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    Alan Alexander Miln. The house at Pooh Corner


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                        DEDICATION

                You gave me Christopher Robin, and then
                You breathed new life in Pooh.
                Whatever of each has left my pen
                Goes homing back to you.
                My book is ready, and comes to greet
                The mother it longs to see --
                It would be my present to you, my sweet,
                If it weren't your gift to me.



    Contradiction


    AN Introduction is to  introduce  people,  but  Christopher
Robin and his 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  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.



       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







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Вы можете отправиться в незабываемое путешествие в Америку вместе с героями Майн Рида, познакомиться с прекрасной квартеронкой. Или погрузиться в сказочный и удивительный мир Маркеса. Александер Милн напомнит о детстве и легендарном Вини Пухе и его друзьях. А также в нашей библиотеке у вас есть возможность прочитать эти любимые сказки на английском языке.