Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.
A. A. MilneBores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
A. A. MilneBy the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, โThere is no hurry. We shall get there some day.โ But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
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