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POOHSTICKS: A GAME BORN AT THE HOUSE OF POOH CORNER

By on April 2, 2009 in AA Milne, Christopher Robin, dorchester, EH Shepard, Pooh Bear, Pooh Sticks, Poohsticks, river thames, Winnie the Pooh

I wondered where Poohsticks came from, so I tracked down a copy of The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne, and there on page 91 we find Pooh inventing the game, by accidentally dropping a fir cone off a bridge. The story develops when Pooh, Rabbit, Roo and Piglet are throwing sticks (easier to [...]

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