The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview
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CHAPTER VIII
In Which
Christopher Robin Leads an
Expotition to the North Pole
One fine day Pooh had stumped up to the top of the Forest to see if his friend Christopher Robin was interested in Bears at all. At breakfast that morning, a simple meal of marmalade spread lightly over a honeycomb or two, he had suddenly thought of a new song. It began like this:
"Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!" When he had got as far as this, he stretched his head, and thought to himself "That's a very good start for a song, but what about the second line?" He tried singing "Ho," two or three times, but it didn't seem to help.
"Perhaps it would be better," he thought, "if I sang Hi for the life of a Bear." So he sang it .... but it wasn't.
"Very well, then," he said, "I shall sing that first line twice, and perhaps if I – I - I sing it very quickly, I shall find myself singing the third and fourth lines before I have time to think of them, and that will be a Good Song. Now then: