--- hell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always laugh thinking about the > story of when Rabbit > and Pooh kidnapped Roo, and Piglet took his place - > Kanga giving him a bath, > and Christopher Robin not recognising him because > he's a different colour, > and renaming him Henry Pootel!
Oh yes! That was verrrrry funny - I still laugh when I read that. > > I guess it's not so surprising, though, given that > the stories were based > around his son's toys. I wouldn't imagine a > six-year-old boy in the 1920's > would have many "female" toys! And that would also > explain the "male" > orientation of the stories. His poems are far more > general. > My favourite is "James James Something-Something-Something-Something Dupree/ Took good care of his mother, though he was only three/ James James said to his mother, "Mother," he said, said he./ "Don't ever go down to the end of the town/ Unless you go with me." And of course, Mother does go out and James James goes all over London on his tricycle looking for her. Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca
