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Now We Are Six - A. A. Milne · The Power of Concentration

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  Speaker 1: Section one of Now we Are Six by A. A. Milne.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Read by Winifred Asman, Now we
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  Speaker 1: are six by A. A. Milne. Dedication and introduction to
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  Speaker 1: Anne Darlington. Now she is seven, and because she is
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  Speaker 1: so special introduction. When you are reciting poetry, which is
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  Speaker 1: a thing we never do, you find sometimes just as
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  Speaker 1: you are beginning that Uncle John is still telling Aunt
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  Speaker 1: Rose that if he can't find his spectacles, he won't
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  Speaker 1: be able to hear properly. And does she know where
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  Speaker 1: they are? And by the time everybody has stopped looking
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  Speaker 1: for them, you are at the last verse, and in
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  Speaker 1: another minute they will be saying thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: without really knowing what it was all about. So next
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  Speaker 1: time you are more careful, and just before you begin
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  Speaker 1: you say hahem very loudly, which means now, then here
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  Speaker 1: we are, and everybody stops talking and looks at you,
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  Speaker 1: which is what you want. So then you get in
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  Speaker 1: the way of saying it whenever you are asked to recite.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes it is just as well and sometimes it isn't,
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  Speaker 1: and by and by you find yourself saying it without thinking. Well,
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  Speaker 1: this bit which I am writing now, called introduction, is
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  Speaker 1: really the haem of the book, and I have put
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  Speaker 1: it in partly so as not to take you by surprise,
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  Speaker 1: and partly because I can't do without it. Now. There
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  Speaker 1: are some very clever writers who say that it is
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  Speaker 1: quite easy not to have an ha ahem, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't agree with them. I think it is much easier
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  Speaker 1: not to have all the rest of the book. What
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  Speaker 1: I want to explain in the introduction is this, we
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  Speaker 1: have been nearly three years writing this book. We began
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  Speaker 1: it when we were very young, and now we are six.
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  Speaker 1: So of course bits of it seem rather babyish to us,
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  Speaker 1: almost as if they had slipped out of some other
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  Speaker 1: book by mistake. On page. Whatever it is, there is
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  Speaker 1: a thing which is simply threeish, and when we read
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  Speaker 1: it to ourselves just now, we said well, well well,
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  Speaker 1: and turned over rather quickly. So we want you to
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  Speaker 1: know that the name of the book doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: this is us being six all the time, but that
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  Speaker 1: it is about as far as we've got at present,
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  Speaker 1: and we have think of stopping there A. A. Milne,
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  Speaker 1: P s. Pooh wants to say that he thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a different book, and he hopes you won't mind.
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  Speaker 1: But he walked through it one day looking for his
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  Speaker 1: friend Piglet, and sat down on some of the pages
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  Speaker 1: by mistake. End of dedication and introduction section two of
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  Speaker 1: Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Solitude, I have a
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  Speaker 1: house where I go when there's too many people. I
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  Speaker 1: have a house where I go where no one can be.
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  Speaker 1: I have a house where I go where nobody ever
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  Speaker 1: says no, where no one says anything. So there is
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  Speaker 1: no one but me. End of Solitude, Section three of
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  Speaker 1: Now we Are Six by A. A. Milne. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. King John's Christmas. King
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  Speaker 1: John was not a good man. He had his little ways,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes no one spoke to him for days and
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  Speaker 1: days and days, and men who came across him when
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  Speaker 1: walking in the town gave him a supercilious stare, or
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  Speaker 1: passed with noses in the air, and bad King John
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  Speaker 1: stood dumbly there, blushing beneath his crown. King John was
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  Speaker 1: not a good man, and no good friends had he.
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  Speaker 1: He stayed in every afternoon, but no one came to tea,
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  Speaker 1: And round about December, the cards upon his shelf, which
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  Speaker 1: wished them lots of Christmas cheer and fortune in the
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  Speaker 1: coming year, were never from his near and dear, but
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  Speaker 1: only from himself. King Yawn was not a good man,
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  Speaker 1: yet had his hopes and fears. They'd given him no
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  Speaker 1: present now for years and years and years. But every
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  Speaker 1: year at Christmas, while minstrels stood about collecting tribute from
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  Speaker 1: the young for all the songs they might have sung,
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  Speaker 1: he stole away upstairs and hung a hopeful stalking out.
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  Speaker 1: King John was not a good man. He lived his
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  Speaker 1: life aloof alone. He thought a message out while climbing
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  Speaker 1: up the roof. He wrote it down and propped it
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  Speaker 1: against the chimney stack to all and sundry, near and
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  Speaker 1: far f Christmas in particular, and signed it not Johannes R.
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  Speaker 1: But very humbly Jack. I want some crackers and I
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  Speaker 1: want some candy. I think a box of chocolates would
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  Speaker 1: come in handy. I don't mind oranges. I do like nuts,
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  Speaker 1: and I should like a pocket knife that really cuts.
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  Speaker 1: And oh, father Christmas, if you love me at all,
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  Speaker 1: bring me a big red India rubber ball. King John
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  Speaker 1: was not a good man. He wrote this message out
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  Speaker 1: and got him to his room again, descending by the spout,
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  Speaker 1: and all that night he lay there a prey to
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  Speaker 1: hopes and fears. I think that's him a coming now,
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  Speaker 1: anxiety bedewed his brow. He'll bring one present anyhow, the
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  Speaker 1: first I've had for years. Forget about the crackers, and
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  Speaker 1: forget about the candy. I'm sure a box of chocolates
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  Speaker 1: would never come in handy. I don't like oranges, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want nuts, and I have got a pocket knife
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  Speaker 1: that almost cuts. But oh, Father, Christmas, if you love
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  Speaker 1: me at all, bring me a big red India rubber ball.
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  Speaker 1: King John was not a good man. Next morning, when
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  Speaker 1: the sun rose up to tell a waiting world that
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  Speaker 1: Christmas had begun, and people seized their stockings and opened
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  Speaker 1: them with glee and crackers, toys and games appeared, and
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  Speaker 1: lips with sticky sweets were smeared, King John said grimly,
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  Speaker 1: as I feared nothing again for me. I did want crackers,
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  Speaker 1: and I did want candy. I know a box of
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  Speaker 1: chocolates would come in handy. I do love oranges. I
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  Speaker 1: did want nuts. I haven't got a pocket knife, not
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  Speaker 1: one that cuts. And oh, if Father Christmas had loved
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  Speaker 1: me at all, he would have brought a big red
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  Speaker 1: India rubber ball. King John stood by the window and
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  Speaker 1: frowned to see below the happy bands of boys and girls,
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  Speaker 1: all playing in the snow. Awhile he stood there, watching
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  Speaker 1: and envying them, all went through the window, big and
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  Speaker 1: red there, hurtled by his royal head, and bounced and
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  Speaker 1: fell upon the bed and India rubber ball. And oh,
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  Speaker 1: Father Christmas, my blessings on you fall for bringing him
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  Speaker 1: a big red India rubber ball. End of King John's
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Section four of Now we are six by a
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  Speaker 1: a mill. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Busy,
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  Speaker 1: I think I am a muffin man. I haven't got
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  Speaker 1: a bell. I haven't got the muffin things that muffin
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  Speaker 1: people sell. Perhaps I am a postman. No, I think
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  Speaker 1: I am a tran. I'm feeling rather funny, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what I am. But round about and round
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  Speaker 1: about and round about. I go all round the table,
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  Speaker 1: the table in the nursery, round about and round about
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  Speaker 1: and round about. I go, I think I am a
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  Speaker 1: traveler escaping from a bear. I think I am an
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  Speaker 1: elephant behind another elephant, behind another elephant who isn't really there.
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  Speaker 1: So round about and round about and round about and
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  Speaker 1: round about and round about and round about. I go.
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  Speaker 1: I think I am a ticket man who's selling tickets. Please.
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  Speaker 1: I think I am a doctor who is visiting a sneeze.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps I'm just a nanny who is walking with a pram.
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling rather funny, and I don't know what I am.
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  Speaker 1: But round about and round about and round about. I
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  Speaker 1: go all around the table, the table in the nursery,
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  Speaker 1: round about, and round about and round about, I go.
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  Speaker 1: I think I am a puppy, so I'm hanging out
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  Speaker 1: my tongue. I think I am a camel who is
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  Speaker 1: looking for a camel who is looking for a camel
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  Speaker 1: who is looking for its young. So round about and
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  Speaker 1: round about and round about and round about and round
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  Speaker 1: about and round about, I go. End of busy, section
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  Speaker 1: five of Now we are six by A. A. Milne.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Sneezeles Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Robin had Weasels and Sneezeles. They bundled him into his bed.
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  Speaker 1: They gave him what goes with a cold in the nose,
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  Speaker 1: and some more for a cold in the head. They
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  Speaker 1: wondered if weasels could turn into measles, if sneezeles would
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  Speaker 1: turn into mumps. They examined his chest for a rash,
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of his body for dwellings and lumps.
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  Speaker 1: They sent for some doctors and sneezels and weasels to
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  Speaker 1: tell them what ought to be done. All sorts and
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  Speaker 1: conditions of famous physicians came hurrying round at a run.
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  Speaker 1: They all made a note of the state of his throat.
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  Speaker 1: They asked to be suffered from thirst. They asked if
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  Speaker 1: the sneezeles came after the weasels, or if the first
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  Speaker 1: sneezele came first. They said, if you teasel a sneezel
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  Speaker 1: or weasel, a measle may easily grow. But humor or
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  Speaker 1: pleasel the weasel or sneezele, the measle will certainly go.
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  Speaker 1: They expounded the weasels for sneezels and weasels the manner
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  Speaker 1: of measles when new. They said, if he freezles in
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  Speaker 1: drafts and in briezels, then weasels may even ensue. Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Robin got up in the morning, the sneezles had vanished away,
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  Speaker 1: and the look in his eye seemed to say to
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  Speaker 1: the sky, now how to amuse them to day? End
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  Speaker 1: of Sneezeles, Section six of Now we Are six by A. A. Milne.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Binker, Binker,
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  Speaker 1: what I call him, is a secret of my own.
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  Speaker 1: And Binker is the reason why I never feel alone,
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  Speaker 1: playing in the nursery, sitting on the stair. Whatever I
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  Speaker 1: am busy at, Binker will be there. Oh Daddy is clever.
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  Speaker 1: He's a clever sort of man. And Mummy is the
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  Speaker 1: best since the world began. And Nanny is Nanny, and
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  Speaker 1: I call her Nan, but they can't see Binker. Binker's
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  Speaker 1: always talking because I'm teaching him to speak. He sometimes
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  Speaker 1: likes to do it in a funny sort of squeak,
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  Speaker 1: and he sometimes likes to do it in a hoodling
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  Speaker 1: sort of roar. And I have to do it for
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  Speaker 1: him cause his throat is rather sore. Oh Daddy is clever.
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  Speaker 1: He's a clever sort of man. And Mummy knows all
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  Speaker 1: that anybody can, and Nanny is Nanny and I call
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  Speaker 1: her Nan, but they don't know Binker. Binker's brave as
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  Speaker 1: lions when we're running in the park. Binker's brave as tigers.
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  Speaker 1: When we're lying in the dark, Binker's brave as elephants.
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  Speaker 1: He never never cries, except like other people when the
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  Speaker 1: soap gets in his eyes. Oh, Daddy is Daddy. He's
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  Speaker 1: a daddy sort of man. And Mummy is as mummy
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  Speaker 1: as anybody can. And Nanny is Nanny and I call
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  Speaker 1: her Nan, but they're not like Binker. Binker isn't greedy,
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  Speaker 1: but he does like things to eat, so I have
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  Speaker 1: to say to people when they're giving me a sweet, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Binker wants a chocolate, so could you give me two?
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  Speaker 1: And then I eat it for him cause his teeth
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  Speaker 1: are rather new. Well, I'm very fond of Daddy, but
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't time to play. And I'm very fond of Mummy,
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  Speaker 1: but she sometimes goes away, and I'm often cross with
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  Speaker 1: Nanny when she wants to brush my hair. But Binker's
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  Speaker 1: always Binker and is certain to be there. End of Binker.
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  Speaker 1: Section seven of Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Cherry stones,
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  Speaker 1: tinker tailor, soldiers, sailor, rich man, poor man, plowboy, thief.
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  Speaker 1: And what about a cowboy, policeman, jailer, engine driver, or
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  Speaker 1: pirate chief. What about a postman or a keeper at
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  Speaker 1: the zoo? What about the circus man who lets the
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  Speaker 1: people through and the man who takes the pennies for
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  Speaker 1: the roundabouts and swings, or the man who plays the
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  Speaker 1: organ and the other man who sings. What about a
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  Speaker 1: conjurer with rabbits in his pockets. What about a rocket
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  Speaker 1: man who's always making rockets. Oh, there's such a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things to do and such a lot to be
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  Speaker 1: that there's always lots of cherries on my little cherry tree.
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  Speaker 1: End of Cherry Stones, Section eight of Now we are
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  Speaker 1: six by A. A. Milne. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. The knight whose armor didn't squeak. Of
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  Speaker 1: all the knights in apple Dore, the wisest was Sir
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  Speaker 1: Thomas tom. He multiplied as far as four and knew
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  Speaker 1: what nine was taken from to make eleven. He could
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  Speaker 1: write a letter to another knight. No other knight in
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  Speaker 1: all the land could do the things which he could do.
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  Speaker 1: Not only did he understand the way to polish swords,
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  Speaker 1: but knew what remedy a knight should seek whose armor
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  Speaker 1: had begun to squeak, and if he didn't fight too much.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't that he did not care for blips and
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  Speaker 1: buffetings and such, but felt that it was hardly fair
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  Speaker 1: to risk by frequent injuries a brain as delicate as his.
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  Speaker 1: His castle, Castle Tom was set conveniently on a hill,
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  Speaker 1: and daily, when it wasn't wet, he paced the battlements
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  Speaker 1: until some smaller knight who couldn't swim should reach the
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  Speaker 1: moat and challenge him for Sometimes, feeling full of fight,
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  Speaker 1: he hurried out to scour the plain, and, seeing some
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  Speaker 1: approaching night, he either hurried home again or hid, and
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  Speaker 1: when the foe was past, blew a triumphant trumpet block
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  Speaker 1: last one day, when good Sir Thomas Tom was resting
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  Speaker 1: in a handy ditch, the noises he was hiding from,
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  Speaker 1: though very much the noises which he'd always hidden from before,
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  Speaker 1: seemed somehow less or was it more? The trotting horse,
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  Speaker 1: the trumpets blast, the whistling sword, the armors squeak, These
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  Speaker 1: and especially the last had clattered by him all the week.
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  Speaker 1: Was this the same or was it not? Something was different?
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  Speaker 1: But what? Sir Thomas raised a cautious ear and listened
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  Speaker 1: as Sir Hugh went by, And suddenly he seemed to
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  Speaker 1: hear or not to hear, the reason why this stranger
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  Speaker 1: made a nicer sound than other knights who lived around.
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  Speaker 1: Sir Thomas watched the way he went. His rage was
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  Speaker 1: such he couldn't speak for years. They'd called him down
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  Speaker 1: in k the knight whose armor didn't squeak yet here
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  Speaker 1: and now he looked upon another knight whose squeak had gone.
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  Speaker 1: He rushed to where his horse was tied. He spurred
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  Speaker 1: it to a rapid trot. The only fear he felt
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  Speaker 1: inside about his enemy was not how sharp his sword,
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  Speaker 1: how stout his heart, but has he got too long
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  Speaker 1: a start? Sir Hugh was singing hand on hip when
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  Speaker 1: something sudden came along and caught him a terrific blip
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  Speaker 1: right in the middle of his song. A thunder storm,
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  Speaker 1: he thought, of course, and toppled gently off his horse.
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  Speaker 1: Then said, the good Sir Thomas, tom dismounting with a
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  Speaker 1: friendly air, allow me to extract you from the heavy
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  Speaker 1: armor that you wear. At times like these, the bravest
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  Speaker 1: knight may find his armor much too tight. A hundred
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  Speaker 1: year yards or so beyond the scene of brave Sir
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  Speaker 1: Hugh's defeat, Sir Thomas found a useful pond, and careful
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  Speaker 1: not to wet his feet, he brought the armor to
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  Speaker 1: the brink and flung it in, and watched it sink.
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  Speaker 1: So Ever after, more and more the men of Kent
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  Speaker 1: would proudly speak of Thomas Tom of apple Door, the
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  Speaker 1: Knight whose armor didn't squeak, whilst Hugh, the Knight who
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  Speaker 1: gave him best, squeaks just as badly as the rest
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  Speaker 1: end of the Knight whose armor didn't squeak. Section nine
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  Speaker 1: of Now We Are six by A. A. Milne. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Buttercup Days, Where
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  Speaker 1: is Anne head above the buttercups, walking by the stream,
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  Speaker 1: down among the buttercups? Where is Anne walking with her man,
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  Speaker 1: lost in a dream, lost among the buttercups? What has
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  Speaker 1: she got in that little brown head? Wonderful thoughts which
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  Speaker 1: can never be said? What has she got in that
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  Speaker 1: firm little fist of hers? Somebody's thumb And it feels
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  Speaker 1: like Christopher's Where is Anne close to her man brown
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  Speaker 1: head gold head? In and out the Buttercups. End of
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  Speaker 1: Buttercup Days, Section ten of Now We Are six by A. A. Milne.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The charcoal Burner.
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  Speaker 1: The charcoal burner has tales to tell. He lives in
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  Speaker 1: the forest, alone in the forest. He sits in the forest,
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  Speaker 1: alone in the forest. And the sun comes slanting between
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  Speaker 1: the trees, and rabbits come up, and they give him
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  Speaker 1: good morning. And rabbits come up and say beautiful morning.
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  Speaker 1: And the moon swings clear of the tall black trees,
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  Speaker 1: and owls fly over and wish him good night, quietly
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  Speaker 1: over to wish him good night. And he sits and
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  Speaker 1: thinks of the things they know. He in the forest alone, together,
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  Speaker 1: the springs that come, and the summers that go, autumn
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  Speaker 1: dew on bracken and heather, the drip of the forest
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  Speaker 1: beneath the snow, all the things they have seen, all
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  Speaker 1: the things they have heard, and April sky swept clean,
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  Speaker 1: and the song of a bird. Oh, the charcoal burner
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  Speaker 1: has tales to tell. And he lives in the forest
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  Speaker 1: and knows us well. End of the charcoal burner, section
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  Speaker 1: eleven of Now we are six by A. A. Milne.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain US too.
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  Speaker 1: Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and me.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever I do, he wants to do. Where are you
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  Speaker 1: going to day? Says Pooh. Well, that's very odd, cause
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  Speaker 1: I was too. Let's go together, says Pooh, says he.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go together, says Pooh. What's twice eleven? I said
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  Speaker 1: to Pooh? Twice? What said Pooh to me? I think
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  Speaker 1: it ought to be twenty two? Just what I think myself,
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  Speaker 1: said Pooh. It wasn't an easy sum to do. But
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  Speaker 1: that's what it is, said Pooh, said he. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it is, said Pooh. Let's look for dragons. I said
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  Speaker 1: to Pooh. Yes, let's said Pooh to me. We crossed
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  Speaker 1: the river and found a few. Yes, those are dragons,
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  Speaker 1: all right, said Pooh. As soon as I saw their beaks,
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  Speaker 1: I knew that's what they are, said Pooh said he.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they are, said Pooh. Let's frighten the dragons.
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  Speaker 1: I said to Pooh. That's right, said Pooh to me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not afraid, I said to Pooh, and I held
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  Speaker 1: his paw, and I shouted, shoo, silly old dragons, and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: off they flew. I wasn't afraid, said Pooh, said he.
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  Speaker 1: I'm never afraid with you. So wherever I am, there's
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: always Pooh, There's always Pooh and me. What would I do?
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I said to Pooh if it wasn't for you. And
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Pooh said, true, it isn't much fun for one, but
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: two can stick together, says Pooh, says he. That's how
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  Speaker 1: it is, says Pooh. End of US two, Section twelve
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: of Now we are six by A. A. Milne. This
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The Old Sailor.
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  Speaker 1: There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, who
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: had so many things which he wanted to do, that
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: whenever he thought it was time to begin, he couldn't
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: because of the state he was in. He was shipwrecked
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and lived on an island for weeks, and he wanted
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: a hat, and he wanted some breeks, and he wanted
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: some nets or a line, and some hooks for the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: turtles and things which you read of in books. And
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: thinking of this, he remembered a thing which he wanted
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: for water, and that was a spring, and he thought
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: that to talk to he'd look for and keep if
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: he found it, a goat or some chickens and sheep. Then,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: because of the weather, he wanted a hut with a
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: door to come in by which opened and shut with
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: a jerk, which was useful if snakes were about, and
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: a very strong lock to keep savages out. He began
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: on the fish hooks, and when he'd begun, he decided
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: he couldn't because of the sun. So he knew what
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: he ought to begin with, and that was to find
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: or to make a large sun stopping hat. He was
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: making the hat with some leaves from a tree when
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: he thought, I'm as hot as a body can be,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: and I've nothing to take for my terrible thirst. So
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I'll look for a spring, and i'll look for it first.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Then he thought, as he started, oh dear, and oh dear,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I'll be lonely tomorrow with nobody here. So he made
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: in his note book a couple of notes. I must
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: first find some chickens and no, I mean goats. He
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: had just seen a goat, which he knew by the shape,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: when he thought, but I must have a boat for escape.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: But a boat needs a sail, which means needles and thread.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: So I'd better sit down and make needles instead. He
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: began on a needle, but thought as he worked that
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: if this was an island where savages lurked, sitting safe
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: in his hut, he'd have nothing to fear, whereas now
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: they might suddenly breathe in his ear. So he thought
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: of his hut, and he thought of his boat, and
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: his hat, and his brakes, and his chickens and goat,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: and the hooks for his food, and the spring for
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: his thirst. But he never could think which he ought
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: to do first, And so in the end he did
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: nothing at all but basked on a shingle wrapped up
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: in a shawl. And I think it was dreadful the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: way he behaved. He did nothing but basking until he
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: was saved. End of the Old Sailor, Section thirteen of
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Now we are six by A. A. Milne. This LibriVox
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. The engineer let it rain,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: who cares? Have a train upstairs with a break which
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I make from a string sort of thing which works
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: in jerks cause it drops in the spring which stops
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: with the string and the wheels all stick so quick
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that it feels like a thing that you make with
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: a break, not string. So that's what I make when
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: the day's all wet. It's a good sort of break,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: but it hasn't worked yet. End of the Engineer, Section
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: fourteen of Now we are six by A A Milne.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Journey's End, Christopher, Christopher,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: where are you going, Christopher Robin? Just up to the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: top of the hill, upping and upping until I am
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: right on the top of the hill, said Christopher Robin. Christopher, Christopher,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Why are you going, Christopher Robin? There's nothing to see.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: So when you've got to the top, what then? Just
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: down to the bottom again, said Christopher Robin. End of
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Journey's End, Section fifteen of Now we are six by
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: A A Milne. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Furry Bear. If I were a bear, and a big
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: bear too, I shouldn't much care if it froze or snow.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't much mind if it snowed or frizz I'd
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: be all fur lined with a coat like his, For
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: i'd have fur boots and a brown fur rap and
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: brown fur nickers and a big fur cap. I'd have
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: a fur muffle ruff to cover my jaws and brown
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: fur mittens on my big brown paws, with a big
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: brown furry down up to my I'd sleep all the
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: winter in a big fur bed. End of furry bear
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Section sixteen of Now we are six by A. A. Milne.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain forgiven. I've
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and I called him Alexander and he answered just the same.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I put him in a match box and I kept
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: him all the day, and Nanny let my beetle out. Yes,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Nanny let my beetle out. She went and let my
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: beetle out, and beetle ran away. She said she didn't
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: mean it, and I never said she did. She said
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: she wanted batches, and she just took off the lid.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: She said that she was sorry, but it's difficult to
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: catch an excited sort of beetle you've mistaken for a match.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: She said that she was so, and I really mustn't mind,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: as there's lots and lots of beetles which she's certain
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: we could find if we looked about the garden for
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the holes where beetles hid, and we get another match
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: box and write beetle on the lid. We went to
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: all the places which a beatle might be near, and
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: we made sort of noises which a beatle likes to hear.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: And I saw a kind of something, and I gave
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: a sort of shout. A beetle house, and Alexander beetle
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: coming out. It was Alexander Beetle. I'm as certain as
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: can be. And he had a sort of look as
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: if he thought it must be me. And he had
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: a sort of look as if he thought he ought
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: to say, I'm very very sorry that I tried to
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: run away. And Nanny's very sorry too, for you know
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: what she did. And she's writing Alexander very blackly on
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the lid. So Nan and me are friends because it's
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: difficult to catch and excited Alexander, you've mistaken for a
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: match end of forgiven section seventeen of now we are
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: six by A. A. Milne. This LibriVox recording is in
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the public domain. The Emperor's rhyme. The King of Peru,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: who was emperor too, had a sort of a rhyme
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: which was useful to know if he felt very shy
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: when a stranger came by, or they asked him the
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: time when his watch didn't go or supposing he fell
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: by mistake down a well, or he tumbled when skating
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and sat on his hat, or perhaps wasn't told till
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: his porridge was cold that his breakfast was waiting, or
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: something like that. Oh, whenever the Emperor got into a
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: temperor felt himself sulky or sad, he would murmur and
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: murmur until he felt firmer. This curious rhyme which he had.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Eight eights are sixty four, multiply by seven. When it's done,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: carry one and take away eleven. Nine nines are eighty
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: one multiply by three. If it's more, carry four, and
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: then it's time for tea. So whenever the Queen took
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: his armor to clean and she didn't remember to use
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: any starch for his birthday in May was a horrible day,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: being wet as November and windy as March. Or if
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: sitting in state with the wise in the Great he
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: just happened to hiccup while signing his name, or the
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: queen gave a cough when his crown tumbled off as
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: he bent down to pick up a pen for the same. Oh,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: whenever the Emperor got into a temperor felt himself awkward
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: and shy, he would whisper and whisper until he felt crisper.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: This odd little rhyme to the sky. Eight eights are
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: eighty one. Multiply by seven. If it's more, carry four
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: and take away eleven. Nine nines are sixty four. Multiply
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: by three. When it's done, carry one, and then it's
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: time for tea. End of the Emperor's rhyme Section eighteen
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: of Now we are six by A. A. Milne. This
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Night in Armor.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Whenever I'm a shining night, I buckle on my armor tight,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: and then I look about for things like rushings out
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: and rescuings and savings from the dragon's lair, and fighting
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: all the dragons there. And sometimes when our fights begin,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I think I'll let the dragons win, and then I
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: think perhaps I won't, because they're dragons and I don't.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: End of Night in Armor, section nineteen of Now we
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: are six by A. A. Milne. This LibriVox recording is
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Come out with me. There's sun
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: on the river and sun on the hill. You can
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: hear the sea if you stand quite still. There's eight
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: new puppies at round about farm. And I saw a
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: sailor with only one arm. But everyone says, run along,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: run along, run along. All of them say, run along.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: I'm busy as can be. Everyone says, run along. There's
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: a little darling. If I'm a little darling, why don't
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: they run with me? There's wind on the river and
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: wind on the hill. There's a dark dead water wheel
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: under the mill. I saw fly which had just been drowned.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: And I know where a rabbit goes into the ground.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: But everyone says, run along, run along, run along. All
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: of them say yes, dear, and never notice me. Everyone says,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: run along. There's a little darling. If I'm a little darling,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: why won't they come and see? End of come out
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: with me? Section twenty of Now we are six by A. A. Milne.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: This Librovox recording is in the public domain. Down by
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the pond, I'm fishing. Don't talk anybody, don't come near.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Can't you see that the fish might hear? He thinks
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I'm playing with a piece of string. He thinks I'm
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: another sort of funny sort of thing. But he doesn't
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: know I'm fishing. He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I'm doing fishing. No, I'm not. I'm neoting. Don't cough anybody,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: don't come by. Any small noise makes a newt feel shy.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: He thinks I'm a bush or a new sort of tree.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: He thinks it's somebody, but doesn't think it's me. And
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: he doesn't know I'm neuting. No, he doesn't know I'm neuting.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing, neoting. End of Down by the Pond,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Section twenty one of Now We Are six by A. A. Milne.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The little
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Black Hen, Berryman and Baxter, pretty Boy, and pen and
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: old Farmer Middleton are five big men, and all of
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: them were after the little black Hen. She ran quickly.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: They ran fast. Baxter was first and Berryman was last.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I watched by the old plum tree. She squawked through
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the hedge, and she came to me. The little black
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Hen said, Oh it's you. I said, thank you, how
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: do you do? And please? Will you tell me, little
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: black Hen? What did they want? Those five big men?
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: The little black hen. She said to me, they want
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: me to lay them an egg for tea if they
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: were emperors, if they were kings, I'm much too busy
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: to lay them things. I'm not a king and I
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: haven't a crown. I climb up trees and I tumble down.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: I can shut one eye. I can count to ten.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: So lay me an egg, please, little black hen. The
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: little black hen said, what will you pay if I
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: lay you an egg for Easter Day? I'll give you
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: a please and a how do you do? I'll show
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: you the bear who lives in the zoo. I'll show
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: you the nettle place on my leg if you'll lay
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: me a great, big sterry egg. The little black hen said,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: I don't care for a how do you do? Or
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: a big brown bear. But i'll lay you a beautiful
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: eastery egg if you'll show me the nettle place on
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: your leg. I showed her the place where I had
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: my sting. She touched it gently with one black wing.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Nettles don't hurt if you count to ten. And now
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: for the egg, said the little black hen. When I
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: wake up on Easter Day, I shall see my egg
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: she's promised to lay. If I were emperors. If I
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: were kings, it couldn't be fuller of wonderful things. Berryman
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: and Baxter, pretty Boy, and pen an old farmer Middleton
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: are five big men. All of them are wanting an
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: egg for their tea. But the little black hen is
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: much too busy. The little black hen is much too busy.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: The little black hen is much too busy. She's laying
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: my egg for me. End of the Little Black Hen,
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  Speaker 1: Section twenty two of Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The Friend,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: there are lots and lots of people who are always
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: asking things like dates and pounds and ounces and the
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: names of funny kings. And the ANSWER's either sixpence or
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: a hundred inches long. And I know they'll think me
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: silly if I get the answer wrong. So Pooh and
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I go whispering, and Pooh looks very bright and says, well,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: I say sexpence, but I don't suppose I'm right. And
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: then it doesn't matter what the answer ought to be,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: cause if he's right, I'm right, and if he's wrong,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: it isn't me. End of the Friend, Section twenty three
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: of Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne. This
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The Good Little Girl.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: It's funny how often they say to me, Jane, have
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: you been a good girl? Have you been a good girl?
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: And when they have said it, they say it again,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: have you been a good girl? Have you been a
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: good girl? I go to a party, I go out
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: to tea, I go to an aunt for a week
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: at the sea. I come back from school or from
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: playing a game. Wherever I come from, it's always the same,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Well have you been a good girl, Jane. It's always
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the end of the loveliest day. Have you been a
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: good girl? Have you been a good girl? I went
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: to the zoo and they waited to say, have you
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: been a good girl? Have you been a good girl? Well?
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: What did they think that I went there to do?
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: And why should I want to be bad at the zoo?
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: And should I be likely to say if I had so?
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: That's why it's funny of mommy and dad, this asking
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: and asking in case I was bad? Well, have you
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: been a good girl? Jane? End of The Good Little Girl,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Section twenty four of Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. A thought.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: If I were John and John were me, then he'd
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: be six and I'd be three. If John were me
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: and I were John, I shouldn't have these trousers on
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: end of a thought Section twenty five of Now we
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: are six by A. A. Milne. This librovox recording is
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. King Hilary and the Beggarman of Hilary,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: the Great and Good, they tell a tale at Christmas time.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I've often thought the story would be prettier, but just
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: as good if almost anybody should translate it into rhyme.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: So I have done the best I can, for lack
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: of some more learned man. Good King Hilary said to
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: his Chancellor, Proud Lord Willoughby, Lord High Chancellor, run to
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: the wicked gate, quickly, quickly, run to the wicket gate,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: and see who is knocking. It may be a rich
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: man sea born from Araby, bringing me peacock's emeralds and ivory.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: It may be a poor man, travel worn and weary,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: bringing me oranges to put in my stocking. Proud Lord Willoughby,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Lord High Chancellor, laughed both loud and free. Haw haw Haw,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: I've served your majesty man to man, since first your
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Majesty's reign began, and I've often walked, but I never
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: never ran, never, never, never, quoth he Good King Hilary
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: said to his chancellor, Proud Lord Willoughby, Lord High Chancellor,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: walk to the wicket gate, quickly, quickly walk to the
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: wicket gate, and see who is knocking. It may be
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: a captain, hawk nosed, bearded, bringing me gold dust, spices
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: and sandalwood. It may be a scullion, care free whistling,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: bringing me sugar plums to put in my stocking. Proud
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Lord Willoughby, Lord High Chancellor, laughed, both loud and free.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I've served in the palace since I was four, and
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: I'll serve in the Palace a many years more. And
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I've opened a window, but never a door, never, never, never,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: quoth he Good King. Hilary said to his chancellor, Proud
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Lord Willoughby, Lord High Chancellor, open the window, quickly, quickly
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: open the window, and see who is knocking. It may
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: be a waiting maid, apple cheeked, dimpled, sent by her
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: mistress to bring me greeting. It may be children, anxious whispering,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: bringing me cob nuts to put in my stocking. Proud
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Lord Willoughby, Lord High Chancellor, laughed both loud and free.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: I'll serve your majesty till I die as Lord Chancellor,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: not as spy to peep from lattices. No, not, I never, never, never,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: quoth he Good King Hilary looked at his chancellor, proud
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Lord Willoughby, Lord High Chancellor. He said no word to
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: his stiff set chancellor, but ran to the wicket gate
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: to see who was knocking. He found no rich man
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: trading from Araby. He found found no captain blue eyed,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: weather tanned. He found no waiting maid sent by her mistress,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: but only a beggar man with one red stocking. Good
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: King Hilary looked at the beggar man and laughed him
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: three times three. And he turned that beggar man round about.
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  Speaker 1: Your thews are strong, and your arm is stout. Come
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  Speaker 1: throw me a Lord high chancellor out and take his place,
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  Speaker 1: quoth he of Hilary. The good and great old wives
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  Speaker 1: at Christmas time relate this tale, which points at any
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  Speaker 1: rate two morals on the way. The first, whatever fortune brings,
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  Speaker 1: don't be afraid of doing things, especially of course, for kings.
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  Speaker 1: It also seems to say, but not so wisely, he
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  Speaker 1: who begs with one red stocking on his legs will
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  Speaker 1: be as sure as eggs are eggs a chancellor some
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  Speaker 1: day end of King Hilary and the beggar Man, section
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  Speaker 1: twenty six of Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Swing song.
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  Speaker 1: Here I go up in my swing ever so high.
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  Speaker 1: I am the king of the fields and the king
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  Speaker 1: of the town. I am the King of the Earth
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  Speaker 1: and the King of the sky. Here I go up
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  Speaker 1: in my swing. Now I go down. End of Swing Song,
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  Speaker 1: section twenty seven of Now we Are six by A. A. Milne.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Explained, Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: Ann said to her nan, please, will you tell me
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  Speaker 1: how God began? Somebody must have made him, so who
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  Speaker 1: could it be? Because I want to know? And nurse
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  Speaker 1: said well, And Anne said, well, I know you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I wish you'd tell. And nurse took pins from
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  Speaker 1: her mouth and said, now then, darling, it's time for bed.
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Anne had a wonderful plan. She would run round
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  Speaker 1: the world till she found a man who knew exactly
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  Speaker 1: how God began. She got up early, she dressed and ran,
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  Speaker 1: trying to find an important man. She ran to London
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  Speaker 1: and knocked at the door of the Lord High Doodlum's
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  Speaker 1: coach and four, please, sir, if there's any one in.
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  Speaker 1: However and ever did God begin? The Lord High Doodlum
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  Speaker 1: lay in bed, but out of the window, large and
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  Speaker 1: red came the Lord High Coachman's face instead. And the
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  Speaker 1: Lord High Coachman laughed and said, well, what put that
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  Speaker 1: in your quaint little head. Elizabeth Anne went on omc
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  Speaker 1: gain and took from the ottoman Jennifer Jane. Jennifer Jane said,
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  Speaker 1: elizabeth Anne, tell me at once how God began? And Jane,
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  Speaker 1: who didn't much care for speaking, replied in her usual
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  Speaker 1: way by squeaking, what did it mean? Well, to be
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  Speaker 1: quite candid, I don't know, but elizabeth Ann did. Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: Anne said, softly, Oh, thank you, Jennifer. Now I know,
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  Speaker 1: And of explained section twenty eight of Now we are
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  Speaker 1: six by A. A. Milne. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Twice times there were two little bears
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  Speaker 1: who lived in a wood, and one of them was
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  Speaker 1: bad and the other was good, good, Bear learned his
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  Speaker 1: twice times won, but bad Bear left all his buttons undone.
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  Speaker 1: They lived in a tree when the weather was hot,
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  Speaker 1: and one of them was good and the other was not.
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  Speaker 1: Good Bear learned his twice times two, but bad Bear's
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: thingamies were worn right through. They lived in a cave
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  Speaker 1: when the weather was cold, and they did and they
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  Speaker 1: didn't do what they were told. Good Bear learned his
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  Speaker 1: twice times three, but bad Bear never had his handkerchief.
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  Speaker 1: They lived in the wood with a kind old aunt,
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  Speaker 1: and one said yes'm and the other said sha'n't. Good
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  Speaker 1: Bear learned his twice times four, but bad Bear's nickodies
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: were terrible tore, and then quite suddenly, just like us,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: one got better and the other got wuss. Good Bear
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  Speaker 1: muddled his twice times three, but bad Bear coughed in
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: his handkerchief. Good Bear muddled his twice times too, but
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: bad Bear's thingamies looked like new. Good Bear muddled his
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  Speaker 1: twice times one, but bad Bear never left him buttons undone.
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  Speaker 1: There may be a moral, though some say not. I
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: think there's a moral, though I don't know what. But
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  Speaker 1: if one gets better as the other gets us, these
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  Speaker 1: two little bears are just like us. For Christopher remembers
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  Speaker 1: up to twice times ten, but I keep forgetting where
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  Speaker 1: I've put my pen note, so I have had to
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  Speaker 1: write this one in pencil. End of twice Times, Section
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine of Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The Morning Walk.
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  Speaker 1: When Anne and I go out a walk, we hold
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: each other's hand and talk of all the things we
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  Speaker 1: mean to do when Anne and I are forty two.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: And when we've thought about a thing like bowling hoops
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: or bicycling, or falling down on Anne's balloon, we do
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  Speaker 1: it in the afternoon. End of The Morning Walk, section
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  Speaker 1: thirty of Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Cradle Song,
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  Speaker 1: Oh Timothy Tim has ten pink toes, and ten pink toes,
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  Speaker 1: has Timothy Tim. They go with him wherever he goes,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: and wherever he goes, they go with him. Oh Timothy,
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  Speaker 1: Tim has two blue eyes, and two blue eyes, has
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  Speaker 1: Timothy Tim. They cry with him whenever he cries, And
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: whenever he cries, they cry with him. Oh Timothy, Tim
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  Speaker 1: has one red head and one. Red Head has Timothy
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  Speaker 1: tim It sleeps with him in Timothy's bed, sleep well,
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  Speaker 1: Red Head of Timothy tim End of Cradle Song, Section
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  Speaker 1: thirty one of Now We are six by A. A. Milne.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Waiting at
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  Speaker 1: the window, These are my two drops of rain waiting
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: on the window pane. I am waiting here to see
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: which the winning one will be. Both of them have
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: different names. One is John and one is James. All
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: the best and all the worst comes from Which of
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: them is first. James has just begun to ooze. He's
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: the one I want to lose. John is waiting to begin.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: He's the one I want to win. James is going
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: slowly on something sort of sticks to John. John is
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: moving off at last. James is going pretty fast. John
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: is rushing down the pane. James is going slow again.
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  Speaker 1: James has met a sort of smear. John is getting
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: very near. Is he going fast enough? James has found
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  Speaker 1: a piece of fluff. John has hurried quickly by. James
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: was talking to a fly. John is there, and John
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  Speaker 1: has won. Look, I told you here's the sun. End
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: of Waiting at the Window, Section thirty two. Of now
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  Speaker 1: we are six by A. A. Milne. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Pinkle Purr Tattoo was the
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  Speaker 1: mother of pinkle Purr, a little black nothing of feet
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  Speaker 1: and fur. And by and by, when his eyes came through,
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: he saw his mother, the big tattoo, and all that
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: he learned he learned from her. I'll ask my mother,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: says pinkle pur Tattoo was the mother of pinkle Purr,
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: a ridiculous kitten with silky fur. And that little black
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: pinkle grew and grew till he got as big as
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: the big tattoo. And all that he did he did
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  Speaker 1: with her two friends together, says pinkle pur Tattoo was
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: the mother of pinkle Purr, an adventurous cat in a
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: coat of fur. And whenever he thought of a thing
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  Speaker 1: to do, he didn't much bother about tattoo, for he
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: knows it's nothing to do with her. So see you later,
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: says pinkle pur Tattoo is the mother of pinkle Purr,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: an enormous leopard with coal black fur. A little brown
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: kitten that's nearly new is now playing games with its
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: big tattoo, and pink looks lazily down at her dear
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  Speaker 1: little tat, says pinkle Purr. End of pinkle Pur Section
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  Speaker 1: thirty three of Now we are six by A A Miln.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Wind on
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  Speaker 1: the Hill, no one can tell me. Nobody knows where
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: the wind comes from, where the wind goes. It's flying
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: from somewhere as fast as it can. I couldn't keep
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: up with it, not if I ran. But if I
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: stopped holding the string of my kite, it would blow
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: with the wind for a day and a night. And
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: then when I found it wherever it blew, I should
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: know that the wind had been going there too, So
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: then I could tell them where the wind goes. But
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: where the wind comes from, nobody knows. End of Wind
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  Speaker 1: on the Hill, Section thirty four of Now we are
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  Speaker 1: six by A A Milne. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Forgotten lords of the nursery wait in
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  Speaker 1: a row, five on the high wall and four on
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  Speaker 1: the low. Big kings and little kings, brown bears and
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: black all of them waiting till John comes back. Some
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: think that John Boy is lost in the wood. Some
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: say he couldn't be. Some say he could. Some think
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  Speaker 1: that John Boy hides on the hill. Some say he
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: won't come back, Some say he will. High was the
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: sun when John went away. Here they've been waiting all
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  Speaker 1: through the day, big bears and little bears, white kings
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: and black all of them waiting till John comes back.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: Lords of the nursery looked down the hill. Some saw
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: the sheep fold, some saw the mill, some saw the
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: roofs of the little gray town. And their shadows grew
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: long as the sun slipped down, gold between the poplars,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: and old moon shows silver up the starway. The full
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: moon rose silver down the starway. The old moon crept,
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  Speaker 1: and one by another the gray fields slept. Lords of
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  Speaker 1: the nursery their still watch keep. They hear from the
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  Speaker 1: sheepfold the rustle of sheep. A young bird twitters and
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: hides its head. A little wind suddenly breathes and is dead.
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  Speaker 1: Slowly and slowly dawns the new day. What's become of
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: John Boy, No one can say. Some think that John
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  Speaker 1: Boy is lost on the hill. Some say he won't
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: come back, some say he will. What's become of John
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  Speaker 1: Boy nothing at all. He played with his skipping rope,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: he played with his ball. He ran after butterflies, blue ones,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: and red. He did a hundred happy things, and then
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: went to bed. And I've forgotten section thirty five of
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  Speaker 1: Now We Are six by A. A. Milne. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. In the dark, I've
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: had my supper, and had my supper, and had my supper,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: and all I've heard the story of Cinderella and how
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: she went to the ball. I've cleaned my teeth, and
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: I've said my prayers, and I've cleaned and said them right.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: And they've all of them been and kissed me lots.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: They've all of them said good night. So here I
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: am in the dark alone. There's nobody here to see.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: I think to myself. I play to myself, and nobody
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: knows what I say to myself. Here I am in
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: the dark alone. What is it going to be? I
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: can think whatever I like to think. I can play
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: whatever I like to play. I can laugh whatever I
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: like to laugh. There's nobody here but me. I'm talking
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: to a rabbit. I'm talking to the sun. I think
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: I am a hundred. I'm one. I'm lying in a forest,
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: I'm lying in a cave. I'm talking to a dragon.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: I'm brave. I'm lying on my left side, I'm lying
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  Speaker 1: on my right. I'll play a lot to morrow, I'll
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: think a lot to morrow. All laugh a lot to morrow.
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  Speaker 1: Hey ho, good night. End of In the Dark, Section
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  Speaker 1: thirty six of Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The end.
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  Speaker 1: When I was one, I had just begun. When I
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: was two, I was nearly new. When I was three,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: I was hardly me. When I was four, I was
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: not much more. When I was five, I was just alive.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: But now I am six. I'm as clever as clever,
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  Speaker 1: so I think I'll be six now, forever and ever.
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  Speaker 1: End of the end. End of Now We Are Six?
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  Speaker 1: By A. A. Milne.