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A father tells stories to his son about the son’s stuffed animals come to life.

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тАЬBut itтАЩs too small for two of us,тАЭ said Christopher Robin sadly.

тАЬThree of us with Piglet.тАЭ

тАЬThat makes it smaller still. Oh, Pooh Bear, what shall we do?тАЭ

And then this Bear, Pooh Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, F.O.P. (Friend of PigletтАЩs), R.C. (RabbitтАЩs Companion), P.D. (Pole Discoverer), E.C. and T.F. (EeyoreтАЩs Comforter and Tail-finder)тБатАФin fact, Pooh himselfтБатАФsaid something so clever that Christopher Robin could only look at him with mouth open and eyes staring, wondering if this was really the Bear of Very Little Brain whom he had known and loved so long.

тАЬWe might go in your umbrella,тАЭ said Pooh.

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тАЬWe might go in your umbrella,тАЭ said Pooh.

тАЬ? ? тАЭ

тАЬWe might go in your umbrella,тАЭ said Pooh.

тАЬ!!!!!!тАЭ

For suddenly Christopher Robin saw that they might. He opened his umbrella and put it point downwards in the water. It floated but wobbled. Pooh got in. He was just beginning to say that it was all right now, when he found that it wasnтАЩt, so after a short drink which he didnтАЩt really want he waded back to Christopher Robin. Then they both got in together, and it wobbled no longer.

тАЬI shall call this boat The Brain of Pooh ,тАЭ said Christopher Robin, and The Brain of Pooh set sail forthwith in a southwesterly direction, revolving gracefully.

You can imagine PigletтАЩs joy when at last the ship came in sight of him. In after-years he liked to think that he had been in Very Great Danger during the Terrible Flood, but the only danger he had really been in was in the last half-hour of his imprisonment, when Owl, who had just flown up, sat on a branch of his tree to comfort him, and told him a very long story about an aunt who had once laid a seagullтАЩs egg by mistake, and

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