March 15, 2025 • 11 mins
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In "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree," Pooh hears a buzzing sound and decides it must lead to honey. He tries to climb the tree but falls. Then, he enlists Christopher Robin's help to get a balloon, hoping to float to the honey. However, the bees become suspicious. After a failed attempt at deception with an umbrella and a "Cloud Song," Pooh decides the bees are the wrong sort. Christopher Robin shoots the balloon, and Pooh floats down, but his arms remain raised for a week, possibly leading to his nickname, Pooh.
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In "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree," Pooh hears a buzzing sound and decides it must lead to honey. He tries to climb the tree but falls. Then, he enlists Christopher Robin's help to get a balloon, hoping to float to the honey. However, the bees become suspicious. After a failed attempt at deception with an umbrella and a "Cloud Song," Pooh decides the bees are the wrong sort. Christopher Robin shoots the balloon, and Pooh floats down, but his arms remain raised for a week, possibly leading to his nickname, Pooh.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. Once upon a time,
a very long time ago, now about last Friday, Winnie
the Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under
the name of Sanders. One day, when he was out walking,
he came to an open place in the middle of
the forest. And in the middle of this place was
(00:23):
a large oak tree. And from the top of the
tree there came a loud, buzzing noise. Winnie the Pooh
sat down at the foot of the tree, put his
head between his paws, and began to think. First of all,
he said to himself that buzzing noise means something. You
don't get a buzzing noise like that, just buzzing and
(00:46):
buzzing without its meaning something. If there's a buzzing noise,
somebody's making a buzzing noise. And the only reason for
making a buzzing noise that I know of is because
you're a bee. Then he thought another long time and said,
and the only reason for being a bee that I
know of is making honey. And then he got up
(01:09):
and said, and the only reason for making honey is
so as I can eat it. So he began to
climb the tree. He climbed and climbed, and he climbed,
and as he climbed, he sang a little song to himself.
He went like, this, isn't it funny how a bear
(01:30):
likes honey buzz buzz buzz. I wonder why he does.
Then he climbed a little further, and a little further,
and then just a little further, And by that time
he had thought of another song. It's a very funny
thought that if bears were bees, they'd build their nests
(01:53):
at the bottom of trees, And that being so, if
the bees were bears shouldn't have to climb up all
these stairs. He was getting rather tired by this time,
so that is why he sang a complaining song. He
was nearly there now, and if he just stood on
that branch, crack oh, hell said pooh, as he dropped
(02:20):
ten feet on the branch below him. If only I hadn't,
he said, as he bounced twenty feet on to the
next branch. You'll see what I meant to do, he explained,
as he turned head over heels and crashed on to
another branch thirty feet below. What I meant to do,
(02:41):
of course, it was rather he admitted, as he slithered
very quickly through the next six branches. It all comes,
I suppose, he decided, as he said good bye to
the last branch, spun round three times, and flew gracefully
into the gorse bush. It all comes of liking honey
(03:02):
so much. Oh hell. He crawled out of the gorse bush,
brushed the prickles from his nose, and began to think again.
And the first person he thought of was Christopher Robin.
So Winnie the Pooh went round to his friend Christopher Robin,
who lived behind a green door in another part of
the forest. Good morning, Christopher Robin, he said, Good morning,
(03:28):
Winnie the Pooh, You said, I wonder if you've got
such as a thing as a balloon about you. A balloon, Yes,
I just said to myself, coming along, I wonder if
Christopher Robin has such a thing as a balloon about him.
I just said it to myself, thinking of balloons and
(03:50):
wondering what do you want a balloon for? You, said
Winnie the Pooh looked around to see that nobody was listening.
Puddy's poor to his mouth and said, in a deep whisper, honey,
but you don't get honey with balloons, I do, said Pooh. Well,
(04:12):
it just happened that you had been to a party
the day before at the house of your friend Piglet,
and you had balloons. At the party, you had had
a big green balloon, and one of Rabbit's relations had
had a big blue one and had left it behind,
being really too young to go to a party at all,
And so you had brought the green one and the
blue one home with you. Which one would you like,
(04:35):
you asked Pooh. He put his head between his paws
and thought very carefully. It's like this, he said, when
you go after honey with a balloon. The great thing
is not to let the bees know that you're coming. Now,
if you have a green balloon, they might think you
(04:56):
are only part of the tree and not notice you.
And if you have a blue balloon, they might think
you were only part of the sky and not notice you.
And the question is which is most likely? Wouldn't they
notice you underneath the balloon, you asked. They might or
(05:16):
they might not, said Winnie the Pooh. You never can
tell with bees. He thought for a moment and said,
I shall try to look like a small black cloud.
That will deceive them. Then you had better have the
blue balloon, you said, And so it was decided. Well,
(05:37):
you both went out with the blue balloon, and you
took your gun with you, just in case, as you
always did. And Winnie the Pooh went to a very
muddy place that he knew of, and rolled and rolled
until he was black all over. And then when the
balloon was blown up as big as big, and you
and Pooh were both holding on to the string, you
let go suddenly, and Pooh Bear floated grace fully up
(06:00):
into the sky and stayed there, level with the top
of the tree and about twenty feet away from it. Hooray,
you shouted. Isn't that fine? Shouted Winnie the Pooh down
to you. What do I look like? You look like
a bear holding on to a balloon, you said, Not,
(06:24):
said Pooh anxiously, Not like a small black cloud in
a blue sky. Not very much. Ah well, perhaps from
up here it looks different. And as I say, you
never can tell with bees. There was no wind to
blow him nearer to the tree, so there he stayed.
(06:47):
He could see the honey, he could smell the honey,
but he couldn't quite reach the honey. After a little
while he called down to you, Christopher Robin. He said,
in a loud whisper, Hello, I think the bees suspect something.
(07:07):
What sort of thing, I don't know, but something tells
me they are suspicious. Perhaps they think that you're after
their honey. It may be that you never can tell
with bees. Then there was another little silence, and then
he called down to you again, Christopher Robin. Yes, have
(07:34):
you an umbrella at your house? I think so. I
wish you would bring it out here and walk up
and down with it and look up at me every
now and then and say tut tut. It looks like rain.
I think if you did that, it would help the
deception which we are practicing on these bees. Well, you
(07:59):
laugh to yourself, silly old bear, but you didn't say
it aloud because you were so fond of him, and
you went home for your umbrella. Oh there you are,
called down, Winnie the Pooh. As soon as you got
back to the tree. I was beginning to get anxious.
I have discovered that the bees are now definitely suspicious.
(08:22):
Shall I put my umbrella up? You said, yes, But
wait a moment. We must be practical. The important bee
to deceive is the queen bee? Can you see which
is the queen bee? From down there? No? Oh, a pity. Well, now,
(08:43):
if you walk up and down with your umbrella saying
tut tut, it looks like rain. I shall do what
I can by singing a little cloud song, such as
a cloud song might sing. Go so while you walked
up and down, wondered if it would rain. Winnie the
Pooh sang this song, how sweet to be a cloud
(09:06):
floating in the blue. Every little cloud always sings aloud,
How sweet to be a cloud floating in the blue.
It makes him very proud to be a little cloud.
The bees were still buzzing as suspiciously as ever. Some
of them indeed left their nest and flew all round
(09:26):
the cloud as it began the second verse of this song,
and one bee sat down on the nose of the
cloud for a moment, and then got up again. Christopher
oh Robin called out the cloud. Yes, I have just
been thinking, and I have come to a very important decision.
(09:47):
These are the wrong sort of bees? Are they quite
the wrong sort? So I should think they would make
the wrong sort of honey, shouldn't they? Would they? Yes?
So I think I shall come down, how you asked.
Winnie the Pooh hadn't thought about this. If he let
(10:10):
go of the string, he would fall bump and he
didn't like the idea of that, so he thought for
a long time, and then he said, Christopher Robin, you
must shoot the balloon with your gun. Have you got
your gun? Of course I have, you said. But if
I do that, it will spoil the balloon, you said.
(10:33):
But if you don't, said Pooh, I shall have to
let go, and that would spoil me. When he put
it like this, you saw how it was, and you
aimed very carefully at the balloon and fired, Ah, said Pooh,
did I miss? You asked. You didn't exactly miss, said Pooh,
(10:57):
But you missed the balloon. I'm so sorry, you said.
And you fired again, and this time you hit the
balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie the
Pooh floated down to the ground. But his arms were
so stiff from holding on to the string of the
balloon all that time that they stayed up straight in
(11:18):
the air for more than a week, and whenever a
fly came and settled on his nose, he had to
blow it off. And I think, but I'm not sure
that that is why he was always called Pooh
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. Once upon a time,
a very long time ago, now about last Friday, Winnie
the Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under
the name of Sanders. One day, when he was out walking,
he came to an open place in the middle of
the forest. And in the middle of this place was
(00:23):
a large oak tree. And from the top of the
tree there came a loud, buzzing noise. Winnie the Pooh
sat down at the foot of the tree, put his
head between his paws, and began to think. First of all,
he said to himself that buzzing noise means something. You
don't get a buzzing noise like that, just buzzing and
(00:46):
buzzing without its meaning something. If there's a buzzing noise,
somebody's making a buzzing noise. And the only reason for
making a buzzing noise that I know of is because
you're a bee. Then he thought another long time and said,
and the only reason for being a bee that I
know of is making honey. And then he got up
(01:09):
and said, and the only reason for making honey is
so as I can eat it. So he began to
climb the tree. He climbed and climbed, and he climbed,
and as he climbed, he sang a little song to himself.
He went like, this, isn't it funny how a bear
(01:30):
likes honey buzz buzz buzz. I wonder why he does.
Then he climbed a little further, and a little further,
and then just a little further, And by that time
he had thought of another song. It's a very funny
thought that if bears were bees, they'd build their nests
(01:53):
at the bottom of trees, And that being so, if
the bees were bears shouldn't have to climb up all
these stairs. He was getting rather tired by this time,
so that is why he sang a complaining song. He
was nearly there now, and if he just stood on
that branch, crack oh, hell said pooh, as he dropped
(02:20):
ten feet on the branch below him. If only I hadn't,
he said, as he bounced twenty feet on to the
next branch. You'll see what I meant to do, he explained,
as he turned head over heels and crashed on to
another branch thirty feet below. What I meant to do,
(02:41):
of course, it was rather he admitted, as he slithered
very quickly through the next six branches. It all comes,
I suppose, he decided, as he said good bye to
the last branch, spun round three times, and flew gracefully
into the gorse bush. It all comes of liking honey
(03:02):
so much. Oh hell. He crawled out of the gorse bush,
brushed the prickles from his nose, and began to think again.
And the first person he thought of was Christopher Robin.
So Winnie the Pooh went round to his friend Christopher Robin,
who lived behind a green door in another part of
the forest. Good morning, Christopher Robin, he said, Good morning,
(03:28):
Winnie the Pooh, You said, I wonder if you've got
such as a thing as a balloon about you. A balloon, Yes,
I just said to myself, coming along, I wonder if
Christopher Robin has such a thing as a balloon about him.
I just said it to myself, thinking of balloons and
(03:50):
wondering what do you want a balloon for? You, said
Winnie the Pooh looked around to see that nobody was listening.
Puddy's poor to his mouth and said, in a deep whisper, honey,
but you don't get honey with balloons, I do, said Pooh. Well,
(04:12):
it just happened that you had been to a party
the day before at the house of your friend Piglet,
and you had balloons. At the party, you had had
a big green balloon, and one of Rabbit's relations had
had a big blue one and had left it behind,
being really too young to go to a party at all,
And so you had brought the green one and the
blue one home with you. Which one would you like,
(04:35):
you asked Pooh. He put his head between his paws
and thought very carefully. It's like this, he said, when
you go after honey with a balloon. The great thing
is not to let the bees know that you're coming. Now,
if you have a green balloon, they might think you
(04:56):
are only part of the tree and not notice you.
And if you have a blue balloon, they might think
you were only part of the sky and not notice you.
And the question is which is most likely? Wouldn't they
notice you underneath the balloon, you asked. They might or
(05:16):
they might not, said Winnie the Pooh. You never can
tell with bees. He thought for a moment and said,
I shall try to look like a small black cloud.
That will deceive them. Then you had better have the
blue balloon, you said, And so it was decided. Well,
(05:37):
you both went out with the blue balloon, and you
took your gun with you, just in case, as you
always did. And Winnie the Pooh went to a very
muddy place that he knew of, and rolled and rolled
until he was black all over. And then when the
balloon was blown up as big as big, and you
and Pooh were both holding on to the string, you
let go suddenly, and Pooh Bear floated grace fully up
(06:00):
into the sky and stayed there, level with the top
of the tree and about twenty feet away from it. Hooray,
you shouted. Isn't that fine? Shouted Winnie the Pooh down
to you. What do I look like? You look like
a bear holding on to a balloon, you said, Not,
(06:24):
said Pooh anxiously, Not like a small black cloud in
a blue sky. Not very much. Ah well, perhaps from
up here it looks different. And as I say, you
never can tell with bees. There was no wind to
blow him nearer to the tree, so there he stayed.
(06:47):
He could see the honey, he could smell the honey,
but he couldn't quite reach the honey. After a little
while he called down to you, Christopher Robin. He said,
in a loud whisper, Hello, I think the bees suspect something.
(07:07):
What sort of thing, I don't know, but something tells
me they are suspicious. Perhaps they think that you're after
their honey. It may be that you never can tell
with bees. Then there was another little silence, and then
he called down to you again, Christopher Robin. Yes, have
(07:34):
you an umbrella at your house? I think so. I
wish you would bring it out here and walk up
and down with it and look up at me every
now and then and say tut tut. It looks like rain.
I think if you did that, it would help the
deception which we are practicing on these bees. Well, you
(07:59):
laugh to yourself, silly old bear, but you didn't say
it aloud because you were so fond of him, and
you went home for your umbrella. Oh there you are,
called down, Winnie the Pooh. As soon as you got
back to the tree. I was beginning to get anxious.
I have discovered that the bees are now definitely suspicious.
(08:22):
Shall I put my umbrella up? You said, yes, But
wait a moment. We must be practical. The important bee
to deceive is the queen bee? Can you see which
is the queen bee? From down there? No? Oh, a pity. Well, now,
(08:43):
if you walk up and down with your umbrella saying
tut tut, it looks like rain. I shall do what
I can by singing a little cloud song, such as
a cloud song might sing. Go so while you walked
up and down, wondered if it would rain. Winnie the
Pooh sang this song, how sweet to be a cloud
(09:06):
floating in the blue. Every little cloud always sings aloud,
How sweet to be a cloud floating in the blue.
It makes him very proud to be a little cloud.
The bees were still buzzing as suspiciously as ever. Some
of them indeed left their nest and flew all round
(09:26):
the cloud as it began the second verse of this song,
and one bee sat down on the nose of the
cloud for a moment, and then got up again. Christopher
oh Robin called out the cloud. Yes, I have just
been thinking, and I have come to a very important decision.
(09:47):
These are the wrong sort of bees? Are they quite
the wrong sort? So I should think they would make
the wrong sort of honey, shouldn't they? Would they? Yes?
So I think I shall come down, how you asked.
Winnie the Pooh hadn't thought about this. If he let
(10:10):
go of the string, he would fall bump and he
didn't like the idea of that, so he thought for
a long time, and then he said, Christopher Robin, you
must shoot the balloon with your gun. Have you got
your gun? Of course I have, you said. But if
I do that, it will spoil the balloon, you said.
(10:33):
But if you don't, said Pooh, I shall have to
let go, and that would spoil me. When he put
it like this, you saw how it was, and you
aimed very carefully at the balloon and fired, Ah, said Pooh,
did I miss? You asked. You didn't exactly miss, said Pooh,
(10:57):
But you missed the balloon. I'm so sorry, you said.
And you fired again, and this time you hit the
balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie the
Pooh floated down to the ground. But his arms were
so stiff from holding on to the string of the
balloon all that time that they stayed up straight in
(11:18):
the air for more than a week, and whenever a
fly came and settled on his nose, he had to
blow it off. And I think, but I'm not sure
that that is why he was always called Pooh
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