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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now,
bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head,
behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows,
the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he
feels that there really is another way, if only he could
stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then
he feels that perhaps there isn't. Anyhow, here he is
at the bottom, and ready to be introduced to you.
~from 'Winnie-the-Pooh'~ |
Christopher Robin gave a deep sigh, picked his
Bear up by the leg, and walked off to the door,
trailing Pooh behind him. At the door he turned and
said, "Coming to see me have my bath?"......
He nodded and went out, and in a moment I heard
Winnie-the-Pooh----bump, bump, bump---going up
the stairs behind him.
~from 'Winnie-the-Pooh'~ |
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So Pooh and I go whispering,
and Pooh looks
very bright,
And says, "Well, I say sixpence,
but I don't suppose
I'm right."
And then it doesn't matter
what the answer ought
to be,
'Cos if he's right, I'm Right,
and if he's wrong,
it isn't Me.
~from 'Now We Are Six'~ |
And Teddy worried lots about
The fact that he was rather stout.
He thought: "If only I were thin!
But how does anyone begin?"
He thought: "It really isn't fair
To grudge me exercise and air."
~from 'When We Were Young'~
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Us Two
Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and me.
Whatever I do, he wants to do,
"Where are you going today?" says Pooh...
"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too.
Let's go together" says Pooh, says he.
"Let's go together" says Pooh.
"What's twice eleven?" I said to Pooh,
("Twice what?" said Pooh to me.)
"I think it ought to be twenty two".
"Just what I think myself" said Pooh.
"It wasn't an easy sum to do.
But that's what is it" said Pooh, said he.
"That's what it is" said Pooh.
"Let's look for dragons" I said to Pooh.
"Yes, let's" said Pooh to me.
We crossed the river and found a few...
"Yes, those are dragons all right" said Pooh.
"As soon as I saw their beaks I knew.
That's what they are" said Pooh, said he.
"That's what they are" said Pooh.
"Let's frighten the dragons" I said to Pooh.
"That's right" said Pooh to me.
"I'm not afraid" I said to Pooh,
And I held his paw and I shouted "Shoo!
Silly old dragons!"...and off they flew.
"I wasn't afraid" said Pooh, said he,
"I'm never afraid with you."
So wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and me.
"What would I do?" I said to Pooh,
"If it wasn't for you" and Pooh said..."True.
It isn't much fun for one, but two
Can stick together" says Pooh, says he.
"That's how it is" says Pooh.
-from "When We Are Six"-
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And he took a stick and touched Pooh on the shoulder, and said, "Rise, Sir Pooh
de Bear, most faithful of all my knights."
So Pooh rose and sat down and said "Thank you," which is the proper thing to say when you have been made a Knight, and he went into a dream again, in which he and Sir Pomp and Sir Brazil and Factors lived together with a horse, and were faithful Knights (all except Factors, who looked after the horse) to Good King Christopher Robin . . . and every now and then he shook his head, and said to himself "I'm not getting it right." Then he began to think of all the things Christopher Robin would want to tell him when he came back from wherever he was going to, and how muddling it would be for a Bear of Very Little Brain to try and get them right in his mind. "So, perhaps," he said sadly to himself, "Christopher Robin won't tell me any more," and he wondered if being a Faithful Knight meant that you just went on being faithful without being told things.
"Pooh, promise you won't forget about me, ever.
Not even when I'm a hundred."
Pooh thought a little.
"How old shall I be then?"
"Ninety-nine."
Pooh nodded. "I promise," he said. Still with his eyes on the world
Christopher Robin put out a hand and felt for Pooh's
paw......
-from Winnie-the-Pooh-
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"So they went off together. But wherever they go,
and whatever happens to them on the way, in that
enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy
and his Bear will always be playing."
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