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Chapter 2.

In which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place.

Edward Bayer, known to his friends as Winnie the Pooh, or Pooh for short, was walking through the forest one day, humming proudly to himself.

He had made up a little hum that very morning, as he was doing his stoutness exercises in front of the glass.

Tra la la, tra la la, as he stretched up as high as he could go,

"'and then, tra-l-la, tra-la, tra-la, oh, help, blah,

"'as he tried to reach his toes.

"'After breakfast he had said it over and over to himself,

"'until he had learnt it off by heart.

"'And now he was humming it right through properly.

It went like this.

Tra-l-la-t-la-trah, tra-l-la-la-trah, tra-l-l-la-tram,

rum-tum-tiddle-tiddle-tiddle, tidalum-tiddle, tittle, ttum-tum-tid-a-l-l-lum.'

"'Well, he was humming this hum to himself

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