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Reading is FUN-duh-Mental 10 - WtP by AAM Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/31/2012
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1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

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Need I say this? . . . the cache is NOT at the coordinates listed. You must solve the puzzle to find the actual coordinates. There is NOTHING at the coordinates listed that will be of any use.

I REPEAT. . . DO NOT GO TO THE COORDINATES LISTED expecting to find a cache or anything that would be considered helpful in solving the puzzle.


to: "Jellowasright, and Xenolith999"
for the Co-FTF !

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Alan Alexander Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin, after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animal collection; most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.
Christopher Robin received a teddy bear on his first birthday, and his attachment to the toy sparked an idea in his father’s head. Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, the original Pooh bear, purchased at Harrod’s and originally named Edward Bear, was renamed "Winnie-the-Pooh" after a Canadian black bear named Winnie (after Winnipeg), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war. "The Pooh" came from the name of a pet swan, of the Milnes’ acquaintance.

Christopher Robin Milne with "Edward Bear" and with "Winnie"

E. H. Shepard illustrated the original Pooh books, using his own son's teddy, "Growler," as the model. Other notable characters created by Milne include the bouncy Tigger and gloomy Eeyore.
Eeyore was a Christmas present to Christopher. The stuffed animal's neck had lost its stiffening over time taking on a morose appearance, which served as inspiration for A A Milne's character.
These are the original toys that Christopher Robin Milne owned -- all but Roo and Piglet. Roo was lost in an apple orchard in the area near Cotchford Farm. Christopher and his Nanny, Olive Rand, searched and searched but could not find Roo. Olive remembered the heartbreak of that search all her life.
Moreover, the original Piglet was not the small Piglet featured here. The original Piglet was much larger (easily as large as Pooh), but had its face bitten off by a dog. In time, it was replaced by a Piglet of more suitable size, if not of appearance.
The original stuffed toys are now kept, behind glass, in the children's section of New York Public Library.
The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were set. Milne lived on the northern edge of the Forest and took his son walking there. E. H. Shepard drew on the landscapes of Ashdown Forest as inspiration for many of the illustrations he provided for the Pooh books. The adult Christopher Robin once commented: "Pooh's Forest and Ashdown Forest are identical". The wooden Pooh Bridge in Ashdown Forest, where Pooh and Piglet invented Poohsticks, is now quite the tourist attraction.

Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928. Milne ended Pooh Corner on quite a firm terminal note. Christopher Robin is growing up. He’s about to leave for boarding school.
“I’m not going to do Nothing any more,” he says.
“Never again?” Pooh asks sadly.
Christopher Robin tells him: “Well, not so much. They don’t let you.”

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Eeyore, the old grey donkey, has lost his tail, again.

He was told once, if his head were not sewn on tightly he would lose that too, but, it is the tail that concerns us now. We will need to visit some of his closest friends and relations to find out if any of them might have seen it or could be of use in locating the lost tail.
Warning: These are not the brightest of their species and we may have to visit some of them more than once and ask the same questions over again, since their memories sometimes change.

We decided to start with with the smartest animal in the hundred acre wood.
We went to see
who rambled on and on, about his aunt who once mistakenly laid a chicken's egg.
Then we visited
who started talking about his own tail and got us completely off the subject.
Next, we went to see
who only squeeked with delight that we were visiting at all, then ran off to find his mother, to ask if he could join in the search.
We decided to return to
but he was still talking, using hard to understand words, like hitherto, and wherefore. He was completely unaware that we had not been there the whole time, as he had been quite determined to make his POINT clear.
We left him, still talking, and soon came across

+ ONE


who, being too timid to have an original thought, suggested that we visit

- TWO


who was preparing a meal for all his other friends and relations and could not be bothered with our quest.
We went on to find

- FIVE


but she grabbed one of us and started giving him a bath. The rest of us left in a hurry.
On our journey, we began to discuss the possibility of accidently coming across a

- ONE


It was decided that, since none of us were very sure if those were very fierce animals, we should be very quiet, so as not to disturb one, by accident.
This conversation upset

- ONE


who squeeked, for the second time that day, but not with delight this time, and ran straight home.
At this POINT, in our journey, we came upon (full name)
but, as always, the clock on the wall indicated it was eleventy something, and that was the time of day when he usually began to feel a "rumbly in his tumbly."
He apoligised, explaining that he would not be able to concentrate properly without a "smackeral of something", and suggested we come back later the same day, when his stomach would be fuller, and his head might not be quite so full of "fluff and stuff."
Just then,
flew up. Having finally realised we were no longer with him, nor listening to any of his stories, and remembered what it was we were looking for. He suggested that, since there was a new animal in the forest, they might have picked up the missing tail, out in the hundred acre woods, and taken it home, mistaking it for a useful decoration. So, we all hurried over to Fortitude Hall to find

- ONE


AND where, much to everyone's surprise, hanging by the entrance door, in place of the doorbell pull, we found the tail of

- FOUR


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After explaining everything to everyone, and twice again, for Pooh, as he was a bear of very little brain, and also, just in case we had left something or someone out the first time; we all finally met up with Christopher Robin, who nailed the tail back where it belonged.

Eeyore was last seen dancing around and braying with delight, happy as could be to have his tail again.

Given the information above, see if you can find "Fortitude Hall", where Eeyore's tail was found.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)