That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him. Encouraging." Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, "Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on. "Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say `Where's little Piglet been blown to?' -- really wanting to know. Well, good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me.
A. A. MilneAnd Iโd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: โThereโs nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.
A. A. MilneWhen late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.
A. A. MilneDid I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon." "I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.
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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