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Tonight, we'll read the next part to Winnie the Pooh, a children's story written by A.A. Milne,

and published in 1926. This collection of short stories features an anthropomorphic teddy bear,

Winnie the Pooh, along with his friends Christopher Robin, Piglet, E.R., Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, and Roo.

In the previous episode, we read chapters 2 and 3, in which Pooh went visiting and got into a tight place,

and also where he and Piglet went hunting, and nearly caught a Wuzzle.

As Pooh says about Wuzzles, it is either two Wuzzles and one, as it might be Wuzzle, or two,

as it might be Wuzzles and one, if so it is, Wuzzle.

Let us continue to follow them.

Let's get cozy.

Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Chapter 4, in which E.R. loses a tail and Pooh finds one.

The old grey donkey, E.R., stood by himself in a Thisley corner of the forest.

His front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things.

Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, why, and sometimes he thought, wherefore,

and sometimes he thought, in as much as which, and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

So when Winnie the Pooh came stumping along, E.R. was very glad to be able to stop thinking for a little in order to say,

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