Now We Are Six, Page 4

  Breathes, and is dead.

  Slowly and slowly

  Dawns the new day…

  What’s become of John boy?

  No one can say.

  Some think that John boy

  Is lost on the hill;

  Some say he won’t come back,

  Some say he will.

  What’s become of John boy?

  Nothing at all ,

  He played with his skipping rope ,

  He played with his ball .

  He ran after butterflies ,

  Blue ones and red;

  He did a hundred happy things—

  And then went to bed .

  In the Dark

  I’ve had my supper,

  And had my supper,

  And HAD my supper and all;

  I’ve heard the story

  Of Cinderella,

  And how she went to the ball;

  I’ve cleaned my teeth,

  And I’ve said my prayers,

  And I’ve cleaned and said them right;

  And they’ve all of them been

  And kissed me lots,

  They’ve all of them said “Good-night.”

  So—here I am in the dark alone,

  There’s nobody here to see;

  I think to myself,

  I play to myself,

  And nobody knows what I say to myself;

  Here I am in the dark alone,

  What is it going to be?

  I can think whatever I like to think,

  I can play whatever I like to play,

  I can laugh whatever I like to laugh,

  There’s nobody here but me.

  I’m talking to a rabbit…

  I’m talking to the sun…

  I think I am a hundred—

  I’m one.

  I’m lying in a forest…

  I’m lying in a cave…

  I’m talking to a Dragon…

  I’m BRAVE.

  I’m lying on my left side…

  I’m lying on my right…

  I’ll play a lot tomorrow…

  I’ll think a lot tomorrow…

  I’ll laugh…

  a lot…

  tomorrow…

  (Heigh-ho!)

  Good-night.

  The End

  When I was One,

  I had just begun.

  When I was Two,

  I was nearly new.

  When I was Three,

  I was hardly Me.

  When I was Four,

  I was not much more.

  When I was Five,

  I was just alive.

  But now I am Six, I’m as clever as clever.

  So I think I’ll be six now for ever and ever.

  A.A. MILNE (1882–1956) began his writing career as a humorist for Punch magazine, and also wrote plays and poetry. In 1926, he published his first stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, which were an instant success. Since then, Pooh has become a world-famous bear, and Milne’s stories have been translated into fifty languages.

  ERNEST H. SHEPARD (1879–1976) won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools, and later, like Milne, worked for Punch magazine, as a cartoonist and illustrator. Shepard’s witty and loving illustrations of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood have become an inseparable part of the Pooh stories, and they have become classics in their own right.

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