“Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply,
Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie.”

—  A.A. Milne, book Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

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