NOW WE ARE SIX
BY A.A. MILNE WITH
DECORATIONS BY ERNEST H. SHEPARD
NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC.
NOW WE ARE SIX, COPYRIGHT, 1927,
BY E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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TO
ANNE DARLINGTON
NOW SHE IS SEVEN
AND
BECAUSE SHE IS
SO
SPESHAL
NOW WE ARE SIX
INTRODUCTION
When you are reciting poetry, which is a thing we never do, you findsometimes, just as you are beginning, that Uncle John is still tellingAunt Rose that if he can't find his spectacles he won't be able to hearproperly, and does she know where they are; and by the time everybodyhas stopped looking for them, you are at the last verse, and in anotherminute they will be saying, "Thank-you, thank-you," without reallyknowing what it was all about. So, next time, you are more careful;and, just before you begin you say, "Er-h'r'm!" very loudly,which means, "Now then, here we are"; and everybody stops talking andlooks at you: which is what you want. So then you get in the way ofsaying it whenever you are asked to recite ... and sometimes it is justas well, and sometimes it isn't..