Kanga said to Roo, “Drink up your milk first, dear, and talk afterwards.” So Roo, who was drinking his milk, tried to say that he could do both at once … and had to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwards.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne] Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 10 “Christopher Robin Gives a Pooh Party” (1926)
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Kanga said to Roo, “Drink up your milk first, dear, and talk afterwards.” So Roo, who was drinking his milk, tried to say that he could do both at once … and had to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwards.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
