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"So should I," said Rabbit.
"Use his front door again?" said Christopher Robin. "Of course he'll use his
front door again. "Good," said Rabbit.
"If we can't pull you out, Pooh, we might push you back."
Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully, and pointed out that, when once Pooh
was pushed back, he was back, and of course nobody was
more glad to see Pooh than he was, still there it was, some lived in trees and
some lived underground, and--
"You mean I'd never get out?" said Pooh.
"I mean," said Rabbit, "that having got so far, it seems a pity to waste it."
Christopher Robin nodded.
"Then there's only one thing to be done," he said. "We shall have to wait for
you to get thin again."
"How long does getting thin take?" asked Pooh anxiously.
"About a week, I should think."
"But I can't stay here for a week!"
"You can stay here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out which is so
difficult."
"We'll read to you," said Rabbit cheerfully. "And I hope it won't snow," he
added. "And I say, old fellow, you're taking up a good deal of room in my
house--do you mind if I use your back legs as a towel-horse? Because, I mean,
there they are--doing nothing--and it would be very convenient just to hang the
towels on them."
"A week!" said Pooh gloomily. "What about meals?"
"I'm afraid no meals," said Christopher Robin, "because of getting thin quicker.
But we will read to you."
Bear began to sigh, and then found he couldn't because he was so tightly stuck;
and a tear rolled down his eye, as he said:
"Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged
Bear in Great Tightness?" So for a week Christopher
Robin read that sort of book at the North end of Pooh, and Rabbit hung his
washing on the South end . . . and in between Bear felt himself getting
slenderer and slenderer. And at the end of the week Christopher Robin said,
"Now!"
So he took hold of Pooh's front paws and Rabbit took hold of Christopher Robin,
and all Rabbit's friends and relations took hold of Rabbit, and they all pulled
together....
And for a long time Pooh only said "Ow!" . . .
And "Oh!" . . .
And then, all of a sudden, he said "Pop!" just as if a cork were coming out of
bottle.
And Christopher Robin and Rabbit and all Rabbit's friends and relations went
head-over-heels backwards . . . and on the top of them came
Winnie-the-Pooh--free!
So, with a nod of thanks to his friends, he went on with his walk through the
forest, humming proudly to himself. But, Christopher Robin looked after him
lovingly, and said to himself, "Silly old Bear!"


Winnie-The-Pooh - Chapter 3