Now We Are Six
By A. A. Milne
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A. A. Milne
A.A.Milne was born in London in 1882 and became a highly successful writer of plays, poems and novels. He based Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet and friends on the real nursery toys of his son Christopher Robin and published the first book of their adventures together in 1926. Since then, Pooh has become a world-famous bear, and Milne’s stories have been translated into seventy-two languages.
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Now We Are Six - A. A. Milne
NOW WE ARE SIX
By A. A. MILNE
With decorations by
ERNEST H. SHEPARD
img1.pngNow We Are Six
By A. A. Milne
With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard
Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-8152-0
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
SOLITUDE
KING JOHN’S CHRISTMAS
BUSY
SNEEZLES
BINKER
CHERRY STONES
THE KNIGHT WHOSE ARMOUR DIDN’T SQUEAK
BUTTERCUP DAYS
THE CHARCOAL-BURNER
US TWO
THE OLD SAILOR
THE ENGINEER
JOURNEY’S END
FURRY BEAR
FORGIVEN
THE EMPEROR’S RHYME
KNIGHT-IN-ARMOUR
COME OUT WITH ME
DOWN BY THE POND
THE LITTLE BLACK HEN
THE FRIEND
THE GOOD LITTLE GIRL
A THOUGHT
KING HILARY AND THE BEGGARMAN
SWING SONG
EXPLAINED
TWICE TIMES
THE MORNING WALK
CRADLE SONG
WAITING AT THE WINDOW
PINKLE PURR
WIND ON THE HILL
FORGOTTEN
IN THE DARK
THE END
img2.pngTO
ANNE DARLINGTON
NOW SHE IS SEVEN
AND
BECAUSE SHE IS
SO
SPESHAL
INTRODUCTION
When you are reciting poetry, which is a thing we never do, you find sometimes, just as you are beginning, that Uncle John is still telling Aunt Rose that if he can’t find his spectacles he won’t be able to hear properly, and does she know where they are; and by the time everybody has stopped looking for them, you are at the last verse, and in another minute they will be saying, Thank-you, thank-you,
without really knowing what it was all about. So, next time, you are more careful; and, just before you begin you say, "Er-h’r’m! very loudly, which means,
Now then, here we are"; and everybody stops talking and looks at you: which is what you want. So then you get in the way of saying it whenever you are asked to recite . . . and sometimes it is just as well, and sometimes it isn’t. . . . And by and by you find yourself saying it without thinking. Well, this bit which I am writing now, called Introduction, is really the er’h’r’m of the book, and I have put it in, partly so as not to take you by surprise, and partly because I can’t do without it now. There are some very clever writers who say that it is quite easy not to have an er-h’r’m but I don’t agree with