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Speaker 1: your story ideas now. Then tonight we're bringing you something
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Speaker 1: Welcome to our sparkling box, fresh new series. Abby's bookshelf yeap.
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Speaker 1: For this series, I'm going to be picking some of
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Speaker 1: my favorite nostalgic tales from my bedtime bookshelf and reading
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Speaker 1: them to you. These might be books your parents enjoyed
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Speaker 1: when they were little, or they might be ones you've
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Speaker 1: heard about before. Personally, I can recall my own parents
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Speaker 1: reading them to me when I was little, so I
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Speaker 1: really hope I can read them as well as they did.
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Speaker 1: They are all absolutely magical. They've got a very very
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Speaker 1: special place in my heart. So let's begin. The first
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Speaker 1: book from my bookshelf is Winnie the Poop by AA Melne,
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Speaker 1: and this episode is called the Beehive. Here is Edward
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Speaker 1: Bear coming downstairs now bump bump, bump on the back
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Speaker 1: of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far
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Speaker 1: as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but
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Speaker 1: sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if
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Speaker 1: only he could stop bumping for a moment and think
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Speaker 1: of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't anyhow.
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Speaker 1: Here he is at the bottom and ready to be
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Speaker 1: introduced to you Winnie the Pooh. When I first heard
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Speaker 1: his name, I said, just as you're going to say,
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Speaker 1: But I thought he was a boy, so did, I
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Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin. Then you can't call him Winnie. I don't,
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Speaker 1: But you said he's Winnie there pooh. Don't you know
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Speaker 1: what there means? Ah? Yes, now I do, I said quickly,
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Speaker 1: And I hope you do too, because it's all the
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Speaker 1: explanation you're going to get. Sometimes, Winnie the Pooh likes
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Speaker 1: a game of some sort when he comes downstairs, and
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Speaker 1: sometimes he likes to sit quietly in front of the
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Speaker 1: fire and listen to a story this evening. What about
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Speaker 1: a story, said Christopher Robin. What about the story? I said,
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Speaker 1: could you very sweetly tell Winnie the Pooh? One? Of
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Speaker 1: course I could, I said, what sort of stories does
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Speaker 1: he like about himself? Because he's that sort of bear? Oh?
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Speaker 1: I see, So could you very sweetly? I'll try, I said,
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Speaker 1: So I tried. Once upon a time, a very long
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Speaker 1: time ago, now about last Friday, Winnie the Pooh lived
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Speaker 1: in a forest all by himself, under the name of Saunders.
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Speaker 1: What does under the name mean, asked Christopher Robin. It
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Speaker 1: means he had the name over the door in gold
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Speaker 1: letters and lived under it. Winnie the Pooh wasn't quite sure,
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Speaker 1: said Christopher Robin. Now I am, said a growley voice.
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Speaker 1: Then I will go on, said I. One day, when
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Speaker 1: he was out walking, he came to an open place
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the forest. And in the middle
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Speaker 1: of this place was a large oak tree, And from
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Speaker 1: the top of the tree there came a loud buzzing noise.
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Speaker 1: Winnie the poo 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 buzzing noise
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Speaker 1: means something. Yer, don't get a buzzing noise like that,
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Speaker 1: just buzzing and buzzing without his meaning something. If there's
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Speaker 1: a buzzing noise, somebody's making a buzzing 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, then
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Speaker 1: he climbed, then 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: vision to it. Funny how a bear likes honey, buzz
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Speaker 1: buzz buzz. I wonder why he does. Then he climbed
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Speaker 1: a little further, and a little further, and then just
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Speaker 1: a little further. By that time he had thought of
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Speaker 1: another song. It's a very funny sort that if bears
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Speaker 1: were bees, they'd build their nests at the bottom of trees,
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Speaker 1: and that being so, if the bees were bears, we
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Speaker 1: shouldn't have to climb up all these stairs. He was
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Speaker 1: getting rather tired by this time, so that is why
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Speaker 1: he sang a complaining song. He was nearly there now,
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Speaker 1: and if he just stood on that branch, crack, oh, help,
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Speaker 1: said pooh, as he dropped ten feet on the branch
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Speaker 1: below him. If only I hadn't, he said, as he
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Speaker 1: bounced twenty feet onto the next branch. You see what
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Speaker 1: I'm meant to do, he explained, as he turned head
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Speaker 1: over heels and crashed onto 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, as he slithered very quickly through the next
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Speaker 1: six branches. It all comes, I suppose, he decided, as
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Speaker 1: he said goodbye to the last branch, spun round three times,
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Speaker 1: and flew gracefully into a gore bush. It all comes
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Speaker 1: of liking honey so much. Oh help. He crawled out
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Speaker 1: of the gorse bush, brushed the prickles from his nose,
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Speaker 1: and began to think again. And the first person he
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Speaker 1: thought of was Christopher Robin. What does that mean, said
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Speaker 1: Christopher Robin in an awed voice, hardly daring to believe it.
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Speaker 1: That was you. Christopher Robin said nothing, but his eyes
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Speaker 1: got larger and larger, and his face got pinker and pinker.
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Speaker 1: So Winnie the Poo went round to his friend Christopher Robin,
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Speaker 1: who lived behind a green door in another part of
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Speaker 1: the forest. Good morning, Christopher Robin, he said, Good morning.
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Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh said you, I wonder if you've got
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Speaker 1: such a thing as a balloon about you? A balloon? Yes,
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Speaker 1: I just said to myself, coming along, I wonder if
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Speaker 1: Christopher Robin has such a thing as a balloon about him.
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Speaker 1: I just said it to myself, thinking of balloons and
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Speaker 1: wondering what do you want a balloon for? You? Said
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Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh looked round to see that nobody was listening,
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Speaker 1: put his paw to his mouth and said, in a
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Speaker 1: deep whisper, honey. But you don't get honey with balloons,
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Speaker 1: I do, said Pooh. Well, it just happened that you
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Speaker 1: had been to a party the day before at the
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Speaker 1: house of your friend Piglet, and you had bloons. At
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Speaker 1: the party, you had had a big green balloon, and
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Speaker 1: one of Rabbit's relations had had a big blue one
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Speaker 1: and left it behind, being really too young to go
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Speaker 1: to a party at all, And so you had brought
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Speaker 1: the green one and the blue one home with you.
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Speaker 1: Which would you like, you, asked Pooh. He put his
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Speaker 1: head between his paws and thought very carefully. It's like this,
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Speaker 1: he said, when you go after honey with a bloon.
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Speaker 1: The great thing is not to let the bees know
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Speaker 1: your coming. Now, if you have a green balloon, they
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Speaker 1: might think you are only part of the tree and
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Speaker 1: not notice you. And if you have a blue bloon,
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Speaker 1: they might think you are only part of the sky
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Speaker 1: and not notice you. And their question is which is
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Speaker 1: most likely? Wouldn't they notice you underneath the balloon? He asked.
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Speaker 1: They might, or they might not, said Winnie the poop.
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Speaker 1: You never can tell with bees. He thought for a
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Speaker 1: moment and said, I shall try to look like a
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Speaker 1: small black cloud that will deceive them. And you had
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Speaker 1: better how the blue balloon, you said, And so it
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Speaker 1: was decided. Well, you both went out with the blue balloon.
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Speaker 1: And Whennie the Pooh went to a very muddy place
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Speaker 1: that he knew of, and rolled and rolled until he
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Speaker 1: was black all over. And then when the balloon was
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Speaker 1: blown up as big as big, and you and Pooh
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Speaker 1: were both holding onto the stream, you let go suddenly,
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Speaker 1: and Poo Bear floated gracefully up into the sky and
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Speaker 1: stayed there, level with the top of the tree and
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Speaker 1: about twenty feet away from it. Hooray, he shouted. Isn't
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Speaker 1: that fine? Shouted Winnie the poo down to you. What
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Speaker 1: do I look like? You look like a bear holding
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Speaker 1: on to a balloon, he said, not, said woo anxiously,
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Speaker 1: Not like a small black cloud in a blue sky.
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Speaker 1: Not very much. Ah, well, perhaps from up here it
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Speaker 1: looks different. And as I say, you never can tell
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Speaker 1: with bees. There was no wind to blow him nearer
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Speaker 1: to the tree, so there he stayed. He could see
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Speaker 1: the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn't
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Speaker 1: quite reach the honey. After a little while he called
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Speaker 1: down to you, Christopher Robin. He said, in a loud whisper, hullo.
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Speaker 1: I think the bees suspect something. What sort of thing,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but something tells me that they're suspicious.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps they think that you're after their honey. It may
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Speaker 1: be that you never can tell with bees. There was
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Speaker 1: another little silence, and then he called down to you again,
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Speaker 1: Christopher Robin. Yes, have you an umbrella in your house?
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Speaker 1: I think so. I wish you would bring it out
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Speaker 1: here and walk up and down with it and look
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Speaker 1: up at me every now and then and say tut tut.
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Speaker 1: It looks like rain. I think if you did that,
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Speaker 1: it would help the deception which we're practicing on these bees. Well,
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Speaker 1: you laughed 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: cooled 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 a 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: tut tut, it looks like rain. I shall do what
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Speaker 1: I can by singing a little cloud song such as
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Speaker 1: a cloud might sing, go so while you walk up
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Speaker 1: and down and wondered if it would rain. Winnie the
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Speaker 1: Pooh sang this song, How sweet to be a cloud
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Speaker 1: floating in a blue? Every little cloud always see things aloud?
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Speaker 1: How sweet there 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: out 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 pop the balloon with a stone. Have you got
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Speaker 1: a stone? Well, yes, you said, But if I do that,
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Speaker 1: it will spoil the balloon, you said. But if you don't,
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Speaker 1: said Pooh, I shall have to let go, and that
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Speaker 1: would spoil me. When he put it like this, you
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Speaker 1: saw how it was, and you aimed very carefully at
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Speaker 1: the balloon and threw out, said Pooh, Did I miss?
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Speaker 1: He asked. He didn't exactly miss, said Pooh, But you
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Speaker 1: missed the balloon. I'm so sorry, you said. And you
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Speaker 1: threw again, and this time you hit the balloon, and
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Speaker 1: the air came slowly out, and Winnie the Pooh floated
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Speaker 1: down to the ground. But his arms was so stiff
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Speaker 1: from holding onto the string of the balloon all that
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Speaker 1: time that they stayed up straight in the air for
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Speaker 1: more than a week, and whenever a fly came and
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Speaker 1: settled on his nose, he had to blow it off.
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Speaker 1: And I think, but I am not sure that that
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Speaker 1: is why he was always called Pooh? Is that the
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Speaker 1: end of the story, asked Christopher Robin. That's the end
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Speaker 1: of that one. There are others about Pooh and me
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Speaker 1: and Piglet and Rabbit and all of you. Don't you remember?
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Speaker 1: I do remember? And then when I tried to remember,
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Speaker 1: I forget that day when Pooh and Pigot tried to
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Speaker 1: catch the heffer lump. They didn't catch it, did they? No?
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Speaker 1: Pooh couldn't because he hasn't any brain. Did I catch it? Well?
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Speaker 1: That comes into the story. Christopher Robin nodded, I do remember,
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Speaker 1: he said, Only Pooh doesn't very well. So that's why
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Speaker 1: he likes having it told to him again, because then
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Speaker 1: it's a real story and not just a remembering. That's
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Speaker 1: just how I feel, I said. Christopher Robin gave a
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Speaker 1: deep sigh, picked his bearer by the leg, and walked
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Speaker 1: off to the door, trailing Pooh behind him. At the door,
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Speaker 1: he turned and said, coming to see me have my bath?
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Speaker 1: I might, I said, I didn't hurt him when I
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Speaker 1: hit him with the stone, did I? Not? A bit?
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Speaker 1: He nodded and went out, and in a moment I
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Speaker 1: heard Winnie the Pooh bump bump bump going up the
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Speaker 1: stairs behind him. Edward Bear, known to his friends as
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Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh or Pooh for short, was walking through
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Speaker 1: the forest one day, humming proudly to himself. He had
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Speaker 1: made up a little hum that very morning as he
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Speaker 1: was doing his stoutness exercises in front of the glass
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Speaker 1: troll allah ah trallel as he stretched up as high
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Speaker 1: as he could go, and then trallela tralla help lah
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Speaker 1: as he tried to reach his toes after breakfast. He
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Speaker 1: had said it over and over to himself until he
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Speaker 1: had learnt it off by heart, and now he was
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Speaker 1: humming it right through properly. It went like this, Trollo
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Speaker 1: tra troll tralla urrum tom ti lum tom till little
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Speaker 1: till little t a little till little alum tom tom
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Speaker 1: till lum. Well, he was humming this hum to himself
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Speaker 1: and walking along gaily, wondering what everyone else was doing
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Speaker 1: and what it felt like being somebody else, when suddenly
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Speaker 1: he came to a sandy bank, and in the bank
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Speaker 1: was a large hole. Aha, said pooh rum Tom di
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Speaker 1: lum tom. If I know anything about anything, that hole
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Speaker 1: means rabbit, he said. And rabbit means company, he said,
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Speaker 1: And company he means food and listening to me, humming
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Speaker 1: and such like er rum tum tum did lum. So
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Speaker 1: he bent down, put his head into the hole and
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Speaker 1: called out, he is anybody at home? There was a
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Speaker 1: sudden scuffling noise from inside the hole, and then silent.
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Speaker 1: What I said was, is anybody at home? Called out pooh,
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Speaker 1: very loudly. No, said a voice, and then added, you
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Speaker 1: needn't shout so loud. I heard you quite well the
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Speaker 1: first time. Bother said, Pooh, isn't there anybody here at all? Nobody?
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Speaker 1: Wuinnie the poo took his head out of the hole
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Speaker 1: and thought for a little, and he thought to himself
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Speaker 1: there must be somebody there, because somebody must have said nobody.
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Speaker 1: So he put his head back in the hole and said, hello, rabbit.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that you? No, said rabbit, in a different sort
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Speaker 1: of voice this time. But isn't that rabbit's voice? I
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Speaker 1: don't think so, said rabbit. It isn't meant to be, oh,
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Speaker 1: said Pooh. He took his head out of the hole
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Speaker 1: and had another think, and then he put it back
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Speaker 1: and said well, could you very kindly tell me where
00:28:02
Speaker 1: Rabbit is. He has gone to see his friend Pooh Bear,
00:28:09
Speaker 1: who is a great friend of his. But this is me,
00:28:15
Speaker 1: said bear, very much surprised. What sort of me, Pooh Bear?
00:28:26
Speaker 1: Are you sure, said Rabbit, still more surprised. Quite quite sure,
00:28:33
Speaker 1: said pooh Ah. Well, then come in. So Pooh pushed
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Speaker 1: and pushed and pushed his way through the hole, and
00:28:46
Speaker 1: at last he got in. You were quite right, said rabbit,
00:28:51
Speaker 1: looking at him all over here. It is you, glad
00:28:56
Speaker 1: to see you. Who did you think it was? Well,
00:29:03
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure. You know how it is in the forest.
00:29:08
Speaker 1: One can't have anybody coming into one's house. One has
00:29:13
Speaker 1: to be careful. What about a mouthful of something? Who
00:29:21
Speaker 1: always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning,
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Speaker 1: and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out
00:29:30
Speaker 1: the plates and mugs. And when Rabbit said, honey, or
00:29:37
Speaker 1: condense milk with your bread, he was so excited that
00:29:42
Speaker 1: he said both, And then, so as not to seem greedy,
00:29:48
Speaker 1: he added, but don't worry about the bread, please, And
00:29:54
Speaker 1: for a long time after that he said nothing, until
00:30:00
Speaker 1: at last, humming to himself in a rather sticky voice.
00:30:06
Speaker 1: He got up, shook rabbit lovingly by the poor and
00:30:11
Speaker 1: said that he must be going on? Must you? Said
00:30:17
Speaker 1: rabbit politely? Well, said Pooh, I could stay a little
00:30:24
Speaker 1: longer if it, if you, and he tried very hard
00:30:30
Speaker 1: to look in the direction of the ladder. As a
00:30:34
Speaker 1: matter of fact, said rabbit, I was going out myself directly. Oh, well,
00:30:42
Speaker 1: then I'll be going on. Goodbye, well, goodbye, if you're
00:30:52
Speaker 1: sure you won't have any more? Is there any more?
00:30:59
Speaker 1: Asked Pooh. Rabbit took the covers off the dishes and
00:31:05
Speaker 1: said no, there wasn't I thought not, said Pooh, nodding
00:31:14
Speaker 1: to himself. Well, goodbye, I must be going on. So
00:31:21
Speaker 1: he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled
00:31:26
Speaker 1: with his front paws and pushed with his back paws,
00:31:31
Speaker 1: and in a little while his nose was out in
00:31:35
Speaker 1: the open again, and then his ears, and then his
00:31:42
Speaker 1: front paws, and then his shoulders, and then oh help,
00:31:52
Speaker 1: said Pooh, I'd better go back. Oh bother, said Pooh.
00:32:01
Speaker 1: I should have to go on. I can't do either,
00:32:07
Speaker 1: said Pooh, Oh help and bother. Now, by this time
00:32:16
Speaker 1: Rabbit wanted to go for a walk too, and finding
00:32:20
Speaker 1: the front door full. He went out by the back
00:32:23
Speaker 1: door and came round to Pooh and looked at him. Hello,
00:32:30
Speaker 1: are you stuck, he asked, No, said Pooh, carelessly, just
00:32:40
Speaker 1: resting and thinking and humming to myself. Here, give us
00:32:48
Speaker 1: a paw, poo. Bear stretched out a paw, and Rabbit
00:32:54
Speaker 1: pulled and pulled and pulled. Wow, cried Pooh, you're hurting.
00:33:05
Speaker 1: The fact is, said Rabbit, You're stuck. It all comes,
00:33:13
Speaker 1: said Pooh, crossly, of not having front doors big enough.
00:33:21
Speaker 1: It all comes, said Rabbit, sternly, of eating too much.
00:33:29
Speaker 1: I thought at the time, said rabbit. Only I didn't
00:33:35
Speaker 1: like to say anything, said Rabbit. That one of us
00:33:41
Speaker 1: was eating too much, said Rabbit, and I knew if
00:33:48
Speaker 1: it wasn't me, He said, well, well, I shall go
00:33:54
Speaker 1: and fetch Christopher Robin. Christopher Robin lived at the other
00:34:01
Speaker 1: end of the forest. And when he came back with
00:34:04
Speaker 1: Rabbit and saw the front half of Pooh, he said,
00:34:10
Speaker 1: silly old bear in such a loving voice that everybody
00:34:17
Speaker 1: felt quite hopeful again. I was just beginning to think,
00:34:25
Speaker 1: said bear, sniffing slightly, that Rabbit might never be able
00:34:31
Speaker 1: to use his front door again. And I should hate
00:34:37
Speaker 1: that he said, so should I said, Rabbit, use his
00:34:45
Speaker 1: front door again, said Christopher Robin. Of course he'll use
00:34:52
Speaker 1: his front door again, good, said rabbit. If we can't
00:34:59
Speaker 1: put pull you out, Pooh, we might push you back.
00:35:06
Speaker 1: Rabbit scratched his whiskless thoughtfully and pointed out that when
00:35:13
Speaker 1: once Pooh was pushed back, he was back, and of
00:35:19
Speaker 1: course nobody was more glad to see Poo than he
00:35:24
Speaker 1: was still there. It was some lived in trees and
00:35:31
Speaker 1: some lived underground. And you mean I'd never get out,
00:35:39
Speaker 1: said Pooh. I mean, said a rabbit, that, having got
00:35:47
Speaker 1: so far, it seems a pity to waste it. Christopher
00:35:53
Speaker 1: Robin nodded. Then there's only one thing to be done,
00:36:00
Speaker 1: said We shall have to wait for you to get
00:36:04
Speaker 1: thin again. How long do just getting thin take, asked
00:36:10
Speaker 1: Pooh anxiously, About a week, I should think, But I
00:36:17
Speaker 1: can't stay here for a week. You can stay here,
00:36:22
Speaker 1: all right, Selly, old bear is getting you out, which
00:36:27
Speaker 1: is so difficult. We'll read to you, said rabbit cheerfully.
00:36:34
Speaker 1: And I hope it won't snow, he added, And her sailed, fellow,
00:36:42
Speaker 1: you're taking up a good deal of room in my house.
00:36:46
Speaker 1: Do you mind if I use your back legs as
00:36:50
Speaker 1: a towel horse, because I mean, there they are doing nothing,
00:36:58
Speaker 1: and it would be very convenient just to hang the
00:37:01
Speaker 1: towels on them. Oh week, said Pooh gloomily. What about meals?
00:37:12
Speaker 1: I'm afraid no meals, said Christopher Robin, because of getting
00:37:18
Speaker 1: thin quicker. But we will read to you. Bear began
00:37:25
Speaker 1: to sigh, and then found he couldn't because he was
00:37:30
Speaker 1: so tightly stuck, and a tear rolled down his eye
00:37:37
Speaker 1: as he said, then would you read a sustaining book
00:37:45
Speaker 1: such as would help and comfort a wedged bear in
00:37:51
Speaker 1: great tightness? So for a week Christopher Robin read that
00:37:58
Speaker 1: sort of book at the nose end of Poop and
00:38:02
Speaker 1: Rabbit hung his washing on the south end, and in
00:38:07
Speaker 1: between Bear felt himself getting slenderer and slenderer, And at
00:38:15
Speaker 1: the end of the week, Christopher Robin said, now, so
00:38:23
Speaker 1: he took hold of Pooh's front paws, and Rabbit took
00:38:28
Speaker 1: hold of Christopher Robin, and all Rabbits friends and relations
00:38:34
Speaker 1: took hold of Rabbit, and they all pulled together. And
00:38:42
Speaker 1: for a long time Poo only said ow and oh,
00:38:51
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden he said pop, just
00:38:59
Speaker 1: as if a cork were coming out of a bottle,
00:39:04
Speaker 1: and Christopher Robin and Rabbit and all rabbits friends and
00:39:11
Speaker 1: relations went head over heels backwards, and on top of
00:39:17
Speaker 1: them came Winnie the Pooh free. So with a nod
00:39:25
Speaker 1: of thanks to his friends, he went on with his
00:39:30
Speaker 1: walk through the forest, humming proudly to himself. But Christopher
00:39:38
Speaker 1: Robin looked after him lovingly and said to himself, silly
00:39:46
Speaker 1: old bear, everything that had known the