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As soon as Rabbit was out But was quite sure; While Piglet was dreaming But, as it happened, it was Rabbit who saw Piglet of sight, Pooh remembered and his mind ran on, and he this happy dream, and first. Piglet had got up early that morning to pick that he had forgotten to ask saw Pooh and the Pooh was wondering again himself a bunch of violets; and when he had picked who Small was, and talking to each whether it was fourteen or them and put them in a pot in the middle of his house, whether he was the sort of other, and he thought fifteen, the Search for Small it suddenly came over him that nobody had ever friend­and­relation who suddenly, and a little sadly, was still going on all over picked a bunch of violets, and the more he settled on one's nose, or the that it would have been the Forest. Small's real thought of this, the more he thought how sad it was sort who got trodden on by rather nice if it had been name was Very Small to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of mistake, and as it was Too Piglet and the Heffalump Beetle, but he was called violets picked for him. So he hurried out again, Late Now, he thought he talking so grandly to each Small for short, when he saying to himself, "Eeyore, Violets" and then would begin the Hunt by other, and not Pooh, much was spoken to at all, which "Violets, Eeyore," in case he forgot, because it was looking for Piglet, and as he loved Pooh; because hardly ever happened that sort of day, and he picked a large bunch and asking him what they were he really had more brain except when somebody trotted along, smelling them, and feeling very happy, looking for before he than Pooh, and the said: Really, Small! He had until he came to the place where Eeyore was. looked for it. conversation would go been staying with better if he and not Pooh for a were doing one side of it, few seconds, and he had and it would be comforting started round a gorse­bush afterwards in the evenings for exercise, but instead of to look back on the day coming back the other when he answered a way, as expected, he Heffalump back as bravely hadn't, so nobody knew as if the Heffalump wasn't where he was. there. It seemed so easy now. He knew just what he would say:

So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.