Well, I've had a stab at it, but the title remains the best part.
Bleak House at Pooh Corner
Sir Leicester Dedlock buys the Hundred-Acre Wood and decides to evict the residents.
Piglet becomes a ward in Chancery, but refuses to meet his lawyer as he is afraid that a Tulkinghorn may be something like a Heffalump, only fiercer.
Eeyore is forced to go to work as a crossing-sweeper, and complains bitterly of the wear and tear on his tail.
Inspector Bucket, one of the first detectives in English fiction, is called in when one of Pooh’s jars of honey is stolen, but fails to solve the mystery.
Ironically, the solution lies in a heap of papers hoarded by the illiterate Krook, who is bounced by Tigger and dies of spontaneous combustion.
Wol has spelling lessons with a tutor called Baynham Badger, a character thought to have strayed in from another book.
At the end of the novel, we learn that Christopher Robin is Lady Dedlock’s long-lost illegitimate child.
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