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Winnie the Pooh, Tiggers Don't Climb Trees. A classic story written for you by A.Miln and adapted for

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One day, when Poo was thinking, he thought he would go and see Eeyore because he hadn't seen him

since yesterday. And as he walked through the heather, singing to himself, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen owl since the day before yesterday. So he thought that he would just look in the hundred-acre wood on the way and see if owl was home. Well, he went on singing, until he came to the part of the stream where the stepping stones were. And when he was in the

middle of the third stone, he began to wonder how Kanga and Roo and Tigger were getting on,

because they all lived together in a different part of the forest. And he thought, I haven't seen Roo for a

long time. And if I don't see him today, it will be a still longer time. So he sat down on the

stone in the middle of the stream and sang another verse of his song while he wondered what to do.

The other verse of the song was like this. I could spend a happy morning seeing Rue. I could spend a

happy morning being Poo. For could spend a happy morning being poo.

For it doesn't seem to matter if I don't get any fatter and I don't get any fatter what I do.

The sun was so delightfully warm and the stone, which had been sitting in it for a long time,

was so warm too that poo had almost decided to go on being Pooh in the

middle of the stream for the rest of the morning when he remembered Rabbit. Rabbit, said Pooh to himself.

I like talking to Rabbit. He talks about sensible things. He doesn't use long, difficult words like owl. He uses short, easy words,

like, what about lunch? And help yourself, poo? I suppose, really, I ought to go and see Rabbit,

which made him think of another verse. Oh, I like his way of talking, yes I do. "'It's the nicest way of talking just for two.

"'And to help yourself with Rabbit, though it may become a habit

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