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HAND IN HAND WE COME CHRISTOPHER ROBIN AND I TO LAY THIS BOOK IN YOUR LAP. SAY YOU’RE SURPRISED? SAY YOU LIKE IT? SAY IT’S JUST WHAT YOU WANTED? BECAUSE IT’S YOURS— BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU.
Isn’t it funny How a bear likes honey? Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! I wonder why he does?
But his arms were so stiff from holding on to the string of the balloon all that time that they stayed up straight in the air for more than a week, and whenever a fly came and settled on his nose he had to blow it off. And I think—but I am not sure—that that is why he was always called Pooh.
“Is anybody at home?” There was a sudden scuffling noise from inside the hole, and then silence. “What I said was, ‘Is anybody at home?’” called out Pooh very loudly. “No!” said a voice; and then added, “You needn’t shout so loud. I heard you quite well the first time.” “Bother!” said Pooh. “Isn’t there anybody here at all?” “Nobody.”
Me when I get an unexpected visitor 😂😂
“I have been Foolish and Deluded,” said he, “and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.”
It’s very, very funny, ’Cos I know I had some honey; ’Cos it had a label on, Saying HUNNY. A goloptious full-up pot too, And I don’t know where it’s got to, No, I don’t know where it’s gone— Well, it’s funny.
Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened anymore,
“I shall call it Pootel,” said Christopher Robin. “Henry Pootel for short.”
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?” “What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?” “I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.
