# Quote — A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young: Classic Gift Edition

> James James
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> Morrison Morrison
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> Weatherby George Dupree
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> Took great care of his mother
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> Though he was only three.
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> James James said to his mother
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> Mother he said, said he:
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> You mustn't go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.
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> James James Morrison's Mother
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> Put on a golden gown.
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> James James Morrison's Mother
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> Went to the end of the town
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> James James Morrison's Mother
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> Said to herself, said she:
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> I can go right down to the end of the town and be back in time for tea!

- Author: [A.A. Milne](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aa-milne.md)
- Book: [When We Were Very Young: Classic Gift Edition](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aa-milne/when-we-were-very-young-classic-gift-edition.md)
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## More from this book

> They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace —
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> Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
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> They've great big parties inside the grounds.
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> "I wouldn't be king for a hundred pounds",
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> Says Alice.

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> Halfway down the stairs
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> Is a stair
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> Where I sit.
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> There isn't any
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> Other stair
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> Quite like
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> It.
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> I'm not at the bottom,
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> I'm not at the top;
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> So this is the stair
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> Where
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> I always
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> Stop.
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> Halfway up the stairs
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> Isn't up,
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> Isn't down.
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> It isn't in the nursery,
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> It isn't in the town.
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> And all sorts of funny thoughts
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> Run round my head:
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> "It isn't really
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> Anywhere!
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> It's somewhere else
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> Instead!"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aa-milne/when-we-were-very-young-classic-gift-edition/halfway-down-the.md)

> Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed,

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