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Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter II: In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place

Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter II: In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place

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I'm doing a little survey to find out more about ALE listeners. There are just four tiny questions. It will only take a minute or two, and will help me a LOT! Please check it out. Thanks, Cooper👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇CLICK HERE FOR THE SURVEY Season 1 Episode 2 Thank you for downloading this episode. 👉Check out some of the original art by EH Shepard:Pooh goes visitingPooh has some troubleAll Rabbit's friends and relations👉The story begins at 1:34 and the tiny lessons begin at 16:14👉You can find the transcript after the Credits!👉Visit our website to download the Podcast User's Manual and find out more! https://alittleenglish.com/A Little English is written, produced, recorded, edited, mixed, mastered and scored by Edward Cooper Howland.All stories are either in the public domain, or written by me.Copyright 2023 Edward Cooper Howland ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ TRANSCRIPT:INTRO 0:00Hi. My name is Cooper Howland, and this is…A Little English. Every episode, I read a short story. After the story, there are three tiny lessons. If you’re really serious about studying using this podcast, please go to my website, www.alittleenglish.com. You can get the Podcast User’s Manual, with lots of ideas for self-study. If you just want to listen, then relax and enjoy. So, let’s get into this story. Today we are reading Chapter Two of Winnie-the-Pooh, and I have once again invited Tabatha to play Christopher Robin. I think that this is probably the most famous Pooh story. Or, at least, it’s the one that I remember the most clearly from my childhood. The good news is, it doesn’t have that story-within-a-story thing that the last one had. It’s just a story about Pooh going to visit his friend, and…well…you’ll see. STORY 1:34IIIn Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight PlaceEdward 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 a little hum that very morning, as he was doing his Stoutness Exercises in front of the glass: Tra-la-la, tra-la-la, as he stretched up as high as he could go, and then Tra-la-la, tra-la⁠—oh, help!⁠—la, as he tried to reach his toes. After breakfast he had said it over and over to himself until he had learnt it off by heart, and now he was humming it right through, properly. It went like this:Tra-la-la, tra-la-la,Tra-la-la, tra-la-la,Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum.Tiddle-iddle, tiddle-iddle,Tiddle-iddle, tiddle-iddle,Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um.Well, he was humming this hum to himself, and walking along gaily, wondering what everybody else was doing, and what it felt like, being somebody else, when suddenly he came to a sandy bank, and in the bank was a large hole.“Aha!” said Pooh. (Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum.) “If I know anything about anything, that hole means Rabbit,” he said, “and Rabbit means Company,” he said, “and Company means Food and Listening-to-Me-Humming and suchlike. Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um.”So he bent down, put his head into the hole, and called out:“Is anybody at home?”There was a sudden scuffling noise from inside the hole, and then silence.“What I said was, ‘Is anybody at home?’ ” called out Pooh very loudly.“No!” said a voice; and then added, “You needn’t shout so loud. I heard you quite well the first time.”“Bother!” said Pooh. “Isn’t there anybody here at all?”“Nobody.”Winnie-the-Pooh took his head out of the hole, and thought for a little, and he thought to himself, “There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said ‘Nobody.’ ” So he put his head back in the hole, and said:“Hallo, Rabbit, isn’t that you?”“No,” said Rabbit, in a different sort of voice this time.“But isn’t that Rabbit’s voice?”“I don’t think so,” said Rabbit. “It isn’t meant to be.”“Oh!” said Pooh.He took his head out of the hole, and had another think, and then he put it back, and said:“Well, could you very kindly tell me where Rabbit is?”“He has gone to see his friend Pooh Bear, who is a great friend of his.”“But this is Me!” said Bear, very much surprised.“What sort of Me?”“Pooh Bear.”“Are you sure?” said Rabbit, still more surprised.“Quite, quite sure,” said Pooh.“Oh, well, then, come in.”So Pooh pushed and pushed and pushed his way through the hole, and at last he got in.“You were quite right,” said Rabbit, looking at him all over. “It is you. Glad to see you.”“Who did you think it was?”“Well, I wasn’t sure. You know how it is in the Forest. One can’t have anybody coming into one’s house. One has to be careful. What about a mouthful of something?”Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o’clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, “Honey or ...
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