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Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne · The Princess and the Goblin

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