Winnie the Pooh
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INNIE-THE-
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OOH
Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. MILNE
DECORATIONS BY
Ernest H. Shepard
Dutton Children’s Books
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To Her
Hand in hand we come
Christopher Robin and I
To lay this book in your lap.
Say you’re surprised?
Say you like it?
Say it’s just what you wanted?
Because it’s yours—
Because we love you.
Introduction
I
F YOU HAPPEN
to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may remember that he once had a swan (or the swan had Christopher Robin, I don’t know which) and that he used to call this swan Pooh. That was a long time ago, and when we said goodbye, we took the name with us, as we didn’t think the swan would want it any more. Well, when Edward Bear said that he would like an exciting name all to himself, Christopher Robin said at once, without stopping to think, that he was Winnie-the-Pooh. And he was. So, as I have explained the Pooh part, I will now explain the rest of it.
You can’t be in London for long without going to the Zoo. There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there. So when Christopher Robin goes to the Zoo, he goes to where the Polar Bears are, and he whispers something to the third keeper from the left, and doors are unlocked, and we wander through dark passages and up steep stairs, until at last we come to the special cage, and the cage is opened, and out trots something brown and furry, and with a happy cry of “Oh, Bear!” Christopher Robin rushes into its arms. Now this bear’s name is Winnie, which shows what a good name for bears it is, but the funny thing is that we can’t remember whether Winnie is called after Pooh, or Pooh after Winnie. We did know once, but we have forgotten….
I had written as far as this when Piglet looked up and said in his squeaky voice, “What about
Me
?” “My dear Piglet,” I said, “the whole book is about you.” “So it is about Pooh,” he squeaked. You see what it is. He is jealous because he thinks Pooh is having a Grand Introduction all to himself. Pooh is the favourite, of course, there’s no denying it, but Piglet comes in for a good many things which Pooh misses; because you can’t take Pooh to school without everybody knowing it, but Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two. Sometimes he slips out and has a good look in the ink-pot, and in this way he has got more education than Pooh, but Pooh doesn’t mind. Some have brains, and some haven’t, he says, and there it is.
And now all the others are saying, “What about
Us
?” So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
A. A. M
Contents
IN WHICH
We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin
IN WHICH
Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place
IN WHICH
Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle
IN WHICH
Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One
IN WHICH
Piglet Meets a Heffalump
IN WHICH
Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents
IN WHICH
Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath
IN WHICH
Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole
IN WHICH
Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water
IN WHICH
Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party, and We Say Good-bye
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Chapter One
IN WHICH
We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin
