Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are.

A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.