By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter IX | In Which Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded By Water | It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet told himself that never in all his life, and he was goodness knows how old—three, was it, or four?—never had he…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter VIII | In Which Christopher Robin Leads An Expotition to The North Pole | One fine day Pooh had stumped up to the top of the Forest to see if his friend Christopher Robin was interested in Bears at all. At…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter VII | In Which Kanga And Baby Roo Come To The Forest, And Piglet Has A Bath | Nobody seemed to know where they came from, but there they were in the Forest: Kanga and Baby Roo. When Pooh asked Christopher…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter VI | In Which Eegore Has A Birthday And Gets Two Presents | Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and looked at himself in the water.”Pathetic,” he said. “That’s what it is. Pathetic.” He turned…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter V | In Which Piglet Meets A Heffalump | One day, when Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet were all talking together, Christopher Robin finished the mouthful he was eating and said carelessly: “I saw a Heffalump to-day, Piglet.” “What was…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter III | In Which Pooh And Piglet Go Hunting And Nearly Catch A Woozle | The Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter II | In Which Pooh Goes Visiting And Gets Into A Tight Place | Edward Bear, known to his friends as Winnie-the-Pooh, or Pooh for short, was walking through the forest one day, humming proudly to himself. He had made up…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter I | In Which We Are Introduced To Winnie-The-Pooh And Some Bees, And The Stories Begin | Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Introduction | If 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…
By | CHARLES DICKENS | A Christmas Carol | Stave V | The End of It | Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!…