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Speaker 1: Chapter two of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milney.

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This livery vox recording is in the public domain. Chapter two,

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

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Edward Baar, known to his friends as Winnie the Pooh

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or Pooh for short, was walking through the forest one day,

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humming proudly to himself. He had made up a little

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hum that very morning as he was doing his stoutness

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exercises in front of the glass, to a law law,

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to a law law as he stretched up as high

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as he could go, and then to a la law trawl,

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Oh help law as he tried to reach his toes

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after breakfast. He had said it over and over to

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himself until he had learnt it off by heart, and

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now he was humming it right through properly went like this.

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Tra la la tra la la, tra la la tra

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la lah rum tom tiddle um tum little ill ttle

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ill title little tittle ill rum tum tittle um. Well,

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he was humming this hum to himself and walking along gaily,

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wondering what everybody else was doing and what it felt

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like being somebody else, When suddenly he came to a

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sandy bank and in the bank was a large hole. Ah,

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said Pooh. Rum tum tidle um tum. If I know

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anything about anything, that ho means rabbit, he said, And

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rabbit means company, he said, And company means food and

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listening to me, humming and such like rum tom tittle um.

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So he bent down, put his head into the hole

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and called out, is anybody at home? There was a

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sudden scuffling noise from inside the hole, and then silence.

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What I said was is anybody at home? Called out

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Pooh very loudly. No, said a voice, and then added,

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you needn't shout so loud. I heard you quite well

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the first time. Bother said, Pooh, isn't there anybody here

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at all? Nobody? Winnie the Pooh took his head out

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of the hole and thought for a little, and he

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thought to himself there must be somebody there, because somebody

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must have said nobody. So he put his head back

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in the hole and said, hello, rabbit. Isn't that you? No,

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said rabbit in a different sort of voice this time.

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But isn't that rabbit's voice? I don't think so, said rabbit.

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It isn't meant to be oh, said Pooh. He took

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his head out of the hole and had another link,

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and then he put it back and said, well, could

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you very calmly tell me where Rabbit is. He has

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gone to see his friend poo Bear, who is a

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great friend of his. But this is me, said bear,

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very much surprised. What sort of me, Pooh Bear? Are

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you sure, said rabbit, still more surprised. Quite quite sure.

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Oh well, then come in. So Pooh pushed and pushed

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and pushed his way through the hole, and at last

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he got in. You were quite right, said rabbit, looking

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at him all over. It is you glad to see you.

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Who did you think it was? Well, I wasn't sure.

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You know how it is in the forest. One can't

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have anybody coming into one's house. One has to be careful.

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What about a mouthful of something? Who always liked a

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little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, and he

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was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates

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and mugs. And when Rabbit said, honey, are condensed milk

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with your bread, he was so excited that he said both.

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And then so it's not to seem greedy, he added,

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Oh boy, don't bother about the bread, please, and for

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a long time after that he said nothing, until at last,

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humming to himself in a rather sticky voice, he got up,

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took Rabbit lovingly by the paw, and said that he

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must be going on? Must you? Said rabbit pointedly? Well,

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said Pooh, I could stay a little longer if it,

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if you, and he tried very hard to look in

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the direction of the larder. As a matter of fact,

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said Rabbit, I was going out myself directly. Oh, well,

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then I'll be going on. Goodbye, Well, goodbye, if you're

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sure you won't have any more? Is there any more?

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Asked Pooh. Quickly, Rabbit took the covers off the dishes

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and said, no, there wasn't I thought not, said Pooh,

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nodding to himself. Well, goodbye, I must be going on.

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So he started to climb out of the hole. He

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pulled with his front paws and pushed with his back paws,

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and in a little while his nose was out in

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the open again, and then his ears, and then his

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front paws, and then his shoulders, and then oh help,

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said Pooh, I'd better go back. Oh bother, said Pooh,

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I shall have to go on. I can't do either.

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Said Pooh, Oh, help and bother. Now by this time,

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Rabbit wanted to go for a walk too, and, finding

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the front door full, he went out by his back

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door and came round to Pooh and looked at him. Hello,

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Are you stuck, he asked, No, said Pooh, carelessly, just

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resting and thinking and humming to myself. Here, give us

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a paw. Pooh Bear stretched out a paw, and Rabbit

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pulled and pulled and pulled. Oh Oh, cried Pooh, you're hurting.

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The fact is, said Rabbit, you're stuck. It all comes,

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said Pooh, crossly, of not having front doors big enough.

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It all comes, said Rabbit, sternly, of eating too much.

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I thought at the time, said rabbit. Only I didn't

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like to say anything, said Rabbit. That one of us

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was eating too much, said Rabbit, and I knew it

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wasn't to me. He said, well, well, I shall go

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and fetch Christopher Robin. Christopher Robin lived at the other

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end of the forest. And when he came back with

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a rabbit and saw the front half of Pooh, he said,

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silly old bear in such a loving voice that everyone

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felt quite hopeful. Again. I was just beginning to think

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said bear, sniffling slightly. That Rabbit might never be able

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to use his front door again, and I should hate that,

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he said, so should I said, Rabbit use his front

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door again, said Christopher Robin. Of course he'll use this

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front door again, good, said rabbit. If we can't pull

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you out, Pooh, we might push you back. Rabbit scratched

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his whiskers thoughtfully and pointed out that when what's Pooh

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was pushed back, he was back, and of course nobody

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was more glad to see Poo than he was still there.

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It was some lived in trees and some lived under ground.

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And you mean I'd never get out, said Pooh. I mean,

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said Rabbit that, having got so far, it seems a

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pity to waste it. Christopher Robin nodded. Then there's only

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one thing to be done, he said. We shall have

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to wait for you to get thin again. How long

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does getting thin take, asked Pooh anxiously, About a week,

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I should think, But I can't stay here for a week.

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You can stay here, all right, silly old bear. It's

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getting you out, which is so difficult. We'll read to you,

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said Rabbit cheerfully. And I hope it won't snow, he added,

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and I say, oh, fellow, you're taking up a good

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deal of room in my house. Do you mind if

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I use your back legs as a towel horse, because

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I mean, there they are doing nothing, and it would

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be very convenient just to hang the towels on them.

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A week, said Pooh gloomily. What about meals? I'm afraid

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no meals, said Christopher Robin, because of getting thin quicker.

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But we will read to you. Bear began to sigh,

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and then found he couldn't because he was so tightly stuck,

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and a tear rolled down his eye as he said,

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then would you read a sustaining book such as would help?

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And conquered a wedged bear in great tightness. So for

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a week Christopher Robin read that sort of book at

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the north end of Pooh and Rabbit hung his washing

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on the south end, and in between Bear felt himself

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getting slenderer and slenderer, And at the end of the week,

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Christopher Robin said, now, so he took hold of Pooh's

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front paws, and Rabbit took hold of Christopher Robin, and

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all Rabbit's friends and relations took hold of Rabbit, and

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they all pulled together, and for a long time Pooh

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only said oh and oh, And then all of a

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sudden he said pop, just as if a cark were

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coming out of a bottle, And Christopher Robin and rabbits

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and all the rabbit's friends and relations went head over

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heels backwards, and on the top of them came Winnie

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the Pooh free. And so with a nod of thanks

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to his friends, he went on with his walk through

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the forest, humming proudly to himself. But Christopher Robin looked

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after him lovingly and said to himself, silly, old bear.

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End of Chapter two.