promptly. You see,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: said Eor to Piglet. He turned to rabbit. I will
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: now answer your question, he said, solemnly. Thank you, said rabbit.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: What does Christopher Robin do in the mornings? He learns,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: he becomes educated. He instigorates. I think that is the
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: word he mentioned, but I may be referring to something else.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: He instigorates knowledge in my small way, I also, if
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: I have the word right, am am doing what he does? That,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: for instance, is an a, said rabbit, but not a
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: very good one. Well, I must get back and tell
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: the others. Ere looked at his sticks, and then he
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: looked at Piglet. What did rabbit say it was? He asked?
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: An A, said piglet. Did you tell him no? Eure,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: I didn't. I expect he just knew. He knew you
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: mean this? A thing is a thing? Rabbit new, Yes, Ere,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: he's clever. Rabbit is clever, said Ere, scornfully, putting a
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: foot heavily on his three sticks. Education, said Ere, bitterly,
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: jumping on his six sticks. What is learning? Asked eyorre
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: as he kicked his twelve sticks into the air. A
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: thing rabbit knows, ha, I think, began Piglet nervously. Don't,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: said Eyor. I think violets are rather nice, said piglet.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: And he laid his bunch in front of Eyore and
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: scampered off. Next morning, the notice on Christopher Robin's doors said,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: gone out back soon c R. Which is why all
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: the animals in the forest, except of course the spotted
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: inerbaceous backsen now know what Christopher Robin does in the
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: mornings end of chapter five chapter six of The House
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: at Pooh Corner by AA Melm. This LibriVox recording is
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Chapter six, in which Pooh invents
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: a new game and New York joins in. By the
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: time it came to the edge of the forest, the
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: stream had grown up so that it was almost a river,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: and being grown up, it did not run and jump
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: and sparkle along as it used to do when it
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: was younger, but moved more slowly, for it knew now
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: where it was going, and it said to itself, there
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: is no hurry, we shall get there someday. But all
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: the little streams higher up in the forest went this
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: way in that quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: Before it was too late. There was a broad track,
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: almost as broad as a road, leading from the outland
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: to the forest. But before it could come to the
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: forest it had to cross this river, so where it
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: crossed there was a wooden bridge almost as broad as
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: a road, with wooden rails on each side of it.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin could just get his chin to the top
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: rail if he wanted to, but it was more fun
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: to stand on the bottom rail so that he could
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: lean right over and watch the river slipping slowly away
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: beneath him. Pooh could get his chin on the bottom
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: rail if he wanted to, but it was more fun
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: to lie down and get his head under it and
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: watched the river slipping slowly away beneath him. And this
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: was the only way in which Piglet and Roo could
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: watch the river at all, because they were too small
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: to reach the bottom rail, so they would lie down
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: and watch it, and it slipped away very slowly, being
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: in no hurry to get there. One day, when Pooh
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: was walking towards this bridge, he was trying to make
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: up a piece of poetry about fur cones, because there
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: they were lying about on each side of him, and
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: he felt singing. So he picked up a fur cone
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: and looked at it and said to himself, this is
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: a very good fur cone, And something ought to rhyme
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: to it, but he couldn't think of anything, and then
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: this came into his head. Suddenly, here is a mystery
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: about a little fir tree. Owl says it's his tree.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: In Gangha says it's her tree, which doesn't make sense,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, because Kega doesn't live in a tree. He
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: had just come to the bridge and not looking where
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: he was going, he tripped over something and the fur
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: cone jerked out of his paw into the river. Bother,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: said Pooh as it floated away under the bridge, and
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: he went back to get another fur cone, which had
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: a rhyme to it, But then he thought that he
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: would just look at the river instead, because it was
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: a peaceful sort of day. So he lay down and
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: looked at it, and it slipped slowly away beneath him.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: And suddenly there was his fur cone slipping away too.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: That's funny, said Pooh. I dropped it on the other side,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, and it came out on this side. I
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: wonder if it would do it again, and he went
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: back for some more fur cones. It did, it kept
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: on doing it. Then he dropped two in at once
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: and leaned over the bridge to see which of them
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: would come out first, and one of them did, but
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: as they were both the same size, he didn't know
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: if it was the one which he wanted to win
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: or the other one. So the next time he dropped
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: one big one and one little one, and the big
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: one came out first, which was what he had said
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: it would do, and the little one came out last,
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: which was what he had said it would do. So
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: he had won twice, and when he went home for tea,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: he had won thirty six and lost twenty eight, which
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: meant that he was that he had Well, you take
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: twenty eight from thirty six, and that's what he was
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: instead of the other way round. And that was the
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: beginning of the game called Pooh Sticks, which Pooh invented
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: and which he and his friends used to play on
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: the edge of the forest, but they played with sticks
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: instead of fur cones because they were easier to mark. Now,
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: one day Pooh and Piglet and Rabbit and Rue were
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: all playing Pooh Sticks together. They had dropped their sticks
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: in when Rabbit said go, and then they had hurried
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: across to the other side of the bridge, and now
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: they were all leaning over the edge waiting to see
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: whose stick would come out first, but it was a
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: long time coming because the river was very lazy that
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: day and hardly seemed to mind if it didn't ever
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: get there at all. I can see mine, cried Rue. No,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: I can't. It's something else. Can you see yours? Piglet?
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: I thought I could see mine, but I couldn't there
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: it is, No, it isn't. Can you see yours? Pooh? No,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. I expect my stick stuck, said Rue Rabbit.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: My stick stuck is your stick stock, Piglet. They always
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: take longer than you think, said rabbit. How long you
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: think they'll take? Asked Rue. I can see yours, Piglet
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: said boo. Sat, mine's a sort of grayish one, said piglet,
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: not daring to lean too far over in case he
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: fell in. Yes, that's what I can see. It's coming
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: over onto my side. Rabbit leaned over further than ever,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: looking for his, and Rue wriggled up and down, calling out,
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: come on, stick stick, stick stick, and Piglet got very
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: excited because his was the only one which had been seen,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: and that meant that he was winning. It's coming, said Pooh.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: Are you sure it's mine? Squeaked piglet excitedly. Yes, because
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: it's gray, a big gray one. Here it comes a
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: very big gray. Oh no, it isn't. It's ere and
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: out floated Eyor Eow cried everybody, looking very calm, very dignified,
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: with his legs in the air. Came Eyore from beneath
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: the bridge. It's ere, cried Ruthe terribly excited. Is that so?
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: Said Eore. Get caught up by a little eddie and
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: turning slowly round three times. I wondered. I didn't know
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: you were playing, said Rue. I'm not, said Yor, Eyoor.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: What are you doing there? Said rabbit. I'll give you
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: three guesses. Rabbit digging holes in the ground, wrong, leaping
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: from branch to branch of a young oak tree, wrong,
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: waiting for somebody to help me out of the river. Right.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: Give rabbit time until he'll always get the answer. But
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: Eyor said Pooon in distress. What can we I mean,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: how shall we do you think? If we? Yes, said Yor,
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: One of those would be just a thing. Thank you. Boo.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: He's going round and round, said Rue, much impressed. And
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: why not, said Eyor coldly, I can swim too, said Rue.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: Prat not round and round, said Yor. It's much more difficult.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to come swimming at all today, he
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: went on, revolving slowly. But if when in I decide
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: to practice a slight circular movement from right to left,
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: or perhaps I should say, he added, as he got
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: into another eddy, from left to right, just as it
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: happens to occur to me. It is nobody's business but
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: my own. There was a moment's silence while everybody thought.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: I've got a sort of idea, said Pooh at last,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: But I don't suppose it's a very good one. I
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: don't suppose it is, either, said Yoor. Go on Pooh,
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit. Let's have it well, if we all threw
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: stones and things into the river on one side of Yoor,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: the stones would make waves, and the waves would wash
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: him to the other side. That's a very good idea, yeah,
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit, and Pooh looked happy again. Very said Eyor.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: When I want to be washed Pooh, I'll let you know.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: Supposing we hit him by mistake, said Piglet anxiously. Or
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: supposing you missed him by mistake, said Eyor. Think of
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: all the possibilities, Piglet, before you settled down to enjoy yourselves.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: But Pooh had got the biggest stone he could carry
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: and was leaning over the bridge, holding it in his paws.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not throwing it, I'm dropping it, eyoor, he explained.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: And then I can't miss I mean, I can't hit you.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: Could you stop turning round for a moment because it
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: muddles me rather, no, said Yoor, I like turning round.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: Rabbit began to feel that it was time he took command. Now, Pooh,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: he said, When I say now, you can drop it, Eyore.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: When I say now, Poo will drop his stone. Thank
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: you very much, Rabbit, But I expect I shall know.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: Are you ready, Pooh? Piglet, give Poo a little more room,
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: get back a bit there, rou Are you ready? No,
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: said Yore, Now said Rabbit. Pooh dropped his stone. There
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: was a loud splash, and Dior disappeared. It was an
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: anxious moment for the watchers on the bridge. They looked
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: and looked, and even the sight of Piglet's stick coming
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: out a little in front of rabbits didn't cheer them
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: up as much as you would have expected. And then,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: just as Pooh was beginning to think that he must
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: have chosen the wrong stone, or the wrong river, or
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: the wrong day for his idea. Something gray showed for
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: a moment by the river bank, and it got slowly
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: bigger and bigger, and at last it was Eyor coming
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: out with a shout. They rushed off the bridge and
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: pushed and pulled at him, and soon he was standing
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: among them again on dry land. Oh, yoor you are,
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: where are wet? Said Piglet, feeling him. Eorre shook himself
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: Well done, Pooh, said rabbit kindly. That was a good
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: idea of ours. What was asked to Yor? Houshing you
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: to the bank like that? Ho shaning me, said ere
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: in surprise, ho shang me. You didn't think I was hooshed,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: did you? I dived Pooh dropped a large stone on me,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: and so as not to be struck heavily on the chest,
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: I dived and swam to the bank. You didn't, really,
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: whispered Piglet to Pooh, so as to comfort him. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't think I did, said Pooh anxiously. It's just Eyre,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: said Piglet, I thought your idea was a very good idea.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: you were a bear of very little brain and you
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: think of things, you find sometimes that a thing which
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: seemed very thingish inside of you is quite different when
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: it gets out into the open and has other people
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: looking at it. And anyhow, Eyore was in the river,
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: and now he wasn't, so he hadn't done any harm.
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  Speaker 1: How did you fall in, yoor, asked Rabbit, as he
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: dried him with piglets handkerchief. I didn't, said Yore. But
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: how I was bounced? Said yoor. Ooh, said Ru excitedly.
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  Speaker 1: Did somebody push you? Somebody bounced me? I was just
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: thinking by the side of the river, thinking if any
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: of you know what that means? When I received a
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: loud bounce, oh, Eyore said everybody. Are you sure you
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: didn't slip? Asked Rabbit wisely, of course I slipped. If
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: you're standing on the slippery bank of a river and
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: somebody bounces you loudly from behind lip. What did you
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: think I did? But who did it? Asked Ru? Or
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: didn't answer. I expect it was Tiger, said Piglet nervously.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: But Yoor said Pooh, was it a joke or an accident?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I didn't stop to ask Pooh. Even at
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: the very bottom of the river. I didn't stop to
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: say to myself, is this a hearty joke or is
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: it the merest accident. I just floated to the surface
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: and said to myself, it's wet, if you know what
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: I mean. And where was Tiger, asked Rabbit. Before Eyorre
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: could answer, there was a loud noise behind them, and
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: through the hedge came Tigger himself. Hello, everybody, said Tigger, cheerfully. Hello, Tigger,
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: said ru Rabbit became very important suddenly, Tigger, he said, solemnly.
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  Speaker 1: What happened just now? Just when, said Tigger, a little uncomfortably,
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: when you bounced Eorre into the river. I didn't bounce them,
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  Speaker 1: You bounced me, said Eor gruffly. I didn't really. I
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: had a cough and I happened to be behind you,
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: and I said, girl, why, said Rabbit, helping Piglet up
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: and dusting him. It's all right, Piglet. It took me
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: by surprise, said Piglet nervously. That's what I call bouncing,
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: said yor taking people by surprise, very unpleasant habit. I
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: don't mind Tigger being in the forest, he went on,
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: because it's a large forest and there's plenty of room
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: to bounce in it. But I don't see why he
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: should come into my little corner of it and bounced there.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't as if there was anything very wonderful about
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: my little corner. Of course, for people who like cold, wet,
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: ugly bits, it is something rather special, but otherwise it's
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: just a corner. And if anybody feels bounty, I didn't bounce,
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  Speaker 1: I coughed, said Tigger crossly. Bouncy or coffee, it's all
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: the same. At the bottom of the river, well, said rabbit.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: All I can say is well he is Christopher Robin,
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: so he can say it. Christopher Robin came down from
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: the forest to the bridge, feeling all sunny and careless,
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: and just as if twice nineteen didn't matter a bit,
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: as it didn't on such a happy afternoon. And he
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: thought that if he stood on the bottom rail of
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: the bridge and leaned over and watched the river slipping
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: slowly away beneath him, then he would suddenly know everything
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: that there was to be known, and he would be
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: able to tell Pooh, who wasn't quite sure about some
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: of it. But when he got to the bridge and
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: saw all the animals there, then he knew that it
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: wasn't that kind of afternoon, but the other kind when
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: you wanted to do something. It's like this, Christopher Robin,
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: began Rabbit. Tigger, No, I didn't, said Tigger. Well, anyhow,
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: there I was, said Eyre. But I don't think he
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: meant to, said Pooh. He just is bouncy, said Piglet,
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: and he can't help it. Try bouncing me, Tigger said
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: rue eagerly. E're Tiger's going to try me? Piglet, do
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: you think yes, yes, said rabbit. We don't all want
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: to speak at once. The point is, what does Christopher
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: Robin think about it? All I did was I coughed,
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: said Tigger. He bounced, said Eyre. Well, I sort of boffed,
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: said tigger. Hush, said Rabbit, holding up his paw. What
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: does Christopher Robin think about it all? That's the point, well,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin, not quite sure what it was all about.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: I think, yes, said everybody. I think we all ought
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: to play poo sticks so they did, and Eyor, who
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: had never played it before, won more time than anybody else,
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: and ru fell in twice, the first time by accident
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: and the second time on purpose because he suddenly saw
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: Kanga coming from the forest and he knew he'd have
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: to go to bed anyhow. So then Rabbit said he'd
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: go with them, and Tigger and Eyre went off together
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: because Eyor wanted to tell Tigger how to win it poosticks,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: which you do by letting your stick drop in a
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: twitchy sort of way, if you understand what I mean.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: Tigger and Christopher Robin and Pooh and Piglet were left
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: on the bridge by themselves for a long time. They
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: looked at the river beneath them, saying nothing, and the
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: river said nothing too, for it felt very quiet and
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: peaceful on this summer afternoon. Tiger is all right, really,
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: said pigg glit lazily. Of course he is, said Christopher Robin.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: Everybody is, really, said Pooh. That's what I think, said Pooh.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: But I don't suppose I'm right, he said. Of course
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: you are, said Christopher Robin. End of chapter six, Chapter
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: seven of the House at Pooh Corner by AA melm
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter seven,
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: in which Tigger is unbounced. One day, Rabbit and Piglet
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: were sitting outside Pooh's front door listening to Rabbit, and
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: Pooh was sitting with them. It was a drowsy summer afternoon,
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: and the forest was full of gentle sounds, which all
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: seemed to be saying to Pooh, don't listen to Rabbit,
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: listen to me. So he got into a comfortable position
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: for not listening to Rabbit. And from time to time
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: he opened his eyes to say ah, and then closed
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: them again to say true. And from time to time
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: Rabbit said you see what I mean, Piglet, very earnestly,
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: and Piglet nodded earnestly to show that he did, in fact,
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit. Coming to the end of it. At last,
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: Tigg is getting so bouncy nowadays that it's time we
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: taught him a lesson, don't you think so, Piglet. Piglet
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: said that Tigger was very bouncy, and that if they
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: could think of a way of unbouncing him, it would
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: be a very good idea. Just what I feel, said Rabbit,
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: What do you say, Pooh? Pooh opened his eyes with
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: a jerk and said extremely, extremely what, asked Rabbit. What
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: you were saying, said Pooh? Undoubtedly. Piglet gave Pooh a
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: stiffening sort of nudge, and Pooh, who felt more and
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: more that he was somewhere else, got up slowly and
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: began to look for himself. But how shall we do it,
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: asked Piglet. What sort of a lesson? Rabbit? That's the point,
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit. The word lesson came back to Pooh as
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: one he had heard before. Somewhere there's a thing called
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: twice times, he said, Christopher Robin tried to teach it
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: to me once, but it didn't. What didn't, said Rabbit,
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: didn't what said piglet. Pooh shook his head. I don't know,
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: he said, it just didn't. What are we talking about, Pooh,
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: said Piglet, reproachfully. Haven't you been listening to what Rabbit
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: was saying? I listened, but I had a small piece
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: of fluff in my ear. Could you say it again, please, rabbit?
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: Rabbit never minded saying things again, so he asked where
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: he should begin from, and when Pooh had said from
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: the moment when the fluff got in his ear, and
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: Rabbit had asked when that was, and Pooh had said
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: he didn't know, because he hadn't heard properly. Piglet settled
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: at all by saying that what they were trying to
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: do was they were just trying to think of a
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: way to get the bounces out of Tigger, because however
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: much you liked him, you couldn't deny it he did bounce. Oh,
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: I see, said Pooh. There's too much of him, said Rabbit.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: That's what it comes to. Pooh tried to think, and
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: all he could think of was something which didn't help
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: at all, so he hummed it very quietly to himself.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: If Rabbit was bigger and fatter and stronger or bigger
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: than Tigger, if Tiger was smaller than, Tiger's bad habit
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: of bouncing at rabbit would matter no longer. If Rabbit
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: was taller. What was poos haying, asked Rabbit. Any good? No,
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: said poo sadly. No good. Well, I've got an idea,
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit. And here it is. We take Tigger for
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: a long explore somewhere where he's never been, and we
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: lose him there, and next morning we find him again
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: and Mark my words, he'll be a different tigger altogether, why,
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, Because he'll be a humble tigger, because he'll
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: be a sad tigger, a melancholy tigger, a small and
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: sorry tigger. And oh, Rabbit, I am glad to see you, Tigger.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: That's why will he be glad to see me in
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: Piglet too? Of course that's good, said Pooh. I should
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: hate him to go on being sad, said Piglet. Doubtfully,
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: Tiggers never go on being sad, explained Rabbit. They get
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: over it with astonishing rapidity. I asked Owl just to
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: make sure, and he said that that's what they always
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: get over it with. But if we can make Tigger
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: feel small and sad, just for five minutes, we shall
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: have done a good deed. Would Christopher Robin think so,
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: asked Piglet, Yes, said Rabbit, he'd say you've done a
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: good deed. Piglet. I would have done it myself, only
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: I happened to be doing something else. Thank you, Piglet
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: and Pooh. Of course, Piglet felt very glad about this,
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: and he saw at once that what they were going
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: to do to Tigger was a good thing to do,
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: and as Pooh and Rabbit were doing it with him.
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: It was a thing which even a very small animal
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: could wake up in the morning and be comfortable about
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: doing so. The only question was where should they lose Tigger.
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: We'll take him to the North Pole, said Rabbit, because
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: it was a very long explore finding it, so it
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: will be a very long explore for Tigger. Unfinding it.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: It was now Pooh's turn to feel very glad, because
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: it was he who had first found the north Pole.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: And when they got there, Tigger would see a notice
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: which said discovered by Pooh. Pooh found it, and then
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: Tigger would know which perhaps he didn't know the sort
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: of bear Pooh was that sort of bear. So it
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: was arranged that they should start next morning, and that Rabbit,
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: who lived near Kanga and ruined Tigger, should now go
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: home and ask Tigger what he was doing tomorrow, because
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: if he wasn't doing anything, what about coming for an
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: explorer and getting Pooh and Piglet to come too. And
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: if Tigger said yus, that would be all right. And
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: if he said no, he won't, said Rabbit, leave it
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: to me, and he went off busily. The next day
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: was quite a different day, instead of being hot and sunny,
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: it was cold and misty. Pooh didn't mind for himself,
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: but when he thought of all the honey the bees
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be making a cold and misty day always made
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: him feel sorry for them. He said so to Piglet
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: when Piglet came to fetch him, and Piglet said that
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: he wasn't thinking of that so much, but of how
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: cold and miserable it would be being lost all day
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: and night on top of the forest. But when he
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: and Pooh had got to Rabbit's house, Rabbit said it
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: was just the day for them because Tigger always bounced
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: on ahead of everybody, and as soon as he got
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: out of sight, they would hurry away in the other direction,
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: and he would never see them again. Not never, said Piglet.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: Well not until we find him again, Piglet, tomorrow or
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: whenever it is. Come on. He's waiting for us. When
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: they got to Kanga's house, they found that Ru was
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: waiting too, being a great friend of Tigger's, which made
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: it awkward, But Rabbit whispered, leave this to me behind
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: his paw to poo and went up to Kanga. I
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: don't think Ru had better come, he said, not to day?
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: Why not, said Rue, who wasn't supposed to be listening.
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: Nasty cold day, said Rabbit, shaking his head. And you
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: were coughing this morning, how do you know, asked Rue indignantly. Oh, Rue,
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: you never told me, said Kanga, reproachfully. It was a
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: biscuit cough, said Rue, not one you tell about. I
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: think not to day. Dear another day tomorrow, said Rue.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll see, said Kanga. You're always seeing. Nothing ever happens,
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: said Rue. Sadly, nobody could see on a day like this, Rue,
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit. I don't expect we shall get very far.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: And then this afternoon we'll all, we'll all, we'll luh. Tigger,
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: there you are, Come on, good bye, Rue, this afternoon
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: will come on. Pooh already, that's right, come on. So
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: they went. At first, Pooh and Rabbit and Piglet walked together,
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: and Tigger ran round them in circles. And then, when
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: the path got narrower, Rabbit, Piglet and Pooh walked one
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: after another, and Tigger ran round them in oblongs, and
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: by and by, when the gorse got very prickly on
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: each side of the path, Tigger ran up and down
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: in front of them, and sometimes he bounced into Rabbit
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: and sometimes he didn't. And as they got higher, the
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: mist got thicker, so that Tigger kept disappearing. And then
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: when you thought he wasn't there, there he was again,
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: saying I say come on, And before you could say anything,
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: there he it wasn't. Rabbit turned round and nudged Piglet.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: The next time, he said till pooh. The next time,
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: said Piglet to Pooh. The next what said Pooh to Piglet?
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: Tigger appeared, suddenly, bounced into rabbit and disappeared again. Now,
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit. He jumped into a hollow by the side
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: of the path, and Pooh and Piglet jumped after him.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: They crouched in the bracken listening. The forest was very
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: silent when you stopped and listened to it. They could
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: see nothing and hear nothing. Hush, said Rabbit, I am,
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. There was a pattering noise, then silence again. Hello,
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: said Tigger, and he sounded so close suddenly that Piglet
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: would have jumped if Pooh hadn't accidentally been sitting on
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: most of him. Where are you, called Tigger, Rabbit nudged Pooh,
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: and Pooh looked about for piglet nudge, but couldn't find him,
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: and Piglet went on breathing wet bracken as quietly as
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: he could, and felt very brave and excited. That's funny,
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: said Tigger. There was a moment's silence, and then they
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: heard him pattering off again. For a little longer, they
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: waited until the forest had become so still that it
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: almost frightened them, And then Rabbit got up and stretched himself. Well,
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: he whispered proudly. There we are, just as I said.
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: I've been thinking, said Pooh. And I think no, said Rabbit.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: Don't run, come on, and they all hurried off. Rabbit
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: leading the way, now, said Rabbit. After they had gone
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: a little way, we can talk. What were you going
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: to say, Pooh? Nothing much? Why are we going along here?
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: Because it's the way home, Oh, said Pooh. I think
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: it's more to the right, said Piglet nervously. What do
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: you think, Pooh? Pooh? Look it is to pause. He
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: knew that one of them was the right, and he
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: knew that when you had decided which of them was
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: the right, then the other one was the left, but
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 1: he could never remember how to begin. Well, he said, slowly.
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: Come on, said rabbit, I know it's this way. They
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: went on. Ten minutes later they stopped again. It's very silly,
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: said rabbit, but just for the moment. I ah, of course,
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: come on, here we are, said rabbit. Ten minutes later. No,
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: we're not now, said rabbit. Ten minutes later, I think
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: we ought to be getting or are we a little
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: bit more to the right than I thought. It's a
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: funny thing, said rabbit. Ten minutes later. How everything looks
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: the same in a mist? Have you noticed it? Pooh
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: Pooh said that he had lucky. We know the forest
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: so well, or we might get lost, said Rabbit. Half
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: an hour later, and he gave the careless laugh which
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: you give when when you know the forest so well
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: that you can't get lost. Piglet sidled up to Pooh
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: from behind Pooh, he whispered, yes, Piglet, nothing, said Piglet,
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: taking Poo's paw. I just wanted to be sure of you.
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: When Tigger had finished waiting for the others to catch
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: him up, and they hadn't, and when he had got
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  Speaker 1: tired of having nobody to say, I say come on too.
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  Speaker 1: He thought he would go home, so he trotted back,
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  Speaker 1: and the first thing Kangas said when she saw him was,
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: there's a good Tigger. You're just in time for your
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: strengthening medicine, and she poured it out for him. Rue
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: said proudly, I've had mine, and Tigger swallowed his and
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: said so have I. And then he and Rue pushed
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: each other about in a friendly way, and Tigger accidentally
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: knocked over one or two chairs by accident, and Ru
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: accidentally knocked over one on purpose. And Kangus said, now,
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: then run along. Where shall we run along? Tod you
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: can go and collect some fur cones for me, said Kanga,
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  Speaker 1: giving them a basket. So they went to the six
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: pine trees and threw fur cones at each other until
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: they had forgotten what they came for. And they left
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: the basket under the trees and went back to dinner.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: And it was just as they were finishing dinner that
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin put his head in at the door. Where's Pooh?
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: He asked, Tigger, Dear, where's Pooh? Said Kanga. Tigger explained
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: what had happened at the same time that Ru was
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: explaining about his biscuit cough, and Kenga was telling them
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: both not to talk at once. So it was some
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: time before Christopher Robin guessed that Pooh and Piglet and
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: Rabbit were all lost in the mist on the top
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: of the forest. It's a funny thing about tigers, whispered
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: Tigger to Rue. How tigers never get lost? Why don't they, Tigger,
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: they just don't, explained Tigger. That's how it is, well,
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin. We shall have to go and find them.
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: That's all. Come on, Tigger, I shall have to go
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: and find them, explained Tigger to Rue. May I find them, too,
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: asked Ru. Eagerly. I think not to day, dear, said Kanga.
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: Another day. Well, if they're lost, to morrow, may I
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: find them. We'll see, said Kanga, and Rue, who knew
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: what that meant, went into a corner and practiced jumping
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: out at himself, partly because he wanted to practice this,
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: and partly because he didn't want Christopher Robin and Tigger
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: to think that he minded when they went off without him.
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: The fact is, said Rabbit, we've missed away somehow. They
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: were having a rest in a small sand pit on
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: the top of the forest. Pooh was getting rather tired
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: of that sand pit and suspected it of following them about,
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: because whichever direction they started in, they always ended up
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: at it, and each time as it came through the
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: mist at them. Rabbit said triumphantly, now I know where
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: we are, and Pooh said sadly, oh do I? And
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: Piglet said nothing. He had tried to think of something
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: to say, but the only thing he could think of
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: was help, Help, And it seemed silly to say that
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: when he had Pooh and Rabbit with him. Well, said Rabbit,
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: after a long silence in which nobody thanked him for
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: the nice walk they were having. We'd better get on.
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: I suppose which way shall we try? How would it be,
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: said Pooh slowly, if as soon as we're out of
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: sight of this pit we try to find it again.
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: What's the good of that, said rabbit. Well, said Pooh.
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: We keep looking for a home and not finding it.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: So I thought if we looked for this pit, we'd
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: be sure not to find it, which would be a
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: good thing, because then we might find something that we
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: weren't looking for, which might be just what we were
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: looking for. Really, I don't see much sense in that,
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: said Rabbit. No, said Pooh, humbly, there isn't. But there
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: was going to be when I began it. It's just
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: that something happened to it on the way. If I
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: walked away from this pit and then walked back to it,
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: of course I should find it. Well, I thought, perhaps
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't, said Pooh. I just thought, try, said Piglet. Suddenly,
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: we'll wait here for you. Rabbit gave a laugh to
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: show how silly Piglet was, and walked into the mist.
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: After he had gone a hundred yards, he turned and
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: walked back again. And after Pooh and Piglet had waited
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: twenty minutes for him, Pooh got up. I just thought,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. Now, then, Piglet, let's go home. But Pooh
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: cried Piglet, all excited. Do you know the way? No,
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. But there are twelve pots of honey in
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: my cupboard, and they've been calling to me for hours.
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: I couldn't hear them properly before because Rabbit would talk.
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: But if nobody says anything except those twelve pots, I think,
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: Piglet I shall know where they're calling from. Come on.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: They walked off together and for a long time, Piglet
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: said nothing so as not to interrupt the pots. And
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: then suddenly he made a squeaky noise and an ooh noise,
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: because now he began to know where he was, but
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: he still didn't dare to say so out loud in
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: case he wasn't. And just when he was getting so
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: sure of himself that it didn't matter whether the pots
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: went on calling or not, there was a shout from
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: in front of them, and out of the mist came
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. Oh, there you are, said Christopher Robin, carelessly,
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: trying to pretend that he hadn't been anxious. Here we are,
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. Where's rabbit? I don't know, said Pooh. Oh, well,
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: I expect Tigger will find him. He's sort of looking
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: for you, all well, said Pooh. I've got to go
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: home for something, and so has Piglet because we haven't
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: had it yet. And I'll come and watch you, said
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. So he went home with Pooh and watched
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: him for quite a long time. And all the time
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: he was watching, Tiger was tearing round the forest making
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: loud yapping noises for rabbit. And at last a very
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: small and sorry rabbit heard him, and the small and
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: sorry rabbit rushed through the mist at the noise, and
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: it suddenly turned into tigger, A friendly tigger, a grand tigger,
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: a large and helpful tigger, A tigger who bounced if
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: he bounced at all, in just the beautiful way a
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: tigger ought to bounce. Oh tiger, I am glad to
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: see you, cried rabbit, end of chapter seven, Chapter eight
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: of The House at Pooh Corner by A. Meln. This
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter eight, in
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: which Piglet does a very grand thing. Halfway between Pooh's
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: house and Piglet's house was a thoughtful spot where they
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: met sometimes when they had decided to go and see
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: each other, and as it was warm and out of
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: the wind, they would sit down there for a little
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: and wonder what they would do now that they had
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: seen each other. One day, when they had decided not
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: to do anything, Pooh made up a verse about it
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: so that everybody should know what the place was for.
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: This warm and sunny spot belongs to Pooh, and here
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: he wonders what he's going to do. Oh, bother, I
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: forgot it's piglets too. Now. One autumn morning, when the
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: wind had blown all the leaves off the trees in
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: the night and was trying to blow the branches off.
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: Pooh and Piglet were sitting in the thoughtful spot and
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: wondering what I think, said Pooh, is I think will
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: go to Pooh Corner and see Eyore, because perhaps his
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: house has been blown down and perhaps he'd like us
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: to build it again. When I think, said Piglet, is
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: I think we'll go and see Christopher Robin. Only he
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: won't be there, so we can't. Let's go and see everybody,
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. Because when you've been walking in the wind
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: for miles and you suddenly go into somebody's house and
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: he says, hello, Pooh, you're just in time for a
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 1: little smackerel of something, and you are, then it's what
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: I call a friendly day. Piglet thought that they ought
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: to have a reason for going to see everybody, like
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: looking for small or organizing an expotition. If Pooh could
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: think of something, Pooh could. We'll go because it's Thursday,
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: he said, and we'll go to wish everybody a very
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: happy Thursday. Come on, Piglet. They got up, and when
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: Piglet had sat down again because he didn't know the
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: wind was so strong, and had been helped up by Pooh,
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: they started off. They went to Pooh's house first, and
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: luckily Pooh was at home just as they got there,
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: so he asked them in and they had some and
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: then they went on to Congis house, holding on to
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: each other and shouting isn't it and what and I
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: can't hear. By the time they got to Congis house,
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: they were so buffeted that they stayed to lunch just
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: at first. It seemed rather cold outside afterwards, so they
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: pushed onto rabbits as quickly as they could. We've come
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: to wish you a very happy Thursday, said Pooh, when
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: he had gone in and out once or twice, just
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: to make sure that he could get out again. Why
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: what's going to happen on Thursday? Asked Rabbit. And when
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: Pooh had explained, and Rabbit, whose life was made up
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: of important things, said Ooh, I thought you'd really come
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: about something. They sat down for a little and by
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: and bye, Pooh and Piglet went on again. The wind
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: was behind them now, so they didn't have to shout. Rabbits. Clever,
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: said Pooh thoughtfully, yes, said piglet. Rabbit's clever, and he
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: has brain. Yes, said piglet, rabbit has brain. There was
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: a long silence. I suppose, said Pooh that that's why
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: he never understands anything. Christopher Robin was at home by
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: so glad to see them that they stayed there until
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: very nearly tea time, and then they had a very
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: hurried on to Pooh corner so as to see Eyre
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: before it was too late to have a property with awl. Hello, Yore,
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: they called out, cheerfully. Ah said Eyoorre lost your way.
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: We just came to see you, said Piglet, and to
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: see how your house was. Look, Pooh, it's still standing,
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: I know, said Yoor. Very odd. Somebody ought to have
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: come and pushed it over. We wondered whether the wind
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: would blow it down, said Pooh. Ah, that's why nobody's bothered.
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: I suppose I thought perhaps they'd forgotten. Well, we're very
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: glad to see you, Yor, and now we're going on
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: to see Owl. That's right, you'll like Owl. He flew
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: past a day or two ago and noticed me. He
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: was me. Very friendly of him, I thought, encouraging. Pooh
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, well, goodbye, Yor,
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: as lingeringly as they could. But they had a long
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: way to go and wanted to be getting on goodbye,
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: said Yor. Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet.
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 1: You would be missed. People would say, where's little Piglet
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: been blown to? Really wanting to know. Oh, well, goodbye,
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: and thank you for happening to pass me. Goodbye, said
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: Pooh and Piglet for the last time, and they pushed
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 1: on to Owl's house. The wind was against them now,
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: fought his way along. And it seemed hours before he
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: got them into the shelter of the hundred acre Wood,
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: and they stood up straight again to listen a little
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: nervously to the roaring of the gale among the tree tops.
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it.
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: Supposing it didn't, said Pooh. After careful thought. Piglet was
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: comforted by this, and in a little while they were
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: knocking and ringing very cheerfully at Owl's door. Hello, Owl,
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, I hope we're not too late for I mean,
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: how are you? Owl? Piglet and I came just to
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: see how you were because it's Thursday. Sit down, Pooh,
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: sit down, Piglet said Owl. Kindly make yourselves comfortable. They
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: thanked him and made themselves as comfortable as they could,
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: because you see, Owl said Pooh. We've been hurrying so
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: as to be in time for so as to see
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: you before we went away again. Owl nodded solemnly. Correct
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: me if I am wrong, he said. But am I
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: right in supposing that? It is a very blusterous day outside,
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: very said Piglet, who was quietly thawing his ears and
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: wishing that he was safely back in his own house.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: I thought so, said Owl. It was on just such
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: a blusterous day as this that by Uncle Robert a
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: portrait of whom you see upon the wall on your right. Piglet,
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: while returning in the late forenoon from a what's that?
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: There was a loud cracking sound. Look out, cried Pooh,
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 1: mind the clock out of the way, Piglet. Piglet I'm
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: falling on you, help, cried Piglet. Pooh's side of the
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: room was slowly tilting upwards, and his chair began sliding
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: down on Piglets. The clocks slithered gently along the mantelpiece,
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: collecting vases on the way, until they all crashed together
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: onto what had once been the floor, but was now
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: trying to see what it looked like as a wall.
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: Uncle Robert, who was going to be the new hearthrug
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: and was bringing the rest of his wall with him.
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: His carpet, met Piglet's chair just as Piglet was expecting
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: to leave it, and for a little while it became
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: very difficult to remember which was really the north. Then
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: there was another loud crack. Owl's room collected itself feverishly,
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: and there was silence. In a corner of the room.
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: The tablecloth began to wriggle. Then it wrapped itself into
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: a ball and rolled across the room. Then it jumped
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: up and down once or twice, and put out two years.
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: It rolled across the room again and unwound itself. Pooh,
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: said Piglet nervously, Yes, said one of the chairs. Where
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: are we? I'm not quite sure, said the chair. Are
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: we are we an Owl's house? I think so, because
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: we were just going to have tea and we haven't
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: had it. Oh, said piglet. Well did Owl always have
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: a letter box in his ceiling? Has he? Yes? Look
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: I can't, said Pooh. I'm faced downwards under something, and
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: that piglet is a very bad position for looking at ceilings. Well,
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: he has, Pooh. Perhaps he's changed it, said Pooh, just
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: for a change. There was a disturbance behind the table
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: in the other corner of the room, and Owl was
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: with them again. Ah, Piglet, said Owl, looking very much annoyed.
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: Where's Pooh? I'm not quite sure, said Pooh. Owl turned
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: at his voice and frowned as much of Pooh as
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: he could see. Pooh, said Owl severely. Did you do that? No,
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: said Pooh humbly. I don't think so. Then who did
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: I think it was? The wind? Said piglet, I think
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: your house is blown down? Oh? Is that it? I
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: thought it was Pooh? No, said Pooh. If it was
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: the wind, said Owl, considering the matter, then it wasn't
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: Pooh's fault. No blame can be attached to him with
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: these kind words. He flew up to look at his
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: new ceiling. Piglet called Pooh in a loud whisper. Piglet
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: leaned down to him. Yes, Pooh, what did he say
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 1: was attached to me? He said, he didn't blame you, Oh,
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: I thought he meant. Oh, I see ow, said Piglet.
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: Come down and help pooh Owl, who was admiring his
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: letter box, flew down again. Together they pushed and pulled
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: at the arm chair, and in a little while Pooh
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: came out from underneath and was able to look round
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: him again. Well, said al, this is a state of things.
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: What are we going to do? Pooh? Can you think
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: of anything? Asked Piglet. Well, I had just thought of something,
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: said Pooh. It was just a little thing I thought of,
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: and he began to sing. I lay on my chest,
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: and I thought it best to pretend I was having
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: an evening rest. I lay on my tomb and I
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: tried to hum, but nothing particular seemed to come. My
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: face was flat on the floor. And that is all
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: very well for an acrobat, but it doesn't seem fair
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: to a friendly bear to stiffen him out with a
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: basket chair and a sort of squetch which grows and
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 1: grows is not too nice for his poor old nose,
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: and a sort of scotch is much too much for
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: his neck and his mouth and his ears. In such
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: which that was all, said Pooh. Owl coughed in an
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: unadmiring sort of way, and said that if Pooh was
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: sure that was all, they could now give their minds
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: to the problem of escape, because, said Owl, we can't
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: get out by what used to be the front door.
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: Something's fallen on it. But how else can you go out?
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: Asked Piglet anxiously. That is the problem, Piglet, to which
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: I am asking Pooh to give his mind, who sat
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: on the floor which had once been a wall, and
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: gazed up at the ceiling which had once been another
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: wall with a front door in it, which had once
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: been a front door, and tried to give his mind
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  Speaker 1: to it. Could you fly up to the letter box
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: with Piglet on your back, he asked, No, said Piglet quickly.
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: He couldn't. Owl explained about the necessary dorsal muscles. He
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before,
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 1: and had been waiting ever since for a chance to
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: do it again, because it is a thing which you
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you were
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: talking about. Because you see, Awl, if we could get
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: Piglet into the letter box, he might squeeze through the
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 1: place where the letters come and climb down the tree
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: and run for help. Piglet said hurriedly that he had
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: been getting bigger lately and couldn't possibly much as he
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: would like to. And Al said that he had had
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: his letter box made bigger lately in case he got
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: bigger letters, so Piglet might. And Piglet said, but you said,
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: then necessary you know what's wouldn't And Al said no,
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: they won't, so it's no good thinking about it. And
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: Piglet said, then we'd better think of something else, and
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: began to it once. But Pooh's mind had gone back
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: to the day when he had saved Piglet from the
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: flood and everybody had admired him so much, and as
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: that didn't often happen, he thought he would like it
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: to happen again. And suddenly, just as it had come before,
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: an idea came to him. Owl said, Pooh, I have
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: thought of something astute and helpful. Bear said Owl. Pooh
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: looked proud at being called a stout and helpful bear,
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 1: and said modestly that he just happened to think of it.
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: You tied a piece of string to Piglet, and you
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: flew up to the letterbox with the other end in
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: your beak, and you pushed it through the wire and
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 1: brought it down to the floor. And you and Pooh
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: pulled hard at this end, and Piglet went slowly up
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 1: at the other end, and there you were, and there
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 1: Piglet is, said owl. If the string doesn't break, supposing
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: it does, asked Piglet, wanting to know, then we try
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: another piece of string. This was not very comforting to Piglet, because,
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: however many pieces of string they tried pulling up with
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: it would always be the same hymn coming down. But
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: still it did seem the only thing to do. So,
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: with one last look back in his mind at all
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: the happy hours he had spent in the forest not
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: being pulled up to the ceiling by a piece of string,
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: Piglet nodded bravely at Pooh and said that it was
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: a very clever pup pup up, clever pup up plan.
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  Speaker 1: It won't break, whispered Pooh comfortingly. Because you're a small animal,
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: and I'll stand underneath, and if you save us all,
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  Speaker 1: it will be a very grand thing to talk about afterwards.
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 1: And perhaps I'll make up a song and people will
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: say it was so grand what Piglet did that a
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: respectful Pooh song was made about it. Piglet felt much
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: better after this, and when everything was ready and he
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: found himself slowly going up to the ceiling, he was
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: so proud that he would have called out, look at
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: me if he hadn't been afraid that Pooh and Owl
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 1: would let go of their end of the string and
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: look at him. Up we go, said Pooh cheerfully. The
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: ascent is proceeding as expected, said Owl hopefully. Soon it
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 1: was over. Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then,
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit,
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 1: through which, in the old days when front doors were
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 1: front doors, many an unexpected letter that w. L Had
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: written to himself had come slipping. He squeezed, and he squaws,
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: and then with one last squeeze he was out. Happy
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 1: and excited, he turned round to speak a last message
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 1: to the prisoners. It's all right, he called through the letterbox.
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 1: Your tree is blown right over, Owl, and there's a
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: branch across the door. But Christopher Robin and I can
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 1: move it, and we'll bring a rope for Pooh, and
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 1: I'll go and tell him now, and I can climb
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 1: down quite easily. I mean, it's dangerous, but I can
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: do it all right, And Christopher Robin and I will
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 1: be back in about half an hour. Goodbye, Pooh, And
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: without waiting to hear Pooh's answering, goodbye and thank you, piglet,
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 1: he was off huffin now, said Awl, settling himself comfortably.
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 1: That will just give me time to finish that story
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 1: I was telling you about my uncle Robert, a portrait
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: of whom you see underneath you. Now, let me see
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: where was I. Oh, yes, it was on just such
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: a blustrous day as this that by uncle Robert. Pooh
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 1: closed his eyes end of chapter eight, Chapter nine of
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 1: the House at Pooh Corner by AA Meln. This LibriVox
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Chapter nine, in which
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 1: Or finds the wallery and Owl moves into it. Pooh
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: had wandered into the hundred acre wood and was standing
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: in front of what had once been Owl's house. It
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 1: didn't look at all like a house. Now it looked
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: like a tree which had been blown down. And as
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 1: soon as a house looks like that, it is time
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: you tried to find another one. Pooh had had a
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: mysterious missage underneath his front door that morning, saying, I
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: am skeirching for a new house for Owl, so had you, Rabbit.
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 1: And while he was wondering what it meant, Rabbit had
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: come in and read it for him. I'm leaving one
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: for all the others, said Rabbit, and telling what it means,
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: and they'll all search too. I'm in a hurry, goodbye,
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 1: and he had run off. Pooh followed slowly. He had
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: something better to do than to find a new house
• 2:17:40
  Speaker 1: for Owl. He had to make up a Pooh song
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: about the old one, because he had promised Piglet days
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 1: and days ago that he would and whenever he and
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 1: Piglet had met, since Piglet didn't actually say anything, but
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: you knew at once why he didn't. And if anybody
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 1: mentioned hums or trees or string or dorms in the
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 1: night Piglet's nose, when I'll pink at the tip, and
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 1: he talked about something quite different in a hurried sort
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 1: of way. But it isn't easy, said Poo to himself
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 1: as he looked at what had once been Awl's house.
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 1: Because poetry and hums aren't things which you get. They
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 1: are things which get you. And all you can do
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: is to go where they can find you. He waited hopefully, Well,
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: said Pooh, after a long wait, I shall begin. Here
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: lies a tree, because it does, and then I'll see
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: what happens. This is what happened. Here lies a tree
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: which Awl, a bird, was fond of when it stood
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: on end, and al was talking to a friend called
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: me in case you hadn't heard, when something oooh occurred.
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: For Lo, the wind was blustrous and flattened out his
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: favorite tree. And things looks bad for him, And we
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: looked bad, I mean for he and us. I've never
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: known them. Wuss. Then Piglet, Piglet thought a thing courage.
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: He said, there's always hope. I want a thinish piece
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: of rope, or if there isn't any, bring a thickesh
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 1: piece of string. So to the letter box he rose,
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 1: while Pooh and Owl said oh and hum, And where
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 1: the letters always come, call letters only Piglet squoes his
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: head and then his toes. Oh, gallant, piglet, piglet Ho.
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: Did Piglet tremble? Did he blinch? No? No, he struggled
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: inch by inch through letters. Only as I know because
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 1: I saw him go. He ran and ran, and then
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: he stood and shouted help for Owl a bird and
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 1: Pooh a bear, until he heard the others coming through
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 1: the wood as quickly as they could help help and rescue.
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 1: Piglet cried and showed the others where to go, sing
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: ho for piglet, piglet ho. And soon the door was
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 1: opened wide, and we were both outside, sing ho for piglet, Ho.
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 1: So there it is, said Pooh, when he had sung
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: this to himself three times. It's come different from what
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: I thought it would, but it's come now. I must
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: go and sing it to Piglet. I am scirching for
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 1: a new house for owl. So had you, rabbit? What's
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 1: all this? Said yor rabbit explained, what's the matter with
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 1: his old house? Asked your rabbit explained, nobody tells me,
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 1: said your nobody keeps me informed. I make it seventeen
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: days come Friday, since anybody spoke to me. It certainly,
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: isn't seventeen days come Friday? Explain to your in today's Saturday,
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 1: said rabbit. So that would make it eleven days. And
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 1: I was here myself a week ago, not conversing, said
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 1: yr Not first one and then the other. You said
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: hello and lashed past. I saw your tail in the
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: distance as I was meditating my reply. I had thought
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 1: of saying what, but of course it was then too late. Well,
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 1: I was in a hurry. No give and take. Your
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 1: went on, no exchange of thought. Hello, what I mean?
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 1: It gets you nowhere, particularly if the other person's tail
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 1: is only just in sight for the second half of
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 1: the conversation. It's your fault to your you've never been
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 1: to see any of us. You just stay here in
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: this one corner of the forest, waiting for the others
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: to come to you. Why don't you go to them? Sometimes?
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 1: Ere was silent for a little while, thinking there may
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: be something in what you say, Rabbit, He said, at last,
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 1: I must move about more. I must come and go.
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: That's right to your drop in on any of us
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 1: at any time you feel like it. Thank you, rabbit.
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: And if anybody says in a loud voice, bother it's Eore,
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: I can drop out again. Rabbit stood on one leg
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 1: for a moment. Well, he said, I must be going goodbye,
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 1: said Eyore. What oh, goodbye? And if you do come
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 1: across a house fowl, you must let us know. I
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 1: will give my mind to it, said Yore. Rabbit went
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: Pooh had found Piglet and they were walking back to
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: the hundred acre wood together. Piglet said Pooh, a little shyly,
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 1: after they had walked for some time without saying anything. Yes, Pooh,
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 1: do you remember when I said that a respectful Pooh
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: song might be written about you know? What? Did you? Pooh?
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 1: Said Piglet, getting a little pink around the nose. Oh, yes,
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 1: I believe you did. It's been written, Piglet. The pink
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 1: went slowly up Piglet's nose to his ears and settled.
• 2:22:59
  Speaker 1: There has it, Pooh? He added, huskily, about about that time,
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 1: when do you mean really written? Yes, Piglet. The tips
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 1: of Piglet's ears glowed suddenly, and he tried to say something,
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 1: But even after he had hussed once or twice, nothing
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 1: came out. So Pooh went on. There are seven verses
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: in it. Seven, said Piglet, as carelessly as he could.
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 1: You don't often get seven verses in a hum, do you, Pooh?
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 1: Never said Pooh. I don't suppose it's ever been heard
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 1: of before. Do the others know yet, asked Piglet, stopping
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: for a moment to pick up a stick and throw
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 1: it away. No, said Pooh, And I wondered what you
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: would like best for me to humm it now, or
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 1: to wait till we find the others and then hum
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: it to all of you. Piglet thought for a little.
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 1: I think what I'd like best, Pooh, is I'd like
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 1: you to hum it to me now, and then to
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: hum it to all of us, because then everybody would
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 1: hear it. But I could say, oh, yes, poos told me,
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 1: and pretend not to be listening. So Pooh hummed it
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 1: to him all the seven verses, and Piglet said nothing,
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: but just stood and glowed. Never before had anyone sung
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 1: ho for Piglet. Piglet ho all by himself. When it
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 1: was over, he wanted to ask for one of the
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 1: verses over again, but didn't quite like to. It was
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 1: the verse beginning, Oh, gallant Piglet, and it seemed to
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 1: him a very thoughtful way of beginning a piece of poetry.
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 1: Did I really do all that? He said? At last? Well,
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 1: said Pooh in poetry, in a piece of poetry, Well
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: you did it, Piglet, because the poetry says you did.
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 1: And that's how people know, Oh, said Piglet, because I
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: I thought I did blinch a little, just at first,
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 1: and it says did he blinch? No? No, that's why
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 1: you only blinch inside, said Pooh. And that's the bravest
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 1: way for a very small animal not to blench, that
• 2:25:05
  Speaker 1: there is. Piglet sighed with happiness and began to think
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: about himself. He was brave. When they got to Owl's
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: old house, they found everybody else there except your Christopher.
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: Robin was telling them what to do, and Rabbit was
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 1: telling them again directly afterwards, in case they hadn't heard,
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 1: And then they were all doing it. They had got
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: a rope and were pulling Owl's chairs and pictures and
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: things out of his old house so as to be
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 1: ready to put them into his new one. Kango is
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 1: down below, tying the things on and calling out to Owl.
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 1: You won't want this dirty old dishcloth anymore, will you?
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: And what about this carpet it's all in holes, and
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 1: Awl was calling back indignantly, of course I do. It's
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: just a question of arranging the furniture properly. And it
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 1: isn't a dishcloth. It's my showl every now and then
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 1: Rue fell in and came back on the rope with
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 1: the next article, which flustered Kanga a little because she
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 1: never knew where to look for him. So she got
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 1: crossed with Owl and said that his house was a disgrace,
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: all damp and dirty, and it was quite time it
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: did tumble down. Look at that horrid bunch of toadstools
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 1: growing right out of the floor there. So Owl looked
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: down a little surprised because he didn't know about this,
• 2:26:27
  Speaker 1: and then gave a short sarcastic laugh and explained that
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: that was his sponge, and that if people didn't know
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 1: a perfectly ordinary bath sponge when they saw it, things
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: were coming to a pretty pass well, said Kanga, and
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: Rue fell in quickly, crying, I must see al sponge.
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 1: Oh there it is. Oh wow, Alan isn't a sponge.
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: It's a spoonge. Do you know what a spoonge is? Owl?
• 2:26:48
  Speaker 1: It's when your sponge gets all and Kanga said, Rue, dear,
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 1: very quickly, because that's not the way to talk to
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: anybody who can spell Tuesday. But they were all quite
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: happy when Pooh and Piglet came along, and they stopped
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 1: working in order to have a little rest and listen
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: to Pooh's new song. So then they all told Pooh
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: how good it was, and Piglet said carelessly, it is good,
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 1: isn't it. I mean, it's a song. And what about
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 1: the new house, asked Pooh? Have you found it? Owl?
• 2:27:17
  Speaker 1: He's found a name for it, said Christopher Robin, lazily,
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 1: nibbling at a piece of grass. So now all he
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: wants is the house. I am calling it, this said
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 1: Owl importantly, and he showed them what he had been making.
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 1: It was a square piece of board with the name
• 2:27:35
  Speaker 1: of the house painted on it, the Wollery. It was
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 1: at this exciting moment that something came through the trees
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 1: and bumped into Owl. The board fell to the ground,
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: and Piglet and Rue bent over it eagerly. Oh it's you,
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 1: said Owl crossly. Hello Eo, said Rabbit, there you are.
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 1: Where have you been? Eore took no notice of them.
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Christopher Robin, He said, brushing away Pooh in
• 2:28:04
  Speaker 1: Piglet and sitting down on the wallery are we alone? Yes,
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin, smiling to himself. I have been told
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: the news has worked through to my corner of the forest,
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: the damp bit down on the right, which nobody wants.
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: That a certain person is looking for a house. I
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 1: have found one for him. Ah, well done, said Rabbit kindly.
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 1: You're looked round slowly at him, and then turned back
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: to Christopher Robin. We have been joined by something, he said,
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 1: in a loud whisper, But no matter. We can leave
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: it behind. If you will come with me, Christopher Robin,
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 1: I will show you the house. Christopher Robin jumped up.
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 1: Come on, Pooh, he said, Come on, Digger cried rue.
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 1: Shall we go? Owl said rabbit. Wait a moment, said Awl,
• 2:29:01
  Speaker 1: picking up his noticeboard, which had just come into side again.
• 2:29:05
  Speaker 1: Eyoor waved them back. Christopher Robin and I are going
• 2:29:09
  Speaker 1: for a short walk, he said, not a jostle. If
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 1: he likes to bring Pooh in Piglet with him, I
• 2:29:17
  Speaker 1: shall be glad of their company. But one must be
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 1: able to breathe. That's all right, said Rabbit, rather glad
• 2:29:25
  Speaker 1: to be left in charge of something. We'll go on
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 1: getting the things out now. Then, Tigger, where's that rope?
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 1: What's the matter? Owl? Owl had just discovered that his
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: new address was the Smudge coughed at ere sternly, but
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 1: said nothing, and Eyor, with most of the wallery behind him,
• 2:29:46
  Speaker 1: marched off with his friends. So in a little while
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  Speaker 1: they came to the house which Eyor had found. And
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  Speaker 1: for some minutes before they came to it, Piglet was
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  Speaker 1: nudging Pooh, and Pooh was nudging Piglet, and they were saying,
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  Speaker 1: it is, it is, and it can't be, and it
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  Speaker 1: is really to each other. And when they got there,
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  Speaker 1: it really was. There, said Eore, proudly, stopping them outside
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  Speaker 1: Piglet's house and the name on it and everything. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: cried Christopher Robin, wondering whether to laugh or what just
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  Speaker 1: the house for owl? Don't you think so, little Piglet?
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  Speaker 1: And then Piglet did a noble thing, and he did
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  Speaker 1: it in a sort of dream while he was thinking
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  Speaker 1: of all the wonderful words who had hummed about him. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's just the house for Owl, he said, grandly, And
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  Speaker 1: I hope he'll be very happy in it, And then
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  Speaker 1: he gulped twice because he had been very happy in
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  Speaker 1: it himself. What do you think, Christopher Robin asked Eore,
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  Speaker 1: a little anxiously, feeling that something wasn't quite right right.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin had a question to ask first, and he
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  Speaker 1: was wondering how to ask it. Well, he said, at last,
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  Speaker 1: it's a very nice house. And if your own house
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  Speaker 1: is blown down, you must go somewhere else, mustn't you? Piglet?
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  Speaker 1: What would you do if your house was blown down?
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  Speaker 1: Before Piglet could think, Pooh answered for him. He'd come
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  Speaker 1: and live with me, said Pooh, wouldn't you, Piglet? Piglet
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  Speaker 1: squeezed his paw. Thank you, Pooh, he said, I should
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  Speaker 1: love to end of chapter nine, Chapter ten of The
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 1: House at Pooh Corner by A. Melm. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Chapter ten, in which Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Robin and Pooh come to an enchance place and we
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 1: leave them there. Christopher Robin was going away. Nobody knew
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 1: why he was going. Nobody knew where he was going. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: nobody even knew why he knew that Christopher Robin was
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: going away. But somehow or other, everybody in the forest
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  Speaker 1: felt that it was happening at last. Even smallest of all,
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  Speaker 1: a friend and relation of Rabbits, who thought he had
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  Speaker 1: once seen Christoph Robin's foot, but couldn't be sure because
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  Speaker 1: perhaps it was something else. Even s of a told
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  Speaker 1: himself that things were going to be different. And late
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  Speaker 1: and early. Two other friends and relations said well early
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  Speaker 1: and well late to each other in such a hopeless
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  Speaker 1: sort of way that it really didn't seem any good
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the answer. One day, when he felt that
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't wait any longer, Rabbit brained out a notice,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what it says. Notice a meeting of
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  Speaker 1: everybody will meet at the house at Pooh Corner to
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  Speaker 1: pass a resolution by order keep to the left, signed Rabbit.
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  Speaker 1: He had to write this out two or three times
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  Speaker 1: before he could get the resolution to look like what
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  Speaker 1: he thought it was going to when he began to
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  Speaker 1: spell it. But when at last it was finished, he
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  Speaker 1: took it round to everybody and read it out to them,
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  Speaker 1: and they all said they would come. Well, said Eyor
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  Speaker 1: that afternoon when he saw them all walking up to
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  Speaker 1: his house. This is a surprise, am I asked to
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  Speaker 1: don't mind, Eyore, whispered Rabbit to Pooh. I told him
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  Speaker 1: all about it this morning. Everybody said how do you
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  Speaker 1: do to Eyore? And Eorre said that he didn't not
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  Speaker 1: to notice. And then they sat down. And as soon
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  Speaker 1: as they were all sitting down, Rabbit stood up again.
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  Speaker 1: We all know why we're here, he said, But I
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  Speaker 1: have my friend Eyo, that's me, said Eore. Grand I
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  Speaker 1: have asked him to propose a resolution, and he sat
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  Speaker 1: down again. Now, then, Eyo, he said, don't bustle me,
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  Speaker 1: said Eore, getting up slowly, don't now, and then me.
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  Speaker 1: He took a piece of paper from behind his ear
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  Speaker 1: and unfolded it. Nobody knows anything about this, he went on.
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  Speaker 1: This is a surprise. He coughed in an important way,
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  Speaker 1: and began again, what knots in et ceteras? Before I begin,
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  Speaker 1: or perhaps I should say before I end, I have
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  Speaker 1: a piece of poetry to read to you. Hitherto. Hitherto
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  Speaker 1: a long word meaning, well, you'll see what it means
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  Speaker 1: directly hitherto, As I was saying, all the poetry in
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  Speaker 1: the forest has been written by Pooh, a bear with
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  Speaker 1: a pleasing manner but a positive, startling lack of brain.
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  Speaker 1: The poem which I am now about to read to you,
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  Speaker 1: was written by e Or Or myself in a quiet moment.
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  Speaker 1: If somebody will take Ru's bull's eye away from him
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  Speaker 1: and wake up Owl, we shall all be able to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy it. I call it poem. This was it, Christopher.
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  Speaker 1: Robin is going, at least I think he is where
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  Speaker 1: nobody knows. But he is going. I mean he goes
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  Speaker 1: to rhyme with nos. Do we care to rhyme with
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  Speaker 1: where we do? Very much? I haven't got a rhyme
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  Speaker 1: for that is in the second line yet bother. Now
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  Speaker 1: I haven't got a rhyme for bother bother. Those two
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  Speaker 1: bothers will have to rhyme with each other bother. The
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  Speaker 1: fact is this is more difficult than I thought. I
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  Speaker 1: ought very good. Indeed I ought to begin again. But
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  Speaker 1: it is easier to stop. Robin goodbye, I good I
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  Speaker 1: and all your friends sends, I mean all your friend
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  Speaker 1: send very awkwardness. It keeps going wrong. Well, anyhow, we
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  Speaker 1: send our love. And if anybody wants to clap, said Or,
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  Speaker 1: when he had read this, now is the time to
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  Speaker 1: do it. They all clapped, Thank you, said Eyor. Unexpected
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  Speaker 1: and gratifying if a little lacking and smack. It's much
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  Speaker 1: better than mine, said Pooh admiringly, and he really thought
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  Speaker 1: it was well explained ere modestly. It was meant to be.
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  Speaker 1: The resolution, said Rabbit, is that we all sign it
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  Speaker 1: and take it to Christopher Robin. So it was signed Pooh,
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  Speaker 1: piglet w O l e O R Rabbit Kanga blot smudge,
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  Speaker 1: and they all went off to Christopher Robin's house with it. Hello, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin, Hello Pooh. They all said hello and
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: felt awkward and unhappy suddenly, because it was a sort
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 1: of goodbye they were saying, and they didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: think about it. So they stood around and waited for
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: somebody else to speak, and they nudged each other and
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  Speaker 1: said go on, And gradually Eure was nudged to the
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  Speaker 1: front and the others crowded behind him. What is it, Eyre,
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  Speaker 1: asked Christopher Robin. Eyor swished his tail from side to
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 1: side so as to encourage himself, and began. Christopher Robin.
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  Speaker 1: He said, we've come to say to give you. It's
• 2:37:43
  Speaker 1: called written by but we've all because we've heard, I mean,
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 1: we all know, well, you see, it's we you well,
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  Speaker 1: that to put it as shortly as possible is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. He turned around angrily on the others and said,
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  Speaker 1: everybody crowds round. So in this forest there's no space.
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  Speaker 1: I never saw a more spreading lot of animals in
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  Speaker 1: my life, and all in the wrong places. Can't you
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  Speaker 1: see that? Christopher Robin wants to be alone. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: and he humped off, not quite knowing why. The others
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  Speaker 1: began edging away, and when Christopher Robin had finished reading
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 1: poem and was looking up to say thank you, only
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 1: Pooh was left. It's a comforting sort of thing to have,
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  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin, folding up the paper and putting it
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 1: in his pocket. Come on, Pooh, and he walked off quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Where are we going, said Pooh, hurrying after him and
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 1: wondering whether it was to be an explorer or a
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  Speaker 1: What shall I do about? You know what? Nowhere? Said
• 2:38:53
  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. So they began going there, and after they
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  Speaker 1: had walked a little way, Christopher Robin said, what do
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  Speaker 1: you like doing best in the world? Pooh? Well, said Pooh,
• 2:39:07
  Speaker 1: would I like best? And then he had to stop
• 2:39:10
  Speaker 1: and think, because although eating honey was a very good
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  Speaker 1: thing to do. There was a moment just before you
• 2:39:17
  Speaker 1: began to eat it which was better than when you
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 1: were but he didn't know what it was called. And
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  Speaker 1: then he thought that being with Christopher Robin was a
• 2:39:26
  Speaker 1: very good thing to do, and having Piglet near was
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 1: a very friendly thing to have. And so when he
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 1: had thought it all out, he said, what I like
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  Speaker 1: best in the whole world is me and Piglet going
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  Speaker 1: to see you, and you sang, what about a little something?
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  Speaker 1: And me sang, well, I shouldn't mind a little something,
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  Speaker 1: should you, Piglet, and it being a hummy sort of
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  Speaker 1: day outside and birds singing. I like that too, said
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. But what I like doing best it is nothing.
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  Speaker 1: How do you do nothing? Asked Pooh after he had
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  Speaker 1: wandered for a long time. Well, it's when people call
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  Speaker 1: out at you just as you're going off to do it.
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  Speaker 1: What are you going to do, Christopher Robin, And you say, oh, nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and then you go and do it. Oh I see,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh. This is a sort of nothing thing that
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 1: we're doing now. Oh I see, said Pooh. Again. It
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  Speaker 1: means just going along listening to all the things you
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  Speaker 1: can't hear and not bothering, Oh, said Pooh. They walked on,
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  Speaker 1: thinking of this and that, and by and by they
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  Speaker 1: came to an enchanted place on the very top of
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  Speaker 1: the forest called Galleon's Lap, which is sixty something trees
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  Speaker 1: in a circle. And Christopher Robin knew that it was
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  Speaker 1: enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether
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  Speaker 1: it was sixty three or sixty four, not even when
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 1: he tied a piece of string around each tree after
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  Speaker 1: he had counted it being enchanted. Its floor was not
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  Speaker 1: like the floor of the forest gorse and bracken and heather,
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  Speaker 1: but close set grass, quiet and smooth and green. It
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  Speaker 1: was the only place in the forest where you could
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  Speaker 1: sit down carelessly without getting up again almost at once
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 1: and looking for somewhere else. Sitting there, they could see
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  Speaker 1: the whole world spread out until it reached the sky,
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  Speaker 1: and whatever there was, all the world over was with
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  Speaker 1: them in Galleon's Lap. Suddenly Christopher Robin began to tell
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  Speaker 1: Pooh about some of the things people called kings and queens,
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  Speaker 1: and something called factors, and a place called Europe, and
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  Speaker 1: an island in the middle of the sea where no
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  Speaker 1: ships came, and how you make a suction pump if
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  Speaker 1: you want to, and when nights were nighted? And what
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  Speaker 1: comes from Brazil? And Pooh, his back against one of
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  Speaker 1: the sixty something trees and his paws folded in front
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  Speaker 1: of him, said, oh, And I didn't know, and thought
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  Speaker 1: how wonderful it would be to have a real brain
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  Speaker 1: which could tell you things. And by and bye. Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Robin came to an end of the things and was silent,
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  Speaker 1: and he sat there, looking out over the world and
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  Speaker 1: wishing it wouldn't stop. But Pooh was thinking too, and
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  Speaker 1: he said suddenly to Christopher Robin, it is a very
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  Speaker 1: grand thing to be an afternoon? What you said? Ah? What,
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  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin lazily, as he listened to something else
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  Speaker 1: on a horse, explained Pooh a night? Oh was that it?
• 2:42:47
  Speaker 1: Said Pooh? I thought it was a Is it as
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  Speaker 1: grand as a king? And factors and all the other things?
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  Speaker 1: You said? Well, it's not as grand as a king,
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin, And then as Pooh seemed disappointed, he
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  Speaker 1: added quickly, but it's grander than factors. Could a bear
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  Speaker 1: be one? Of course he could, said Christopher Robin. I'll
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  Speaker 1: make you one. And he took a stick and touched
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  Speaker 1: Pooh on the shoulder and said, rise, sir Pooh, to
• 2:43:18
  Speaker 1: bear most faithful of all my knights. So Pooh rose
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  Speaker 1: and sat down and said thank you, which is the
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  Speaker 1: proper thing to say when you have been made a knight.
• 2:43:30
  Speaker 1: And he went into a dream again, in which he
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  Speaker 1: and Sir Pomp and Sir Brazil and Factors lived together
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 1: with a horse and were all faithful knights, all except Factors,
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  Speaker 1: who looked after the horse to good King Christopher Robin.
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  Speaker 1: And every now and then he shook his head and
• 2:43:49
  Speaker 1: said to himself, I'm not getting it right. Then he
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: began to think of all the things Christopher Robin would
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 1: want to tell him when he came back from wherever
• 2:43:58
  Speaker 1: he was going to, and how muddled it would be
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 1: for a bear of very little brain to try and
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 1: get them right in his mind. So perhaps, he said
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 1: sadly to himself, Christopher Robin won't tell me anymore. And
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 1: he wondered if being a faithful night meant that you
• 2:44:13
  Speaker 1: just went on being faithful without being told things. Then
• 2:44:17
  Speaker 1: suddenly again Christopher Robin, who was still looking at the
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  Speaker 1: world with his chin in his hands, called out, Pooh, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh, When I'm when Pooh, Yes, Christopher Robin, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to do nothing anymore? Never again, Well, not
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  Speaker 1: so much. They don't let you. Pooh waited for him
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  Speaker 1: to go on, but he was silent again. Yes, Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Robin said Pooh helpfully, Pooh, when I'm you know, when
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing nothing, Will you come up here sometimes
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  Speaker 1: just me? Yes, Pooh? Will you be here too, Yes, Pooh,
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  Speaker 1: I will be. Really, I promise I will be Pooh.
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  Speaker 1: That's good, said Pooh. Pooh, promise you won't forget about
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  Speaker 1: me ever, not even when I'm a hundred Pooh thought
• 2:45:22
  Speaker 1: for a little. How old shall I be? Then? Ninety nine?
• 2:45:28
  Speaker 1: Pooh nodded, I promise. Still with his eyes on the world,
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Robin put out a hand and felt for Pooh's paw. Pooh,
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  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin earnestly. If I if I'm not quite He
• 2:45:46
  Speaker 1: stopped and tried again. Pooh, whatever happens, you will understand,
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  Speaker 1: won't you understand? What? Oh? Nothing? He he laughed and
• 2:46:00
  Speaker 1: jumped to his feet. Come on, where, said Pooh? Anywhere,
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  Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin. So they went off together. But wherever
• 2:46:12
  Speaker 1: they go, and whatever happens to them on the way
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  Speaker 1: in that enchanted place on the top of the forest,
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  Speaker 1: a little boy and his bear will always be playing.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter ten. End of the House at Pooh
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  Speaker 1: Corner by A. A Meln