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notes
from a
bumble bear ...
"Come on, Pooh," said
Christopher Robin and walked off quickly.
"Where are we going?" said Pooh, hurrying after him, and wondering whether
it was to be an Explore or a What-shall-I-do-about-you-know-what.
"Nowhere," said Christopher Robin.
So they began going there, and after they had walked a little way
Christopher Robin said: "What do you like doing best in the world, Pooh?"
"Well," said Pooh,
"what I like best -" and then he had to stop and think. Because although
Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you
began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what
it was called. And then
he
 thought
that being with Christopher Robin was a very good thing to do, and having
Piglet near was a very friendly thing to have; and so, when he had thought it
all out, he said, "What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going
to see You, and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying,
'Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being
a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing."
"I like that too," said
Christopher Robin, "but what I like doing best is Nothing."
"How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time.
"Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it,
'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say 'Oh, nothing,' and
then you go and do it."
"Oh, I see," said Pooh.
"This is a nothing sort of thing that we're doing now.
"Oh, I see," said Pooh again.
"It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and
not bothering."
"Oh!" said Pooh.
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written by A.A. Milne ~
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