Winnie-The-Pooh: The Beehive 🧸🍯 Abbe's Bookshelf

[00:00:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Hello and welcome back to Koala Moon, a podcast of original children's bedtime stories and meditations

[00:00:17] [SPEAKER_00]: designed to make bedtime a dream.

[00:00:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm blushing a little bit here because I've just read a comment from a parent that's made my day,

[00:00:27] [SPEAKER_00]: my week, maybe my month.

[00:00:29] [SPEAKER_00]: She says that our stories make bedtime for her two children exciting and calming all at the same time.

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I love that. That's precisely the balance we strive for, thank you.

[00:00:42] [SPEAKER_00]: It was from Spencer and Madeline's mum.

[00:00:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, for that loveliness you get a shout out too, Rachel.

[00:00:48] [SPEAKER_00]: So our newest children joining the Cocoa Club today are nightly listeners, Spencer and Madeline,

[00:00:55] [SPEAKER_00]: siblings Matilda, Jude and Rubin and Alice Springs, four-year-old Emily Lynn from Wisconsin,

[00:01:01] [SPEAKER_00]: all happy birthday Emily Lynn and nine-year-old Angie.

[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome all of you and thank you for joining us for the year.

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Enjoy listening to all your newly unlocked premium stories and do let us know your story ideas.

[00:01:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Now then, tonight we're bringing you something very, very special.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I hope you're going to like it.

[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to our sparkling box fresh new series, Abbes Bookshelf.

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for this series I'm going to be picking some of my favorite nostalgic tales from my

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_00]: bedtime bookshelf and reading them to you.

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_00]: These might be books your parents enjoyed when they were little,

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_00]: or they might be ones you've heard about before.

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Personally, I can recall my own parents reading them to me when I was little,

[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_00]: so I really hope I can read them as well as they did.

[00:01:52] [SPEAKER_00]: They are all absolutely magical.

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_00]: They've got a very, very special place in my heart.

[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_00]: So let's begin.

[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_00]: The first book from my bookshelf is Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne,

[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and this episode is called The Beehive.

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now.

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Bump, bump, bump on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin.

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs.

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_00]: But sometimes he feels that there really is another way.

[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_00]: If only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyhow, here he is at the bottom and ready to be introduced to you.

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Winnie the Pooh.

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_00]: When I first heard his name, I said, just as you're going to say,

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_00]: but I thought he was a boy.

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_00]: So did I, said Christopher Robin.

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Then you can't call him Winnie.

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't.

[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But you said, he's Winnie the Pooh.

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't you know what the means?

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, yes. Now I do. I said quickly.

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And I hope you do too, because it's all the explanation you're going to get.

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes Winnie the Pooh likes a game of some sort when he comes downstairs.

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes he likes to sit quietly in front of the fire and listen to a story.

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_00]: This evening, what about a story? said Christopher Robin.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_00]: What about a story? I said.

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Could you very sweetly tell Winnie the Pooh one?

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course I could, I said.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_00]: What sort of stories does he like?

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_00]: About himself, because he's that sort of bear.

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I see. So could you very sweetly?

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll try, I said. So I tried.

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Once upon a time, a very long time ago now,

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_00]: about last Friday, Winnie the Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders.

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_00]: What does under the name mean? asked Christopher Robin.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_00]: It means he had the name over the door in gold letters and lived under it.

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Winnie the Pooh wasn't quite sure, said Christopher Robin.

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Now I am, said a growly voice.

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Then I will go on, said I.

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_00]: One day when he was out walking, he came to an open place in the middle of the forest.

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And in the middle of this place was a large oak tree.

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And from the top of the tree, there came a loud buzzing noise.

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Winnie the Pooh sat down at the foot of the tree,

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_00]: put his head between his paws and began to think.

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_00]: First of all, he said to himself,

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_00]: That buzzing noise means something.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't get a buzzing noise like that, just buzzing and buzzing without its meaning something.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_00]: If there's a buzzing noise, somebody's making a buzzing noise.

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And the only reason for making a buzzing noise that I know of

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_00]: is because you're a bee.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Then he thought another long time and said,

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey.

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And then he got up and said,

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_00]: So he began to climb the tree.

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_00]: He climbed and he climbed and he climbed.

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And as he climbed, he sang a little song to himself.

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_00]: It went like this.

[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Isn't it funny how a bear likes honey?

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Buzz buzz buzz.

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I wonder why he does.

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Then he climbed a little further and a little further and then just a little further.

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_00]: By that time, he thought of another song.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a very funny sort that if bears were bees,

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_00]: they'd build their nests at the bottom of trees.

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And that being so, if the bees were bears, we shouldn't have to climb up all these stairs.

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_00]: He was getting rather tired by this time,

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_00]: so that is why he sang a complaining song.

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_00]: He was nearly there now and if he just stood on that branch,

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh help, said Pooh as he dropped 10 feet on the branch below him.

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_00]: If only I hadn't, he said as he bounced 20 feet onto the next branch.

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_00]: You see what I meant to do, he explained as he turned head over heels and crashed onto

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_00]: another branch 30 feet below. What I meant to do? Of course it was rather,

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_00]: he admitted as he slithered very quickly through the next six branches.

[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_00]: It all comes I suppose, he decided as he said goodbye to the last branch, spun round three

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_00]: times and flew gracefully into a gorse bush. It all comes of liking honey so much. Oh, help!

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_00]: He crawled out of the gorse bush, brushed the prickles from his nose and began to think again

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_00]: and the first person he thought of was Christopher Robin.

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Was that me? said Christopher Robin in an odd voice, hardly daring to believe it.

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_00]: That was you. Christopher Robin said nothing but his eyes got larger and larger

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and his face got pinker and pinker. So Winnie the Pooh went round to his friend Christopher Robin

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_00]: who lived behind a green door in another part of the forest.

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Good morning Christopher Robin, he said. Good morning Winnie the Pooh, said you.

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I wonder if you've got such a thing as a balloon about you.

[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_00]: A balloon? Yes, I just said to myself coming along.

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I wonder if Christopher Robin has such a thing as a balloon about him.

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I just said it to myself thinking of balloons and wondering.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_00]: What do you want a balloon for? you said. Winnie the Pooh looked round to see that nobody was listening,

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_00]: put his paw to his mouth and said in a deep whisper, but you don't get honey with balloons,

[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_00]: said Pooh. Well it just happened that you had been to a party the day before at the house of your

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_00]: friend Piglet and you had balloons at the party. You had had a big green balloon and one of Rabbit's

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_00]: relations had had a big blue one and left it behind being really too young to go to a party

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_00]: at all and so you had brought the green one and the blue one home with you. Which would you like?

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_00]: You asked Pooh. He put his head between his paws and thought very carefully.

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like this, he said. When you go after honey with a balloon the great thing is not to let the bees

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_00]: know you're coming. Now if you have a green balloon they might think you are only part of the

[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_00]: tree and not notice you and if you have a blue balloon they might think you are only part of the

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_00]: sky and not notice you and the question is which is most likely wouldn't they notice you

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_00]: underneath the balloon? You asked. They might or they might not said Winnie the Pooh.

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: You never can tell with bees. He thought for a moment and said I shall try to look like a small

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_00]: black cloud. That will deceive them. Then you had better have the blue balloon you said and so

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_00]: it was decided. Well he both went out with the blue balloon and Winnie the Pooh went to a very muddy

[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_00]: place that he knew of and rolled and rolled until he was black all over and then when the

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: balloon was blown up as big as big and you and Pooh were both holding onto the string

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_00]: you let go suddenly and Pooh bear floated gracefully up into the sky and stayed there

[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_00]: level with the top of the tree and about 20 feet away from it.

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Hooray you shouted.

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that fine shouted Winnie the Pooh down to you. What do I look like? You look like a bear

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_00]: holding on to a balloon you said. Not said Pooh anxiously not like a small black cloud in a blue sky

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_00]: not very much. Ah well perhaps from up here it looks different and as I say you never can tell

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_00]: with bees. There was no wind to blow him nearer to the tree so there he stayed. He could see the honey

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_00]: he could smell the honey but he couldn't quite reach the honey after a little while he called down

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_01]: to you to for Robin he said in a loud whisper. Hello I think the bees suspect something.

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_00]: What sort of thing? I don't know but something tells me that they're suspicious perhaps they

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_00]: think that you're after their honey. It may be that you never can tell with bees.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_00]: There was another little silence and then he called down to you again.

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Christopher Robin yes have you an umbrella in your house? I think so.

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I wish you would bring it out here and walk up and down with it and look up at me every now and

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_00]: then and say tut tut it looks like rain. I think if you did that it would help the deception

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_00]: which we're practicing on these bees. Well you laughed to yourself silly old bear

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_00]: but you didn't say it aloud because you were so fond of him and you went home for your umbrella.

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh there you are called down Winnie the Pooh as soon as you got back to the tree

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I was beginning to get anxious I have discovered that the bees are now definitely suspicious.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Shall I put my umbrella up you said yes but wait a moment we must be practical.

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_00]: The important bee to deceive is the queen bee can you see which is the queen bee from down there?

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_00]: No a pity well now if you walk up and down with your umbrella saying tut tut it looks like rain

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I shall do what I can by singing a little cloud song such as a cloud might sing go.

[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_00]: So while you walked up and down and wondered if it would rain Winnie the Pooh sang this song

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_00]: how sweet to be a cloud floating in the blue every little cloud always sings aloud

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: how sweet to be a cloud floating in the blue it makes him very proud to be a little cloud

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_00]: the bees were still buzzing as suspiciously as ever some of them indeed left their nests

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_00]: and flew all around the cloud as it began the second verse of this song

[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_00]: and one bee sat down on the nose of the cloud for a moment and then got up again

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Christopher out Robin called out the cloud yes I have just been thinking

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_00]: and I have come to a very important decision these are the wrong sort of bees are they quite

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_01]: the wrong sort so I should think they would make the wrong sort of honey shouldn't you would they

[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_01]: yes so I think I shall come down how asked you Winnie the Pooh hadn't thought about this

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_00]: if he let go of the string he would fall bump and he didn't like the idea of that

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_00]: so he thought for a long time and then he said Christopher Robin you must pop the balloon with

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_00]: a stone have you got a stone well yes you said but if I do that it will spoil the balloon

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_00]: you said if you don't said poo I shall have to let go and that would spoil me

[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_00]: when he put it like this you saw how it was and you aimed very carefully at the balloon

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_01]: and threw said poo did I miss he asked he didn't exactly miss said poo but you missed the balloon

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so sorry you said end you through again and this time you hit the balloon and the air came

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_00]: slowly out and Winnie the Pooh floated down to the ground but his arms were so stiff from holding

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_00]: on to the string of the balloon all that time that they stayed up straight in the air for more than

[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_00]: a week and whenever a fly came and settled on his nose he had to blow it off and I think

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_00]: but I am not sure that that is why he was always called poo

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_00]: is that the end of the story asked Christopher Robin that's the end of that one there are others

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_00]: about poo and me and piglet and rabbit and all of you don't you remember I do remember

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_00]: and then when I try to remember I forget that day when poo and piglet tried to catch the heffa

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_00]: lump they didn't catch it did they no poo couldn't because he hasn't any brain did I catch it

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_00]: well that comes into the story Christopher Robin nodded

[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I do remember he said only poo doesn't very well so that's why he likes having it told to him again

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: because then it's a real story and not just a remembering that's just how I feel I said

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Christopher Robin gave a deep sigh picked his bearer by the leg and walked off to the door

[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_00]: trailing poo behind him at the door he turned and said coming to see me have my bath

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I might I said I didn't hurt him when I hit him with the stone did I

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_00]: not a bit he nodded and went out and in a moment I heard Winnie the Pooh

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_00]: bump bump bump going up the stairs behind him

[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Edward Bear known to his friends as Winnie the Pooh or poo for short was walking through

[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_00]: the forest one day humming proudly to himself he had made up a little hum that very morning as he

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_00]: was doing his stoutness exercises in front of the glass as he stretched up as high as he could go

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: and then

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_00]: tra-la-la tra-la oh help la as he tried to reach his toes

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_00]: after breakfast he had said it over and over to himself until he had learned it off by heart

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_00]: and now he was humming it right through properly it went like this

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_00]: tra-la-la tra-la-la tra-la-la tra-la-la

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_00]: well he was humming this hum to himself and walking along gaily wondering what everyone else was doing

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_00]: and what it felt like being somebody else when suddenly he came to a sandy bank

[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_00]: and in the bank was a large hole a-ha said poo

[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_00]: if I know anything about anything that hole means rabbit he said and rabbit means company he said

[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_00]: and company means food and listening to me humming and such like rum-tum-tum-did-lum

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_00]: so he bent down put his head into the hole and called out is anybody at home

[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_00]: there was a sudden scuffling noise from inside the hole and then silence

[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_00]: what I said was is anybody at home called out poo very loudly

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_00]: no said a voice and then added you needn't shout so loud I heard you quite well the first time

[00:26:52] [SPEAKER_01]: bother said poo isn't there anybody here at all nobody

[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_00]: when he the poo took his head out of the hole and thought for a little and he thought to himself

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_00]: there must be somebody there because somebody must have said nobody so he put his head back

[00:27:21] [SPEAKER_00]: in the hole and said hello rabbit isn't that you no said rabbit in a different sort of voice this time

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_00]: but isn't that rabbit's voice I don't think so said rabbit it isn't meant to be

[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_00]: oh said poo he took his head out of the hole and had another think

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_00]: and then he put it back and said well could you very kindly tell me where rabbit is

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_00]: he has gone to see his friend poo bear who is a great friend of his

[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_00]: but this is me said bear very much surprised what sort of me poo bear I sure said rabbit still more

[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_00]: surprised quite quite sure said poo oh well then come in so poo pushed and pushed and pushed his

[00:28:43] [SPEAKER_00]: way through the hole and at last he got in you were quite right said rabbit looking at him all over

[00:28:53] [SPEAKER_00]: it is you glad to see you who did you think it was

[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_00]: well I wasn't sure you know how it is in the forest one can't have anybody coming into one's house

[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_00]: one has to be careful what about a mouthful of something poo always liked a little something

[00:29:23] [SPEAKER_00]: at 11 o'clock in the morning and he was very glad to see rabbit getting out the plates and mugs

[00:29:32] [SPEAKER_00]: and when rabbit said honey or condensed milk with your bread he was so excited that he said both

[00:29:45] [SPEAKER_00]: and then so as not to seem greedy he added but don't worry about the bread please

[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_00]: and for a long time after that he said nothing until at last humming to himself in a rather sticky

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_00]: voice he got up shook rabbit lovingly by the paw and said that he must be going on

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_00]: must you said rabbit politely well said poo I could stay a little longer if it if you

[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_00]: and he tried very hard to look in the direction of the larder as a matter of fact said rabbit

[00:30:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I was going out myself directly oh well then I'll be going on goodbye well goodbye if you're sure

[00:30:53] [SPEAKER_00]: you won't have anymore is there anymore asked poo quickly rabbit took the covers off the dishes

[00:31:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and said no there wasn't I thought not said poo nodding to himself well goodbye I must be going on

[00:31:20] [SPEAKER_00]: so he started to climb out of the hole he pulled with his front paws and pushed with his back paws

[00:31:30] [SPEAKER_00]: and in a little while his nose was out in the open again and then his ears and then his front paws

[00:31:43] [SPEAKER_01]: and then his shoulders and then oh help said poo I'd better go back oh bother said poo I should

[00:32:01] [SPEAKER_00]: have to go on I can't do either said poo oh help and bother now by this time rabbit wanted to go for

[00:32:17] [SPEAKER_00]: a walk too and finding the front door full he went out by the back door and came round to poo and

[00:32:26] [SPEAKER_00]: looked at him hello are you stuck he asked no said poo carelessly just resting and thinking

[00:32:43] [SPEAKER_00]: and humming to myself here give us a paw poo bear stretched out a paw and rabbit pulled and pulled

[00:32:56] [SPEAKER_00]: and pulled ow cried poo you're hurting the fact is said rabbit you're stuck

[00:33:11] [SPEAKER_00]: it all comes said poo crossly of not having front doors big enough

[00:33:20] [SPEAKER_00]: it all comes said rabbit sternly of eating too much I thought at the time said rabbit only I didn't

[00:33:35] [SPEAKER_00]: like to say anything said rabbit that one of us was eating too much said rabbit and I knew

[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_00]: if it wasn't me he said well well I shall go and fetch Christopher Robin

[00:33:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Christopher Robin lived at the other end of the forest and when he came back with rabbit and saw

[00:34:06] [SPEAKER_00]: the front half of poo he said silly old bear in such a loving voice that everybody felt quite

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_00]: hopeful again I was just beginning to think said bear sniffing slightly that rabbit might never be

[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_00]: able to use his front door again and I should hate that he said so should I said rabbit use

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_00]: his front door again said Christopher Robin of course he'll use his front door again good

[00:34:56] [SPEAKER_00]: said rabbit if we can't pull you out poo we might push you back rabbit scratched his whiskers

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_00]: thoughtfully and pointed out that when once poo was pushed back he was back and of course nobody

[00:35:20] [SPEAKER_00]: was more glad to see poo than he was still there it was some lived in trees and some lived underground

[00:35:33] [SPEAKER_00]: and you mean I'd never get out said poo I mean said rabbit that having got so far it seems

[00:35:49] [SPEAKER_00]: a pity to waste it Christopher Robin nodded then there's only one thing to be done he said

[00:36:01] [SPEAKER_00]: we should have to wait for you to get thin again how long does getting thin take

[00:36:09] [SPEAKER_00]: asked poo anxiously about a week I should think but I can't stay here for a week

[00:36:20] [SPEAKER_00]: you can stay here all right silly old bear it's getting you out which is so difficult

[00:36:29] [SPEAKER_00]: we'll read to you said rabbit cheerfully and I hope it won't snow he added and

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_00]: her sailed fellow you're taking up a good deal of room in my house do you mind if I use your

[00:36:48] [SPEAKER_00]: back legs as a towel horse because I mean there they are doing nothing and it would be very convenient

[00:36:59] [SPEAKER_00]: just to hang the towels on them oh weak said poo gloomily what about meals I'm afraid no meals

[00:37:14] [SPEAKER_00]: said Christopher Robin because of getting thin quicker but we will read to you bear began to sigh

[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_00]: and then found he couldn't because he was so tightly stuck and a tear rolled down his eye as he said

[00:37:39] [SPEAKER_00]: then would you read a sustaining book such as would help and comfort a wedged bear in great

[00:37:51] [SPEAKER_00]: tightness so for a week Christopher Robin read that sort of book at the north end of poo

[00:38:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and rabbit hung his washing on the south end and in between bear felt himself getting slenderer

[00:38:12] [SPEAKER_00]: and slenderer and at the end of the week Christopher Robin said now so he took hold of poo's front paws

[00:38:26] [SPEAKER_00]: and rabbit took hold of Christopher Robin and all rabbits friends and relations took hold of rabbit

[00:38:37] [SPEAKER_00]: and they all pulled together and for a long time poo only said ow and oh and then all of a sudden

[00:38:54] [SPEAKER_00]: he said pop just as if a cork were coming out of a bottle and Christopher Robin and rabbit

[00:39:08] [SPEAKER_00]: and all rabbits friends and relations went head over heels backwards and on top of them came Winnie

[00:39:19] [SPEAKER_00]: the Pooh free so with a nod of thanks to his friends he went on with his walk through the forest

[00:39:32] [SPEAKER_00]: humming proudly to himself but Christopher Robin looked after him lovingly and said to himself

[00:39:45] [SPEAKER_00]: silly old bear