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The House at Pooh Corner

The House at Pooh Corner
A.A. Milne

The House at Pooh Corner is the second volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, written by A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard. It is notable for the introduction of the character Tigger.

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“"Shall I look too?" said Pooh, who was beginning to feel a little eleven o'clockish. And he found a small tin of condensed milk, and something seemed to tell him that Tiggers didn't like this, so he took it into a corner by itself, and went with it to see that nobody interrupted it.”

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Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Two.

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“Nearly eleven o'clock," said Pooh happily. "You're just in time for a little smackerel of something.”

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Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter One.

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“If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.”

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“The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.”

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Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter One - Pooh.

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“Piglet took Pooh's arm, in case Pooh was frightened.”

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Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Four.

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“Piglet looked up, and looked away again. And he felt so Foolish and Uncomfortable that he had almost decided to run away to Sea and be a Sailor, when suddenly he saw something.”

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Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Three.

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“Yes," said Tigger, "they're very good flyers, Tiggers are. Strornry good flyers.”

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Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Four.

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“Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.”

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Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Three.

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“"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.”

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Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Ten.

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“Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.”

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Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Seven.

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“Now it happened that Kanga had felt rather motherly that morning, and Wanting to Count Things — like Roo's vests, and how many pieces of soap there were left, and the two clean spots in Tigger's feeder.”

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Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Four.

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“I'm not going to do just nothing anymore."
"You mean never again?"
"Well, not so much. They don't let you.”

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“One day when Pooh was thinking, he thought he would go and see Eeyore, because he hadn't seen him since yesterday.”

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Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Four.

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“…and then he and Roo pushed each other about in a friendly way, and Tigger accidentally knocked over one or two chairs by accident, and Roo accidentally knocked over one on purpose, and Kanga said, "Now then, run along."”

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Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Seven.

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“When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.”

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Contradiction.
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“"That's what Jagulars always do", said Pooh, much interested. "They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you."”

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