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Now let’s read a poem about two friends.

Wherever I am, there’s always Pooh,

There’s always Pooh and Me.

Whatever I do, he wants to do,

‘Where are you going today?’ says Pooh:

‘Well, that’s very odd ’cos I was too. How will you define

Let’s go together,’ says Pooh, says he. your friendship with Let’s connect
your friend as ‘unique
‘Let’s go together,’ says Pooh. friendship’?

‘What’s twice eleven?’ I said to Pooh.

(‘Twice what?’ said Pooh to Me.)

‘I think it ought to be twenty-two.’

‘Just what I think myself,’ said Pooh.

‘It wasn’t an easy sum to do,

But that’s what it is,’ said Pooh, said he.

‘That’s what it is,’ said Pooh.

‘Let’s look for dragons,’ I said to Pooh.

‘Yes, let’s,’ said Pooh to Me.

We crossed the river and found a few—

‘Yes, those are dragons all right,’ said Pooh.

‘As soon as I saw their beaks I knew.

That’s what they are,’ said Pooh, said he.

‘That’s what they are,’ said Pooh.

odd: unusual
’cos: short for ‘because’

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