Hello there, and welcome to tonight's episode of Down to Sleep. This is the podcast of

softly spoken stories to help you get a good night's rest. Tonight, the final chapters of

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne. If you would like to hear this book as a complete audio book that is

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Thank you for joining me tonight.

Let's go ahead and tuck you in.

Take a nice deep breath and let's get down to sleep.

Chapter 8, in which Christopher Robin leads an expedition to the North Pole.

One fine day. Poo had stumped up to the top of the forest to see if his friend Christopher

Robin was interested in bears at all. At breakfast this morning, a simple meal of marmalade spread lightly over a honeycomb or two,

he had suddenly thought of a new song, and it began like this. Sing ho, for the life of a bear.

When he had got as far as this, he scratched his head and thought to himself,

that's a very good start for a song, but what about the second line? He tried singing,

Ho, two or three times, but it didn't seem to help. Perhaps it would be better, he thought,

if I sang, high for the life of a bear.

So he sang it, but it wasn't.

Very well then, he said.

I shall sing that first line twice, and perhaps if I sing it very quickly, I shall find

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