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diff --git a/old/70516-0.txt b/old/70516-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e8074f7..0000000 --- a/old/70516-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2220 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook of Now we are six, by A.A. Milne - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Now we are six - -Author: A.A. Milne - -Illustrator: Ernest H. Shepard - -Release Date: April 9, 2023 [eBook #70516] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOW WE ARE SIX *** - - - - - - NOW WE ARE SIX - - BY A.A. MILNE WITH - DECORATIONS BY ERNEST H. SHEPARD - - NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC. - - NOW WE ARE SIX, COPYRIGHT, 1927, - BY E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC. - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - PRINTED IN U.S.A. - - First Printing Sept., 1927 - Tenth Printing Sept., 1927 - Twentieth Printing Sept., 1927 - Thirtieth Printing Sept., 1927 - Thirty-third Printing Sept., 1927 - Thirty-fifth Printing Nov., 1927 - Fortieth Printing Nov., 1927 - Forty-fifth Printing Nov., 1927 - Fiftieth Printing Nov., 1927 - Fifty-fifth Printing Dec., 1927 - Sixtieth Printing Dec., 1927 - Sixty-fifth Printing Dec., 1927 - Seventieth Printing Dec., 1927 - Seventy-fourth Printing Dec., 1928 - Seventy-eighth Printing Sept., 1929 - Eightieth Printing May, 1930 - Eighty-fourth Printing May, 1931 - Eighty-sixth Printing July, 1932 - Eighty-ninth Printing July, 1933 - - New Edition Aug., 1935 - - Ninety-first Printing Aug., 1935 - Ninety-fourth Printing Aug., 1935 - - - - - TO - ANNE DARLINGTON - NOW SHE IS SEVEN - AND - BECAUSE SHE IS - SO - SPESHAL - - - - - NOW WE ARE SIX - - - - - INTRODUCTION - - -When you are reciting poetry, which is a thing we never do, you find -sometimes, just as you are beginning, that Uncle John is still telling -Aunt Rose that if he can't find his spectacles he won't be able to hear -properly, and does she know where they are; and by the time everybody -has stopped looking for them, you are at the last verse, and in another -minute they will be saying, "Thank-you, thank-you," without really -knowing what it was all about. So, next time, you are more careful; -and, just before you begin you say, "_Er-h'r'm!_" very loudly, -which means, "Now then, here we are"; and everybody stops talking and -looks at you: which is what you want. So then you get in the way of -saying it whenever you are asked to recite ... and sometimes it is just -as well, and sometimes it isn't.... And by and by you find yourself -saying it without thinking. Well, this bit which I am writing now, -called Introduction, is really the _er-h'r'm_ of the book, and I -have put it in, partly so as not to take you by surprise, and partly -because I can't do without it now. There are some very clever writers -who say that it is quite easy not to have an _er-h'r'm_, but I -don't agree with them. I think it is much easier not to have all the -rest of the book. - -What I want to explain in the Introduction is this. We have been nearly -three years writing this book. We began it when we were very young ... -and now we are six. So, of course, bits of it seem rather baby-ish to -us, almost as if they had slipped out of some other book by mistake. -On page whatever-it-is there is a thing which is simply three-ish, and -when we read it to ourselves just now we said, "Well, well, well," and -turned over rather quickly. So we want you to know that the name of the -book doesn't mean that this is us being six all the time, but that it -is about as far as we've got at present, and we half think of stopping -there. - - A. A. M. - -P.S.--Pooh wants us to say that he thought it was a different book; and -he hopes you won't mind, but he walked through it one day, looking for -his friend Piglet, and sat down on some of the pages by mistake. - - - - - CONTENTS - - - SOLITUDE - - KING JOHN'S CHRISTMAS - - BUSY - - SNEEZLES - - BINKER - - CHERRY STONES - - THE KNIGHT WHOSE ARMOUR DIDN'T SQUEAK - - BUTTERCUP DAYS - - THE CHARCOAL BURNER - - US TWO - - THE OLD SAILOR - - THE ENGINEER - - JOURNEY'S END - - FURRY BEAR - - FORGIVEN - - THE EMPEROR'S RHYME - - KNIGHT-IN-ARMOUR - - COME OUT WITH ME - - DOWN BY THE POND - - THE LITTLE BLACK HEN - - THE FRIEND - - THE GOOD LITTLE GIRL - - A THOUGHT - - KING HILARY AND THE BEGGARMAN - - SWING SONG - - EXPLAINED - - TWICE TIMES - - THE MORNING WALK - - CRADLE SONG - - WAITING AT THE WINDOW - - PINKLE PURR - - WIND ON THE HILL - - FORGOTTEN - - IN THE DARK - - THE END - - - - - NOW WE ARE SIX - - - - - SOLITUDE - - - I have a house where I go - When there's too many people, - I have a house where I go - Where no one can be; - I have a house where I go, - Where nobody ever says "No"; - Where no one says anything--so - There is no one but me. - - - - - KING JOHN'S CHRISTMAS - - - King John was not a good man-- - He had his little ways. - And sometimes no one spoke to him - For days and days and days. - And men who came across him, - When walking in the town, - Gave him a supercilious stare, - Or passed with noses in the air-- - And bad King John stood dumbly there, - Blushing beneath his crown. - - King John was not a good man, - And no good friends had he. - He stayed in every afternoon... - But no one came to tea. - And, round about December, - The cards upon his shelf - Which wished him lots of Christmas cheer, - And fortune in the coming year, - Were never from his near and dear, - But only from himself. - - King John was not a good man, - Yet had his hopes and fears. - They'd given him no present now - For years and years and years. - But every year at Christmas, - While minstrels stood about, - Collecting tribute from the young - For all the songs they might have sung, - He stole away upstairs and hung - A hopeful stocking out. - - King John was not a good man, - He lived his life aloof; - Alone he thought a message out - While climbing up the roof. - He wrote it down and propped it - Against the chimney stack: - "TO ALL AND SUNDRY--NEAR AND FAR-- - F. CHRISTMAS IN PARTICULAR." - And signed it not "Johannes R." - But very humbly, "JACK." - - "I want some crackers, - And I want some candy; - I think a box of chocolates - Would come in handy; - I don't mind oranges, - I do like nuts! - And I SHOULD like a pocket-knife - That really cuts. - And, oh! Father Christmas, if you love me at all, - Bring me a big, red india-rubber ball!" - - King John was not a good man-- - He wrote this message out, - And gat him to his room again, - Descending by the spout. - And all that night he lay there, - A prey to hopes and fears. - "I think that's him a-coming now," - (Anxiety bedewed his brow.) - "He'll bring one present, anyhow-- - The first I've had for years." - - "Forget about the crackers, - And forget about the candy; - I'm sure a box of chocolates - Would never come in handy; - I don't like oranges, - I don't want nuts, - And I HAVE got a pocket-knife - That almost cuts. - But, oh! Father Christmas, if you love me at all, - Bring me a big, red india-rubber ball!" - - King John was not a good man-- - Next morning when the sun - Rose up to tell a waiting world - That Christmas had begun, - And people seized their stockings, - And opened them with glee, - And crackers, toys and games appeared, - And lips with sticky sweets were smeared, - King John said grimly: "As I feared, - Nothing again for me!" - - "I did want crackers, - And I did want candy; - I know a box of chocolates - Would come in handy; - I do love oranges, - I did want nuts. - I haven't got a pocket-knife-- - Not one that cuts. - And, oh! if Father Christmas had loved me at all, - He would have brought a big, red india-rubber ball!" - - King John stood by the window, - And frowned to see below - The happy bands of boys and girls - All playing in the snow. - A while he stood there watching, - And envying them all... - When through the window big and red - There hurtled by his royal head, - And bounced and fell upon the bed, - An india-rubber ball! - - AND OH, FATHER CHRISTMAS, - MY BLESSINGS ON YOU FALL - FOR BRINGING HIM - A BIG, RED, - INDIA-RUBBER - BALL! - - - - - BUSY - - - I think I am a Muffin Man. I haven't got a bell, - I haven't got the muffin things that muffin people sell. - Perhaps I am a Postman. No, I think I am a Tram. - I'm feeling rather funny and I don't know _what_ I am-- - - BUT - - _Round_ about - And _round_ about - And _round_ about I go-- - All round the table, - The table in the nursery-- - _Round_ about - And _round_ about - And _round_ about I go; - - I think I am a Traveller escaping from a Bear; - I think I am an Elephant, - Behind another Elephant - Behind _another_ Elephant who isn't really there.... - - SO - - _Round_ about - And _round_ about - And _round_ about and _round_ about - And _round_ about - And _round_ about - I go. - - I think I am a Ticket Man who's selling tickets--please, - I think I am a Doctor who is visiting a Sneeze; - Perhaps I'm just a Nanny who is walking with a pram - I'm feeling rather funny and I don't know _what_ I am-- - - BUT - - _Round_ about - And _round_ about - And _round_ about I go-- - All around the table, - The table in the nursery-- - _Round_ about - And _round_ about - And _round_ about I go; - - I think I am a Puppy, so I'm hanging out my tongue; - I think I am a Camel who - Is looking for a Camel who - Is looking for a Camel who is looking for its Young.... - - SO - - _Round_ about - And _round_ about - And _round_ about and _round_ about - And _round_ about - And _round_ about - I go. - - - - - SNEEZLES - - - Christopher Robin - Had wheezles - And sneezles, - They bundled him - Into - His bed. - They gave him what goes - With a cold in the nose, - And some more for a cold - In the head. - They wondered - If wheezles - Could turn - Into measles, - If sneezles - Would turn - Into mumps; - They examined his chest - For a rash, - And the rest - Of his body for swellings and lumps. - They sent for some doctors - In sneezles - And wheezles - To tell them what ought - To be done. - - All sorts and conditions - Of famous physicians - Came hurrying round - At a run. - They all made a note - Of the state of his throat, - They asked if he suffered from thirst; - They asked if the sneezles - Came _after_ the wheezles, - Or if the first sneezle - Came first. - They said, "If you teazle - A sneezle - Or wheezle, - A measle - May easily grow. - But humour or pleazle - The wheezle - Or sneezle, - The measle - Will certainly go." - They expounded the reazles - For sneezles - And wheezles, - The manner of measles - When new. - They said "If he freezles - In draughts and in breezles, - Then PHTHEEZLES - May even ensue." - - * * * * * - - Christopher Robin - Got up in the morning, - The sneezles had vanished away. - And the look in his eye - Seemed to say to the sky, - "_Now, how to amuse them to-day?_" - - - - - BINKER - - - Binker--what I call him--is a secret of my own, - And Binker is the reason why I never feel alone. - Playing in the nursery, sitting on the stair, - Whatever I am busy at, Binker will be there. - - Oh, Daddy is clever, he's a clever sort of man, - And Mummy is the best since the world began, - And Nanny is Nanny, and I call her Nan-- - But they can't - See - Binker. - - Binker's always talking, 'cos I'm teaching him to speak: - He sometimes likes to do it in a funny sort of squeak, - And he sometimes likes to do it in a hoodling sort of roar ... - And I have to do it for him 'cos his throat is rather sore. - - Oh, Daddy is clever, he's a clever sort of man, - And Mummy knows all that anybody can, - And Nanny is Nanny, and I call her Nan-- - But they don't - Know - Binker. - - Binker's brave as lions when we're running in the park; - Binker's brave as tigers when we're lying in the dark; - Binker's brave as elephants. He never, never cries ... - Except (like other people) when the soap gets in his eyes. - - Oh, Daddy is Daddy, he's a Daddy sort of man, - And Mummy is as Mummy as anybody can, - And Nanny is Nanny, and I call her Nan ... - But they're not - Like - Binker. - - Binker isn't greedy, but he does like things to eat, - So I have to say to people when they're giving me a sweet, - "Oh, Binker wants a chocolate, so could you give me two?" - And then I eat it for him, 'cos his teeth are rather new. - - Well, I'm very fond of Daddy, but he hasn't time to play, - And I'm very fond of Mummy, but she sometimes goes away, - And I'm often cross with Nanny when she wants to brush my hair ... - But Binker's always Binker, and is certain to be there. - - - - - CHERRY STONES - - - _Tinker_, _Tailor_, - _Soldier_, _Sailor_, - _Rich Man_, _Poor Man_, - _Ploughboy_, _Thief_-- - - And what about a Cowboy, - Policeman, Jailer, - Engine-driver, - Or Pirate Chief? - What about a Postman--or a Keeper at the Zoo? - What about the Circus Man who lets the people through? - And the man who takes the pennies for the roundabouts and swings, - Or the man who plays the organ, and the other man who sings? - What about a Conjuror with rabbits in his pockets? - What about a Rocket Man who's always making rockets? - Oh, there's such a lot of things to do and such a lot to be - That there's always lots of cherries on my little cherry tree! - - - - - THE KNIGHT WHOSE ARMOUR DIDN'T SQUEAK - - - Of all the Knights in Appledore - The wisest was Sir Thomas Tom. - He multiplied as far as four, - And knew what nine was taken from - To make eleven. He could write - A letter to another Knight. - - No other Knight in all the land - Could do the things which he could do. - Not only did he understand - The way to polish swords, but knew - What remedy a Knight should seek - Whose armour had begun to squeak. - - And, if he didn't fight too much, - It wasn't that he did not care - For blips and buffetings and such, - But felt that it was hardly fair - To risk, by frequent injuries, - A brain as delicate as his. - - His castle (Castle Tom) was set - Conveniently on a hill; - And daily, when it wasn't wet, - He paced the battlements until - Some smaller Knight who couldn't swim - Should reach the moat and challenge him. - - Or sometimes, feeling full of fight, - He hurried out to scour the plain; - And, seeing some approaching Knight, - He either hurried home again, - Or hid; and, when the foe was past, - Blew a triumphant trumpet-blast. - - One day when good Sir Thomas Tom - Was resting in a handy ditch, - The noises he was hiding from, - Though very much the noises which - He'd always hidden from before, - Seemed somehow less.... Or was it more? - - The trotting horse, the trumpet's blast, - The whistling sword, the armour's squeak, - These, and especially the last, - Had clattered by him all the week. - Was this the same, or was it not? - _Something was different._ But what? - - Sir Thomas raised a cautious ear - And listened as Sir Hugh went by, - And suddenly he seemed to hear - (Or not to hear) the reason why - This stranger made a nicer sound - Than other Knights who lived around. - - Sir Thomas watched the way he went-- - His rage was such he couldn't speak, - For years they'd called him down in Kent - The Knight Whose Armour Didn't Squeak! - Yet here and now he looked upon - _Another_ Knight whose squeak had gone. - - He rushed to where his horse was tied; - He spurred it to a rapid trot. - The only fear he felt inside - About his enemy was not - "How sharp his sword?" "How stout his heart?" - But "Has he got too long a start?" - - Sir Hugh was singing, hand on hip, - When something sudden came along, - And caught him a terrific blip - Right in the middle of his song. - "A thunderstorm!" he thought. "Of course!" - And toppled gently off his horse. - - Then said the good Sir Thomas Tom, - Dismounting with a friendly air, - "Allow me to extract you from - The heavy armour that you wear. - At times like these the bravest Knight - May find his armour much too tight." - - A hundred yards or so beyond - The scene of brave Sir Hugh's defeat - Sir Thomas found a useful pond, - And, careful not to wet his feet, - He brought the armour to the brink, - And flung it in ... and watched it sink. - - So ever after, more and more, - The men of Kent would proudly speak - Of Thomas Tom of Appledore, - "The Knight Whose Armour Didn't Squeak" - Whilst Hugh, the Knight who gave him best, - Squeaks just as badly as the rest. - - - - - BUTTERCUP DAYS - - - Where is Anne? - Head above the buttercups, - Walking by the stream, - Down among the buttercups. - Where is Anne? - Walking with her man, - Lost in a dream, - Lost among the buttercups. - - What has she got in that little brown head? - Wonderful thoughts which can never be said. - What has she got in that firm little fist of hers? - Somebody's thumb, and it feels like Christopher's. - - Where is Anne? - Close to her man. - Brown head, gold head, - In and out the buttercups. - - - - - THE CHARCOAL-BURNER - - - The charcoal-burner has tales to tell. - He lives in the Forest, - Alone in the Forest; - He sits in the Forest, - Alone in the Forest. - And the sun comes slanting between the trees, - And rabbits come up, and they give him good-morning, - And rabbits come up and say, "Beautiful morning".... - And the moon swings clear of the tall black trees, - And owls fly over and wish him good-night, - Quietly over to wish him good-night.... - - And he sits and thinks of the things they know, - He and the Forest, alone together-- - The springs that come and the summers that go, - Autumn dew on bracken and heather, - The drip of the Forest beneath the snow.... - All the things they have seen, - All the things they have heard: - An April sky swept clean and the song of a bird.... - Oh, the charcoal-burner has tales to tell! - And he lives in the Forest and knows us well. - - - - - US TWO - - - Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, - There's always Pooh and Me. - Whatever I do, he wants to do, - "Where are you going to-day?" 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. - - "What's twice eleven?" I said to Pooh. - ("Twice what?" said Pooh to Me.) - "I _think_ it ought to be twenty-two." - "Just what I think myself," said Pooh. - "It wasn't an easy sum to do, - But that's what it is," said Pooh, said he. - "That's what it is," said Pooh. - - "Let's look for dragons," I said to Pooh. - "Yes, let's," said Pooh to Me. - We crossed the river and found a few-- - "Yes, those are dragons all right," said Pooh. - "As soon as I saw their beaks I knew. - That's what they are," said Pooh, said he. - "That's what they are," said Pooh. - - "Let's frighten the dragons," I said to Pooh. - "That's right," said Pooh to Me. - "_I'm_ not afraid," I said to Pooh, - And I held his paw and I shouted "Shoo! - Silly old dragons!"--and off they flew. - "I wasn't afraid," said Pooh, said he, - "I'm _never_ afraid with you." - - So wherever I am, there's always Pooh, - There's always Pooh and Me. - "What would I do?" I said to Pooh, - "If it wasn't for you," and Pooh said: "True, - It isn't much fun for One, but Two - Can stick together," says Pooh, says he. - "That's how it is," says Pooh. - - - - - THE OLD SAILOR - - - There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew - Who had so many things which he wanted to do - That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, - He couldn't because of the state he was in. - - He was shipwrecked, and lived on an island for weeks, - And he wanted a hat, and he wanted some breeks; - And he wanted some nets, or a line and some hooks - For the turtles and things which you read of in books. - - And, thinking of this, he remembered a thing - Which he wanted (for water) and that was a spring; - And he thought that to talk to he'd look for, and keep - (If he found it) a goat, or some chickens and sheep. - - Then, because of the weather, he wanted a hut - With a door (to come in by) which opened and shut - (With a jerk, which was useful if snakes were about), - And a very strong lock to keep savages out. - - He began on the fish-hooks, and when he'd begun - He decided he couldn't because of the sun. - So he knew what he ought to begin with, and that - Was to find, or to make, a large sun-stopping hat. - - He was making the hat with some leaves from a tree, - When he thought, "I'm as hot as a body can be, - And I've nothing to take for my terrible thirst; - So I'll look for a spring, and I'll look for it _first_." - - Then he thought as he started, "Oh, dear and oh, dear! - I'll be lonely to-morrow with nobody here!" - So he made in his note-book a couple of notes: - "_I must first find some chickens_" and "_No, I mean goats._" - - He had just seen a goat (which he knew by the shape) - When he thought, "But I must have a boat for escape. - But a boat means a sail, which means needles and thread; - So I'd better sit down and make needles instead." - - He began on a needle, but thought as he worked, - That, if this was an island where savages lurked, - Sitting safe in his hut he'd have nothing to fear, - Whereas now they might suddenly breathe in his ear! - - So he thought of his hut ... and he thought of his boat, - And his hat and his breeks, and his chickens and goat, - And the hooks (for his food) and the spring (for his thirst).... - But he _never_ could think which he ought to do first. - - And so in the end he did nothing at all, - But basked on the shingle wrapped up in a shawl. - And I think it was dreadful the way he behaved-- - He did nothing but basking until he was saved! - - - - - THE ENGINEER - - - Let it rain! - Who cares? - I've a train - Upstairs, - With a brake - Which I make - From a string - Sort of thing, - Which works - In jerks, - 'Cos it drops - In the spring, - Which stops - With the string, - And the wheels - All stick - So quick - That it feels - Like a thing - That you make - With a brake, - Not string.... - - So that's what I make, - When the day's all wet. - It's a good sort of brake - But it hasn't worked yet. - - - - - JOURNEY'S END - - - _Christopher, Christopher, where are you going, Christopher Robin?_ - "Just up to the top of the hill, - Upping and upping until - I am right on the top of the hill," - Said Christopher Robin. - - _Christopher, Christopher, why are you going, Christopher Robin?_ - _There's nothing to see, so when - You've got to the top, what then?_ - "Just down to the bottom again," - Said Christopher Robin. - - - - - FURRY BEAR - - - If I were a bear, - And a big bear too, - I shouldn't much care - If it froze or snew; - I shouldn't much mind - If it snowed or friz-- - I'd be all fur-lined - With a coat like his! - - For I'd have fur boots and a brown fur wrap, - And brown fur knickers and a big fur cap. - I'd have a fur muffle-ruff to cover my jaws, - And brown fur mittens on my big brown paws. - With a big brown furry-down up to my head, - I'd sleep all the winter in a big fur bed. - - - - - FORGIVEN - - - I found a little beetle, so that Beetle was his name, - And I called him Alexander and he answered just the same. - I put him in a match-box, and I kept him all the day.... - And Nanny let my beetle out-- - Yes, Nanny let my beetle out-- - She went and let my beetle out-- - And Beetle ran away. - - She said she didn't mean it, and I never said she did, - She said she wanted matches and she just took off the lid, - She said that she was sorry, but it's difficult to catch - An excited sort of beetle you've mistaken for a match. - - She said that she was sorry, and I really mustn't mind, - As there's lots and lots of beetles which she's certain we could find, - If we looked about the garden for the holes where beetles hid-- - And we'd get another match-box and write BEETLE on the lid. - - We went to all the places which a beetle might be near, - And we made the sort of noises which a beetle likes to hear, - And I saw a kind of something, and I gave a sort of shout: - "A beetle-house and Alexander Beetle coming out!" - - It was Alexander Beetle I'm as certain as can be - And he had a sort of look as if he thought it must be ME, - And he had a sort of look as if he thought he ought to say: - "I'm very very sorry that I tried to run away." - - And Nanny's very sorry too for you-know-what-she-did, - And she's writing ALEXANDER very blackly on the lid. - So Nan and Me are friends, because it's difficult to catch - An excited Alexander you've mistaken for a match. - - - - - THE EMPEROR'S RHYME - - - The King of Peru - (Who was Emperor too) - Had a sort of a rhyme - Which was useful to know, - If he felt very shy - When a stranger came by, - Or they asked him the time - When his watch didn't go; - Or supposing he fell - (By mistake) down a well, - Or he tumbled when skating - And sat on his hat, - Or perhaps wasn't told, - Till his porridge was cold, - That his breakfast was waiting-- - Or something like that; - Oh, whenever the Emperor - Got in to a temper, or - Felt himself sulky or sad, - He would murmur and murmur, - Until he felt firmer, - This curious rhyme which he had: - - _Eight eights are sixty-four, - Multiply by seven. - When it's done, - Carry one - And take away eleven, - Nine nines are eighty-one - Multiply by three. - If it's more, - Carry four, - And then it's time for tea._ - - So whenever the Queen - Took his armour to clean, - And she didn't remember - To use any starch; - Or his birthday (in May) - Was a horrible day, - Being wet as November - And windy as March; - Or, if sitting in state - With the Wise and the Great, - He just happened to hiccup - While signing his name, - Or the Queen gave a cough, - When his crown tumbled off - As he bent down to pick up - A pen for the same; - Oh, whenever the Emperor - Got into a temper, or - Felt himself awkward and shy, - He would whisper and whisper, - Until he felt crisper, - This odd little rhyme to the sky: - - _Eight eights are eighty-one; - Multiply by seven. - If it's more, - Carry four, - And take away eleven. - Nine nines are sixty-four; - Multiply by three. - When it's done, - Carry one, - And then it's time for tea._ - - - - - KNIGHT-IN-ARMOUR - - - Whenever I'm a shining Knight, - I buckle on my armour tight; - And then I look about for things, - Like Rushings-Out, and Rescuings, - And Savings from the Dragon's Lair, - And fighting all the Dragons there. - And sometimes when our fights begin, - I think I'll let the Dragons win.... - And then I think perhaps I won't, - Because they're Dragons, and I don't. - - - - - COME OUT WITH ME - - - _There's sun on the river and sun on the hill_.... - You can hear the sea if you stand quite still! - There's eight new puppies at Roundabout Farm-- - And I saw an old sailor with only one arm! - - But every one says, "Run along!" - (Run along, run along!) - All of them say "Run along! I'm busy as can be." - Every one says, "Run along, - There's a little darling!" - If I'm a little darling, why don't they run with me? - - _There's wind on the river and wind on the hill_.... - There's a dark dead water-wheel under the mill! - I saw a fly which had just been drowned-- - And I know where a rabbit goes into the ground! - - But every one says, "Run along!" - (Run along, run along!) - All of them say "Yes, dear," and never notice me. - Every one says, "Run along, - There's a little darling!" - If I'm a little darling, why won't they come and see? - - - - - DOWN BY THE POND - - - _I'm fishing._ - Don't talk, anybody, don't come near! - Can't you see that the fish might hear? - He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; - He thinks I'm another sort of funny sort of thing, - _But he doesn't know I'm fishing-- - He doesn't know I'm fishing._ - That's what I'm doing-- - Fishing. - - _No, I'm not, I'm newting._ - Don't cough, anybody, don't come by! - Any small noise makes a newt feel shy. - He thinks I'm a bush, or a new sort of tree; - He thinks it's somebody, but doesn't think it's Me, - _And he doesn't know I'm newting-- - No, he doesn't know I'm newting._ - That's what I'm doing-- - Newting. - - - - - THE LITTLE BLACK HEN - - - Berryman and Baxter, - Prettiboy and Penn - And old Farmer Middleton - Are five big men.... - And all of them were after - The Little Black Hen. - - She ran quickly, - They ran fast; - Baxter was first, and - Berryman was last. - I sat and watched - By the old plum-tree.... - She squawked through the hedge - And she came to me. - - The Little Black Hen - Said "Oh, it's you!" - I said "Thank you, - How do you do? - And please will you tell me, - Little Black Hen, - What did they want, - Those five big men?" - - The Little Black Hen - She said to me: - "They want me to lay them - An egg for tea. - If they were Emperors, - If they were Kings, - I'm much too busy - To lay them things." - - "I'm not a King - And I haven't a crown; - I climb up trees, - And I tumble down. - I can shut one eye, - I can count to ten, - So lay me an egg, please, - Little Black Hen." - - The Little Black Hen said, - "What will you pay, - If I lay you an egg - For Easter Day?" - - "I'll give you a Please - And a How-do-you-do, - I'll show you the Bear - Who lives in the Zoo, - I'll show you the nettle-place - On my leg, - If you'll lay me a great big - Eastery egg." - - The Little Black Hen - Said "I don't care - For a How-do-you-do - Or a Big-brown-bear, - But I'll lay you a beautiful - Eastery egg, - If you'll show me the nettle-place - On your leg." - - I showed her the place - Where I had my sting. - She touched it gently - With one black wing. - "Nettles don't hurt - If you count to ten. - And now for the egg," - Said the Little Black Hen. - - When I wake up - On Easter Day, - I shall see my egg - She's promised to lay. - If I were Emperors, - If I were Kings, - It couldn't be fuller - Of wonderful things. - - Berryman and Baxter, - Prettiboy and Penn, - And old Farmer Middleton - Are five big men. - All of them are wanting - An egg for their tea, - But the Little Black Hen is much too busy, - The Little Black Hen is _much_ too busy, - The Little Black Hen in MUCH too busy.... - _She's laying my egg for me!_ - - - - - THE FRIEND - - - There are lots and lots of people who are always asking things, - Like Dates and Pounds-and-ounces and the names of funny Kings, - And the answer's either Sixpence or A Hundred Inches Long, - And I know they'll think me silly if I get the answer wrong. - - So Pooh and I go whispering, and Pooh looks very bright, - And says, "Well, _I_ say sixpence, but I don't suppose I'm right," - And then it doesn't matter what the answer ought to be, - 'Cos if he's right, I'm Right, and if he's wrong, it isn't Me. - - - - - THE GOOD LITTLE GIRL - - - It's funny how often they say to me, "Jane? - "Have you been a _good_ girl?" - "Have you been a _good_ girl?" - And when they have said it, they say it again, - "Have you been a _good_ girl?" - "Have you been a _good_ girl?" - - I go to a party, I go out to tea, - I go to an aunt for a week at the sea, - I come back from school or from playing a game; - Wherever I come from, it's always the same: - "Well? - Have you been a _good_ girl, Jane?" - - It's always the end of the loveliest day: - "Have you been a _good_ girl?" - "Have you been a _good_ girl?" - I went to the Zoo, and they waited to say: - "Have you been a _good_ girl?" - "Have you been a _good_ girl?" - - Well, what did they think that I went there to do? - And why should I want to be bad at the Zoo? - _And should I be likely to say if I had?_ - So that's why it's funny of Mummy and Dad, - This asking and asking, in case I was bad, - "Well? - Have you been a _good_ girl, Jane?" - - - - - A THOUGHT - - - If I were John and John were Me, - Then he'd be six and I'd be three. - If John were Me and I were John, - I shouldn't have these trousers on. - - - - - KING HILARY AND THE BEGGERMAN - - - _Of Hilary the Great and Good - They tell a tale at Christmas time - I've often thought the story would - Be prettier but just as good - If almost anybody should - Translate it into rime. - So I have done the best I can - For lack of some more learned man._ - - Good King Hilary - Said to his Chancellor - (Proud Lord Willoughby, - Lord High Chancellor): - "Run to the wicket-gate - Quickly, quickly, - Run to the wicket gate - And see who is knocking. - It may be a rich man, - Sea-borne from Araby, - Bringing me peacocks, - Emeralds and ivory; - It may be a poor man, - Travel-worn and weary, - Bringing me oranges - To put in my stocking." - - Proud Lord Willoughby, - Lord High Chancellor, - Laughed both loud and free:[1] - "I've served Your Majesty, man to man, - Since first Your Majesty's reign began, - And I've often walked, but I never, never ran, - Never, never, never," quoth he. - -[Footnote 1: Haw! Haw! Haw!] - - Good King Hilary - Said to his Chancellor - (Proud Lord Willoughby, - Lord High Chancellor): - "Walk to the wicket-gate - Quickly, quickly, - Walk to the wicket-gate - And see who is knocking. - - It may be a captain, - Hawk-nosed, bearded, - Bringing me gold-dust, - Spices, and sandalwood: - It may be a scullion, - Care-free, whistling, - Bringing me sugar-plums - To put in my stocking." - - Proud Lord Willoughby, - Lord High Chancellor, - Laughed both loud and free: - "I've served in the Palace since I was four, - And I'll serve in the Palace a-many years more, - And I've opened a window, but never a door, - Never, never, never," quoth he. - - Good King Hilary - Said to his Chancellor - (Proud Lord Willoughby, - Lord High Chancellor): - "Open the window - Quickly, quickly, - Open the window - And see who is knocking. - - It may be a waiting-maid, - Apple-cheeked, dimpled, - Sent by her mistress - To bring me greeting; - It may be children, - Anxious, whispering, - Bringing me cobnuts, - To put in my stocking." - - Proud Lord Willoughby, - Lord High Chancellor, - Laughed both loud and free: - "I'll serve Your Majesty till I die-- - As Lord Chancellor, not as spy - To peep from lattices; no, not I, - Never, never, never," quoth he. - - Good King Hilary - Looked at his Chancellor - (Proud Lord Willoughby, - Lord High Chancellor): - He said no word - To his stiff-set Chancellor, - But ran to the wicket-gate - To see who was knocking. - He found no rich man - Trading from Araby; - He found no captain, - Blue-eyed, weather-tanned; - He found no waiting-maid - Sent by her mistress; - But only a beggarman - With one red stocking. - - Good King Hilary - Looked at the beggarman, - And laughed him three times three; - And he turned that beggarman round about: - "Your thews are strong, and your arm is stout; - Come, throw me a Lord High Chancellor out, - And take his place," quoth he. - - Of Hilary the Good and Great - Old wives at Christmas time relate - This tale, which points, at any rate, - Two morals on the way. - The first: "_Whatever Fortune brings, - Don't be afraid of doing things._" - (Especially, of course, for Kings.) - It also seems to say - (But not so wisely): "_He who begs - With one red stocking on his legs - Will be, as sure as eggs are eggs, - A Chancellor some day._" - - - - - SWING SONG - - - Here I go up in my swing - Ever so high. - I am the King of the fields, and the King - Of the town. - I am the King of the earth, and the King - Of the sky. - Here I go up in my swing.... - Now I go down. - - - - - EXPLAINED - - - Elizabeth Ann - Said to her Nan: - "Please will you tell me how God began? - _Somebody_ must have made Him. So - Who could it be, 'cos I want to know?" - And Nurse said, "_Well!_" - And Ann said, "Well? - I know you know, and I wish you'd tell." - And Nurse took pins from her mouth, and said, - "Now then, darling, it's time for bed." - - Elizabeth Ann - Had a wonderful plan: - She would run round the world till she found a man - Who knew _exactly_ how God began. - She got up early, she dressed, and ran - Trying to find an Important Man. - She ran to London and knocked at the door - Of the Lord High Doodelum's coach-and-four. - "Please, sir (if there's anyone in), - However-and-ever did God begin?" - - The Lord High Doodelum lay in bed, - But out of the window, large and red, - Came the Lord High Coachman's face instead. - And the Lord High Coachman laughed and said: - "Well, what put _that_ in your quaint little head?" - - Elizabeth Ann went home again - And took from the ottoman Jennifer Jane. - "Jenniferjane," said Elizabeth Ann, - "Tell me _at once_ how God began." - And Jane, who didn't much care for speaking, - Replied in her usual way by squeaking. - - What did it mean? Well, to be quite candid, - _I_ don't know, but Elizabeth Ann did. - Elizabeth Ann said softly, "Oh! - Thank you, Jennifer. Now I know." - - - - - TWICE TIMES - - - There were Two little Bears who lived in a Wood, - And one of them was Bad and the other was Good. - Good Bear learnt his Twice Times One-- - But Bad Bear left all his buttons undone. - - They lived in a Tree when the weather was hot, - And one of them was Good, and the other was Not. - Good Bear learnt his Twice Times Two-- - But Bad Bear's thingummies were worn right through. - - They lived in a Cave when the weather was cold, - And they Did, and they Didn't Do, what they were told. - Good Bear learnt his Twice Times Three-- - But Bad Bear _never_ had his hand-ker-chee. - - They lived in the Wood with a Kind Old Aunt, - And one said "_Yes'm_," and the other said "_Shan't!_" - Good Bear learnt his Twice Times Four-- - But Bad Bear's knicketies were terrible tore. - - And then quite suddenly (just like Us) - One got Better and the other got Wuss. - Good Bear muddled his Twice Times Three-- - But Bad Bear coughed _in his hand-ker-chee_! - - Good Bear muddled his Twice Times Two-- - But Bad Bear's thingummies looked like new. - Good Bear muddled his Twice Times One-- - But Bad Bear _never_ left his buttons undone. - - There may be a Moral, though some say not; - I think there's a moral, though I don't know what. - But if one gets better, as the other gets wuss, - These Two Little Bears are just like Us. - For Christopher remembers up to Twice Times Ten.... - But _I_ keep forgetting where I've put my pen.[2] - -[Footnote 2: _So I have had to write this one in pencil._] - - - - - THE MORNING WALK - - - When Anne and I go out a walk, - We hold each other's hand and talk - Of all the things we mean to do - When Anne and I are forty-two. - - And when we've thought about a thing, - Like bowling hoops or bicycling, - Or falling down on Anne's balloon, - We do it in the afternoon. - - - - - CRADLE SONG - - - O Timothy Tim - Has ten pink toes, - And ten pink toes - Has Timothy Tim. - They go with him - Wherever he goes, - And wherever he goes - They go with him. - - O Timothy Tim - Has two blue eyes, - And two blue eyes - Has Timothy Tim. - They cry with him - Whenever he cries, - And whenever he cries, - They cry with him. - - O Timothy Tim - Has one red head, - And one red head - Has Timothy Tim. - It sleeps with him - In Timothy's bed. - Sleep well, red head - Of Timothy Tim. - - - - - WAITING AT THE WINDOW - - - These are my two drops of rain - Waiting on the window-pane. - - I am waiting here to see - Which the winning one will be. - - Both of them have different names. - One is John and one is James. - - All the best and all the worst - Comes from which of them is first. - - James has just begun to ooze. - He's the one I want to lose. - - John is waiting to begin. - He's the one I want to win. - - James is going slowly on. - Something sort of sticks to John. - - John is moving off at last. - James is going pretty fast. - - John is rushing down the pane. - James is going slow again. - - James has met a sort of smear. - John is getting very near. - - Is he going fast enough? - (James has found a piece of fluff.) - - John has hurried quickly by. - (James was talking to a fly.) - - John is there, and John has won! - _Look! I told you! Here's the sun!_ - - - - - PINKLE PURR - - - Tattoo was the mother of Pinkle Purr, - A little black nothing of feet and fur; - And by-and-by, when his eyes came through, - He saw his mother, the big Tattoo. - And all that he learned he learned from her. - "I'll ask my mother," says Pinkle Purr. - - Tattoo was the mother of Pinkle Purr, - A ridiculous kitten with silky fur. - And little black Pinkle grew and grew - Till he got as big as the big Tattoo. - And all that he did he did with her. - "Two friends together," says Pinkle Purr. - - Tattoo was the mother of Pinkle Purr, - An adventurous cat in a coat of fur. - And whenever he thought of a thing to do, - He didn't much bother about Tattoo, - For he knows its nothing to do with her, - So "See you later," says Pinkle Purr. - - Tattoo is the mother of Pinkle Purr, - An enormous leopard with coal-black fur. - A little brown kitten that's nearly new - Is now playing games with its big Tattoo.... - And Pink looks lazily down at her: - "Dear little Tat," says Pinkle Purr. - - - - - WIND ON THE HILL - - - No one can tell me, - Nobody knows, - Where the wind comes from, - Where the wind goes. - - It's flying from somewhere - As fast as it can, - I couldn't keep up with it, - Not if I ran. - - But if I stopped holding - The string of my kite, - It would blow with the wind - For a day and a night. - - And then when I found it, - Wherever it blew, - I should know that the wind - Had been going there too. - - So then I could tell them - Where the wind goes.... - But where the wind comes from - _Nobody_ knows. - - - - - FORGOTTEN - - - Lords of the Nursery - Wait in a row, - Five on the high wall, - And four on the low; - Big Kings and Little Kings, - Brown Bears and Black, - All of them waiting - Till John comes back. - - Some think that John boy - Is lost in the wood, - Some say he couldn't be, - Some say he could. - Some think that John boy - Hides on the hill; - Some say he won't come back, - Some say he will. - - High was the sun, when - John went away.... - Here they've been waiting - All through the day; - Big Bears and Little Bears, - White Kings and Black, - All of them waiting - Till John comes back. - - Lords of the Nursery - Looked down the hill, - Some saw the sheep-fold, - Some saw the mill; - Some saw the roofs - Of the little grey town.... - And their shadows grew long - As the sun slipt down. - - Gold between the poplars - An old moon shows; - Silver up the star-way - The full moon rose; - Silver down the star-way - The old moon crept.... - And, one by another, - The grey fields slept. - - Lords of the Nursery - Their still watch keep.... - They hear from the sheep-fold - The rustle of sheep. - A young bird twitters - And hides its head; - A little wind suddenly - Breathes, and is dead. - - Slowly and slowly - Dawns the new day.... - What's become of John boy? - No one can say. - Some think that John boy - Is lost on the hill; - Some say he won't come back, - Some say he will. - - _What's become of John boy? - Nothing at all, - He played with his skipping rope, - He played with his ball. - He ran after butterflies, - Blue ones and red; - He did a hundred happy things-- - And then went to bed._ - - - - - IN THE DARK - - - I've had my supper, - And _had_ my supper, - And _HAD_ my supper and all; - I've heard the story - Of Cinderella, - And how she went to the ball; - I've cleaned my teeth, - And I've said my prayers, - And I've cleaned and said them right; - And they've all of them been - And kissed me lots, - They've all of them said "Good-night." - - So--here I am in the dark alone, - There's nobody here to see; - I think to myself, - I play to myself, - And nobody knows what I say to myself; - Here I am in the dark alone, - What is it going to be? - I can think whatever I like to think, - I can play whatever I like to play, - I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, - There's nobody here but me. - - I'm talking to a rabbit ... - I'm talking to the sun ... - I think I am a hundred-- - I'm one. - I'm lying in a forest ... - I'm lying in a cave ... - I'm talking to a Dragon ... - I'm BRAVE. - I'm lying on my left side ... - I'm lying on my right ... - I'll play a lot to-morrow ... - ....... - I'll think a lot to-morrow ... - ....... - I'll laugh ... - a lot ... - to-morrow ... - (_Heigh-ho!_) - Good-night. - - - - - THE END - - - When I was One, - I had just begun. - - When I was Two, - I was nearly new. - - When I was Three, - I was hardly Me. - - When I was Four, - I was not much more. - - When I was Five, - I was just alive. - - But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever. - So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever. - - - * * * * * - - NEW UNIFORM EDITION - -These inimitable and imperishable Milne classics with the Shepard -drawings are now available, _for the first time_, in a new -edition, uniform with this volume. - - - WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG - -The most popular book of child-verse of modern times. - - - NOW WE ARE SIX - -A companion volume of verse to When We Were Very Young - - - WINNIE-THE-POOH - -Pooh and Christopher Robin are among the most treasured characters of -story-land. - - - THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER - -There just had to be another story about Christopher Robin and his -seven friends--Pooh, Piglet, Owl, Tigger, etc. - - -_Published by_ E. 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