A.A. Milne

How sweet to be a cloud

Floating in the blue.

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

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace —

Christopher Robin went down with Alice.

They've great big parties inside the grounds.

"I wouldn't be king for a hundred pounds",

Says Alice.

These notices had been written by Christopher Robin, who was the only one in the forest who could spell; for Owl, wise though he was in many ways, able to read and write and spell his own name WOL, yet somehow went all to pieces over delicate words like MEASLES and BUTTEREDTOAST.

James James

Morrison Morrison

Weatherby George Dupree

Took great care of his mother

Though he was only three.

James James said to his mother

Mother he said, said he:

You mustn't go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.

James James Morrison's Mother

Put on a golden gown.

James James Morrison's Mother

Went to the end of the town

James James Morrison's Mother

Said to herself, said she:

I can go right down to the end of the town and be back in time for tea!

"If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee."

Then he thought another long time, and said: "And the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey."

And then he got up, and said: "And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it." So he began to climb the tree.

"Because my spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places."

"And how are you?", said Winnie-the-Pooh. (...)

"Not very how", he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time."

Halfway down the stairs

Is a stair

Where I sit.

There isn't any

Other stair

Quite like

It.

I'm not at the bottom,

I'm not at the top;

So this is the stair

Where

I always

Stop.

Halfway up the stairs

Isn't up,

Isn't down.

It isn't in the nursery,

It isn't in the town.

And all sorts of funny thoughts

Run round my head:

"It isn't really

Anywhere!

It's somewhere else

Instead!"

"What?" said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he hadn't been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an exercising sort of way.

"H–hup!" said Roo accidentally.

"Roo, dear!" said Kanga reproachfully.

"Was it me?" asked Roo, a little surprised.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.