Sometimes, when
you are a Bear of
Very Little Brain,
and you Think of
Things,you find
sometimes that a
Thing which seemed
very Thingish inside
you is quite different
when it gets out into
the open and has
other people looking
at it.

Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!
Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!

I don't much mind if it rains or snows,
'Cos I've got a lot of honey on my nice new nose!

I don't much care if it snows or thaws,
'Cos I've got a lot of honey on my nice clean paws!

Sing Ho! for a Bear!
Sing Ho! for a Pooh!
And I'll have a little something in an hour or two!

Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you.
And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

"That buzzing-noise means something.
If there's a buzzing noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise,
and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of
is because you're a bee. .... And the only reason for being a bee
that I know of is making honey.....
And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it."
So he began to climb the tree.

"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't.
But there was going to be when I began it.
It's just that something happened to it along the way."

Eeyore was very glad to be able to stop thinking for a little,
in order to say "How do you do"
in a gloomy manner to Pooh.
"And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.
Eeyore shook his head from side to side.
"Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to felt at all how for a long time."

"It's bad enough, "said Eeyore, almost breaking down,
"being miserable myself, what with no presents and no
cake and no candles, but if everybody else is going to be miserable too ..."

I didn't really bounce Eeyore.
I had a cough, and I happened to be behind Eeyore,
and I said "Grrrr-oppp-ptschschschz."

And the Small and Sorry Rabbit rushed
through the mist at the noise,
and it suddenly turned into Tigger;
a Friendly Tigger, a Grand Tigger,
a Large and Helpful Tigger,
a Tigger who bounced,
if he bounced at all, in just the
beautiful way a Tigger ought to bounce.

Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
Whatever I do, he wants to do,
"Where are you going today?" says Pooh.
"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too.
Let's go together," says Pooh, says he.
"Let's go together," says Pooh.
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Excerpt from "Us Two" by A.A. Milne

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