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"The atmospheric conditions have been very
unfavourable lately," said Owl.
"The what?" "It has been raining," explained Owl. "Yes," said Christopher Robin. "It has." "The flood-level has reached an unprecedented height." "The who?" "There's a lot of water about," explained Owl. |
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Owl, wise though he was in many ways, was able
to read and write and spell his own name WOL, yet somehow went all to pieces
over delicate words like MEASLES and BUTTEREDTOAST. |
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... the letter-box, through which in the old
days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter
that WOL had written to himself, had come slipping. |
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He could spell his own name WOL, and he could
spell Tuesday so that you knew it wasn't Wednesday, and he could read quite
comfortably when you weren't looking over his shoulder saying "Well?" all
the time, and he could -
"Well?" said Rabbit. |
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Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal
Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Cristopher Robin once before,
and had been waiting ever since for a chance to do it again, because it
is a thing which you can easily explain twice before anyone knows what
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"Can you read, Pooh?" Owl asked a little anxiously.<snip
where Pooh basically says no> So Owl wrote, and this is what he
wrote:
"I'm just saying `A Happy Birthday'," said Owl carelessly. "It's a nice long one," said Pooh, very much impressed. "Well, actually, of course, I'm saying `A Very Happy Birthday with Love from Pooh'. Naturally it takes a good deal of pencil to say a long thing like that." |
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