“"H– hup!" said Roo accidentally.
"Roo, dear!" said Kanga reproachfully.
"Was it me?" asked Roo, a little surprised.”

—  A.A. Milne, book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Ten.

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