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friends, who have already been introduced to you, are now going to say
Good-bye. So this is the opposite. When we asked Pooh what an 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.

Why we are having a Contradiction is because last week when Christopher
Robin said to me, "What about that story you were going to tell me about
what happened to Pooh when --" I happened to say very quickly, "What about
nine times a hundred and seven?" And when we had done that one, we had one
about cows going through a gate at two a minute, and there are three
hundred in the field, so how many are left after an hour and a half? We
find these very exciting, and when we have been excited quite enough, we
curl up and go to sleep ... and Pooh, sitting wakeful a little longer on
his chair by our pillow, thinks Grand Thoughts to himself about Nothing,
until he, too, closes his eyes and nods his head, and follows us on tiptoe
into the Forest. There, still, we have magic adventures, more wonderful
than any I have told you about; but now, when we wake up in the morning,
they are gone before we can catch hold of them. How did the last one begin?
"One day when Pooh was walking in the Forest, there were one hundred and
seven cows on a gate ..." No, you see, we have lost it. It was the best, I
think. Well, here are some of the other ones, all that we shall remember
now. But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will
always be there ... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.


A.A.M.






Contents



Chapter One:
In which a house is built at Pooh Corner for
Eeyore

Chapter Two:
In which Tigger comes to the Forest and has
breakfast

Chapter Three:
In which a search is organdized, and Piglet
nearly meets the Heffalump again