The House
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At Pooh Corner
A. A. Milne
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THE HOUSE
AT POOH CORNER
Books for Boys and Girls
by A. A. Milne
with Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard
WINNIE-THE-POOH
THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER
NOW WE ARE SIX
THE WORLD OF POOH
THE WORLD OF CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
THE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN STORY BOOK
Song-Books from the Poems of a. a. milne
with Music by h. fraser-simon
THE POOH SONG BOOK
FOURTEEN SONGS FROM WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG
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A. A. Milne
The House
at Pooh Corner
with decorations by
Ernest H. Shepard
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E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC.
Publishers: New York
THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER
Copyright, 1928, by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Copyright Renewal, 1956, by A. A. Milne
All rights reserved.
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Reprinted September 1961
in this completely new format
designed by Warren Chappell
Printed in the United States of America by the
American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., New York
Dedication
You breathed new life in Pooh.
Whatever of each has left my pen
Goes homing back to you.
My book is ready, and comes to greet
The mother it longs to see—
It would be my present to you, my sweet,
If it weren't your gift to me.
Contradiction
An introduction is to introduce people, but Christopher Robin and his friends, who have already been introduced to you, are now going to say Good-bye. So this is the opposite. When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said “The what of a what?” which didn’t help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that’s what it is.
Why we are having a Contradiction is because last week when Christopher Robin said to me, “What about that story you were going to tell me about what happened to Pooh when———” I happened to say very quickly, “What about nine times a hundred and seven?” And when we had done that one, we had one about cows going through a gate at two a minute, and there are three hundred in the field, so how many are left after an hour and a half? We find these very exciting, and when we have been excited quite enough, we curl up and go to sleep . . . and Pooh, sitting wakeful a little longer on his chair by our pillow, thinks Grand Thoughts to himself about Nothing, until he, too, closes his eyes and nods his head, and follows us on tip-toe into the Forest. There, still, we have magic adventures, more wonderful than any I have told you about; but now, when we wake up in the morning, they are gone before we can catch hold of them. How did the last one begin? “One day when Pooh was walking in the Forest, there were one hundred and seven cows on a gate . . . ” No, you see, we have lost it. It was the best, I think. Well, here are some of the other ones, all that we shall remember now. But, of course, it isn’t really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there . . . and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.
Contents
page I. In Which A House Is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore 3 II. In Which Tigger Comes to the Forest and Has Breakfast 21 III. In Which A Search Is Organized, and Piglet Nearly Meets the Heffalump Again 38 IV. In Which It Is Shown That Tiggers Don’t Climb Trees 56 V. In Which Rabbit Has a Busy Day, and We Learn What Christopher Robin Does in the Mornings 74 VI. In Which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins In 92 VII. In Which Tigger Is Unbounced 109 VIII. In Which Piglet Does a Very Grand Thing 128 IX. In Which Eeyore Finds the Wolery and Owl Moves Into It 146 X. In Which Christopher Robin and Pooh Come to an Enchanted Place, and We Leave Them There 162
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