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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Winnie-the-Pooh - -Author: A. A. Milne - -Illustrator: Ernest H. Shepard - -Release Date: January 3, 2022 [eBook #67098] -[Most recently updated: December 28, 2022] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan, Iona Vaughan, David T. Jones and the - online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at - http://www.pgdpcanada.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WINNIE-THE-POOH *** - - - - - - WINNIE-THE-POOH - - _BY A. A. MILNE_ - - - - - _JUVENILES_ - - When We Were Very Young - - "_The best book of verses for children_ _ever written._"--A. EDWARD - NEWTON in _The Atlantic Monthly_. - - Fourteen Songs from When We Were Very Young - - Words by A. A. Milne. Music by H. Fraser-Simson. Decorations by - E. H. Shepard. - - The King's Breakfast - - Words by A. A. Milne. Music by H. Fraser-Simson. Decorations by - E. H. Shepard - - - _ESSAYS_ - - Not That It Matters - The Sunny Side - If I May - - - _MYSTERY STORY_ - - The Red House Mystery - - - - - WINNIE-THE-POOH - BY A. A. MILNE - - McCLELLAND & STEWART, LTD. - - PUBLISHERS - - TORONTO - - - - - Copyright, Canada, 1926 - By McClelland & Stewart, Limited - Publishers, Toronto - - First Printing, October, 1926 - Second " July, 1927 - Third " December, 1928 - Fourth " December, 1929 - Fifth " March, 1931 - - Printed in Canada - - - - - TO HER - - HAND IN HAND WE COME - CHRISTOPHER ROBIN AND I - TO LAY THIS BOOK IN YOUR LAP. - SAY YOU'RE SURPRISED? - SAY YOU LIKE IT? - SAY IT'S JUST WHAT YOU WANTED? - BECAUSE IT'S YOURS---- - BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU. - - - - - INTRODUCTION - -If you happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may -remember that he once had a swan (or the swan had Christopher Robin, I -don't know which) and that he used to call this swan Pooh. That was a -long time ago, and when we said good-bye, we took the name with us, as -we didn't think the swan would want it any more. Well, when Edward Bear -said that he would like an exciting name all to himself, Christopher -Robin said at once, without stopping to think, that he was -Winnie-the-Pooh. And he was. So, as I have explained the Pooh part, I -will now explain the rest of it. - -You can't be in London for long without going to the Zoo. There are some -people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as -quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called -WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the -most, and stay there. So when Christopher Robin goes to the Zoo, he goes -to where the Polar Bears are, and he whispers something to the third -keeper from the left, and doors are unlocked, and we wander through dark -passages and up steep stairs, until at last we come to the special cage, -and the cage is opened, and out trots something brown and furry, and -with a happy cry of "Oh, Bear!" Christopher Robin rushes into its arms. -Now this bear's name is Winnie, which shows what a good name for bears -it is, but the funny thing is that we can't remember whether Winnie is -called after Pooh, or Pooh after Winnie. We did know once, but we have -forgotten.... - -I had written as far as this when Piglet looked up and said in his -squeaky voice, "What about _Me_?" "My dear Piglet," I said, "the whole -book is about you." "So it is about Pooh," he squeaked. You see what it -is. He is jealous because he thinks Pooh is having a Grand Introduction -all to himself. Pooh is the favourite, of course, there's no denying it, -but Piglet comes in for a good many things which Pooh misses; because -you can't take Pooh to school without everybody knowing it, but Piglet -is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comforting to -feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or -twenty-two. Sometimes he slips out and has a good look in the ink-pot, -and in this way he has got more education than Pooh, but Pooh doesn't -mind. Some have brains, and some haven't, he says, and there it is. - -And now all the others are saying, "What about _Us_?" So perhaps the -best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the -book. - - A. A. M. - - - - - CONTENTS - - - I. IN WHICH WE ARE INTRODUCED TO WINNIE-THE-POOH AND SOME - BEES, AND THE STORIES BEGIN - - II. IN WHICH POOH GOES VISITING AND GETS INTO A TIGHT PLACE - - III. IN WHICH POOH AND PIGLET GO HUNTING AND NEARLY CATCH A - WOOZLE - - IV. IN WHICH EEYORE LOSES A TAIL AND POOH FINDS ONE - - V. IN WHICH PIGLET MEETS A HEFFALUMP - - VI. IN WHICH EEYORE HAS A BIRTHDAY AND GETS TWO PRESENTS - - VII. IN WHICH KANGA AND BABY ROO COME TO THE FOREST, AND - PIGLET HAS A BATH - - VIII. IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN LEADS AN EXPOTITION TO THE - NORTH POLE - - IX. IN WHICH PIGLET IS ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY WATER - - X. IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN GIVES A POOH PARTY, AND WE SAY - GOOD-BYE - - - - - WINNIE-THE-POOH - - - - - CHAPTER I - - IN WHICH WE ARE INTRODUCED TO - WINNIE-THE-POOH AND SOME BEES, - AND THE STORIES BEGIN - - -Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the -back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, -the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there -really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and -think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't. Anyhow, here he -is at the bottom, and ready to be introduced to you. Winnie-the-Pooh. - -When I first heard his name, I said, just as you are going to say, "But -I thought he was a boy?" - -"So did I," said Christopher Robin. - -"Then you can't call him Winnie?" - -"I don't." - -"But you said----" - -"He's Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don't you know what '_ther_' means?" - -"Ah, yes, now I do," I said quickly; and I hope you do too, because it -is all the explanation you are going to get. - -Sometimes Winnie-the-Pooh likes a game of some sort when he comes -downstairs, and sometimes he likes to sit quietly in front of the fire -and listen to a story. This evening---- - -"What about a story?" said Christopher Robin. - -"_What_ about a story?" I said. - -"Could you very sweetly tell Winnie-the-Pooh one?" - -"I suppose I could," I said. "What sort of stories does he like?" - -"About himself. Because he's _that_ sort of Bear." - -"Oh, I see." - -"So could you very sweetly?" - -"I'll try," I said. - -So I tried. - - * * * * * - -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. - -(_"What does 'under the name' mean?" asked Christopher Robin._ - -"_It means he had the name over the door in gold letters, and lived -under it._" - -_"Winnie-the-Pooh wasn't quite sure," said Christopher Robin._ - -_"Now I am," said a growly voice._ - -_"Then I will go on," said I._) - -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 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 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, 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 he climbed and he climbed, and as he climbed he sang a -little song to himself. It went like this: - - Isn't it funny - How a bear 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. 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 at the _bottom_ of trees. - And that being so (if the Bees were Bears), - We 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, help!" said Pooh, as he dropped 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 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----" - -"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 a gorse-bush, -"it all comes of _liking_ honey so much. Oh, help!" - -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. - -(_"Was that me?" said Christopher Robin in an awed voice, hardly daring -to believe it._ - -"_That was you._" - -_Christopher Robin said nothing, but his eyes got larger and larger, and -his face got pinker and pinker._) - -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, Winnie-_ther_-Pooh," said you. - -"I wonder if you've got such 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 wondering." - -"What do you want a balloon for?" you said. - -Winnie-the-Pooh looked round to see that nobody was listening, put his -paw to his mouth, and said in a deep whisper: "_Honey!_" - -"But you don't get honey with balloons!" - -"_I_ do," said Pooh. - -Well, 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?" 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 you're coming. Now, if you have -a green balloon, they might think you were 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 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, 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 gracefully up 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," 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. 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. - -"Hallo!" - -"I think the bees _suspect_ something!" - -"What sort of thing?" - -"I don't know. But something tells me that they're _suspicious_!" - -"Perhaps they think that you're after their honey." - -"It may be that. You never can tell with bees." - -There was another little silence, and then he called down to you again. - -"Christopher Robin!" - -"Yes?" - -"Have you an umbrella in 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 -practising on these bees." - -Well, you laughed 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." - -"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." - -"A pity. Well, now, 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 might sing.... Go!" - -So, while you walked up and down and wondered if it would rain, -Winnie-the-Pooh sang this song: - - How sweet to be a Cloud - 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 nests and flew all round 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--_ow!_--Robin," called out the cloud. - -"Yes?" - -"I have just been thinking, and I have come to a very important -decision. _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 you?" - -"Would they?" - -"Yes. So I think I shall come down." - -"How?" asked you. - -Winnie-the-Pooh hadn't thought about this. If he let 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. - -"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. - -"_Ow!_" said Pooh. - -"Did I miss?" you asked. - -"You didn't exactly _miss_," said Pooh, "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 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 am not sure--that _that_ is why he was always -called Pooh. - - * * * * * - -"Is that the end of the story?" asked Christopher Robin. - -"That's the end of that one. There are others." - -"About Pooh and Me?" - -"And Piglet and Rabbit and all of you. Don't you remember?" - -"I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget." - -"That day when Pooh and Piglet tried to catch the Heffalump----" - -"They didn't catch it, did they?" - -"No." - -"Pooh couldn't, because he hasn't any brain. Did _I_ catch it?" - -"Well, that comes into the story." - -Christopher Robin nodded. - -"I do remember," he said, "only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he -likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and -not just a remembering." - -"That's just how _I_ feel," I said. - -Christopher Robin gave a deep sigh, picked his Bear up by the leg, and -walked off to the door, trailing Pooh behind him. At the door he turned -and said, "Coming to see me have my bath?" - -"I might," I said. - -"I didn't hurt him when I shot him, did I?" - -"Not a bit." - -He nodded and went out, and in a moment I heard Winnie-the-Pooh--_bump, -bump, bump_--going up the stairs behind him. - - - - - CHAPTER II - - IN WHICH POOH GOES VISITING AND - GETS INTO A TIGHT PLACE - - -Edward Bear, known to his friends as Winnie-the-Pooh, or Pooh for -short, was walking through the forest one day, humming proudly to -himself. He had made up a little hum that very morning, as he was doing -his Stoutness Exercises in front of the glass: _Tra-la-la, tra-la-la_, -as he stretched up as high as he could go, and then _Tra-la-la, -tra-la--oh, help!--la_, as he tried to reach his toes. After breakfast -he had said it over and over to himself until he had learnt it off by -heart, and now he was humming it right through, properly. It went like -this: - - _Tra-la-la, tra-la-la,_ - _Tra-la-la, tra-la-la,_ - _Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum._ - _Tiddle-iddle, tiddle-iddle,_ - _Tiddle-iddle, tiddle-iddle,_ - _Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um._ - -Well, he was humming this hum to himself, and walking along gaily, -wondering what everybody else was doing, and what it felt like, being -somebody else, when suddenly he came to a sandy bank, and in the bank -was a large hole. - -"Aha!" said Pooh. (_Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum._) "If I know anything about -anything, that hole means Rabbit," he said, "and Rabbit means Company," -he said, "and Company means Food and Listening-to-Me-Humming and such -like. _Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um._" - -So he bent down, put his head into the hole, and called out: - -"Is anybody at home?" - -There was a sudden scuffling noise from inside the hole, and then -silence. - -"What I said was, 'Is anybody at home?'" called out Pooh very loudly. - -"No!" said a voice; and then added, "You needn't shout so loud. I heard -you quite well the first time." - -"Bother!" said Pooh. "Isn't there anybody here at all?" - -"Nobody." - -Winnie-the-Pooh took his head out of the hole, and thought for a little, -and he thought to himself, "There must be somebody there, because -somebody must have _said_ 'Nobody.'" So he put his head back in the -hole, and said: - -"Hallo, Rabbit, isn't that you?" - -"No," said Rabbit, in a different sort of voice this time. - -"But isn't that Rabbit's voice?" - -"I don't _think_ so," said Rabbit. "It isn't _meant_ to be." - -"Oh!" said Pooh. - -He took his head out of the hole, and had another think, and then he put -it back, and said: - -"Well, could you very kindly tell me where Rabbit is?" - -"He has gone to see his friend Pooh Bear, who is a great friend of his." - -"But this _is_ Me!" said Bear, very much surprised. - -"What sort of Me?" - -"Pooh Bear." - -"Are you sure?" said Rabbit, still more surprised. - -"Quite, quite sure," said Pooh. - -"Oh, well, then, come in." - -So Pooh pushed and pushed and pushed his way through the hole, and at -last he got in. - -"You were quite right," said Rabbit, looking at him all over. "It _is_ -you. Glad to see you." - -"Who did you think it was?" - -"Well, I wasn't sure. You know how it is in the Forest. One can't have -_anybody_ coming into one's house. One has to be _careful_. What about a -mouthful of something?" - -Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, -and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and -when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so -excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he -added, "But don't bother about the bread, please." And for a long time -after that he said nothing ... until at last, humming to himself in a -rather sticky voice, he got up, shook Rabbit lovingly by the paw, and -said that he must be going on. - -"Must you?" said Rabbit politely. - -"Well," said Pooh, "I could stay a little longer if it--if you----" and -he tried very hard to look in the direction of the larder. - -"As a matter of fact," said Rabbit, "I was going out myself directly." - -"Oh, well, then, I'll be going on. Good-bye." - -"Well, good-bye, if you're sure you won't have any more." - -"_Is_ there any more?" asked Pooh quickly. - -Rabbit took the covers off the dishes, and said, "No, there wasn't." - -"I thought not," said Pooh, nodding to himself. "Well, good-bye. I must -be going on." - -So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, -and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was out in -the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... -and then his shoulders ... and then---- - -"Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back." - -"Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on." - -"I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help _and_ bother!" - -Now by this time Rabbit wanted to go for a walk too, and finding the -front door full, he went out by the back door, and came round to Pooh, -and looked at him. - -"Hallo, are you stuck?" he asked. - -"N-no," said Pooh carelessly. "Just resting and thinking and humming to -myself." - -"Here, give us a paw." - -Pooh Bear stretched out a paw, and Rabbit pulled and pulled and -pulled.... - -"_Ow!_" cried Pooh. "You're hurting!" - -"The fact is," said Rabbit, "you're stuck." - -"It all comes," said Pooh crossly, "of not having front doors big -enough." - -"It all comes," said Rabbit sternly, "of eating too much. I thought at -the time," said Rabbit, "only I didn't like to say anything," said -Rabbit, "that one of us was eating too much," said Rabbit, "and I knew -it wasn't _me_," he said. "Well, well, I shall go and fetch Christopher -Robin." - -Christopher Robin lived at the other end of the Forest, and when he came -back with Rabbit, and saw the front half of Pooh, he said, "Silly old -Bear," in such a loving voice that everybody felt quite hopeful again. - -"I was just beginning to think," said Bear, sniffing slightly, "that -Rabbit might never be able to use his front door again. And I should -_hate_ that," he said. - -"So should I," said Rabbit. - -"Use his front door again?" said Christopher Robin. "Of course he'll use -his front door again." - -"Good," said Rabbit. - -"If we can't pull you out, Pooh, we might push you back." - -Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully, and pointed out that, when -once Pooh was pushed back, he was back, and of course nobody was more -glad to see Pooh than _he_ was, still there it was, some lived in trees -and some lived underground, and---- - -"You mean I'd _never_ get out?" said Pooh. - -"I mean," said Rabbit, "that having got _so_ far, it seems a pity to -waste it." - -Christopher Robin nodded. - -"Then there's only one thing to be done," he said. "We shall have to -wait for you to get thin again." - -"How long does getting thin take?" asked Pooh anxiously. - -"About a week, I should think." - -"But I can't stay here for a _week_!" - -"You can _stay_ here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out -which is so difficult." - -"We'll read to you," said Rabbit cheerfully. "And I hope it won't snow," -he added. "And I say, old fellow, you're taking up a good deal of room -in my house--_do_ you mind if I use your back legs as a towel-horse? -Because, I mean, there they are--doing nothing--and it would be very -convenient just to hang the towels on them." - -"A week!" said Pooh gloomily. "_What about meals?_" - -"I'm afraid no meals," said Christopher Robin, "because of getting thin -quicker. But we _will_ read to you." - -Bear began to sigh, and then found he couldn't because he was so tightly -stuck; and a tear rolled down his eye, as he said: - -"Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a -Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?" - -So for a week Christopher Robin read that sort of book at the North end -of Pooh, and Rabbit hung his washing on the South end ... and in -between Bear felt himself getting slenderer and slenderer. And at the -end of the week Christopher Robin said, "_Now!_" - -So he took hold of Pooh's front paws and Rabbit took hold of Christopher -Robin, and all Rabbit's friends and relations took hold of Rabbit, and -they all pulled together.... - -And for a long time Pooh only said "_Ow!_" ... - -And "_Oh!_" ... - -And then, all of a sudden, he said "_Pop!_" just as if a cork were -coming out of a bottle. - -And Christopher Robin and Rabbit and all Rabbit's friends and relations -went head-over-heels backwards ... and on the top of them came -Winnie-the-Pooh--free! - -So, with a nod of thanks to his friends, he went on with his walk -through the forest, humming proudly to himself. But, Christopher Robin -looked after him lovingly, and said to himself, "Silly old Bear!" - - - - - CHAPTER III - - IN WHICH POOH AND PIGLET GO HUNTING - AND NEARLY CATCH A WOOZLE - - -The Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, -and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the Piglet lived -in the middle of the house. Next to his house was a piece of broken -board which had: "TRESPASSERS W" on it. When Christopher Robin asked the -Piglet what it meant, he said it was his grandfather's name, and had -been in the family for a long time, Christopher Robin said you -_couldn't_ be called Trespassers W, and Piglet said yes, you could, -because his grandfather was, and it was short for Trespassers Will, -which was short for Trespassers William. And his grandfather had had two -names in case he lost one--Trespassers after an uncle, and William after -Trespassers. - -"I've got two names," said Christopher Robin carelessly. - -"Well, there you are, that proves it," said Piglet. - -One fine winter's day when Piglet was brushing away the snow in front of -his house, he happened to look up, and there was Winnie-the-Pooh. Pooh -was walking round and round in a circle, thinking of something else, and -when Piglet called to him, he just went on walking. - -"Hallo!" said Piglet, "what are _you_ doing?" - -"Hunting," said Pooh. - -"Hunting what?" - -"Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously. - -"Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer. - -"That's just what I ask myself. I ask myself, What?" - -"What do you think you'll answer?" - -"I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh. -"Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do -you see there?" - -"Tracks," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of -excitement. "Oh, Pooh! Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?" - -"It may be," said Pooh. "Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. You -never can tell with paw-marks." - -With these few words he went on tracking, and Piglet, after watching him -for a minute or two, ran after him. Winnie-the-Pooh had come to a sudden -stop, and was bending over the tracks in a puzzled sort of way. - -"What's the matter?" asked Piglet. - -"It's a very funny thing," said Bear, "but there seem to be -_two_ animals now. This--whatever-it-was--has been joined by -another--whatever-it-is--and the two of them are now proceeding -in company. Would you mind coming with me, Piglet, in case they -turn out to be Hostile Animals?" - -Piglet scratched his ear in a nice sort of way, and said that he had -nothing to do until Friday, and would be delighted to come, in case it -really _was_ a Woozle. - -"You mean, in case it really is two Woozles," said Winnie-the-Pooh, and -Piglet said that anyhow he had nothing to do until Friday. So off they -went together. - -There was a small spinney of larch trees just here, and it seemed as if -the two Woozles, if that is what they were, had been going round this -spinney; so round this spinney went Pooh and Piglet after them; Piglet -passing the time by telling Pooh what his Grandfather Trespassers W had -done to Remove Stiffness after Tracking, and how his Grandfather -Trespassers W had suffered in his later years from Shortness of Breath, -and other matters of interest, and Pooh wondering what a Grandfather was -like, and if perhaps this was Two Grandfathers they were after now, and, -if so, whether he would be allowed to take one home and keep it, and -what Christopher Robin would say. And still the tracks went on in front -of them.... - -Suddenly Winnie-the-Pooh stopped, and pointed excitedly in front of him. -"_Look!_" - -"_What?_" said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he hadn't -been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an -exercising sort of way. - -"The tracks!" said Pooh. "_A third animal has joined the other two!_" - -"Pooh!" cried Piglet. "Do you think it is another Woozle?" - -"No," said Pooh, "because it makes different marks. It is either Two -Woozles and one, as it might be, Wizzle, or Two, as it might be, Wizzles -and one, if so it is, Woozle. Let us continue to follow them." - -So they went on, feeling just a little anxious now, in case the three -animals in front of them were of Hostile Intent. And Piglet wished very -much that his Grandfather T. W. were there, instead of elsewhere, and -Pooh thought how nice it would be if they met Christopher Robin suddenly -but quite accidentally, and only because he liked Christopher Robin so -much. And then, all of a sudden, Winnie-the-Pooh stopped again, and -licked the tip of his nose in a cooling manner, for he was feeling more -hot and anxious than ever in his life before. _There were four animals -in front of them!_ - -"Do you see, Piglet? Look at their tracks! Three, as it were, Woozles, -and one, as it was, Wizzle. _Another Woozle has joined them!_" - -And so it seemed to be. There were the tracks; crossing over each other -here, getting muddled up with each other there; but, quite plainly every -now and then, the tracks of four sets of paws. - -"I _think_," said Piglet, when he had licked the tip of his nose too, -and found that it brought very little comfort, "I _think_ that I have -just remembered something. I have just remembered something that I -forgot to do yesterday and shan't be able to do to-morrow. So I suppose -I really ought to go back and do it now." - -"We'll do it this afternoon, and I'll come with you," said Pooh. - -"It isn't the sort of thing you can do in the afternoon," said Piglet -quickly. "It's a very particular morning thing, that has to be done in -the morning, and, if possible, between the hours of----What would you -say the time was?" - -"About twelve," said Winnie-the-Pooh, looking at the sun. - -"Between, as I was saying, the hours of twelve and twelve five. So, -really, dear old Pooh, if you'll excuse me----_What's that?_" - -Pooh looked up at the sky, and then, as he heard the whistle again, he -looked up into the branches of a big oak-tree, and then he saw a friend -of his. - -"It's Christopher Robin," he said. - -"Ah, then you'll be all right," said Piglet. "You'll be quite safe with -_him_. Good-bye," and he trotted off home as quickly as he could, very -glad to be Out of All Danger again. - -Christopher Robin came slowly down his tree. - -"Silly old Bear," he said, "what _were_ you doing? First you went round -the spinney twice by yourself, and then Piglet ran after you and you -went round again together, and then you were just going round a fourth -time----" - -"Wait a moment," said Winnie-the-Pooh, holding up his paw. - -He sat down and thought, in the most thoughtful way he could think. Then -he fitted his paw into one of the Tracks ... and then he scratched his -nose twice, and stood up. - -"Yes," said Winnie-the-Pooh. - -"I see now," said Winnie-the-Pooh. - -"I have been Foolish and Deluded," said he, "and I am a Bear of No Brain -at All." - -"You're the Best Bear in All the World," said Christopher Robin -soothingly. - -"Am I?" said Pooh hopefully. And then he brightened up suddenly. - -"Anyhow," he said, "it is nearly Luncheon Time." - -So he went home for it. - - - - - CHAPTER IV - - IN WHICH EEYORE LOSES A TAIL - AND POOH FINDS ONE - - -The Old Grey Donkey, Eeyore, stood by himself in a thistly corner of -the forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought -about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and -sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch -as which?"--and sometimes he didn't quite know what he _was_ thinking -about. So when Winnie-the-Pooh came stumping along, Eeyore was very glad -to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to say "How do you -do?" in a gloomy manner to him. - -"And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh. - -Eeyore shook his head from side to side. - -"Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a -long time." - -"Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at -you." - -So Eeyore stood there, gazing sadly at the ground, and Winnie-the-Pooh -walked all round him once. - -"Why, what's happened to your tail?" he said in surprise. - -"What _has_ happened to it?" said Eeyore. - -"It isn't there!" - -"Are you sure?" - -"Well, either a tail _is_ there or it isn't there. You can't make a -mistake about it. And yours _isn't_ there!" - -"Then what is?" - -"Nothing." - -"Let's have a look," said Eeyore, and he turned slowly round to the -place where his tail had been a little while ago, and then, finding that -he couldn't catch it up, he turned round the other way, until he came -back to where he was at first, and then he put his head down and looked -between his front legs, and at last he said, with a long, sad sigh, "I -believe you're right." - -"Of course I'm right," said Pooh. - -"That Accounts for a Good Deal," said Eeyore gloomily. "It Explains -Everything. No Wonder." - -"You must have left it somewhere," said Winnie-the-Pooh. - -"Somebody must have taken it," said Eeyore. "How Like Them," he added, -after a long silence. - -Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn't -quite know what. So he decided to do something helpful instead. - -"Eeyore," he said solemnly, "I, Winnie-the-Pooh, will find your tail for -you." - -"Thank you, Pooh," answered Eeyore. "You're a real friend," said he. -"Not like Some," he said. - -So Winnie-the-Pooh went off to find Eeyore's tail. - -It was a fine spring morning in the forest as he started out. Little -soft clouds played happily in a blue sky, skipping from time to time in -front of the sun as if they had come to put it out, and then sliding -away suddenly so that the next might have his turn. Through them and -between them the sun shone bravely; and a copse which had worn its firs -all the year round seemed old and dowdy now beside the new green lace -which the beeches had put on so prettily. Through copse and spinney -marched Bear; down open slopes of gorse and heather, over rocky beds of -streams, up steep banks of sandstone into the heather again; and so at -last, tired and hungry, to the Hundred Acre Wood. For it was in the -Hundred Acre Wood that Owl lived. - -"And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, -"it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's -not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "Which it is," he added. "So there you -are." - -Owl lived at The Chestnuts, an old-world residence of great charm, which -was grander than anybody else's, or seemed so to Bear, because it had -both a knocker _and_ a bell-pull. Underneath the knocker there was a -notice which said: - - PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD. - -Underneath the bell-pull there was a notice which said: - - PLEZ CNOKE IF AN RNSR IS NOT REQID. - -These notices had been written by Christopher Robin, who was the only -one in the forest who could spell; for Owl, wise though he was in many -ways, able to read and write and spell his own name WOL, yet somehow -went all to pieces over delicate words like MEASLES and BUTTEREDTOAST. - -Winnie-the-Pooh read the two notices very carefully, first from left to -right, and afterwards, in case he had missed some of it, from right to -left. Then, to make quite sure, he knocked and pulled the knocker, and -he pulled and knocked the bell-rope, and he called out in a very loud -voice, "Owl! I require an answer! It's Bear speaking." And the door -opened, and Owl looked out. - -"Hallo, Pooh," he said. "How's things?" - -"Terrible and Sad," said Pooh, "because Eeyore, who is a friend of mine, -has lost his tail. And he's Moping about it. So could you very kindly -tell me how to find it for him?" - -"Well," said Owl, "the customary procedure in such cases is as follows." - -"What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?" said Pooh. "For I am a Bear of -Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me." - -"It means the Thing to Do." - -"As long as it means that, I don't mind," said Pooh humbly. - -"The thing to do is as follows. First, Issue a Reward. Then----" - -"Just a moment," said Pooh, holding up his paw. "_What_ do we do to -this--what you were saying? You sneezed just as you were going to tell -me." - -"I _didn't_ sneeze." - -"Yes, you did, Owl." - -"Excuse me, Pooh, I didn't. You can't sneeze without knowing it." - -"Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed." - -"What I _said_ was, 'First _Issue_ a Reward'." - -"You're doing it again," said Pooh sadly. - -"A Reward!" said Owl very loudly. "We write a notice to say that we will -give a large something to anybody who finds Eeyore's tail." - -"I see, I see," said Pooh, nodding his head. "Talking about large -somethings," he went on dreamily, "I generally have a small something -about now--about this time in the morning," and he looked wistfully at -the cupboard in the corner of Owl's parlour; "just a mouthful of -condensed milk or whatnot, with perhaps a lick of honey----" - -"Well, then," said Owl, "we write out this notice, and we put it up all -over the forest." - -"A lick of honey," murmured Bear to himself, "or--or not, as the case -may be." And he gave a deep sigh, and tried very hard to listen to what -Owl was saying. - -But Owl went on and on, using longer and longer words, until at last he -came back to where he started, and he explained that the person to write -out this notice was Christopher Robin. - -"It was he who wrote the ones on my front door for me. Did you see them, -Pooh?" - -For some time now Pooh had been saying "Yes" and "No" in turn, with his -eyes shut, to all that Owl was saying, and having said, "Yes, yes," last -time, he said "No, not at all," now, without really knowing what Owl was -talking about. - -"Didn't you see them?" said Owl, a little surprised. "Come and look at -them now." - -So they went outside. And Pooh looked at the knocker and the notice -below it, and he looked at the bell-rope and the notice below it, and -the more he looked at the bell-rope, the more he felt that he had seen -something like it, somewhere else, sometime before. - -"Handsome bell-rope, isn't it?" said Owl. - -Pooh nodded. - -"It reminds me of something," he said, "but I can't think what. Where -did you get it?" - -"I just came across it in the Forest. It was hanging over a bush, and I -thought at first somebody lived there, so I rang it, and nothing -happened, and then I rang it again very loudly, and it came off in my -hand, and as nobody seemed to want it, I took it home, and----" - -"Owl," said Pooh solemnly, "you made a mistake. Somebody did want it." - -"Who?" - -"Eeyore. My dear friend Eeyore. He was--he was fond of it." - -"Fond of it?" - -"Attached to it," said Winnie-the-Pooh sadly. - - * * * * * - -So with these words he unhooked it, and carried it back to Eeyore; and -when Christopher Robin had nailed it on in its right place again, Eeyore -frisked about the forest, waving his tail so happily that -Winnie-the-Pooh came over all funny, and had to hurry home for a little -snack of something to sustain him. And, wiping his mouth half an hour -afterwards, he sang to himself proudly: - - _Who found the Tail?_ - "I," said Pooh, - "At a quarter to two - (Only it was quarter to eleven really), - _I_ found the Tail!" - - - - - CHAPTER V - - IN WHICH PIGLET MEETS A HEFFALUMP - - -One day, when Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet were -all talking together, Christopher Robin finished the mouthful he was -eating and said carelessly: "I saw a Heffalump to-day, Piglet." - -"What was it doing?" asked Piglet. - -"Just lumping along," said Christopher Robin. "I don't think it saw -_me_." - -"I saw one once," said Piglet. "At least, I think I did," he said. "Only -perhaps it wasn't." - -"So did I," said Pooh, wondering what a Heffalump was like. - -"You don't often see them," said Christopher Robin carelessly. - -"Not now," said Piglet. - -"Not at this time of year," said Pooh. - -Then they all talked about something else, until it was time for Pooh -and Piglet to go home together. At first as they stumped along the path -which edged the Hundred Acre Wood, they didn't say much to each other; -but when they came to the stream and had helped each other across the -stepping stones, and were able to walk side by side again over the -heather, they began to talk in a friendly way about this and that, and -Piglet said, "If you see what I mean, Pooh," and Pooh said, "It's just -what I think myself, Piglet," and Piglet said, "But, on the other hand, -Pooh, we must remember," and Pooh said, "Quite true, Piglet, although I -had forgotten it for the moment." And then, just as they came to the Six -Pine Trees, Pooh looked round to see that nobody else was listening, and -said in a very solemn voice: - -"Piglet, I have decided something." - -"What have you decided, Pooh?" - -"I have decided to catch a Heffalump." - -Pooh nodded his head several times as he said this, and waited for -Piglet to say "How?" or "Pooh, you couldn't!" or something helpful of -that sort, but Piglet said nothing. The fact was Piglet was wishing that -_he_ had thought about it first. - -"I shall do it," said Pooh, after waiting a little longer, "by means of -a trap. And it must be a Cunning Trap, so you will have to help me, -Piglet." - -"Pooh," said Piglet, feeling quite happy again now, "I will." And then -he said, "How shall we do it?" and Pooh said, "That's just it. How?" And -then they sat down together to think it out. - -Pooh's first idea was that they should dig a Very Deep Pit, and then the -Heffalump would come along and fall into the Pit, and---- - -"Why?" said Piglet. - -"Why what?" said Pooh. - -"Why would he fall in?" - -Pooh rubbed his nose with his paw, and said that the Heffalump might be -walking along, humming a little song, and looking up at the sky, -wondering if it would rain, and so he wouldn't see the Very Deep Pit -until he was half-way down, when it would be too late. - -Piglet said that this was a very good Trap, but supposing it were -raining already? - -Pooh rubbed his nose again, and said that he hadn't thought of that. And -then he brightened up, and said that, if it were raining already, the -Heffalump would be looking at the sky wondering if it would _clear up_, -and so he wouldn't see the Very Deep Pit until he was half-way -down.... When it would be too late. - -Piglet said that, now that this point had been explained, he thought it -was a Cunning Trap. - -Pooh was very proud when he heard this, and he felt that the Heffalump -was as good as caught already, but there was just one other thing which -had to be thought about, and it was this. _Where should they dig the -Very Deep Pit?_ - -Piglet said that the best place would be somewhere where a Heffalump -was, just before he fell into it, only about a foot farther on. - -"But then he would see us digging it," said Pooh. - -"Not if he was looking at the sky." - -"He would Suspect," said Pooh, "if he happened to look down." He thought -for a long time and then added sadly, "It isn't as easy as I thought. I -suppose that's why Heffalumps hardly _ever_ get caught." - -"That must be it," said Piglet. - -They sighed and got up; and when they had taken a few gorse prickles out -of themselves they sat down again; and all the time Pooh was saying to -himself, "If only I could _think_ of something!" For he felt sure that a -Very Clever Brain could catch a Heffalump if only he knew the right way -to go about it. - -"Suppose," he said to Piglet, "_you_ wanted to catch _me_, how would you -do it?" - -"Well," said Piglet, "I should do it like this. I should make a Trap, -and I should put a Jar of Honey in the Trap, and you would smell it, and -you would go in after it, and----" - -"And I would go in after it," said Pooh excitedly, "only very carefully -so as not to hurt myself, and I would get to the Jar of Honey, and I -should lick round the edges first of all, pretending that there wasn't -any more, you know, and then I should walk away and think about it a -little, and then I should come back and start licking in the middle of -the jar, and then----" - -"Yes, well never mind about that. There you would be, and there I should -catch you. Now the first thing to think of is, What do Heffalumps like? -I should think acorns, shouldn't you? We'll get a lot of----I say, wake -up, Pooh!" - -Pooh, who had gone into a happy dream, woke up with a start, and said -that Honey was a much more trappy thing than Haycorns. Piglet didn't -think so; and they were just going to argue about it, when Piglet -remembered that, if they put acorns in the Trap, _he_ would have to find -the acorns, but if they put honey, then Pooh would have to give up some -of his own honey, so he said, "All right, honey then," just as Pooh -remembered it too, and was going to say, "All right, haycorns." - -"Honey," said Piglet to himself in a thoughtful way, as if it were now -settled. "_I'll_ dig the pit, while _you_ go and get the honey." - -"Very well," said Pooh, and he stumped off. - -As soon as he got home, he went to the larder; and he stood on a chair, -and took down a very large jar of honey from the top shelf. It had HUNNY -written on it, but, just to make sure, he took off the paper cover and -looked at it, and it _looked_ just like honey. "But you never can tell," -said Pooh. "I remember my uncle saying once that he had seen cheese just -this colour." So he put his tongue in, and took a large lick. "Yes," he -said, "it is. No doubt about that. And honey, I should say, right down -to the bottom of the jar. Unless, of course," he said, "somebody put -cheese in at the bottom just for a joke. Perhaps I had better go a -_little_ further ... just in case ... in case Heffalumps _don't_ -like cheese ... same as me.... Ah!" And he gave a deep sigh. "I -_was_ right. It _is_ honey, right the way down." - -Having made certain of this, he took the jar back to Piglet, and Piglet -looked up from the bottom of his Very Deep Pit, and said, "Got it?" and -Pooh said, "Yes, but it isn't quite a full jar," and he threw it down to -Piglet, and Piglet said, "No, it isn't! Is that all you've got left?" -and Pooh said "Yes." Because it was. So Piglet put the jar at the bottom -of the Pit, and climbed out, and they went off home together. - -"Well, good night, Pooh," said Piglet, when they had got to Pooh's -house. "And we meet at six o'clock to-morrow morning by the Pine Trees, -and see how many Heffalumps we've got in our Trap." - -"Six o'clock, Piglet. And have you got any string?" - -"No. Why do you want string?" - -"To lead them home with." - -"Oh! ... I _think_ Heffalumps come if you whistle." - -"Some do and some don't. You never can tell with Heffalumps. Well, good -night!" - -"Good night!" - -And off Piglet trotted to his house TRESPASSERS W, while Pooh made his -preparations for bed. - -Some hours later, just as the night was beginning to steal away, Pooh -woke up suddenly with a sinking feeling. He had had that sinking feeling -before, and he knew what it meant. _He was hungry._ So he went to the -larder, and he stood on a chair and reached up to the top shelf, and -found--nothing. - -"That's funny," he thought. "I know I had a jar of honey there. A full -jar, full of honey right up to the top, and it had HUNNY written on it, -so that I should know it was honey. That's very funny." And then he -began to wander up and down, wondering where it was and murmuring a -murmur to himself. Like this: - - It's very, very funny, - 'Cos I _know_ I had some honey; - 'Cos it had a label on, - Saying HUNNY. - A goloptious full-up pot too, - And I don't know where it's got to, - No, I don't know where it's gone-- - Well, it's funny. - -He had murmured this to himself three times in a singing sort of way, -when suddenly he remembered. He had put it into the Cunning Trap to -catch the Heffalump. - -"Bother!" said Pooh. "It all comes of trying to be kind to Heffalumps." -And he got back into bed. - -But he couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep, the more he couldn't. -He tried Counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to -sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that -was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight -for a pot of Pooh's honey, _and eating it all_. For some minutes he lay -there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump -was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I -don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer. He -jumped out of bed, he ran out of the house, and he ran straight to the -Six Pine Trees. - -The Sun was still in bed, but there was a lightness in the sky over the -Hundred Acre Wood which seemed to show that it was waking up and would -soon be kicking off the clothes. In the half-light the Pine Trees looked -cold and lonely, and the Very Deep Pit seemed deeper than it was, and -Pooh's jar of honey at the bottom was something mysterious, a shape and -no more. But as he got nearer to it his nose told him that it was indeed -honey, and his tongue came out and began to polish up his mouth, ready -for it. - -"Bother!" said Pooh, as he got his nose inside the jar. "A Heffalump has -been eating it!" And then he thought a little and said, "Oh, no, _I_ -did. I forgot." - -Indeed, he had eaten most of it. But there was a little left at the very -bottom of the jar, and he pushed his head right in, and began to -lick.... - -By and by Piglet woke up. As soon as he woke he said to himself, "Oh!" -Then he said bravely, "Yes," and then, still more bravely, "Quite so." -But he didn't feel very brave, for the word which was really jiggeting -about in his brain was "Heffalumps." - -What was a Heffalump like? - -Was it Fierce? - -_Did_ it come when you whistled? And _how_ did it come? - -Was it Fond of Pigs at all? - -If it was Fond of Pigs, did it make any difference _what sort of Pig_? - -Supposing it was Fierce with Pigs, would it make any difference _if the -Pig had a grandfather called TRESPASSERS WILLIAM_? - -He didn't know the answer to any of these questions ... and he was -going to see his first Heffalump in about an hour from now! - -Of course Pooh would be with him, and it was much more Friendly with -two. But suppose Heffalumps were Very Fierce with Pigs _and_ Bears? -Wouldn't it be better to pretend that he had a headache, and couldn't go -up to the Six Pine Trees this morning? But then suppose that it was a -very fine day, and there was no Heffalump in the trap, here he would be, -in bed all the morning, simply wasting his time for nothing. What should -he do? - -And then he had a Clever Idea. He would go up very quietly to the Six -Pine Trees now, peep very cautiously into the Trap, and see if there -_was_ a Heffalump there. And if there was, he would go back to bed, and -if there wasn't, he wouldn't. - -So off he went. At first he thought that there wouldn't be a Heffalump -in the Trap, and then he thought that there would, and as he got nearer -he was _sure_ that there would, because he could hear it heffalumping -about it like anything. - -"Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear!" said Piglet to himself. And he wanted to -run away. But somehow, having got so near, he felt that he must just see -what a Heffalump was like. So he crept to the side of the Trap and -looked in.... - -And all the time Winnie-the-Pooh had been trying to get the honey-jar -off his head. The more he shook it, the more tightly it stuck. - -"_Bother!_" he said, inside the jar, and "_Oh, help!_" and, mostly, -"_Ow!_" And he tried bumping it against things, but as he couldn't see -what he was bumping it against, it didn't help him; and he tried to -climb out of the Trap, but as he could see nothing but jar, and not much -of that, he couldn't find his way. So at last he lifted up his head, jar -and all, and made a loud, roaring noise of Sadness and Despair ... and -it was at that moment that Piglet looked down. - -"Help, help!" cried Piglet, "a Heffalump, a Horrible Heffalump!" and he -scampered off as hard as he could, still crying out, "Help, help, a -Herrible Hoffalump! Hoff, Hoff, a Hellible Horralump! Holl, Holl, a -Hoffable Hellerump!" And he didn't stop crying and scampering until he -got to Christopher Robin's house. - -"Whatever's the matter, Piglet?" said Christopher Robin, who was just -getting up. - -"Heff," said Piglet, breathing so hard that he could hardly speak, "a -Heff--a Heff--a Heffalump." - -"Where?" - -"Up there," said Piglet, waving his paw. - -"What did it look like?" - -"Like--like----It had the biggest head you ever saw, Christopher Robin. -A great enormous thing, like--like nothing. A huge big--well, like a--I -don't know--like an enormous big nothing. Like a jar." - -"Well," said Christopher Robin, putting on his shoes, "I shall go and -look at it. Come on." - -Piglet wasn't afraid if he had Christopher Robin with him, so off they -went.... - -"I can hear it, can't you?" said Piglet anxiously, as they got near. - -"I can hear _something_," said Christopher Robin. - -It was Pooh bumping his head against a tree-root he had found. - -"There!" said Piglet. "Isn't it _awful_?" And he held on tight to -Christopher Robin's hand. - -Suddenly Christopher Robin began to laugh ... and he laughed ... and he -laughed ... and he laughed. And while he was still laughing--_Crash_ -went the Heffalump's head against the tree-root, Smash went the jar, -and out came Pooh's head again.... - -Then Piglet saw what a Foolish Piglet he had been, and he was so ashamed -of himself that he ran straight off home and went to bed with a -headache. But Christopher Robin and Pooh went home to breakfast -together. - -"Oh, Bear!" said Christopher Robin. "How I do love you!" - -"So do I," said Pooh. - - - - - CHAPTER VI - - IN WHICH EEYORE HAS A BIRTHDAY - AND GETS TWO PRESENTS - - -Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and -looked at himself in the water. - -"Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic." - -He turned and walked slowly down the stream for twenty yards, splashed -across it, and walked slowly back on the other side. Then he looked at -himself in the water again. - -"As I thought," he said. "No better from _this_ side. But nobody minds. -Nobody cares. Pathetic, that's what it is." - -There was a crackling noise in the bracken behind him, and out came -Pooh. - -"Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. - -"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it _is_ a good -morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he. - -"Why, what's the matter?" - -"Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's -all there is to it." - -"Can't all _what_?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. - -"Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush." - -"Oh!" said Pooh. He thought for a long time, and then asked, "What -mulberry bush is that?" - -"Bon-hommy," went on Eeyore gloomily. "French word meaning bonhommy," he -explained. "I'm not complaining, but There It Is." - -Pooh sat down on a large stone, and tried to think this out. It sounded -to him like a riddle, and he was never much good at riddles, being a -Bear of Very Little Brain. So he sang _Cottleston Pie_ instead: - - Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, - A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. - Ask me a riddle and I reply: - "_Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie._" - -That was the first verse. When he had finished it, Eeyore didn't -actually say that he didn't like it, so Pooh very kindly sang the second -verse to him: - - Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, - A fish can't whistle and neither can I. - Ask me a riddle and I reply: - "_Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie_." - -Eeyore still said nothing at all, so Pooh hummed the third verse quietly -to himself: - - Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, - Why does a chicken, I don't know why. - Ask me a riddle and I reply: - "_Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie_." - -"That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go -gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself." - -"I am," said Pooh. - -"Some can," said Eeyore. - -"Why, what's the matter?" - -"_Is_ anything the matter?" - -"You seem so sad, Eeyore." - -"Sad? Why should I be sad? It's my birthday. The happiest day of the -year." - -"Your birthday?" said Pooh in great surprise. - -"Of course it is. Can't you see? Look at all the presents I have had." -He waved a foot from side to side. "Look at the birthday cake. Candles -and pink sugar." - -Pooh looked--first to the right and then to the left. - -"Presents?" said Pooh. "Birthday cake?" said Pooh. "_Where?_" - -"Can't you see them?" - -"No," said Pooh. - -"Neither can I," said Eeyore. "Joke," he explained. "Ha ha!" - -Pooh scratched his head, being a little puzzled by all this. - -"But is it really your birthday?" he asked. - -"It is." - -"Oh! Well, Many happy returns of the day, Eeyore." - -"And many happy returns to you, Pooh Bear." - -"But it isn't _my_ birthday." - -"No, it's mine." - -"But you said 'Many happy returns'----" - -"Well, why not? You don't always want to be miserable on my birthday, do -you?" - -"Oh, I see," said Pooh. - -"It's bad enough," said Eeyore, almost breaking down, "being miserable -myself, what with no presents and no cake and no candles, and no proper -notice taken of me at all, but if everybody else is going to be -miserable too----" - -This was too much for Pooh. "Stay there!" he called to Eeyore, as he -turned and hurried back home as quick as he could; for he felt that he -must get poor Eeyore a present of _some_ sort at once, and he could -always think of a proper one afterwards. - -Outside his house he found Piglet, jumping up and down trying to reach -the knocker. - -"Hallo, Piglet," he said. - -"Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet. - -"What are _you_ trying to do?" - -"I was trying to reach the knocker," said Piglet. "I just came -round----" - -"Let me do it for you," said Pooh kindly. So he reached up and knocked -at the door. "I have just seen Eeyore," he began, "and poor Eeyore is in -a Very Sad Condition, because it's his birthday, and nobody has taken -any notice of it, and he's very Gloomy--you know what Eeyore is--and -there he was, and----What a long time whoever lives here is answering -this door." And he knocked again. - -"But Pooh," said Piglet, "it's your own house!" - -"Oh!" said Pooh. "So it is," he said. "Well, let's go in." - -So in they went. The first thing Pooh did was to go to the cupboard to -see if he had quite a small jar of honey left; and he had, so he took it -down. - -"I'm giving this to Eeyore," he explained, "as a present. What are _you_ -going to give?" - -"Couldn't I give it too?" said Piglet. "From both of us?" - -"No," said Pooh. "That would _not_ be a good plan." - -"All right, then, I'll give him a balloon. I've got one left from my -party. I'll go and get it now, shall I?" - -"That, Piglet, is a _very_ good idea. It is just what Eeyore wants to -cheer him up. Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon." - -So off Piglet trotted; and in the other direction went Pooh, with his -jar of honey. - -It was a warm day, and he had a long way to go. He hadn't gone more than -half-way when a sort of funny feeling began to creep all over him. It -began at the tip of his nose and trickled all through him and out at the -soles of his feet. It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, -"Now then, Pooh, time for a little something." - -"Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I didn't know it was as late as that." So he -sat down and took the top off his jar of honey. "Lucky I brought this -with me," he thought. "Many a bear going out on a warm day like this -would never have thought of bringing a little something with him." And -he began to eat. - -"Now let me see," he thought, as he took his last lick of the inside of -the jar, "where was I going? Ah, yes, Eeyore." He got up slowly. - -And then, suddenly, he remembered. He had eaten Eeyore's birthday -present! - -"_Bother!_" said Pooh. "What _shall_ I do? I _must_ give him -_something_." - -For a little while he couldn't think of anything. Then he thought: -"Well, it's a very nice pot, even if there's no honey in it, and if I -washed it clean, and got somebody to write '_A Happy Birthday_' on it, -Eeyore could keep things in it, which might be Useful." So, as he was -just passing the Hundred Acre Wood, he went inside to call on Owl, who -lived there. - -"Good morning, Owl," he said. - -"Good morning, Pooh," said Owl. - -"Many happy returns of Eeyore's birthday," said Pooh. - -"Oh, is that what it is?" - -"What are you giving him, Owl?" - -"What are _you_ giving him, Pooh?" - -"I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In, and I wanted to ask -you----" - -"Is this it?" said Owl, taking it out of Pooh's paw. - -"Yes, and I wanted to ask you----" - -"Somebody has been keeping honey in it," said Owl. - -"You can keep _anything_ in it," said Pooh earnestly. "It's Very Useful -like that. And I wanted to ask you----" - -"You ought to write '_A Happy Birthday_' on it." - -"_That_ was what I wanted to ask you," said Pooh. "Because my spelling -is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the -wrong places. Would _you_ write 'A Happy Birthday' on it for me?" - -"It's a nice pot," said Owl, looking at it all round. "Couldn't I give -it too? From both of us?" - -"No," said Pooh. "That would _not_ be a good plan. Now I'll just wash it -first, and then you can write on it." - -Well, he washed the pot out, and dried it, while Owl licked the end of -his pencil, and wondered how to spell "birthday." - -"Can you read, Pooh?" he asked a little anxiously. "There's a notice -about knocking and ringing outside my door, which Christopher Robin -wrote. Could you read it?" - -"Christopher Robin told me what it said, and _then_ I could." - -"Well, I'll tell you what _this_ says, and then you'll be able to." - -So Owl wrote ... and this is what he wrote: - - HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. - -Pooh looked on admiringly. - -"I'm just saying 'A Happy Birthday'," said Owl carelessly. - -"It's a nice long one," said Pooh, very much impressed by it. - -"Well, _actually_, of course, I'm saying 'A Very Happy Birthday with -love from Pooh.' Naturally it takes a good deal of pencil to say a long -thing like that." - -"Oh, I see," said Pooh. - -While all this was happening, Piglet had gone back to his own house to -get Eeyore's balloon. He held it very tightly against himself, so that -it shouldn't blow away, and he ran as fast as he could so as to get to -Eeyore before Pooh did; for he thought that he would like to be the -first one to give a present, just as if he had thought of it without -being told by anybody. And running along, and thinking how pleased -Eeyore would be, he didn't look where he was going ... and suddenly he -put his foot in a rabbit hole, and fell down flat on his face. - -BANG!!!???***!!! - -Piglet lay there, wondering what had happened. At first he thought that -the whole world had blown up; and then he thought that perhaps only the -Forest part of it had; and then he thought that perhaps only _he_ had, -and he was now alone in the moon or somewhere, and would never see -Christopher Robin or Pooh or Eeyore again. And then he thought, "Well, -even if I'm in the moon, I needn't be face downwards all the time," so -he got cautiously up and looked about him. - -He was still in the Forest! - -"Well, that's funny," he thought. "I wonder what that bang was. I -couldn't have made such a noise just falling down. And where's my -balloon? And what's that small piece of damp rag doing?" - -It was the balloon! - -"Oh, dear!" said Piglet "Oh, dear, oh, dearie, dearie, dear! Well, it's -too late now. I can't go back, and I haven't another balloon, and -perhaps Eeyore doesn't _like_ balloons so _very_ much." - -So he trotted on, rather sadly now, and down he came to the side of the -stream where Eeyore was, and called out to him. - -"Good morning, Eeyore," shouted Piglet. - -"Good morning, Little Piglet," said Eeyore. "If it _is_ a good morning," -he said. "Which I doubt," said he. "Not that it matters," he said. - -"Many happy returns of the day," said Piglet, having now got closer. - -Eeyore stopped looking at himself in the stream, and turned to stare at -Piglet. - -"Just say that again," he said. - -"Many hap----" - -"Wait a moment." - -Balancing on three legs, he began to bring his fourth leg very -cautiously up to his ear. "I did this yesterday," he explained, as he -fell down for the third time. "It's quite easy. It's so as I can hear -better.... There, that's done it! Now then, what were you saying?" He -pushed his ear forward with his hoof. - -"Many happy returns of the day," said Piglet again. - -"Meaning me?" - -"Of course, Eeyore." - -"My birthday?" - -"Yes." - -"Me having a real birthday?" - -"Yes, Eeyore, and I've brought you a present." - -Eeyore took down his right hoof from his right ear, turned round, and -with great difficulty put up his left hoof. - -"I must have that in the other ear," he said. "Now then." - -"A present," said Piglet very loudly. - -"Meaning me again?" - -"Yes." - -"My birthday still?" - -"Of course, Eeyore." - -"Me going on having a real birthday?" - -"Yes, Eeyore, and I brought you a balloon." - -"_Balloon?_" said Eeyore. "You did say balloon? One of those big -coloured things you blow up? Gaiety, song-and-dance, here we are and -there we are?" - -"Yes, but I'm afraid--I'm very sorry, Eeyore--but when I was running -along to bring it you, I fell down." - -"Dear, dear, how unlucky! You ran too fast, I expect. You didn't hurt -yourself, Little Piglet?" - -"No, but I--I--oh, Eeyore, I burst the balloon!" - -There was a very long silence. - -"My balloon?" said Eeyore at last. - -Piglet nodded. - -"My birthday balloon?" - -"Yes, Eeyore," said Piglet sniffing a little. "Here it is. With--with -many happy returns of the day." And he gave Eeyore the small piece of -damp rag. - -"Is this it?" said Eeyore, a little surprised. - -Piglet nodded. - -"My present?" - -Piglet nodded again. - -"The balloon?" - -"Yes." - -"Thank you, Piglet," said Eeyore. "You don't mind my asking," he went -on, "but what colour was this balloon when it--when it _was_ a balloon?" - -"Red." - -"I just wondered.... Red," he murmured to himself. "My favourite -colour.... How big was it?" - -"About as big as me." - -"I just wondered.... About as big as Piglet," he said to himself -sadly. "My favourite size. Well, well." - -Piglet felt very miserable, and didn't know what to say. He was still -opening his mouth to begin something, and then deciding that it wasn't -any good saying _that_, when he heard a shout from the other side of the -river, and there was Pooh. - -"Many happy returns of the day," called out Pooh, forgetting that he had -said it already. - -"Thank you, Pooh, I'm having them," said Eeyore gloomily. - -"I've brought you a little present," said Pooh excitedly. - -"I've had it," said Eeyore. - -Pooh had now splashed across the stream to Eeyore, and Piglet was -sitting a little way off, his head in his paws, snuffling to himself. - -"It's a Useful Pot," said Pooh. "Here it is. And it's got 'A Very Happy -Birthday with love from Pooh' written on it. That's what all that -writing is. And it's for putting things in. There!" - -When Eeyore saw the pot, he became quite excited. - -"Why!" he said. "I believe my Balloon will just go into that Pot!" - -"Oh, no, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Balloons are much too big to go into Pots. -What you do with a balloon is, you hold the ballon----" - -"Not mine," said Eeyore proudly. "Look, Piglet!" And as Piglet looked -sorrowfully round, Eeyore picked the balloon up with his teeth, and -placed it carefully in the pot; picked it out and put it on the ground; -and then picked it up again and put it carefully back. - -"So it does!" said Pooh. "It goes in!" - -"So it does!" said Piglet. "And it comes out!" - -"Doesn't it?" said Eeyore. "It goes in and out like anything." - -"I'm very glad," said Pooh happily, "that I thought of giving you a -Useful Pot to put things in." - -"I'm very glad," said Piglet happily, "that I thought of giving you -Something to put in a Useful Pot." - -But Eeyore wasn't listening. He was taking the balloon out, and putting -it back again, as happy as could be.... - - * * * * * - -"And didn't _I_ give him anything?" asked Christopher Robin sadly. - -"Of course you did," I said. "You gave him--don't you remember--a -little--a little----" - -"I gave him a box of paints to paint things with." - -"That was it." - -"Why didn't I give it to him in the morning?" - -"You were so busy getting his party ready for him. He had a cake with -icing on the top, and three candles, and his name in pink sugar, -and----" - -"Yes, _I_ remember," said Christopher Robin. - - - - - CHAPTER VII - - IN WHICH KANGA AND BABY ROO COME - TO THE FOREST, AND PIGLET HAS A BATH - - -Nobody seemed to know where they came from, but there they were in the -Forest: Kanga and Baby Roo. When Pooh asked Christopher Robin, "How did -they come here?" Christopher Robin said, "In the Usual Way, if you know -what I mean, Pooh," and Pooh, who didn't, said "Oh!" Then he nodded his -head twice and said, "In the Usual Way. Ah!" Then he went to call upon -his friend Piglet to see what _he_ thought about it. And at Piglet's -house he found Rabbit. So they all talked about it together. - -"What I don't like about it is this," said Rabbit. "Here are we--you, -Pooh, and you, Piglet, and Me--and suddenly----" - -"And Eeyore," said Pooh. - -"And Eeyore--and then suddenly----" - -"And Owl," said Pooh. - -"And Owl--and then all of a sudden----" - -"Oh, and Eeyore," said Pooh. "I was forgetting _him_." - -"Here--we--are," said Rabbit very slowly and carefully, "all--of--us, -and then, suddenly, we wake up one morning and, what do we find? We find -a Strange Animal among us. An animal of whom we have never even heard -before! An animal who carries her family about with her in her pocket! -Suppose _I_ carried _my_ family about with me in _my_ pocket, how many -pockets should I want?" - -"Sixteen," said Piglet. - -"Seventeen, isn't it?" said Rabbit. "And one more for a -handkerchief--that's eighteen. Eighteen pockets in one suit! I haven't -time." - -There was a long and thoughtful silence ... and then Pooh, who had -been frowning very hard for some minutes, said: "_I_ make it fifteen." - -"What?" said Rabbit. - -"Fifteen." - -"Fifteen what?" - -"Your family." - -"What about them?" - -Pooh rubbed his nose and said that he thought Rabbit had been talking -about his family. - -"Did I?" said Rabbit carelessly. - -"Yes, you said----" - -"Never mind, Pooh," said Piglet impatiently. - -"The question is, What are we to do about Kanga?" - -"Oh, I see," said Pooh. - -"The best way," said Rabbit, "would be this. The best way would be to -steal Baby Roo and hide him, and then when Kanga says, 'Where's Baby -Roo?' we say, '_Aha!_'" - -"_Aha!_" said Pooh, practising. "_Aha! Aha!_ ... Of course," he went -on, "we could say 'Aha!' even if we hadn't stolen Baby Roo." - -"Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." - -"I know," said Pooh humbly. - -"We say '_Aha!_' so that Kanga knows that _we_ know where Baby Roo is. -'_Aha!_' means 'We'll tell you where Baby Roo is, if you promise to go -away from the Forest and never come back.' Now don't talk while I -think." - -Pooh went into a corner and tried saying 'Aha!' in that sort of voice. -Sometimes it seemed to him that it did mean what Rabbit said, and -sometimes it seemed to him that it didn't. "I suppose it's just -practice," he thought. "I wonder if Kanga will have to practise too so -as to understand it." - -"There's just one thing," said Piglet, fidgeting a bit. "I was talking -to Christopher Robin, and he said that a Kanga was Generally Regarded as -One of the Fiercer Animals. I am not frightened of Fierce Animals in the -ordinary way, but it is well known that, if One of the Fiercer Animals -is Deprived of Its Young, it becomes as fierce as Two of the Fiercer -Animals. In which case '_Aha!_' is perhaps a _foolish_ thing to say." - -"Piglet," said Rabbit, taking out a pencil, and licking the end of it, -"you haven't any pluck." - -"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're -only a Very Small Animal." - -Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: - -"It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in -the adventure before us." - -Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful, that he forgot to be -frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were -only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an -Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to -begin being useful at once. - -"What about me?" said Pooh sadly. "I suppose _I_ shan't be useful?" - -"Never mind, Pooh," said Piglet comfortingly. "Another time perhaps." - -"Without Pooh," said Rabbit solemnly as he sharpened his pencil, "the -adventure would be impossible." - -"Oh!" said Piglet, and tried not to look disappointed. But Pooh went -into a corner of the room and said proudly to himself, "Impossible -without Me! _That_ sort of Bear." - -"Now listen all of you," said Rabbit when he had finished writing, and -Pooh and Piglet sat listening very eagerly with their mouths open. This -was what Rabbit read out: - - PLAN TO CAPTURE BABY ROO - - 1. _General Remarks._ Kanga runs faster than any of Us, even Me. - - 2. _More General Remarks._ Kanga never takes her eye off Baby Roo, - except when he's safely buttoned up in her pocket. - - 3. _Therefore._ If we are to capture Baby Roo, we must get a Long - Start, because Kanga runs faster than any of Us, even Me. - (_See_ 1.) - - 4. _A Thought._ If Roo had jumped out of Kanga's pocket and Piglet - had jumped in, Kanga wouldn't know the difference, because Piglet - is a Very Small Animal. - - 5. Like Roo. - - 6. But Kanga would have to be looking the other way first, so as not - to see Piglet jumping in. - - 7. See 2. - - 8. _Another Thought._ But if Pooh was talking to her very excitedly, - she _might_ look the other way for a moment. - - 9. And then I could run away with Roo. - - 10. Quickly. - - 11. _And Kanga wouldn't discover the difference until Afterwards._ - -Well, Rabbit read this out proudly, and for a little while after he had -read it nobody said anything. And then Piglet, who had been opening and -shutting his mouth without making any noise, managed to say very -huskily: - -"And--Afterwards?" - -"How do you mean?" - -"When Kanga _does_ Discover the Difference?" - -"Then we all say '_Aha!_'" - -"All three of us?" - -"Yes." - -"Oh!" - -"Why, what's the trouble, Piglet?" - -"Nothing," said Piglet, "as long as _we all three_ say it. As long as we -all three say it," said Piglet, "I don't mind," he said, "but I -shouldn't care to say '_Aha!_' by myself. It wouldn't sound _nearly_ so -well. By the way," he said, "you _are_ quite sure about what you said -about the winter months?" - -"The winter months?" - -"Yes, only being Fierce in the Winter Months." - -"Oh, yes, yes, that's all right. Well, Pooh? You see what you have to -do?" - -"No," said Pooh Bear. "Not yet," he said. "What _do_ I do?" - -"Well, you just have to talk very hard to Kanga so as she doesn't notice -anything." - -"Oh! What about?" - -"Anything you like." - -"You mean like telling her a little bit of poetry or something?" - -"That's it," said Rabbit. "Splendid. Now come along." - -So they all went out to look for Kanga. - -Kanga and Roo were spending a quiet afternoon in a sandy part of the -Forest. Baby Roo was practising very small jumps in the sand, and -falling down mouse-holes and climbing out of them, and Kanga was -fidgeting about and saying "Just one more jump, dear, and then we must -go home." And at that moment who should come stumping up the hill but -Pooh. - -"Good afternoon, Kanga." - -"Good afternoon, Pooh." - -"Look at me jumping," squeaked Roo, and fell into another mouse-hole. - -"Hallo, Roo, my little fellow!" - -"We were just going home," said Kanga. "Good afternoon, Rabbit. Good -afternoon, Piglet." - -Rabbit and Piglet, who had now come up from the other side of the hill, -said "Good afternoon," and "Hallo, Roo," and Roo asked them to look at -him jumping, so they stayed and looked. - -And Kanga looked too.... - -"Oh, Kanga," said Pooh, after Rabbit had winked at him twice, "I don't -know if you are interested in Poetry at all?" - -"Hardly at all," said Kanga. - -"Oh!" said Pooh. - -"Roo, dear, just one more jump and then we must go home." - -There was a short silence while Roo fell down another mouse-hole. - -"Go on," said Rabbit in a loud whisper behind his paw. - -"Talking of Poetry," said Pooh, "I made up a little piece as I was -coming along. It went like this. Er--now let me see----" - -"Fancy!" said Kanga. "Now Roo, dear----" - -"You'll like this piece of poetry," said Rabbit. - -"You'll love it," said Piglet. - -"You must listen very carefully," said Rabbit. - -"So as not to miss any of it," said Piglet. - -"Oh, yes," said Kanga, but she still looked at Baby Roo. - -"_How_ did it go, Pooh?" said Rabbit. - -Pooh gave a little cough and began. - - LINES WRITTEN BY A BEAR OF VERY LITTLE BRAIN - - On Monday, when the sun is hot - I wonder to myself a lot: - "Now is it true, or is it not, - "That what is which and which is what?" - - On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, - The feeling on me grows and grows - That hardly anybody knows - If those are these or these are those. - - On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, - And I have nothing else to do, - I sometimes wonder if it's true - That who is what and what is who. - - On Thursday, when it starts to freeze - And hoar-frost twinkles on the trees, - How very readily one sees - That these are whose--but whose are these? - - On Friday---- - -"Yes, it is, isn't it?" said Kanga, not waiting to hear what happened on -Friday. "Just one more jump, Roo, dear, and then we really _must_ be -going." - -Rabbit gave Pooh a hurrying-up sort of nudge. - -"Talking of Poetry," said Pooh quickly, "have you ever noticed that tree -right over there?" - -"Where?" said Kanga. "Now, Roo----" - -"Right over there," said Pooh, pointing behind Kanga's back. - -"No," said Kanga. "Now jump in, Roo, dear, and we'll go home." - -"You ought to look at that tree right over there," said Rabbit. "Shall I -lift you in, Roo?" And he picked up Roo in his paws. - -"I can see a bird in it from here," said Pooh. "Or is it a fish?" - -"You ought to see that bird from here," said Rabbit. "Unless it's a -fish." - -"It isn't a fish, it's a bird," said Piglet. - -"So it is," said Rabbit. - -"Is it a starling or a blackbird?" said Pooh. - -"That's the whole question," said Rabbit. "Is it a blackbird or a -starling?" - -And then at last Kanga did turn her head to look. And the moment that -her head was turned, Rabbit said in a loud voice "In you go, Roo!" and -in jumped Piglet into Kanga's pocket, and off scampered Rabbit, with Roo -in his paws, as fast as he could. - -"Why, where's Rabbit?" said Kanga, turning round again. "Are you all -right, Roo, dear?" - -Piglet made a squeaky Roo-noise from the bottom of Kanga's pocket. - -"Rabbit had to go away," said Pooh. "I think he thought of something he -had to go and see about suddenly." - -"And Piglet?" - -"I think Piglet thought of something at the same time. Suddenly." - -"Well, we must be getting home," said Kanga. "Good-bye, Pooh." And in -three large jumps she was gone. - -Pooh looked after her as she went. - -"I wish I could jump like that," he thought. "Some can and some can't. -That's how it is." - -But there were moments when Piglet wished that Kanga couldn't. Often, -when he had had a long walk home through the Forest, he had wished that -he were a bird; but now he thought jerkily to himself at the bottom of -Kanga's pocket, - - this take - "If is shall really to - flying I never it." - -And as he went up in the air he said, "_Ooooooo!_" and as he came down -he said, "_Ow!_" And he was saying, "_Ooooooo-ow, Ooooooo-ow, -Ooooooo-ow_" all the way to Kanga's house. - -Of course as soon as Kanga unbuttoned her pocket, she saw what had -happened. Just for a moment, she thought she was frightened, and then -she knew she wasn't; for she felt quite sure that Christopher Robin -would never let any harm happen to Roo. So she said to herself, "If they -are having a joke with me, I will have a joke with them." - -"Now then, Roo, dear," she said, as she took Piglet out of her pocket. -"Bed-time." - -"_Aha!_" said Piglet, as well as he could after his Terrifying Journey. -But it wasn't a very good "_Aha!_" and Kanga didn't seem to understand -what it meant. - -"Bath first," said Kanga in a cheerful voice. - -"_Aha!_" said Piglet again, looking round anxiously for the others. But -the others weren't there. Rabbit was playing with Baby Roo in his own -house, and feeling more fond of him every minute, and Pooh, who had -decided to be a Kanga, was still at the sandy place on the top of the -Forest, practising jumps. - -"I am not at all sure," said Kanga in a thoughtful voice, "that it -wouldn't be a good idea to have a _cold_ bath this evening. Would you -like that, Roo, dear?" - -Piglet, who had never been really fond of baths, shuddered a long -indignant shudder, and said in as brave a voice as he could: - -"Kanga, I see that the time has come to spleak painly." - -"Funny little Roo," said Kanga, as she got the bath-water ready. - -"I am _not_ Roo," said Piglet loudly. "I am Piglet!" - -"Yes, dear, yes," said Kanga soothingly. "And imitating Piglet's voice -too! So clever of him," she went on, as she took a large bar of yellow -soap out of the cupboard. "What _will_ he be doing next?" - -"Can't you _see_?" shouted Piglet. "Haven't you got _eyes_? _Look_ at -me!" - -"I _am_ looking, Roo, dear," said Kanga rather severely. "And you know -what I told you yesterday about making faces. If you go on making faces -like Piglet's, you will grow up to _look_ like Piglet--and _then_ think -how sorry you will be. Now then, into the bath, and don't let me have to -speak to you about it again." - -Before he knew where he was, Piglet was in the bath, and Kanga was -scrubbing him firmly with a large lathery flannel. - -"Ow!" cried Piglet. "Let me out! I'm Piglet!" - -"Don't open the mouth, dear, or the soap goes in," said Kanga. "There! -What did I tell you?" - -"You--you--you did it on purpose," spluttered Piglet, as soon as he -could speak again ... and then accidentally had another mouthful of -lathery flannel. - -"That's right, dear, don't say anything," said Kanga, and in another -minute Piglet was out of the bath, and being rubbed dry with a towel. - -"Now," said Kanga, "there's your medicine, and then bed." - -"W-w-what medicine?" said Piglet. - -"To make you grow big and strong, dear. You don't want to grow up small -and weak like Piglet, do you? Well, then!" - -At that moment there was a knock at the door. - -"Come in," said Kanga, and in came Christopher Robin. - -"Christopher Robin, Christopher Robin!" cried Piglet. "Tell Kanga who I -am! She keeps saying I'm Roo. I'm _not_ Roo, am I?" - -Christopher Robin looked at him very carefully, and shook his head. - -"You can't be Roo," he said, "because I've just seen Roo playing in -Rabbit's house." - -"Well!" said Kanga. "Fancy that! Fancy my making a mistake like that." - -"There you are!" said Piglet. "I told you so. I'm Piglet." - -Christopher Robin shook his head again. - -"Oh, you're not Piglet," he said. "I know Piglet well, and he's _quite_ -a different colour." - -Piglet began to say that this was because he had just had a bath, and -then he thought that perhaps he wouldn't say that, and as he opened his -mouth to say something else, Kanga slipped the medicine spoon in, and -then patted him on the back and told him that it was really quite a nice -taste when you got used to it. - -"I knew it wasn't Piglet," said Kanga. "I wonder who it can be." - -"Perhaps it's some relation of Pooh's," said Christopher Robin. "What -about a nephew or an uncle or something?" - -Kanga agreed that this was probably what it was, and said that they -would have to call it by some name. - -"I shall call it Pootel," said Christopher Robin. "Henry Pootel for -short." - -And just when it was decided, Henry Pootel wriggled out of Kanga's arms -and jumped to the ground. To his great joy Christopher Robin had left -the door open. Never had Henry Pootel Piglet run so fast as he ran then, -and he didn't stop running until he had got quite close to his house. -But when he was a hundred yards away he stopped running, and rolled the -rest of the way home, so as to get his own nice comfortable colour -again.... - -So Kanga and Roo stayed in the Forest. And every Tuesday Roo spent the -day with his great friend Rabbit, and every Tuesday Kanga spent the day -with her great friend Pooh, teaching him to jump, and every Tuesday -Piglet spent the day with his great friend Christopher Robin. So they -were all happy again. - - - - - CHAPTER VIII - - IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN LEADS - AN EXPOTITION TO THE NORTH POLE - - -One fine day Pooh had stumped up to the top of the Forest to see if -his friend Christopher Robin was interested in Bears at all. At -breakfast that morning (a simple meal of marmalade spread lightly over a -honeycomb or two) he had suddenly thought of a new song. It began like -this: - - "_Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear._" - -When he had got as far as this, he scratched his head, and thought to -himself "That's a very good start for a song, but what about the second -line?" He tried singing "Ho," two or three times, but it didn't seem to -help. "Perhaps it would be better," he thought, "if I sang Hi for the -life of a Bear." So he sang it ... but it wasn't. "Very well, then," -he said, "I shall sing that first line twice, and perhaps if I sing it -very quickly, I shall find myself singing the third and fourth lines -before I have time to think of them, and that will be a Good Song. Now -then:" - - Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear! - Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear! - I don't much mind if it rains or snows, - 'Cos I've got a lot of honey on my nice new nose, - I don't much care if it snows or thaws, - 'Cos I've got a lot of honey on my nice clean paws! - Sing Ho! for a Bear! - Sing Ho! for a Pooh! - And I'll have a little something in an hour or two! - -He was so pleased with this song that he sang it all the way to the top -of the Forest, "and if I go on singing it much longer," he thought, "it -will be time for the little something, and then the last line won't be -true." So he turned it into a hum instead. - -Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big -Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was -going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of -his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look Ready -for Anything. - -"Good-morning, Christopher Robin," he called out. - -"Hallo, Pooh Bear. I can't get this boot on." - -"That's bad," said Pooh. - -"Do you think you could very kindly lean against me, 'cos I keep pulling -so hard that I fall over backwards." - -Pooh sat down, dug his feet into the ground, and pushed hard against -Christopher Robin's back, and Christopher Robin pushed hard against his, -and pulled and pulled at his boot until he had got it on. - -"And that's that," said Pooh. "What do we do next?" - -"We are all going on an Expedition," said Christopher Robin, as he got -up and brushed himself. "Thank you, Pooh." - -"Going on an Expotition?" said Pooh eagerly. "I don't think I've ever -been on one of those. Where are we going to on this Expotition?" - -"Expedition, silly old Bear. It's got an 'x' in it." - -"Oh!" said Pooh. "I know." But he didn't really. - -"We're going to discover the North Pole." - -"Oh!" said Pooh again. "What _is_ the North Pole?" he asked. - -"It's just a thing you discover," said Christopher Robin carelessly, not -being quite sure himself. - -"Oh! I see," said Pooh. "Are bears any good at discovering it?" - -"Of course they are. And Rabbit and Kanga and all of you. It's an -Expedition. That's what an Expedition means. A long line of everybody. -You'd better tell the others to get ready, while I see if my gun's all -right. And we must all bring Provisions." - -"Bring what?" - -"Things to eat." - -"Oh!" said Pooh happily. "I thought you said Provisions. I'll go and -tell them." And he stumped off. - -The first person he met was Rabbit. - -"Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?" - -"Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens." - -"I've got a message for you." - -"I'll give it to him." - -"We're all going on an Expotition with Christopher Robin!" - -"What is it when we're on it?" - -"A sort of boat, I think," said Pooh. - -"Oh! that sort." - -"Yes. And we're going to discover a Pole or something. Or was it a Mole? -Anyhow we're going to discover it." - -"We are, are we?" said Rabbit. - -"Yes. And we've got to bring Pro--things to eat with us. In case we want -to eat them. Now I'm going down to Piglet's. Tell Kanga, will you?" - -He left Rabbit and hurried down to Piglet's house. The Piglet was -sitting on the ground at the door of his house blowing happily at a -dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, -sometime or never. He had just discovered that it would be never, and -was trying to remember what "_it_" was, and hoping it wasn't anything -nice, when Pooh came up. - -"Oh! Piglet," said Pooh excitedly, "we're going on an Expotition, all of -us, with things to eat. To discover something." - -"To discover what?" said Piglet anxiously. - -"Oh! just something." - -"Nothing fierce?" - -"Christopher Robin didn't say anything about fierce. He just said it had -an 'x'." - -"It isn't their necks I mind," said Piglet earnestly. "It's their teeth. -But if Christopher Robin is coming I don't mind anything." - -In a little while they were all ready at the top of the Forest, and the -Expotition started. First came Christopher Robin and Rabbit, then Piglet -and Pooh; then Kanga, with Roo in her pocket, and Owl; then Eeyore; and, -at the end, in a long line, all Rabbit's friends-and-relations. - -"I didn't ask them," explained Rabbit carelessly. "They just came. They -always do. They can march at the end, after Eeyore." - -"What I say," said Eeyore, "is that it's unsettling. I didn't want to -come on this Expo--what Pooh said. I only came to oblige. But here I -am; and if I am the end of the Expo--what we're talking about--then -let me _be_ the end. But if, every time I want to sit down for a -little rest, I have to brush away half a dozen of Rabbit's smaller -friends-and-relations first, then this isn't an Expo--whatever it -is--at all, it's simply a Confused Noise. That's what _I_ say." - -"I see what Eeyore means," said Owl. "If you ask me----" - -"I'm not asking anybody," said Eeyore. "I'm just telling everybody. We -can look for the North Pole, or we can play 'Here we go gathering Nuts -and May' with the end part of an ant's nest. It's all the same to me." - -There was a shout from the top of the line. - -"Come on!" called Christopher Robin. - -"Come on!" called Pooh and Piglet. - -"Come on!" called Owl. - -"We're starting," said Rabbit. "I must go." And he hurried off to the -front of the Expotition with Christopher Robin. - -"All right," said Eeyore. "We're going. Only Don't Blame Me." - -So off they all went to discover the Pole. And as they walked, they -chattered to each other of this and that, all except Pooh, who was -making up a song. - -"This is the first verse," he said to Piglet, when he was ready with it. - -"First verse of what?" - -"My song." - -"What song?" - -"This one." - -"Which one?" - -"Well, if you listen, Piglet, you'll hear it." - -"How do you know I'm not listening?" - -Pooh couldn't answer that one, so he began to sing. - - They all went off to discover the Pole, - Owl and Piglet and Rabbit and all; - It's a Thing you Discover, as I've been tole - By Owl and Piglet and Rabbit and all. - Eeyore, Christopher Robin and Pooh - And Rabbit's relations all went too-- - And where the Pole was none of them knew.... - Sing Hey! for Owl and Rabbit and all! - -"Hush!" said Christopher Robin turning round to Pooh, "we're just coming -to a Dangerous Place." - -"Hush!" said Pooh turning round quickly to Piglet. - -"Hush!" said Piglet to Kanga. - -"Hush!" said Kanga to Owl, while Roo said "Hush!" several times to -himself very quietly. - -"Hush!" said Owl to Eeyore. - -"_Hush!_" said Eeyore in a terrible voice to all Rabbit's -friends-and-relations, and "Hush!" they said hastily to each other all -down the line, until it got to the last one of all. And the last and -smallest friend-and-relation was so upset to find that the whole -Expotition was saying "Hush!" to _him_, that he buried himself head -downwards in a crack in the ground, and stayed there for two days until -the danger was over, and then went home in a great hurry, and lived -quietly with his Aunt ever-afterwards. His name was Alexander Beetle. - -They had come to a stream which twisted and tumbled between high rocky -banks, and Christopher Robin saw at once how dangerous it was. - -"It's just the place," he explained, "for an Ambush." - -"What sort of bush?" whispered Pooh to Piglet. "A gorse-bush?" - -"My dear Pooh," said Owl in his superior way, "don't you know what an -Ambush is?" - -"Owl," said Piglet, looking round at him severely, "Pooh's whisper was a -perfectly private whisper, and there was no need----" - -"An Ambush," said Owl, "is a sort of Surprise." - -"So is a gorse-bush sometimes," said Pooh. - -"An Ambush, as I was about to explain to Pooh," said Piglet, "is a sort -of Surprise." - -"If people jump out at you suddenly, that's an Ambush," said Owl. - -"It's an Ambush, Pooh, when people jump at you suddenly," explained -Piglet. - -Pooh, who now knew what an Ambush was, said that a gorse-bush had sprung -at him suddenly one day when he fell off a tree, and he had taken six -days to get all the prickles out of himself. - -"We are not _talking_ about gorse-bushes," said Owl a little crossly. - -"I am," said Pooh. - -They were climbing very cautiously up the stream now, going from rock to -rock, and after they had gone a little way they came to a place where -the banks widened out at each side, so that on each side of the water -there was a level strip of grass on which they could sit down and rest. -As soon as he saw this, Christopher Robin called "Halt!" and they all -sat down and rested. - -"I think," said Christopher Robin, "that we ought to eat all our -Provisions now, so that we shan't have so much to carry." - -"Eat all our what?" said Pooh. - -"All that we've brought," said Piglet, getting to work. - -"That's a good idea," said Pooh, and he got to work too. - -"Have you all got something?" asked Christopher Robin with his mouth -full. - -"All except me," said Eeyore. "As Usual." He looked round at them in his -melancholy way. "I suppose none of you are sitting on a thistle by any -chance?" - -"I believe I am," said Pooh. "Ow!" He got up, and looked behind him. -"Yes, I was. I thought so." - -"Thank you, Pooh. If you've quite finished with it." He moved across to -Pooh's place, and began to eat. - -"It don't do them any Good, you know, sitting on them," he went on, as -he looked up munching. "Takes all the Life out of them. Remember that -another time, all of you. A little Consideration, a little Thought for -Others, makes all the difference." - -As soon as he had finished his lunch Christopher Robin whispered to -Rabbit, and Rabbit said "Yes, yes, of course," and they walked a little -way up the stream together. - -"I didn't want the others to hear," said Christopher Robin. - -"Quite so," said Rabbit, looking important. - -"It's--I wondered--It's only--Rabbit, I suppose _you_ don't know, What -does the North Pole _look_ like?" - -"Well," said Rabbit, stroking his whiskers. "Now you're asking me." - -"I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten," said Christopher Robin -carelessly. - -"It's a funny thing," said Rabbit, "but I've sort of forgotten too, -although I did know _once_." - -"I suppose it's just a pole stuck in the ground?" - -"Sure to be a pole," said Rabbit, "because of calling it a pole, and if -it's a pole, well, I should think it would be sticking in the ground, -shouldn't you, because there'd be nowhere else to stick it." - -"Yes, that's what I thought." - -"The only thing," said Rabbit, "is, _where is it sticking_?" - -"That's what we're looking for," said Christopher Robin. - -They went back to the others. Piglet was lying on his back, sleeping -peacefully. Roo was washing his face and paws in the stream, while Kanga -explained to everybody proudly that this was the first time he had ever -washed his face himself, and Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting -Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopædia and Rhododendron to which -Kanga wasn't listening. - -"I don't hold with all this washing," grumbled Eeyore. "This modern -Behind-the-ears nonsense. What do _you_ think, Pooh?" - -"Well," said Pooh, "_I_ think----" - -But we shall never know what Pooh thought, for there came a sudden -squeak from Roo, a splash, and a loud cry of alarm from Kanga. - -"So much for _washing_," said Eeyore. - -"Roo's fallen in!" cried Rabbit, and he and Christopher Robin came -rushing down to the rescue. - -"Look at me swimming!" squeaked Roo from the middle of his pool, and was -hurried down a waterfall into the next pool. - -"Are you all right, Roo dear?" called Kanga anxiously. - -"Yes!" said Roo. "Look at me sw----" and down he went over the next -waterfall into another pool. - -Everybody was doing something to help. Piglet, wide awake suddenly, was -jumping up and down and making "Oo, I say" noises; Owl was explaining -that in a case of Sudden and Temporary Immersion the Important Thing was -to keep the Head Above Water; Kanga was jumping along the bank, saying -"Are you _sure_ you're all right, Roo dear?" to which Roo, from whatever -pool he was in at the moment, was answering "Look at me swimming!" -Eeyore had turned round and hung his tail over the first pool into which -Roo fell, and with his back to the accident was grumbling quietly to -himself, and saying, "All this washing; but catch on to my tail, little -Roo, and you'll be all right"; and, Christopher Robin and Rabbit came -hurrying past Eeyore, and were calling out to the others in front of -them. - -"All right, Roo, I'm coming," called Christopher Robin. - -"Get something across the stream lower down, some of you fellows," -called Rabbit. - -But Pooh was getting something. Two pools below Roo he was standing with -a long pole in his paws, and Kanga came up and took one end of it, and -between them they held it across the lower part of the pool; and Roo, -still bubbling proudly, "Look at me swimming," drifted up against it, -and climbed out. - -"Did you see me swimming?" squeaked Roo excitedly, while Kanga scolded -him and rubbed him down. "Pooh, did you see me swimming? That's called -swimming, what I was doing. Rabbit, did you see what I was doing? -Swimming. Hallo, Piglet! I say, Piglet! What do you think I was doing! -Swimming! Christopher Robin, did you see me----" - -But Christopher Robin wasn't listening. He was looking at Pooh. - -"Pooh," he said, "where did you find that pole?" - -Pooh looked at the pole in his hands. - -"I just found it," he said. "I thought it ought to be useful. I just -picked it up." - -"Pooh," said Christopher Robin solemnly, "the Expedition is over. You -have found the North Pole!" - -"Oh!" said Pooh. - -Eeyore was sitting with his tail in the water when they all got back to -him. - -"Tell Roo to be quick, somebody," he said. "My tail's getting cold. I -don't want to mention it, but I just mention it. I don't want to -complain but there it is. My tail's cold." - -"Here I am!" squeaked Roo. - -"Oh, there you are." - -"Did you see me swimming?" - -Eeyore took his tail out of the water, and swished it from side to side. - -"As I expected," he said. "Lost all feeling. Numbed it. That's what it's -done. Numbed it. Well, as long as nobody minds, I suppose it's all -right." - -"Poor old Eeyore. I'll dry it for you," said Christopher Robin, and he -took out his handkerchief and rubbed it up. - -"Thank you, Christopher Robin. You're the only one who seems to -understand about tails. They don't think--that's what the matter with -some of these others. They've no imagination. A tail isn't a tail to -_them_, it's just a Little Bit Extra at the back." - -"Never mind, Eeyore," said Christopher Robin, rubbing his hardest. "Is -_that_ better?" - -"It's feeling more like a tail perhaps. It Belongs again, if you know -what I mean." - -"Hullo, Eeyore," said Pooh, coming up to them with his pole. - -"Hullo, Pooh. Thank you for asking, but I shall be able to use it again -in a day or two." - -"Use what?" said Pooh. - -"What we are talking about." - -"I wasn't talking about anything," said Pooh, looking puzzled. - -"My mistake again. I thought you were saying how sorry you were about my -tail, being all numb, and could you do anything to help?" - -"No," said Pooh. "That wasn't me," he said. He thought for a little and -then suggested helpfully, "Perhaps it was somebody else." - -"Well, thank him for me when you see him." - -Pooh looked anxiously at Christopher Robin. - -"Pooh's found the North Pole," said Christopher Robin. "Isn't that -lovely?" - -Pooh looked modestly down. - -"Is that it?" said Eeyore. - -"Yes," said Christopher Robin. - -"Is that what we were looking for?" - -"Yes," said Pooh. - -"Oh!" said Eeyore. "Well, anyhow--it didn't rain," he said. - -They stuck the pole in the ground, and Christopher Robin tied a message -on to it. - - NORTH POLE - - DISCOVERED BY POOH - - POOH FOUND IT. - -Then they all went home again. And I think, but I am not quite sure, -that Roo had a hot bath and went straight to bed. But Pooh went back to -his own house, and feeling very proud of what he had done, had a little -something to revive himself. - - - - - CHAPTER IX - - IN WHICH PIGLET IS ENTIRELY - SURROUNDED BY WATER - - -It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet told himself that never -in all his life, and _he_ was goodness knows _how_ old--three, was it, -or four?--never had he seen so much rain. Days and days and days. - -"If only," he thought, as he looked out of the window, "I had been in -Pooh's house, or Christopher Robin's house, or Rabbit's house when it -began to rain, then I should have had Company all this time, instead of -being here all alone, with nothing to do except wonder when it will -stop." And he imagined himself with Pooh, saying, "Did you ever see such -rain, Pooh?" and Pooh saying, "Isn't it _awful_, Piglet?" and Piglet -saying, "I wonder how it is over Christopher Robin's way" and Pooh -saying, "I should think poor old Rabbit is about flooded out by this -time." It would have been jolly to talk like this, and really, it wasn't -much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn't share -them with somebody. - -For it was rather exciting. The little dry ditches in which Piglet had -nosed about so often had become streams, the little streams across which -he had splashed were rivers, and the river, between whose steep banks -they had played so happily, had sprawled out of its own bed and was -taking up so much room everywhere, that Piglet was beginning to wonder -whether it would be coming into _his_ bed soon. - -"It's a little Anxious," he said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal -Entirely Surrounded by Water. Christopher Robin and Pooh could escape by -Climbing Trees, and Kanga could escape by Jumping, and Rabbit could -escape by Burrowing, and Owl could escape by Flying, and Eeyore could -escape by--by Making a Loud Noise Until Rescued, and here am I, -surrounded by water and I can't do _anything_." - -It went on raining, and every day the water got a little higher, until -now it was nearly up to Piglet's window ... and still he hadn't done -anything. - -"There's Pooh," he thought to himself. "Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he -never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. -There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would -know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He -hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. -There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so -anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking -about It. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow -that he wouldn't mind about this. But I wonder what Christopher Robin -would do?" - -Then suddenly he remembered a story which Christopher Robin had told him -about a man on a desert island who had written something in a bottle and -thrown it in the sea; and Piglet thought that if he wrote something in a -bottle and threw it in the water, perhaps somebody would come and rescue -_him_! - -He left the window and began to search his house, all of it that wasn't -under water, and at last he found a pencil and a small piece of dry -paper, and a bottle with a cork to it. And he wrote on one side of the -paper: - - HELP! - PIGLET (ME) - -and on the other side: - - IT'S ME PIGLET, HELP HELP. - -Then he put the paper in the bottle, and he corked the bottle up as -tightly as he could, and he leant out of his window as far as he could -lean without falling in, and he threw the bottle as far as he could -throw--_splash!_--and in a little while it bobbed up again on the water; -and he watched it floating slowly away in the distance, until his eyes -ached with looking, and sometimes he thought it was the bottle, and -sometimes he thought it was just a ripple on the water which he was -following, and then suddenly he knew that he would never see it again -and that he had done all that he could do to save himself. - -"So now," he thought, "somebody else will have to do something, and I -hope they will do it soon, because if they don't I shall have to swim, -which I can't, so I hope they do it soon." And then he gave a very long -sigh and said, "I wish Pooh were here. It's so much more friendly with -two." - - * * * * * - -When the rain began Pooh was asleep. It rained, and it rained, and it -rained, and he slept and he slept and he slept. He had had a tiring day. -You remember how he discovered the North Pole; well, he was so proud of -this that he asked Christopher Robin if there were any other Poles such -as a Bear of Little Brain might discover. - -"There's a South Pole," said Christopher Robin, "and I expect there's an -East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them." - -Pooh was very excited when he heard this, and suggested that they should -have an Expotition to discover the East Pole, but Christopher Robin had -thought of something else to do with Kanga; so Pooh went out to discover -the East Pole by himself. Whether he discovered it or not, I forget; but -he was so tired when he got home that, in the very middle of his supper, -after he had been eating for little more than half-an-hour, he fell fast -asleep in his chair, and slept and slept and slept. - -Then suddenly he was dreaming. He was at the East Pole, and it was a -very cold pole with the coldest sort of snow and ice all over it. He had -found a bee-hive to sleep in, but there wasn't room for his legs, so he -had left them outside. And Wild Woozles, such as inhabit the East Pole, -came and nibbled all the fur off his legs to make nests for their Young. -And the more they nibbled, the colder his legs got, until suddenly he -woke up with an _Ow!_--and there he was, sitting in his chair with his -feet in the water, and water all round him! - -He splashed to his door and looked out.... - -"This is Serious," said Pooh. "I must have an Escape." - -So he took his largest pot of honey and escaped with it to a broad -branch of his tree, well above the water, and then he climbed down again -and escaped with another pot ... and when the whole Escape was -finished, there was Pooh sitting on his branch, dangling his legs, and -there, beside him, were ten pots of honey.... - -Two days later, there was Pooh, sitting on his branch, dangling his -legs, and there, beside him, were four pots of honey.... - -Three days later, there was Pooh, sitting on his branch, dangling his -legs, and there beside him, was one pot of honey. - -Four days later, there was Pooh ... - -And it was on the morning of the fourth day that Piglet's bottle came -floating past him, and with one loud cry of "Honey!" Pooh plunged into -the water, seized the bottle, and struggled back to his tree again. - -"Bother!" said Pooh, as he opened it. "All that wet for nothing. What's -that bit of paper doing?" - -He took it out and looked at it. - -"It's a Missage," he said to himself, "that's what it is. And that -letter is a 'P,' and so is that, and so is that, and 'P' means 'Pooh,' -so it's a very important Missage to me, and I can't read it. I must find -Christopher Robin or Owl or Piglet, one of those Clever Readers who can -read things, and they will tell me what this missage means. Only I can't -swim. Bother!" - -Then he had an idea, and I think that for a Bear of Very Little Brain, -it was a good idea. He said to himself: - -"If a bottle can float, then a jar can float, and if a jar floats, I can -sit on the top of it, if it's a very big jar." - -So he took his biggest jar, and corked it up. "All boats have to have a -name," he said, "so I shall call mine _The Floating Bear_." And with -these words he dropped his boat into the water and jumped in after it. - -For a little while Pooh and _The Floating Bear_ were uncertain as to -which of them was meant to be on the top, but after trying one or two -different positions, they settled down with _The Floating Bear_ -underneath and Pooh triumphantly astride it, paddling vigorously with -his feet. - - * * * * * - -Christopher Robin lived at the very top of the Forest. It rained, and it -rained, and it rained, but the water couldn't come up to _his_ house. It -was rather jolly to look down into the valleys and see the water all -round him, but it rained so hard that he stayed indoors most of the -time, and thought about things. Every morning he went out with his -umbrella and put a stick in the place where the water came up to, and -every next morning he went out and couldn't see his stick any more, so -he put another stick in the place where the water came up to, and then -he walked home again, and each morning he had a shorter way to walk than -he had had the morning before. On the morning of the fifth day he saw -the water all round him, and knew that for the first time in his life he -was on a real island. Which was very exciting. - -It was on this morning that Owl came flying over the water to say "How -do you do," to his friend Christopher Robin. - -"I say, Owl," said Christopher Robin, "isn't this fun? I'm on an -island!" - -"The atmospheric conditions have been very unfavourable lately," said -Owl. - -"The what?" - -"It has been raining," explained Owl. - -"Yes," said Christopher Robin. "It has." - -"The flood-level has reached an unprecedented height." - -"The who?" - -"There's a lot of water about," explained Owl. - -"Yes," said Christopher Robin, "there is." - -"However, the prospects are rapidly becoming more favourable. At any -moment----" - -"Have you seen Pooh?" - -"No. At any moment----" - -"I hope he's all right," said Christopher Robin. "I've been wondering -about him. I expect Piglet's with him. Do you think they're all right, -Owl?" - -"I expect so. You see, at any moment----" - -"Do go and see, Owl. Because Pooh hasn't got very much brain, and he -might do something silly, and I do love him so, Owl. Do you see, Owl?" - -"That's all right," said Owl. "I'll go. Back directly." And he flew off. - -In a little while he was back again. - -"Pooh isn't there," he said. - -"Not there?" - -"Has _been_ there. He's been sitting on a branch of his tree outside his -house with nine pots of honey. But he isn't there now." - -"Oh, Pooh!" cried Christopher Robin. "Where _are_ you?" - -"Here I am," said a growly voice behind him. - -"Pooh!" - -They rushed into each other's arms. - -"How did you get here, Pooh?" asked Christopher Robin, when he was ready -to talk again. - -"On my boat," said Pooh proudly. "I had a Very Important Missage sent me -in a bottle, and owing to having got some water in my eyes, I couldn't -read it, so I brought it to you. On my boat." - -With these proud words he gave Christopher Robin the missage. - -"But it's from Piglet!" cried Christopher Robin when he had read it. - -"Isn't there anything about Pooh in it?" asked Bear, looking over his -shoulder. - -Christopher Robin read the message aloud. - -"Oh, are those 'P's' piglets? I thought they were poohs." - -"We must rescue him at once! I thought he was with _you_, Pooh. Owl, -could you rescue him on your back?" - -"I don't think so," said Owl, after grave thought. "It is doubtful if -the necessary dorsal muscles----" - -"Then would you fly to him at _once_ and say that Rescue is Coming? And -Pooh and I will think of a Rescue and come as quick as ever we can. Oh, -don't _talk_, Owl, go on quick!" And, still thinking of something to -say, Owl flew off. - -"Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" - -"I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the -island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a -Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." - -"Depends on what?" - -"On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it." - -"Oh! Well, where is it?" - -"There!" said Pooh, pointing proudly to _The Floating Bear_. - -It wasn't what Christopher Robin expected, and the more he looked at it, -the more he thought what a Brave and Clever Bear Pooh was, and the more -Christopher Robin thought this, the more Pooh looked modestly down his -nose and tried to pretend he wasn't. - -"But it's too small for two of us," said Christopher Robin sadly. - -"Three of us with Piglet." - -"That makes it smaller still. Oh, Pooh Bear, what shall we do?" - -And then this Bear, Pooh Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, F.O.P. (Friend of -Piglet's), R.C. (Rabbit's Companion), P.D. (Pole Discoverer), E.C. and -T.F. (Eeyore's Comforter and Tail-finder)--in fact, Pooh himself--said -something so clever that Christopher Robin could only look at him with -mouth open and eyes staring, wondering if this was really the Bear of -Very Little Brain whom he had known and loved so long. - -"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh. - -"?" - -"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh. - -"? ?" - -"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh. - -"!!!!!!" - -For suddenly Christopher Robin saw that they might. He opened his -umbrella and put it point downwards in the water. It floated but -wobbled. Pooh got in. He was just beginning to say that it was all right -now, when he found that it wasn't, so after a short drink which he -didn't really want he waded back to Christopher Robin. Then they both -got in together, and it wobbled no longer. - -"I shall call this boat _The Brain of Pooh_," said Christopher Robin, -and _The Brain of Pooh_ set sail forthwith in a south-westerly -direction, revolving gracefully. - -You can imagine Piglet's joy when at last the ship came in sight of him. -In after-years he liked to think that he had been in Very Great Danger -during the Terrible Flood, but the only danger he had really been in was -in the last half-hour of his imprisonment, when Owl, who had just flown -up, sat on a branch of his tree to comfort him, and told him a very long -story about an aunt who had once laid a seagull's egg by mistake, and -the story went on and on, rather like this sentence, until Piglet who -was listening out of his window without much hope, went to sleep quietly -and naturally, slipping slowly out of the window towards the water until -he was only hanging on by his toes, at which moment luckily, a sudden -loud squawk from Owl, which was really part of the story, being what his -aunt said, woke the Piglet up and just gave him time to jerk himself -back into safety and say, "How interesting, and did she?" when--well, -you can imagine his joy when at last he saw the good ship, _Brain of -Pooh_ (_Captain_, C. Robin; _1st Mate_, P. Bear) coming over the sea to -rescue him. Christopher Robin and Pooh again.... - -And that is really the end of the story, and I am very tired after that -last sentence, I think I shall stop there. - - - - - CHAPTER X - - IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN GIVES - POOH A PARTY, AND WE SAY GOOD-BYE - - -One day when the sun had come back over the Forest, bringing with it -the scent of may, and all the streams of the Forest were tinkling -happily to find themselves their own pretty shape again, and the little -pools lay dreaming of the life they had seen and the big things they had -done, and in the warmth and quiet of the Forest the cuckoo was trying -over his voice carefully and listening to see if he liked it, and -wood-pigeons were complaining gently to themselves in their lazy -comfortable way that it was the other fellow's fault, but it didn't -matter very much; on such a day as this Christopher Robin whistled in a -special way he had, and Owl came flying out of the Hundred Acre Wood to -see what was wanted. - -"Owl," said Christopher Robin, "I am going to give a party." - -"You are, are you?" said Owl. - -"And it's to be a special sort of party, because it's because of what -Pooh did when he did what he did to save Piglet from the flood." - -"Oh, that's what it's for, is it?" said Owl. - -"Yes, so will you tell Pooh as quickly as you can, and all the others, -because it will be to-morrow." - -"Oh, it will, will it?" said Owl, still being as helpful as possible. - -"So will you go and tell them, Owl?" - -Owl tried to think of something very wise to say, but couldn't, so he -flew off to tell the others. And the first person he told was Pooh. - -"Pooh," he said, "Christopher Robin is giving a party." - -"Oh!" said Pooh. And then seeing that Owl expected him to say something -else, he said "Will there be those little cake things with pink sugar -icing?" - -Owl felt that it was rather beneath him to talk about little cake things -with pink sugar icing, so he told Pooh exactly what Christopher Robin -had said, and flew off to Eeyore. - -"A party for Me?" thought Pooh to himself. "How grand!" And he began to -wonder if all the other animals would know that it was a special Pooh -Party, and if Christopher Robin had told them about _The Floating Bear_ -and the _Brain of Pooh_ and all the wonderful ships he had invented and -sailed on, and he began to think how awful it would be if everybody had -forgotten about it, and nobody quite knew what the party was for; and -the more he thought like this, the more the party got muddled in his -mind, like a dream when nothing goes right. And the dream began to sing -itself over in his head until it became a sort of song. It was an - - ANXIOUS POOH SONG. - - 3 Cheers for Pooh! - (_For Who?_) - For Pooh-- - (_Why what did he do?_) - I thought you knew; - He saved his friend from a wetting! - 3 Cheers for Bear! - (_For where?_) - For Bear-- - He couldn't swim, - But he rescued him! - (_He rescued who?_) - Oh, listen, do! - I am talking of Pooh-- - (_Of who?_) - Of Pooh! - (_I'm sorry I keep forgetting_). - Well, Pooh was a Bear of Enormous Brain - (_Just say it again!_) - Of enormous brain-- - (_Of enormous what?_) - Well, he ate a lot, - And I don't know if he could swim or not, - But he managed to float - On a sort of boat - (_On a sort of what?_) - Well, a sort of pot-- - So now let's give him three hearty cheers - (_So now let's give him three hearty whiches?_) - And hope he'll be with us for years and years, - And grow in health and wisdom and riches! - 3 Cheers for Pooh! - (_For who?_) - For Pooh-- - 3 Cheers for Bear! - (_For where?_) - For Bear-- - 3 Cheers for the wonderful Winnie-the-Pooh! - (_Just tell me, somebody_--WHAT DID HE DO?) - -While this was going on inside him, Owl was talking to Eeyore. - -"Eeyore," said Owl, "Christopher Robin is giving a party." - -"Very interesting," said Eeyore. "I suppose they will be sending me down -the odd bits which got trodden on. Kind and Thoughtful. Not at all, -don't mention it." - -"There is an Invitation for you." - -"What's that like?" - -"An Invitation!" - -"Yes, I heard you. Who dropped it?" - -"This isn't anything to eat, it's asking you to the party. To-morrow." - -Eeyore shook his head slowly. - -"You mean Piglet. The little fellow with the excited ears. That's -Piglet. I'll tell him." - -"No, no!" said Owl, getting quite fussy. "It's you!" - -"Are you sure?" - -"Of course I'm sure. Christopher Robin said 'All of them! Tell all of -them.'" - -"All of them, except Eeyore?" - -"All of them," said Owl sulkily. - -"Ah!" said Eeyore. "A mistake, no doubt, but still, I shall come. Only -don't blame _me_ if it rains." - -But it didn't rain. Christopher Robin had made a long table out of some -long pieces of wood, and they all sat round it. Christopher Robin sat at -one end, and Pooh sat at the other, and between them on one side were -Owl and Eeyore and Piglet, and between them on the other side were -Rabbit, and Roo and Kanga. And all Rabbit's friends and relations spread -themselves about on the grass, and waited hopefully in case anybody -spoke to them, or dropped anything, or asked them the time. - -It was the first party to which Roo had ever been, and he was very -excited. As soon as ever they had sat down he began to talk. - -"Hallo, Pooh!" he squeaked. - -"Hallo, Roo!" said Pooh. - -Roo jumped up and down in his seat for a little while and then began -again. - -"Hallo, Piglet!" he squeaked. - -Piglet waved a paw at him, being too busy to say anything. - -"Hallo, Eeyore!" said Roo. - -Eeyore nodded gloomily at him. "It will rain soon, you see if it -doesn't," he said. - -Roo looked to see if it didn't, and it didn't, so he said "Hallo, -Owl!"--and Owl said "Hallo, my little fellow," in a kindly way, and went -on telling Christopher Robin about an accident which had nearly happened -to a friend of his whom Christopher Robin didn't know, and 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. - -When they had all nearly eaten enough, Christopher Robin banged on the -table with his spoon, and everybody stopped talking and was very silent, -except Roo who was just finishing a loud attack of hiccups and trying to -look as if it was one of Rabbit's relations. - -"This party," said Christopher Robin, "is a party because of what -someone did, and we all know who it was, and it's his party, because of -what he did, and I've got a present for him and here it is." Then he -felt about a little and whispered, "Where is it?" - -While he was looking, Eeyore coughed in an impressive way and began to -speak. - -"Friends," he said, "including oddments, it is a great pleasure, or -perhaps I had better say it has been a pleasure so far, to see you at my -party. What I did was nothing. Any of you--except Rabbit and Owl and -Kanga--would have done the same. Oh, and Pooh. My remarks do not, of -course, apply to Piglet and Roo, because they are too small. Any of you -would have done the same. But it just happened to be Me. It was not, I -need hardly say, with an idea of getting what Christopher Robin is -looking for now"--and he put his front leg to his mouth and said in a -loud whisper, "Try under the table"--"that I did what I did--but because -I feel that we should all do what we can to help. I feel that we should -all----" - -"H--hup!" said Roo accidentally. - -"Roo, dear!" said Kanga reproachfully. - -"Was it me?" asked Roo, a little surprised. - -"What's Eeyore talking about?" Piglet whispered to Pooh. - -"I don't know," said Pooh rather dolefully. - -"I thought this was _your_ party." - -"I thought it was _once_. But I suppose it isn't." - -"I'd sooner it was yours than Eeyore's," said Piglet. - -"So would I," said Pooh. - -"H--hup!" said Roo again. - -"AS--I--WAS--SAYING," said Eeyore loudly and sternly, "as I was saying -when I was interrupted by various Loud Sounds, I feel that----" - -"Here it is!" cried Christopher Robin excitedly. "Pass it down to silly -old Pooh. It's for Pooh." - -"For Pooh?" said Eeyore. - -"Of course it is. The best bear in all the world." - -"I might have known," said Eeyore. "After all, one can't complain. I -have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last -week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!' -The Social Round. Always something going on." - -Nobody was listening, for they were all saying "Open it, Pooh," "What is -it, Pooh?" "I know what it is," "No, you don't" and other helpful -remarks of this sort. And of course Pooh was opening it as quickly as -ever he could, but without cutting the string, because you never know -when a bit of string might be Useful. At last it was undone. - -When Pooh saw what it was, he nearly fell down, he was so pleased. It -was a Special Pencil Case. There were pencils in it marked "B" for Bear, -and pencils marked "HB" for Helping Bear, and pencils marked "BB" for -Brave Bear. There was a knife for sharpening the pencils, and -india-rubber for rubbing out anything which you had spelt wrong, and a -ruler for ruling lines for the words to walk on, and inches marked on -the ruler in case you wanted to know how many inches anything was, and -Blue Pencils and Red Pencils and Green Pencils for saying special things -in blue and red and green. And all these lovely things were in little -pockets of their own in a Special Case which shut with a click when you -clicked it. And they were all for Pooh. - -"Oh!" said Pooh. - -"Oh, Pooh!" said everybody else except Eeyore. - -"Thank-you," growled Pooh. - -But Eeyore was saying to himself, "This writing business. Pencils and -what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it." - -Later on, when they had all said "Good-bye" and "Thank-you" to -Christopher Robin, Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together in -the golden evening, and for a long time they were silent. - -"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's -the first thing you say to yourself?" - -"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do _you_ say, Piglet?" - -"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting _to-day_?" said Piglet. - -Pooh nodded thoughtfully. - -"It's the same thing," he said. - - * * * * * - -"And what did happen?" asked Christopher Robin. - -"When?" - -"Next morning." - -"I don't know." - -"Could you think and tell me and Pooh some time?" - -"If you wanted it very much." - -"Pooh does," said Christopher Robin. - -He gave a deep sigh, picked his bear up by the leg and walked off to the -door, trailing Winnie-the-Pooh behind him. 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EDWARD NEWTON in <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i>.<br /> -<br /> -Fourteen Songs from When We Were Very Young<br />Words by A. A. Milne. -Music by H. Fraser-Simson. Decorations by E. H. Shepard.<br /> -<br /> -The King's Breakfast<br />Words by A. A. Milne. Music by H. Fraser-Simson. -Decorations by E. H. Shepard</p> - - -<p><i>ESSAYS</i><br /> -<br /> -Not That It Matters<br /> - -The Sunny Side<br /> - -If I May</p> - - -<p><i>MYSTERY STORY</i><br /> -<br /> -The Red House Mystery</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p>WINNIE-THE-POOH</p> - -<p>BY A. A. MILNE</p> - -<p>McCLELLAND & STEWART, LTD.<br /> -PUBLISHERS—TORONTO</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p>Copyright, Canada, 1926<br /> -By McClelland & Stewart, Limited<br /> -Publishers, Toronto<br /> -First Printing, October, 1926<br /> -Second " July, 1927<br /> - -Third " December, 1928<br /> -Fourth " December, 1929<br /> -Fifth " March, 1931<br /> - -Printed in Canada</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent6"><span class="smcap">To Her</span></div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">HAND IN HAND WE COME</div> - <div class="verse indent2">CHRISTOPHER ROBIN AND I</div> - <div class="verse">TO LAY THIS BOOK IN YOUR LAP.</div> - <div class="verse indent3">SAY YOU'RE SURPRISED?</div> - <div class="verse indent3">SAY YOU LIKE IT?</div> - <div class="verse indent3">SAY IT'S JUST WHAT YOU WANTED?</div> - <div class="verse indent4">BECAUSE IT'S YOURS——</div> - <div class="verse indent4">BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU.</div> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus1.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>INTRODUCTION</h2> - -<p>If you happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may -remember that he once had a swan (or the swan had Christopher Robin, I -don't know which) and that he used to call this swan Pooh. That was a -long time ago, and when we said good-bye, we took the name with us, as -we didn't think the swan would want it any more. Well, when Edward Bear -said that he would like an exciting name all to himself, Christopher -Robin said at once, without stopping to think, that he was -Winnie-the-Pooh. And he was. So, as I have explained the Pooh part, I -will now explain the rest of it.</p> - -<p>You can't be in London for long without going to the Zoo. There are some -people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as -quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called -WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the -most, and stay there. So when Christopher Robin goes to the Zoo, he goes -to where the Polar Bears are, and he whispers something to the third -keeper from the left, and doors are unlocked, and we wander through dark -passages and up steep stairs, until at last we come to the special cage, -and the cage is opened, and out trots something brown and furry, and -with a happy cry of "Oh, Bear!" Christopher Robin rushes into its arms. -Now this bear's name is Winnie, which shows what a good name for bears -it is, but the funny thing is that we can't remember whether Winnie is -called after Pooh, or Pooh after Winnie. We did know once, but we have -forgotten....</p> - -<p>I had written as far as this when Piglet looked up and said in his -squeaky voice, "What about <i>Me</i>?" "My dear Piglet," I said, "the whole -book is about you." "So it is about Pooh," he squeaked. You see what it -is. He is jealous because he thinks Pooh is having a Grand Introduction -all to himself. Pooh is the favourite, of course, there's no denying it, -but Piglet comes in for a good many things which Pooh misses; because -you can't take Pooh to school without everybody knowing it, but Piglet -is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comforting to -feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or -twenty-two. Sometimes he slips out and has a good look in the ink-pot, -and in this way he has got more education than Pooh, but Pooh doesn't -mind. Some have brains, and some haven't, he says, and there it is.</p> - -<p>And now all the others are saying, "What about <i>Us</i>?" So perhaps the -best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the -book.</p> - -<p class="ph2">A. A. M.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>CONTENTS</h2> - -<table summary="contents"> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_I">I.</a></td><td>IN WHICH WE ARE INTRODUCED TO WINNIE-THE-POOH AND SOME BEES, AND THE -STORIES BEGIN</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_II">II.</a></td><td> IN WHICH POOH GOES VISITING AND GETS INTO A TIGHT PLACE</td></tr> - - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_III">III.</a></td><td> IN WHICH POOH AND PIGLET GO HUNTING AND NEARLY CATCH A WOOZLE</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_IV">IV.</a></td><td> IN WHICH EEYORE LOSES A TAIL AND POOH FINDS ONE</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_V">V.</a></td><td> IN WHICH PIGLET MEETS A HEFFALUMP</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_VI">VI.</a></td><td> IN WHICH EEYORE HAS A BIRTHDAY AND GETS TWO PRESENTS</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_VII">VII.</a></td><td> IN WHICH KANGA AND BABY ROO COME TO THE FOREST, AND PIGLET HAS A -BATH</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_VIII">VIII.</a></td><td> IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN LEADS AN EXPOTITION TO THE NORTH POLE</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_IX">IX.</a></td><td> IN WHICH PIGLET IS ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY WATER</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_X">X.</a></td><td> IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN GIVES A POOH PARTY, AND WE SAY GOOD-BYE</td></tr> - -</table> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/map.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>WINNIE-THE-POOH</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus2.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH WE ARE INTRODUCED TO WINNIE-THE-POOH AND SOME BEES, AND THE -STORIES BEGIN</h3> - -<p>Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the -back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, -the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there -really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and -think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't. Anyhow, here he -is at the bottom, and ready to be introduced to you. Winnie-the-Pooh.</p> - -<p>When I first heard his name, I said, just as you are going to say, "But -I thought he was a boy?"</p> - -<p>"So did I," said Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"Then you can't call him Winnie?"</p> - -<p>"I don't."</p> - -<p>"But you said——"</p> - -<p>"He's Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don't you know what '<i>ther</i>' means?"</p> - -<p>"Ah, yes, now I do," I said quickly; and I hope you do too, because it -is all the explanation you are going to get.</p> - -<p>Sometimes Winnie-the-Pooh likes a game of some sort when he comes -downstairs, and sometimes he likes to sit quietly in front of the fire -and listen to a story. This evening——</p> - -<p>"What about a story?" said Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"<i>What</i> about a story?" I said.</p> - -<p>"Could you very sweetly tell Winnie-the-Pooh one?"</p> - -<p>"I suppose I could," I said. "What sort of stories does he like?"</p> - -<p>"About himself. Because he's <i>that</i> sort of Bear."</p> - -<p>"Oh, I see."</p> - -<p>"So could you very sweetly?"</p> - -<p>"I'll try," I said.</p> - -<p>So I tried.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>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.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus3.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>(<i>"What does 'under the name' mean?" asked Christopher Robin.</i></p> - -<p>"<i>It means he had the name over the door in gold letters, and lived -under it.</i>"</p> - -<p><i>"Winnie-the-Pooh wasn't quite sure," said Christopher Robin.</i></p> - -<p><i>"Now I am," said a growly voice.</i></p> - -<p><i>"Then I will go on," said I.</i>)</p> - -<p>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 a large oak-tree, -and, from the top of the tree, there came a loud buzzing-noise.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus4.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Winnie-the-Pooh sat down at the foot of the tree, put his head between -his paws and began to think.</p> - -<p>First of all he said to himself: "That buzzing-noise means something. -You don't get a buzzing-noise like that, just buzzing and 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>I</i> know of is because you're a bee."</p> - -<p>Then he thought another long time, and said: "And the only reason for -being a bee that I know of is making honey."</p> - -<p>And then he got up, and said: "And the only reason for making honey is -so as <i>I</i> can eat it." So he began to climb the tree.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus5.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He climbed and he climbed and he climbed, and as he climbed he sang a -little song to himself. It went like this:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Isn't it funny</div> - <div class="verse">How a bear likes honey?</div> - <div class="verse">Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!</div> - <div class="verse">I wonder why he does?</div> -</div></div> - -<p>Then he climbed a little further ... and a little further ... and -then just a little further. By that time he had thought of another song.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">It's a very funny thought that, if Bears were Bees,</div> - <div class="verse">They'd build their nests at the <i>bottom</i> of trees.</div> - <div class="verse">And that being so (if the Bees were Bears),</div> - <div class="verse">We shouldn't have to climb up all these stairs.</div> -</div></div> - -<p>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 ...</p> - -<p><i>Crack!</i></p> - -<p>"Oh, help!" said Pooh, as he dropped ten feet on the branch below him.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus6.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"If only I hadn't——" he said, as he bounced twenty feet on to the next -branch.</p> - -<p>"You see, what I <i>meant</i> to do," he explained, as he turned -head-over-heels, and crashed on to another branch thirty feet below, -"what I <i>meant</i> to do——"</p> - -<p>"Of course, it <i>was</i> rather——" he admitted, as he slithered very -quickly through the next six branches.</p> - -<p>"It all comes, I suppose," he decided, as he said good-bye to the last -branch, spun round three times, and flew gracefully into a gorse-bush, -"it all comes of <i>liking</i> honey so much. Oh, help!"</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus7.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>(<i>"Was that me?" said Christopher Robin in an awed voice, hardly daring -to believe it.</i></p> - -<p>"<i>That was you.</i>"</p> - -<p><i>Christopher Robin said nothing, but his eyes got larger and larger, and -his face got pinker and pinker.</i>)</p> - -<p>So Winnie-the-Pooh went round to his friend Christopher Robin, who lived -behind a green door in another part of the forest.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus8.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Good morning, Christopher Robin," he said.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Winnie-<i>ther</i>-Pooh," said you.</p> - -<p>"I wonder if you've got such a thing as a balloon about you?"</p> - -<p>"A balloon?"</p> - -<p>"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 wondering."</p> - -<p>"What do you want a balloon for?" you said.</p> - -<p>Winnie-the-Pooh looked round to see that nobody was listening, put his -paw to his mouth, and said in a deep whisper: "<i>Honey!</i>"</p> - -<p>"But you don't get honey with balloons!"</p> - -<p>"<i>I</i> do," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>Well, 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 <i>and</i> the blue one -home with you.</p> - -<p>"Which one would you like?" you asked Pooh.</p> - -<p>He put his head between his paws and thought very carefully.</p> - -<p>"It's like this," he said. "When you go after honey with a balloon, the -great thing is not to let the bees know you're coming. Now, if you have -a green balloon, they might think you were 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?"</p> - -<p>"Wouldn't they notice <i>you</i> underneath the balloon?" you asked.</p> - -<p>"They might or 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."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus9.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Then you had better have the blue balloon," you said; and so it was -decided.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus10.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Well, 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 gracefully up into the sky, and stayed -there—level with the top of the tree and about twenty feet away from -it.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus11.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Hooray!" you shouted.</p> - -<p>"Isn't that fine?" shouted Winnie-the-Pooh down to you. "What do I look -like?"</p> - -<p>"You look like a Bear holding on to a balloon," you said.</p> - -<p>"Not," said Pooh anxiously, "—not like a small black cloud in a blue -sky?"</p> - -<p>"Not very much."</p> - -<p>"Ah, well, perhaps from up here it looks different. And, as I say, you -never can tell with bees."</p> - -<p>There was no wind to blow him nearer to the tree, so there he stayed. He -could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn't quite -reach the honey.</p> - -<p>After a little while he called down to you.</p> - -<p>"Christopher Robin!" he said in a loud whisper.</p> - -<p>"Hallo!"</p> - -<p>"I think the bees <i>suspect</i> something!"</p> - -<p>"What sort of thing?"</p> - -<p>"I don't know. But something tells me that they're <i>suspicious</i>!"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus12.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Perhaps they think that you're after their honey."</p> - -<p>"It may be that. You never can tell with bees."</p> - -<p>There was another little silence, and then he called down to you again.</p> - -<p>"Christopher Robin!"</p> - -<p>"Yes?"</p> - -<p>"Have you an umbrella in your house?"</p> - -<p>"I think so."</p> - -<p>"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 -practising on these bees."</p> - -<p>Well, you laughed 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.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus13.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"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."</p> - -<p>"Shall I put my umbrella up?" you said.</p> - -<p>"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?"</p> - -<p>"No."</p> - -<p>"A pity. Well, now, 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 might sing.... Go!"</p> - -<p>So, while you walked up and down and wondered if it would rain, -Winnie-the-Pooh sang this song:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">How sweet to be a Cloud</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Floating in the Blue!</div> - <div class="verse">Every little cloud</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Always</i> sings aloud.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">"How sweet to be a Cloud</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Floating in the Blue!"</div> - <div class="verse">It makes him very proud</div> - <div class="verse">To be a little cloud.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p>The bees were still buzzing as suspiciously as ever. Some of them, -indeed, left their nests and flew all round 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.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus14.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Christopher—<i>ow!</i>—Robin," called out the cloud.</p> - -<p>"Yes?"</p> - -<p>"I have just been thinking, and I have come to a very important -decision. <i>These are the wrong sort of bees.</i>"</p> - -<p>"Are they?"</p> - -<p>"Quite the wrong sort. So I should think they would make the wrong sort -of honey, shouldn't you?"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus15.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Would they?"</p> - -<p>"Yes. So I think I shall come down."</p> - -<p>"How?" asked you.</p> - -<p>Winnie-the-Pooh hadn't thought about this. If he let go of the string, -he would fall—<i>bump</i>—and he didn't like the idea of that. So he -thought for a long time, and then he said:</p> - -<p>"Christopher Robin, you must shoot the balloon with your gun. Have you -got your gun?"</p> - -<p>"Of course I have," you said. "But if I do that, it will spoil the -balloon," you said.</p> - -<p>"But if you <i>don't</i>," said Pooh, "I shall have to let go, and that would -spoil <i>me</i>."</p> - -<p>When he put it like this, you saw how it was, and you aimed very -carefully at the balloon, and fired.</p> - -<p>"<i>Ow!</i>" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Did I miss?" you asked.</p> - -<p>"You didn't exactly <i>miss</i>," said Pooh, "but you missed the <i>balloon</i>."</p> - -<p>"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.</p> - -<p>But his arms were so stiff from holding on to the string of the balloon -all that time that they stayed up straight in 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 am not sure—that <i>that</i> is why he was always -called Pooh.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus16.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Is that the end of the story?" asked Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"That's the end of that one. There are others."</p> - -<p>"About Pooh and Me?"</p> - -<p>"And Piglet and Rabbit and all of you. Don't you remember?"</p> - -<p>"I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget."</p> - -<p>"That day when Pooh and Piglet tried to catch the Heffalump——"</p> - -<p>"They didn't catch it, did they?"</p> - -<p>"No."</p> - -<p>"Pooh couldn't, because he hasn't any brain. Did <i>I</i> catch it?"</p> - -<p>"Well, that comes into the story."</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin nodded.</p> - -<p>"I do remember," he said, "only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he -likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and -not just a remembering."</p> - -<p>"That's just how <i>I</i> feel," I said.</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin gave a deep sigh, picked his Bear up by the leg, and -walked off to the door, trailing Pooh behind him. At the door he turned -and said, "Coming to see me have my bath?"</p> - -<p>"I might," I said.</p> - -<p>"I didn't hurt him when I shot him, did I?"</p> - -<p>"Not a bit."</p> - -<p>He nodded and went out, and in a moment I heard Winnie-the-Pooh—<i>bump, -bump, bump</i>—going up the stairs behind him.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus17.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH POOH GOES VISITING AND GETS INTO A TIGHT PLACE</h3> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus18.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Edward Bear, known to his friends as Winnie-the-Pooh, or Pooh for -short, was walking through the forest one day, humming proudly to -himself. He had made up a little hum that very morning, as he was doing -his Stoutness Exercises in front of the glass: <i>Tra-la-la, tra-la-la</i>, -as he stretched up as high as he could go, and then <i>Tra-la-la, -tra-la—oh, help!—la</i>, as he tried to reach his toes. After breakfast -he had said it over and over to himself until he had learnt it off by -heart, and now he was humming it right through, properly. It went like -this:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Tra-la-la, tra-la-la,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Tra-la-la, tra-la-la,</i></div> - <div class="verse"><i>Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum.</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Tiddle-iddle, tiddle-iddle,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Tiddle-iddle, tiddle-iddle,</i></div> - <div class="verse"><i>Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um.</i></div> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus19.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Well, he was humming this hum to himself, and walking along gaily, -wondering what everybody else was doing, and what it felt like, being -somebody else, when suddenly he came to a sandy bank, and in the bank -was a large hole.</p> - -<p>"Aha!" said Pooh. (<i>Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum.</i>) "If I know anything about -anything, that hole means Rabbit," he said, "and Rabbit means Company," -he said, "and Company means Food and Listening-to-Me-Humming and such -like. <i>Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um.</i>"</p> - -<p>So he bent down, put his head into the hole, and called out:</p> - -<p>"Is anybody at home?"</p> - -<p>There was a sudden scuffling noise from inside the hole, and then -silence.</p> - -<p>"What I said was, 'Is anybody at home?'" called out Pooh very loudly.</p> - -<p>"No!" said a voice; and then added, "You needn't shout so loud. I heard -you quite well the first time."</p> - -<p>"Bother!" said Pooh. "Isn't there anybody here at all?"</p> - -<p>"Nobody."</p> - -<p>Winnie-the-Pooh took his head out of the hole, and thought for a little, -and he thought to himself, "There must be somebody there, because -somebody must have <i>said</i> 'Nobody.'" So he put his head back in the -hole, and said:</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Rabbit, isn't that you?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Rabbit, in a different sort of voice this time.</p> - -<p>"But isn't that Rabbit's voice?"</p> - -<p>"I don't <i>think</i> so," said Rabbit. "It isn't <i>meant</i> to be."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>He took his head out of the hole, and had another think, and then he put -it back, and said:</p> - -<p>"Well, could you very kindly tell me where Rabbit is?"</p> - -<p>"He has gone to see his friend Pooh Bear, who is a great friend of his."</p> - -<p>"But this <i>is</i> Me!" said Bear, very much surprised.</p> - -<p>"What sort of Me?"</p> - -<p>"Pooh Bear."</p> - -<p>"Are you sure?" said Rabbit, still more surprised.</p> - -<p>"Quite, quite sure," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Oh, well, then, come in."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus20.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>So Pooh pushed and pushed and pushed his way through the hole, and at -last he got in.</p> - -<p>"You were quite right," said Rabbit, looking at him all over. "It <i>is</i> -you. Glad to see you."</p> - -<p>"Who did you think it was?"</p> - -<p>"Well, I wasn't sure. You know how it is in the Forest. One can't have -<i>anybody</i> coming into one's house. One has to be <i>careful</i>. What about a -mouthful of something?"</p> - -<p>Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, -and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and -when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so -excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he -added, "But don't bother about the bread, please." And for a long time -after that he said nothing ... until at last, humming to himself in a -rather sticky voice, he got up, shook Rabbit lovingly by the paw, and -said that he must be going on.</p> - -<p>"Must you?" said Rabbit politely.</p> - -<p>"Well," said Pooh, "I could stay a little longer if it—if you——" and -he tried very hard to look in the direction of the larder.</p> - -<p>"As a matter of fact," said Rabbit, "I was going out myself directly."</p> - -<p>"Oh, well, then, I'll be going on. Good-bye."</p> - -<p>"Well, good-bye, if you're sure you won't have any more."</p> - -<p>"<i>Is</i> there any more?" asked Pooh quickly.</p> - -<p>Rabbit took the covers off the dishes, and said, "No, there wasn't."</p> - -<p>"I thought not," said Pooh, nodding to himself. "Well, good-bye. I must -be going on."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus21.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, -and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was out in -the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... -and then his shoulders ... and then——</p> - -<p>"Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."</p> - -<p>"Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."</p> - -<p>"I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help <i>and</i> bother!"</p> - -<p>Now by this time Rabbit wanted to go for a walk too, and finding the -front door full, he went out by the back door, and came round to Pooh, -and looked at him.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus22.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Hallo, are you stuck?" he asked.</p> - -<p>"N-no," said Pooh carelessly. "Just resting and thinking and humming to -myself."</p> - -<p>"Here, give us a paw."</p> - -<p>Pooh Bear stretched out a paw, and Rabbit pulled and pulled and -pulled....</p> - -<p>"<i>Ow!</i>" cried Pooh. "You're hurting!"</p> - -<p>"The fact is," said Rabbit, "you're stuck."</p> - -<p>"It all comes," said Pooh crossly, "of not having front doors big -enough."</p> - -<p>"It all comes," said Rabbit sternly, "of eating too much. I thought at -the time," said Rabbit, "only I didn't like to say anything," said -Rabbit, "that one of us was eating too much," said Rabbit, "and I knew -it wasn't <i>me</i>," he said. "Well, well, I shall go and fetch Christopher -Robin."</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin lived at the other end of the Forest, and when he came -back with Rabbit, and saw the front half of Pooh, he said, "Silly old -Bear," in such a loving voice that everybody felt quite hopeful again.</p> - -<p>"I was just beginning to think," said Bear, sniffing slightly, "that -Rabbit might never be able to use his front door again. And I should -<i>hate</i> that," he said.</p> - -<p>"So should I," said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>"Use his front door again?" said Christopher Robin. "Of course he'll use -his front door again."</p> - -<p>"Good," said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>"If we can't pull you out, Pooh, we might push you back."</p> - -<p>Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully, and pointed out that, when -once Pooh was pushed back, he was back, and of course nobody was more -glad to see Pooh than <i>he</i> was, still there it was, some lived in trees -and some lived underground, and——</p> - -<p>"You mean I'd <i>never</i> get out?" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"I mean," said Rabbit, "that having got <i>so</i> far, it seems a pity to -waste it."</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin nodded.</p> - -<p>"Then there's only one thing to be done," he said. "We shall have to -wait for you to get thin again."</p> - -<p>"How long does getting thin take?" asked Pooh anxiously.</p> - -<p>"About a week, I should think."</p> - -<p>"But I can't stay here for a <i>week</i>!"</p> - -<p>"You can <i>stay</i> here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out -which is so difficult."</p> - -<p>"We'll read to you," said Rabbit cheerfully. "And I hope it won't snow," -he added. "And I say, old fellow, you're taking up a good deal of room -in my house—<i>do</i> you mind if I use your back legs as a towel-horse? -Because, I mean, there they are—doing nothing—and it would be very -convenient just to hang the towels on them."</p> - -<p>"A week!" said Pooh gloomily. "<i>What about meals?</i>"</p> - -<p>"I'm afraid no meals," said Christopher Robin, "because of getting thin -quicker. But we <i>will</i> read to you."</p> - -<p>Bear began to sigh, and then found he couldn't because he was so tightly -stuck; and a tear rolled down his eye, as he said:</p> - -<p>"Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a -Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus23.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>So for a week Christopher Robin read that sort of book at the North end -of Pooh, and Rabbit hung his washing on the South end ... and in -between Bear felt himself getting slenderer and slenderer. And at the -end of the week Christopher Robin said, "<i>Now!</i>"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus24.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>So he took hold of Pooh's front paws and Rabbit took hold of Christopher -Robin, and all Rabbit's friends and relations took hold of Rabbit, and -they all pulled together....</p> - -<p>And for a long time Pooh only said "<i>Ow!</i>" ...</p> - -<p>And "<i>Oh!</i>" ...</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus25.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>And then, all of a sudden, he said "<i>Pop!</i>" just as if a cork were -coming out of a bottle.</p> - -<p>And Christopher Robin and Rabbit and all Rabbit's friends and relations -went head-over-heels backwards ... and on the top of them came -Winnie-the-Pooh—free!</p> - -<p>So, with a nod of thanks to his friends, he went on with his walk -through the forest, humming proudly to himself. But, Christopher Robin -looked after him lovingly, and said to himself, "Silly old Bear!"</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH POOH AND PIGLET GO HUNTING AND NEARLY CATCH A WOOZLE</h3> - - -<p>The Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, -and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the Piglet lived -in the middle of the house. Next to his house was a piece of broken -board which had: "TRESPASSERS W" on it. When Christopher Robin asked the -Piglet what it meant, he said it was his grandfather's name, and had -been in the family for a long time, Christopher Robin said you -<i>couldn't</i> be called Trespassers W, and Piglet said yes, you could, -because his grandfather was, and it was short for Trespassers Will, -which was short for Trespassers William. And his grandfather had had two -names in case he lost one—Trespassers after an uncle, and William after -Trespassers.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus26.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I've got two names," said Christopher Robin carelessly.</p> - -<p>"Well, there you are, that proves it," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>One fine winter's day when Piglet was brushing away the snow in front of -his house, he happened to look up, and there was Winnie-the-Pooh. Pooh -was walking round and round in a circle, thinking of something else, and -when Piglet called to him, he just went on walking.</p> - -<p>"Hallo!" said Piglet, "what are <i>you</i> doing?"</p> - -<p>"Hunting," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Hunting what?"</p> - -<p>"Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.</p> - -<p>"Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.</p> - -<p>"That's just what I ask myself. I ask myself, What?"</p> - -<p>"What do you think you'll answer?"</p> - -<p>"I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh. -"Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do -you see there?"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus27.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Tracks," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of -excitement. "Oh, Pooh! Do you think it's a—a—a Woozle?"</p> - -<p>"It may be," said Pooh. "Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. You -never can tell with paw-marks."</p> - -<p>With these few words he went on tracking, and Piglet, after watching him -for a minute or two, ran after him. Winnie-the-Pooh had come to a sudden -stop, and was bending over the tracks in a puzzled sort of way.</p> - -<p>"What's the matter?" asked Piglet.</p> - -<p>"It's a very funny thing," said Bear, "but there seem to be -<i>two</i> animals now. This—whatever-it-was—has been joined by -another—whatever-it-is—and the two of them are now proceeding in -company. Would you mind coming with me, Piglet, in case they turn out -to be Hostile Animals?"</p> - -<p>Piglet scratched his ear in a nice sort of way, and said that he had -nothing to do until Friday, and would be delighted to come, in case it -really <i>was</i> a Woozle.</p> - -<p>"You mean, in case it really is two Woozles," said Winnie-the-Pooh, and -Piglet said that anyhow he had nothing to do until Friday. So off they -went together.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus28.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>There was a small spinney of larch trees just here, and it seemed as if -the two Woozles, if that is what they were, had been going round this -spinney; so round this spinney went Pooh and Piglet after them; Piglet -passing the time by telling Pooh what his Grandfather Trespassers W had -done to Remove Stiffness after Tracking, and how his Grandfather -Trespassers W had suffered in his later years from Shortness of Breath, -and other matters of interest, and Pooh wondering what a Grandfather was -like, and if perhaps this was Two Grandfathers they were after now, and, -if so, whether he would be allowed to take one home and keep it, and -what Christopher Robin would say. And still the tracks went on in front -of them....</p> - -<p>Suddenly Winnie-the-Pooh stopped, and pointed excitedly in front of him. -"<i>Look!</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>What?</i>" said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he hadn't -been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an -exercising sort of way.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus29.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"The tracks!" said Pooh. "<i>A third animal has joined the other two!</i>"</p> - -<p>"Pooh!" cried Piglet. "Do you think it is another Woozle?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Pooh, "because it makes different marks. It is either Two -Woozles and one, as it might be, Wizzle, or Two, as it might be, Wizzles -and one, if so it is, Woozle. Let us continue to follow them."</p> - -<p>So they went on, feeling just a little anxious now, in case the three -animals in front of them were of Hostile Intent. And Piglet wished very -much that his Grandfather T. W. were there, instead of elsewhere, and -Pooh thought how nice it would be if they met Christopher Robin suddenly -but quite accidentally, and only because he liked Christopher Robin so -much. And then, all of a sudden, Winnie-the-Pooh stopped again, and -licked the tip of his nose in a cooling manner, for he was feeling more -hot and anxious than ever in his life before. <i>There were four animals -in front of them!</i></p> - -<p>"Do you see, Piglet? Look at their tracks! Three, as it were, Woozles, -and one, as it was, Wizzle. <i>Another Woozle has joined them!</i>"</p> - -<p>And so it seemed to be. There were the tracks; crossing over each other -here, getting muddled up with each other there; but, quite plainly every -now and then, the tracks of four sets of paws.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus30.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I <i>think</i>," said Piglet, when he had licked the tip of his nose too, -and found that it brought very little comfort, "I <i>think</i> that I have -just remembered something. I have just remembered something that I -forgot to do yesterday and shan't be able to do to-morrow. So I suppose -I really ought to go back and do it now."</p> - -<p>"We'll do it this afternoon, and I'll come with you," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"It isn't the sort of thing you can do in the afternoon," said Piglet -quickly. "It's a very particular morning thing, that has to be done in -the morning, and, if possible, between the hours of——What would you -say the time was?"</p> - -<p>"About twelve," said Winnie-the-Pooh, looking at the sun.</p> - -<p>"Between, as I was saying, the hours of twelve and twelve five. So, -really, dear old Pooh, if you'll excuse me——<i>What's that?</i>"</p> - -<p>Pooh looked up at the sky, and then, as he heard the whistle again, he -looked up into the branches of a big oak-tree, and then he saw a friend -of his.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus31.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"It's Christopher Robin," he said.</p> - -<p>"Ah, then you'll be all right," said Piglet. "You'll be quite safe with -<i>him</i>. Good-bye," and he trotted off home as quickly as he could, very -glad to be Out of All Danger again.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus32.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Christopher Robin came slowly down his tree.</p> - -<p>"Silly old Bear," he said, "what <i>were</i> you doing? First you went round -the spinney twice by yourself, and then Piglet ran after you and you -went round again together, and then you were just going round a fourth -time——"</p> - -<p>"Wait a moment," said Winnie-the-Pooh, holding up his paw.</p> - -<p>He sat down and thought, in the most thoughtful way he could think. Then -he fitted his paw into one of the Tracks ... and then he scratched his -nose twice, and stood up.</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Winnie-the-Pooh.</p> - -<p>"I see now," said Winnie-the-Pooh.</p> - -<p>"I have been Foolish and Deluded," said he, "and I am a Bear of No Brain -at All."</p> - -<p>"You're the Best Bear in All the World," said Christopher Robin -soothingly.</p> - -<p>"Am I?" said Pooh hopefully. And then he brightened up suddenly.</p> - -<p>"Anyhow," he said, "it is nearly Luncheon Time."</p> - -<p>So he went home for it.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH EEYORE LOSES A TAIL AND POOH FINDS ONE</h3> - - -<p>The Old Grey Donkey, Eeyore, stood by himself in a thistly corner of -the forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought -about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and -sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch -as which?"—and sometimes he didn't quite know what he <i>was</i> thinking -about. So when Winnie-the-Pooh came stumping along, Eeyore was very glad -to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to say "How do you -do?" in a gloomy manner to him.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus33.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.</p> - -<p>Eeyore shook his head from side to side.</p> - -<p>"Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a -long time."</p> - -<p>"Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at -you."</p> - -<p>So Eeyore stood there, gazing sadly at the ground, and Winnie-the-Pooh -walked all round him once.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus34.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Why, what's happened to your tail?" he said in surprise.</p> - -<p>"What <i>has</i> happened to it?" said Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"It isn't there!"</p> - -<p>"Are you sure?"</p> - -<p>"Well, either a tail <i>is</i> there or it isn't there. You can't make a -mistake about it. And yours <i>isn't</i> there!"</p> - -<p>"Then what is?"</p> - -<p>"Nothing."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus35.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Let's have a look," said Eeyore, and he turned slowly round to the -place where his tail had been a little while ago, and then, finding that -he couldn't catch it up, he turned round the other way, until he came -back to where he was at first, and then he put his head down and looked -between his front legs, and at last he said, with a long, sad sigh, "I -believe you're right."</p> - -<p>"Of course I'm right," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"That Accounts for a Good Deal," said Eeyore gloomily. "It Explains -Everything. No Wonder."</p> - -<p>"You must have left it somewhere," said Winnie-the-Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Somebody must have taken it," said Eeyore. "How Like Them," he added, -after a long silence.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus36.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn't -quite know what. So he decided to do something helpful instead.</p> - -<p>"Eeyore," he said solemnly, "I, Winnie-the-Pooh, will find your tail for -you."</p> - -<p>"Thank you, Pooh," answered Eeyore. "You're a real friend," said he. -"Not like Some," he said.</p> - -<p>So Winnie-the-Pooh went off to find Eeyore's tail.</p> - -<p>It was a fine spring morning in the forest as he started out. Little -soft clouds played happily in a blue sky, skipping from time to time in -front of the sun as if they had come to put it out, and then sliding -away suddenly so that the next might have his turn. Through them and -between them the sun shone bravely; and a copse which had worn its firs -all the year round seemed old and dowdy now beside the new green lace -which the beeches had put on so prettily. Through copse and spinney -marched Bear; down open slopes of gorse and heather, over rocky beds of -streams, up steep banks of sandstone into the heather again; and so at -last, tired and hungry, to the Hundred Acre Wood. For it was in the -Hundred Acre Wood that Owl lived.</p> - -<p>"And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, -"it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's -not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "Which it is," he added. "So there you -are."</p> - -<p>Owl lived at The Chestnuts, an old-world residence of great charm, which -was grander than anybody else's, or seemed so to Bear, because it had -both a knocker <i>and</i> a bell-pull. Underneath the knocker there was a -notice which said:</p> - -<p class="ph1">PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD.</p> - -<p>Underneath the bell-pull there was a notice which said:</p> - -<p class="ph1">PLEZ CNOKE IF AN RNSR IS NOT REQID.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus37.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>These notices had been written by Christopher Robin, who was the only -one in the forest who could spell; for Owl, wise though he was in many -ways, able to read and write and spell his own name WOL, yet somehow -went all to pieces over delicate words like MEASLES and BUTTEREDTOAST.</p> - -<p>Winnie-the-Pooh read the two notices very carefully, first from left to -right, and afterwards, in case he had missed some of it, from right to -left. Then, to make quite sure, he knocked and pulled the knocker, and -he pulled and knocked the bell-rope, and he called out in a very loud -voice, "Owl! I require an answer! It's Bear speaking." And the door -opened, and Owl looked out.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Pooh," he said. "How's things?"</p> - -<p>"Terrible and Sad," said Pooh, "because Eeyore, who is a friend of mine, -has lost his tail. And he's Moping about it. So could you very kindly -tell me how to find it for him?"</p> - -<p>"Well," said Owl, "the customary procedure in such cases is as follows."</p> - -<p>"What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?" said Pooh. "For I am a Bear of -Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me."</p> - -<p>"It means the Thing to Do."</p> - -<p>"As long as it means that, I don't mind," said Pooh humbly.</p> - -<p>"The thing to do is as follows. First, Issue a Reward. Then——"</p> - -<p>"Just a moment," said Pooh, holding up his paw. "<i>What</i> do we do to -this—what you were saying? You sneezed just as you were going to tell -me."</p> - -<p>"I <i>didn't</i> sneeze."</p> - -<p>"Yes, you did, Owl."</p> - -<p>"Excuse me, Pooh, I didn't. You can't sneeze without knowing it."</p> - -<p>"Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed."</p> - -<p>"What I <i>said</i> was, 'First <i>Issue</i> a Reward'."</p> - -<p>"You're doing it again," said Pooh sadly.</p> - -<p>"A Reward!" said Owl very loudly. "We write a notice to say that we will -give a large something to anybody who finds Eeyore's tail."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus38.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I see, I see," said Pooh, nodding his head. "Talking about large -somethings," he went on dreamily, "I generally have a small something -about now—about this time in the morning," and he looked wistfully at -the cupboard in the corner of Owl's parlour; "just a mouthful of -condensed milk or whatnot, with perhaps a lick of honey——"</p> - -<p>"Well, then," said Owl, "we write out this notice, and we put it up all -over the forest."</p> - -<p>"A lick of honey," murmured Bear to himself, "or—or not, as the case -may be." And he gave a deep sigh, and tried very hard to listen to what -Owl was saying.</p> - -<p>But Owl went on and on, using longer and longer words, until at last he -came back to where he started, and he explained that the person to write -out this notice was Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"It was he who wrote the ones on my front door for me. Did you see them, -Pooh?"</p> - -<p>For some time now Pooh had been saying "Yes" and "No" in turn, with his -eyes shut, to all that Owl was saying, and having said, "Yes, yes," last -time, he said "No, not at all," now, without really knowing what Owl was -talking about.</p> - -<p>"Didn't you see them?" said Owl, a little surprised. "Come and look at -them now."</p> - -<p>So they went outside. And Pooh looked at the knocker and the notice -below it, and he looked at the bell-rope and the notice below it, and -the more he looked at the bell-rope, the more he felt that he had seen -something like it, somewhere else, sometime before.</p> - -<p>"Handsome bell-rope, isn't it?" said Owl.</p> - -<p>Pooh nodded.</p> - -<p>"It reminds me of something," he said, "but I can't think what. Where -did you get it?"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus39.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I just came across it in the Forest. It was hanging over a bush, and I -thought at first somebody lived there, so I rang it, and nothing -happened, and then I rang it again very loudly, and it came off in my -hand, and as nobody seemed to want it, I took it home, and——"</p> - -<p>"Owl," said Pooh solemnly, "you made a mistake. Somebody did want it."</p> - -<p>"Who?"</p> - -<p>"Eeyore. My dear friend Eeyore. He was—he was fond of it."</p> - -<p>"Fond of it?"</p> - -<p>"Attached to it," said Winnie-the-Pooh sadly.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus40.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>So with these words he unhooked it, and carried it back to Eeyore; and -when Christopher Robin had nailed it on in its right place again, Eeyore -frisked about the forest, waving his tail so happily that -Winnie-the-Pooh came over all funny, and had to hurry home for a little -snack of something to sustain him. And, wiping his mouth half an hour -afterwards, he sang to himself proudly:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse"><i>Who found the Tail?</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2">"I," said Pooh,</div> - <div class="verse">"At a quarter to two</div> - <div class="verse indent2">(Only it was quarter to eleven really),</div> - <div class="verse"><i>I</i> found the Tail!"</div> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus41.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus42.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH PIGLET MEETS A HEFFALUMP</h3> - - -<p>One day, when Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet were -all talking together, Christopher Robin finished the mouthful he was -eating and said carelessly: "I saw a Heffalump to-day, Piglet."</p> - -<p>"What was it doing?" asked Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Just lumping along," said Christopher Robin. "I don't think it saw -<i>me</i>."</p> - -<p>"I saw one once," said Piglet. "At least, I think I did," he said. "Only -perhaps it wasn't."</p> - -<p>"So did I," said Pooh, wondering what a Heffalump was like.</p> - -<p>"You don't often see them," said Christopher Robin carelessly.</p> - -<p>"Not now," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Not at this time of year," said Pooh.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus43.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Then they all talked about something else, until it was time for Pooh -and Piglet to go home together. At first as they stumped along the path -which edged the Hundred Acre Wood, they didn't say much to each other; -but when they came to the stream and had helped each other across the -stepping stones, and were able to walk side by side again over the -heather, they began to talk in a friendly way about this and that, and -Piglet said, "If you see what I mean, Pooh," and Pooh said, "It's just -what I think myself, Piglet," and Piglet said, "But, on the other hand, -Pooh, we must remember," and Pooh said, "Quite true, Piglet, although I -had forgotten it for the moment." And then, just as they came to the Six -Pine Trees, Pooh looked round to see that nobody else was listening, and -said in a very solemn voice:</p> - -<p>"Piglet, I have decided something."</p> - -<p>"What have you decided, Pooh?"</p> - -<p>"I have decided to catch a Heffalump."</p> - -<p>Pooh nodded his head several times as he said this, and waited for -Piglet to say "How?" or "Pooh, you couldn't!" or something helpful of -that sort, but Piglet said nothing. The fact was Piglet was wishing that -<i>he</i> had thought about it first.</p> - -<p>"I shall do it," said Pooh, after waiting a little longer, "by means of -a trap. And it must be a Cunning Trap, so you will have to help me, -Piglet."</p> - -<p>"Pooh," said Piglet, feeling quite happy again now, "I will." And then -he said, "How shall we do it?" and Pooh said, "That's just it. How?" And -then they sat down together to think it out.</p> - -<p>Pooh's first idea was that they should dig a Very Deep Pit, and then the -Heffalump would come along and fall into the Pit, and——</p> - -<p>"Why?" said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Why what?" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Why would he fall in?"</p> - -<p>Pooh rubbed his nose with his paw, and said that the Heffalump might be -walking along, humming a little song, and looking up at the sky, -wondering if it would rain, and so he wouldn't see the Very Deep Pit -until he was half-way down, when it would be too late.</p> - -<p>Piglet said that this was a very good Trap, but supposing it were -raining already?</p> - -<p>Pooh rubbed his nose again, and said that he hadn't thought of that. And -then he brightened up, and said that, if it were raining already, the -Heffalump would be looking at the sky wondering if it would <i>clear up</i>, -and so he wouldn't see the Very Deep Pit until he was half-way -down.... When it would be too late.</p> - -<p>Piglet said that, now that this point had been explained, he thought it -was a Cunning Trap.</p> - -<p>Pooh was very proud when he heard this, and he felt that the Heffalump -was as good as caught already, but there was just one other thing which -had to be thought about, and it was this. <i>Where should they dig the -Very Deep Pit?</i></p> - -<p>Piglet said that the best place would be somewhere where a Heffalump -was, just before he fell into it, only about a foot farther on.</p> - -<p>"But then he would see us digging it," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Not if he was looking at the sky."</p> - -<p>"He would Suspect," said Pooh, "if he happened to look down." He thought -for a long time and then added sadly, "It isn't as easy as I thought. I -suppose that's why Heffalumps hardly <i>ever</i> get caught."</p> - -<p>"That must be it," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>They sighed and got up; and when they had taken a few gorse prickles out -of themselves they sat down again; and all the time Pooh was saying to -himself, "If only I could <i>think</i> of something!" For he felt sure that a -Very Clever Brain could catch a Heffalump if only he knew the right way -to go about it.</p> - -<p>"Suppose," he said to Piglet, "<i>you</i> wanted to catch <i>me</i>, how would you -do it?"</p> - -<p>"Well," said Piglet, "I should do it like this. I should make a Trap, -and I should put a Jar of Honey in the Trap, and you would smell it, and -you would go in after it, and——"</p> - -<p>"And I would go in after it," said Pooh excitedly, "only very carefully -so as not to hurt myself, and I would get to the Jar of Honey, and I -should lick round the edges first of all, pretending that there wasn't -any more, you know, and then I should walk away and think about it a -little, and then I should come back and start licking in the middle of -the jar, and then——"</p> - -<p>"Yes, well never mind about that. There you would be, and there I should -catch you. Now the first thing to think of is, What do Heffalumps like? -I should think acorns, shouldn't you? We'll get a lot of——I say, wake -up, Pooh!"</p> - -<p>Pooh, who had gone into a happy dream, woke up with a start, and said -that Honey was a much more trappy thing than Haycorns. Piglet didn't -think so; and they were just going to argue about it, when Piglet -remembered that, if they put acorns in the Trap, <i>he</i> would have to find -the acorns, but if they put honey, then Pooh would have to give up some -of his own honey, so he said, "All right, honey then," just as Pooh -remembered it too, and was going to say, "All right, haycorns."</p> - -<p>"Honey," said Piglet to himself in a thoughtful way, as if it were now -settled. "<i>I'll</i> dig the pit, while <i>you</i> go and get the honey."</p> - -<p>"Very well," said Pooh, and he stumped off.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus44.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>As soon as he got home, he went to the larder; and he stood on a chair, -and took down a very large jar of honey from the top shelf. It had HUNNY -written on it, but, just to make sure, he took off the paper cover and -looked at it, and it <i>looked</i> just like honey. "But you never can tell," -said Pooh. "I remember my uncle saying once that he had seen cheese just -this colour." So he put his tongue in, and took a large lick. "Yes," he -said, "it is. No doubt about that. And honey, I should say, right down -to the bottom of the jar. Unless, of course," he said, "somebody put -cheese in at the bottom just for a joke. Perhaps I had better go a -<i>little</i> further ... just in case ... in case Heffalumps <i>don't</i> -like cheese ... same as me.... Ah!" And he gave a deep sigh. "I -<i>was</i> right. It <i>is</i> honey, right the way down."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus45.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Having made certain of this, he took the jar back to Piglet, and Piglet -looked up from the bottom of his Very Deep Pit, and said, "Got it?" and -Pooh said, "Yes, but it isn't quite a full jar," and he threw it down to -Piglet, and Piglet said, "No, it isn't! Is that all you've got left?" -and Pooh said "Yes." Because it was. So Piglet put the jar at the bottom -of the Pit, and climbed out, and they went off home together.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus46.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Well, good night, Pooh," said Piglet, when they had got to Pooh's -house. "And we meet at six o'clock to-morrow morning by the Pine Trees, -and see how many Heffalumps we've got in our Trap."</p> - -<p>"Six o'clock, Piglet. And have you got any string?"</p> - -<p>"No. Why do you want string?"</p> - -<p>"To lead them home with."</p> - -<p>"Oh! ... I <i>think</i> Heffalumps come if you whistle."</p> - -<p>"Some do and some don't. You never can tell with Heffalumps. Well, good -night!"</p> - -<p>"Good night!"</p> - -<p>And off Piglet trotted to his house TRESPASSERS W, while Pooh made his -preparations for bed.</p> - -<p>Some hours later, just as the night was beginning to steal away, Pooh -woke up suddenly with a sinking feeling. He had had that sinking feeling -before, and he knew what it meant. <i>He was hungry.</i> So he went to the -larder, and he stood on a chair and reached up to the top shelf, and -found—nothing.</p> - -<p>"That's funny," he thought. "I know I had a jar of honey there. A full -jar, full of honey right up to the top, and it had HUNNY written on it, -so that I should know it was honey. That's very funny." And then he -began to wander up and down, wondering where it was and murmuring a -murmur to himself. Like this:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">It's very, very funny,</div> - <div class="verse">'Cos I <i>know</i> I had some honey;</div> - <div class="verse">'Cos it had a label on,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Saying HUNNY.</div> - <div class="verse">A goloptious full-up pot too,</div> - <div class="verse">And I don't know where it's got to,</div> - <div class="verse">No, I don't know where it's gone—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Well, it's funny.</div> -</div></div> - -<p>He had murmured this to himself three times in a singing sort of way, -when suddenly he remembered. He had put it into the Cunning Trap to -catch the Heffalump.</p> - -<p>"Bother!" said Pooh. "It all comes of trying to be kind to Heffalumps." -And he got back into bed.</p> - -<p>But he couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep, the more he couldn't. -He tried Counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to -sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that -was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight -for a pot of Pooh's honey, <i>and eating it all</i>. For some minutes he lay -there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump -was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I -don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer. He -jumped out of bed, he ran out of the house, and he ran straight to the -Six Pine Trees.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus47.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>The Sun was still in bed, but there was a lightness in the sky over the -Hundred Acre Wood which seemed to show that it was waking up and would -soon be kicking off the clothes. In the half-light the Pine Trees looked -cold and lonely, and the Very Deep Pit seemed deeper than it was, and -Pooh's jar of honey at the bottom was something mysterious, a shape and -no more. But as he got nearer to it his nose told him that it was indeed -honey, and his tongue came out and began to polish up his mouth, ready -for it.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus48.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Bother!" said Pooh, as he got his nose inside the jar. "A Heffalump has -been eating it!" And then he thought a little and said, "Oh, no, <i>I</i> -did. I forgot."</p> - -<p>Indeed, he had eaten most of it. But there was a little left at the very -bottom of the jar, and he pushed his head right in, and began to -lick....</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus49.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>By and by Piglet woke up. As soon as he woke he said to himself, "Oh!" -Then he said bravely, "Yes," and then, still more bravely, "Quite so." -But he didn't feel very brave, for the word which was really jiggeting -about in his brain was "Heffalumps."</p> - -<p>What was a Heffalump like?</p> - -<p>Was it Fierce?</p> - -<p><i>Did</i> it come when you whistled? And <i>how</i> did it come?</p> - -<p>Was it Fond of Pigs at all?</p> - -<p>If it was Fond of Pigs, did it make any difference <i>what sort of Pig</i>?</p> - -<p>Supposing it was Fierce with Pigs, would it make any difference <i>if the -Pig had a grandfather called TRESPASSERS WILLIAM</i>?</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus50.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He didn't know the answer to any of these questions ... and he was -going to see his first Heffalump in about an hour from now!</p> - -<p>Of course Pooh would be with him, and it was much more Friendly with -two. But suppose Heffalumps were Very Fierce with Pigs <i>and</i> Bears? -Wouldn't it be better to pretend that he had a headache, and couldn't go -up to the Six Pine Trees this morning? But then suppose that it was a -very fine day, and there was no Heffalump in the trap, here he would be, -in bed all the morning, simply wasting his time for nothing. What should -he do?</p> - -<p>And then he had a Clever Idea. He would go up very quietly to the Six -Pine Trees now, peep very cautiously into the Trap, and see if there -<i>was</i> a Heffalump there. And if there was, he would go back to bed, and -if there wasn't, he wouldn't.</p> - -<p>So off he went. At first he thought that there wouldn't be a Heffalump -in the Trap, and then he thought that there would, and as he got nearer -he was <i>sure</i> that there would, because he could hear it heffalumping -about it like anything.</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear!" said Piglet to himself. And he wanted to -run away. But somehow, having got so near, he felt that he must just see -what a Heffalump was like. So he crept to the side of the Trap and -looked in....</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus51.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>And all the time Winnie-the-Pooh had been trying to get the honey-jar -off his head. The more he shook it, the more tightly it stuck.</p> - -<p>"<i>Bother!</i>" he said, inside the jar, and "<i>Oh, help!</i>" and, mostly, -"<i>Ow!</i>" And he tried bumping it against things, but as he couldn't see -what he was bumping it against, it didn't help him; and he tried to -climb out of the Trap, but as he could see nothing but jar, and not much -of that, he couldn't find his way. So at last he lifted up his head, jar -and all, and made a loud, roaring noise of Sadness and Despair ... and -it was at that moment that Piglet looked down.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus52.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Help, help!" cried Piglet, "a Heffalump, a Horrible Heffalump!" and he -scampered off as hard as he could, still crying out, "Help, help, a -Herrible Hoffalump! Hoff, Hoff, a Hellible Horralump! Holl, Holl, a -Hoffable Hellerump!" And he didn't stop crying and scampering until he -got to Christopher Robin's house.</p> - -<p>"Whatever's the matter, Piglet?" said Christopher Robin, who was just -getting up.</p> - -<p>"Heff," said Piglet, breathing so hard that he could hardly speak, "a -Heff—a Heff—a Heffalump."</p> - -<p>"Where?"</p> - -<p>"Up there," said Piglet, waving his paw.</p> - -<p>"What did it look like?"</p> - -<p>"Like—like——It had the biggest head you ever saw, Christopher Robin. -A great enormous thing, like—like nothing. A huge big—well, like a—I -don't know—like an enormous big nothing. Like a jar."</p> - -<p>"Well," said Christopher Robin, putting on his shoes, "I shall go and -look at it. Come on."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus53.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Piglet wasn't afraid if he had Christopher Robin with him, so off they -went....</p> - -<p>"I can hear it, can't you?" said Piglet anxiously, as they got near.</p> - -<p>"I can hear <i>something</i>," said Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>It was Pooh bumping his head against a tree-root he had found.</p> - -<p>"There!" said Piglet. "Isn't it <i>awful</i>?" And he held on tight to -Christopher Robin's hand.</p> - -<p>Suddenly Christopher Robin began to laugh ... and he laughed ... and he -laughed ... and he laughed. And while he was still laughing—<i>Crash</i> -went the Heffalump's head against the tree-root, Smash went the jar, -and out came Pooh's head again....</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus54.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Then Piglet saw what a Foolish Piglet he had been, and he was so ashamed -of himself that he ran straight off home and went to bed with a -headache. But Christopher Robin and Pooh went home to breakfast -together.</p> - -<p>"Oh, Bear!" said Christopher Robin. "How I do love you!"</p> - -<p>"So do I," said Pooh.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VI" id="CHAPTER_VI"></a>CHAPTER VI</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH EEYORE HAS A BIRTHDAY AND GETS TWO PRESENTS</h3> - - -<p>Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and -looked at himself in the water.</p> - -<p>"Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."</p> - -<p>He turned and walked slowly down the stream for twenty yards, splashed -across it, and walked slowly back on the other side. Then he looked at -himself in the water again.</p> - -<p>"As I thought," he said. "No better from <i>this</i> side. But nobody minds. -Nobody cares. Pathetic, that's what it is."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus55.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>There was a crackling noise in the bracken behind him, and out came -Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it <i>is</i> a good -morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.</p> - -<p>"Why, what's the matter?"</p> - -<p>"Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's -all there is to it."</p> - -<p>"Can't all <i>what</i>?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose.</p> - -<p>"Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh. He thought for a long time, and then asked, "What -mulberry bush is that?"</p> - -<p>"Bon-hommy," went on Eeyore gloomily. "French word meaning bonhommy," he -explained. "I'm not complaining, but There It Is."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus56.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Pooh sat down on a large stone, and tried to think this out. It sounded -to him like a riddle, and he was never much good at riddles, being a -Bear of Very Little Brain. So he sang <i>Cottleston Pie</i> instead:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,</div> - <div class="verse">A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.</div> - <div class="verse">Ask me a riddle and I reply:</div> - <div class="verse">"<i>Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.</i>"</div> -</div></div> - -<p>That was the first verse. When he had finished it, Eeyore didn't -actually say that he didn't like it, so Pooh very kindly sang the second -verse to him:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,</div> - <div class="verse">A fish can't whistle and neither can I.</div> - <div class="verse">Ask me a riddle and I reply:</div> - <div class="verse">"<i>Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie</i>."</div> -</div></div> - -<p>Eeyore still said nothing at all, so Pooh hummed the third verse quietly -to himself:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,</div> - <div class="verse">Why does a chicken, I don't know why.</div> - <div class="verse">Ask me a riddle and I reply:</div> - <div class="verse">"<i>Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie</i>."</div> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus57.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go -gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself."</p> - -<p>"I am," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Some can," said Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"Why, what's the matter?"</p> - -<p>"<i>Is</i> anything the matter?"</p> - -<p>"You seem so sad, Eeyore."</p> - -<p>"Sad? Why should I be sad? It's my birthday. The happiest day of the -year."</p> - -<p>"Your birthday?" said Pooh in great surprise.</p> - -<p>"Of course it is. Can't you see? Look at all the presents I have had." -He waved a foot from side to side. "Look at the birthday cake. Candles -and pink sugar."</p> - -<p>Pooh looked—first to the right and then to the left.</p> - -<p>"Presents?" said Pooh. "Birthday cake?" said Pooh. "<i>Where?</i>"</p> - -<p>"Can't you see them?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Neither can I," said Eeyore. "Joke," he explained. "Ha ha!"</p> - -<p>Pooh scratched his head, being a little puzzled by all this.</p> - -<p>"But is it really your birthday?" he asked.</p> - -<p>"It is."</p> - -<p>"Oh! Well, Many happy returns of the day, Eeyore."</p> - -<p>"And many happy returns to you, Pooh Bear."</p> - -<p>"But it isn't <i>my</i> birthday."</p> - -<p>"No, it's mine."</p> - -<p>"But you said 'Many happy returns'——"</p> - -<p>"Well, why not? You don't always want to be miserable on my birthday, do -you?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, I see," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"It's bad enough," said Eeyore, almost breaking down, "being miserable -myself, what with no presents and no cake and no candles, and no proper -notice taken of me at all, but if everybody else is going to be -miserable too——"</p> - -<p>This was too much for Pooh. "Stay there!" he called to Eeyore, as he -turned and hurried back home as quick as he could; for he felt that he -must get poor Eeyore a present of <i>some</i> sort at once, and he could -always think of a proper one afterwards.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus58.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Outside his house he found Piglet, jumping up and down trying to reach -the knocker.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Piglet," he said.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"What are <i>you</i> trying to do?"</p> - -<p>"I was trying to reach the knocker," said Piglet. "I just came -round——"</p> - -<p>"Let me do it for you," said Pooh kindly. So he reached up and knocked -at the door. "I have just seen Eeyore," he began, "and poor Eeyore is in -a Very Sad Condition, because it's his birthday, and nobody has taken -any notice of it, and he's very Gloomy—you know what Eeyore is—and -there he was, and——What a long time whoever lives here is answering -this door." And he knocked again.</p> - -<p>"But Pooh," said Piglet, "it's your own house!"</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh. "So it is," he said. "Well, let's go in."</p> - -<p>So in they went. The first thing Pooh did was to go to the cupboard to -see if he had quite a small jar of honey left; and he had, so he took it -down.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus59.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I'm giving this to Eeyore," he explained, "as a present. What are <i>you</i> -going to give?"</p> - -<p>"Couldn't I give it too?" said Piglet. "From both of us?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Pooh. "That would <i>not</i> be a good plan."</p> - -<p>"All right, then, I'll give him a balloon. I've got one left from my -party. I'll go and get it now, shall I?"</p> - -<p>"That, Piglet, is a <i>very</i> good idea. It is just what Eeyore wants to -cheer him up. Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon."</p> - -<p>So off Piglet trotted; and in the other direction went Pooh, with his -jar of honey.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus60.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>It was a warm day, and he had a long way to go. He hadn't gone more than -half-way when a sort of funny feeling began to creep all over him. It -began at the tip of his nose and trickled all through him and out at the -soles of his feet. It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, -"Now then, Pooh, time for a little something."</p> - -<p>"Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I didn't know it was as late as that." So he -sat down and took the top off his jar of honey. "Lucky I brought this -with me," he thought. "Many a bear going out on a warm day like this -would never have thought of bringing a little something with him." And -he began to eat.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus61.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Now let me see," he thought, as he took his last lick of the inside of -the jar, "where was I going? Ah, yes, Eeyore." He got up slowly.</p> - -<p>And then, suddenly, he remembered. He had eaten Eeyore's birthday -present!</p> - -<p>"<i>Bother!</i>" said Pooh. "What <i>shall</i> I do? I <i>must</i> give him -<i>something</i>."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus62.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>For a little while he couldn't think of anything. Then he thought: -"Well, it's a very nice pot, even if there's no honey in it, and if I -washed it clean, and got somebody to write '<i>A Happy Birthday</i>' on it, -Eeyore could keep things in it, which might be Useful." So, as he was -just passing the Hundred Acre Wood, he went inside to call on Owl, who -lived there.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Owl," he said.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Pooh," said Owl.</p> - -<p>"Many happy returns of Eeyore's birthday," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Oh, is that what it is?"</p> - -<p>"What are you giving him, Owl?"</p> - -<p>"What are <i>you</i> giving him, Pooh?"</p> - -<p>"I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In, and I wanted to ask -you——"</p> - -<p>"Is this it?" said Owl, taking it out of Pooh's paw.</p> - -<p>"Yes, and I wanted to ask you——"</p> - -<p>"Somebody has been keeping honey in it," said Owl.</p> - -<p>"You can keep <i>anything</i> in it," said Pooh earnestly. "It's Very Useful -like that. And I wanted to ask you——"</p> - -<p>"You ought to write '<i>A Happy Birthday</i>' on it."</p> - -<p>"<i>That</i> was what I wanted to ask you," said Pooh. "Because my spelling -is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the -wrong places. Would <i>you</i> write 'A Happy Birthday' on it for me?"</p> - -<p>"It's a nice pot," said Owl, looking at it all round. "Couldn't I give -it too? From both of us?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Pooh. "That would <i>not</i> be a good plan. Now I'll just wash it -first, and then you can write on it."</p> - -<p>Well, he washed the pot out, and dried it, while Owl licked the end of -his pencil, and wondered how to spell "birthday."</p> - -<p>"Can you read, Pooh?" he asked a little anxiously. "There's a notice -about knocking and ringing outside my door, which Christopher Robin -wrote. Could you read it?"</p> - -<p>"Christopher Robin told me what it said, and <i>then</i> I could."</p> - -<p>"Well, I'll tell you what <i>this</i> says, and then you'll be able to."</p> - -<p>So Owl wrote ... and this is what he wrote:</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus63.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph1">HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY.</p> - -<p>Pooh looked on admiringly.</p> - -<p>"I'm just saying 'A Happy Birthday'," said Owl carelessly.</p> - -<p>"It's a nice long one," said Pooh, very much impressed by it.</p> - -<p>"Well, <i>actually</i>, of course, I'm saying 'A Very Happy Birthday with -love from Pooh.' Naturally it takes a good deal of pencil to say a long -thing like that."</p> - -<p>"Oh, I see," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>While all this was happening, Piglet had gone back to his own house to -get Eeyore's balloon. He held it very tightly against himself, so that -it shouldn't blow away, and he ran as fast as he could so as to get to -Eeyore before Pooh did; for he thought that he would like to be the -first one to give a present, just as if he had thought of it without -being told by anybody. And running along, and thinking how pleased -Eeyore would be, he didn't look where he was going ... and suddenly he -put his foot in a rabbit hole, and fell down flat on his face.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus64.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>BANG!!!???***!!!</p> - -<p>Piglet lay there, wondering what had happened. At first he thought that -the whole world had blown up; and then he thought that perhaps only the -Forest part of it had; and then he thought that perhaps only <i>he</i> had, -and he was now alone in the moon or somewhere, and would never see -Christopher Robin or Pooh or Eeyore again. And then he thought, "Well, -even if I'm in the moon, I needn't be face downwards all the time," so -he got cautiously up and looked about him.</p> - -<p>He was still in the Forest!</p> - -<p>"Well, that's funny," he thought. "I wonder what that bang was. I -couldn't have made such a noise just falling down. And where's my -balloon? And what's that small piece of damp rag doing?"</p> - -<p>It was the balloon!</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear!" said Piglet "Oh, dear, oh, dearie, dearie, dear! Well, it's -too late now. I can't go back, and I haven't another balloon, and -perhaps Eeyore doesn't <i>like</i> balloons so <i>very</i> much."</p> - -<p>So he trotted on, rather sadly now, and down he came to the side of the -stream where Eeyore was, and called out to him.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Eeyore," shouted Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Little Piglet," said Eeyore. "If it <i>is</i> a good morning," -he said. "Which I doubt," said he. "Not that it matters," he said.</p> - -<p>"Many happy returns of the day," said Piglet, having now got closer.</p> - -<p>Eeyore stopped looking at himself in the stream, and turned to stare at -Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Just say that again," he said.</p> - -<p>"Many hap——"</p> - -<p>"Wait a moment."</p> - -<p>Balancing on three legs, he began to bring his fourth leg very -cautiously up to his ear. "I did this yesterday," he explained, as he -fell down for the third time. "It's quite easy. It's so as I can hear -better.... There, that's done it! Now then, what were you saying?" He -pushed his ear forward with his hoof.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus65.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Many happy returns of the day," said Piglet again.</p> - -<p>"Meaning me?"</p> - -<p>"Of course, Eeyore."</p> - -<p>"My birthday?"</p> - -<p>"Yes."</p> - -<p>"Me having a real birthday?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, Eeyore, and I've brought you a present."</p> - -<p>Eeyore took down his right hoof from his right ear, turned round, and -with great difficulty put up his left hoof.</p> - -<p>"I must have that in the other ear," he said. "Now then."</p> - -<p>"A present," said Piglet very loudly.</p> - -<p>"Meaning me again?"</p> - -<p>"Yes."</p> - -<p>"My birthday still?"</p> - -<p>"Of course, Eeyore."</p> - -<p>"Me going on having a real birthday?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, Eeyore, and I brought you a balloon."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus66.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"<i>Balloon?</i>" said Eeyore. "You did say balloon? One of those big -coloured things you blow up? Gaiety, song-and-dance, here we are and -there we are?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, but I'm afraid—I'm very sorry, Eeyore—but when I was running -along to bring it you, I fell down."</p> - -<p>"Dear, dear, how unlucky! You ran too fast, I expect. You didn't hurt -yourself, Little Piglet?"</p> - -<p>"No, but I—I—oh, Eeyore, I burst the balloon!"</p> - -<p>There was a very long silence.</p> - -<p>"My balloon?" said Eeyore at last.</p> - -<p>Piglet nodded.</p> - -<p>"My birthday balloon?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, Eeyore," said Piglet sniffing a little. "Here it is. With—with -many happy returns of the day." And he gave Eeyore the small piece of -damp rag.</p> - -<p>"Is this it?" said Eeyore, a little surprised.</p> - -<p>Piglet nodded.</p> - -<p>"My present?"</p> - -<p>Piglet nodded again.</p> - -<p>"The balloon?"</p> - -<p>"Yes."</p> - -<p>"Thank you, Piglet," said Eeyore. "You don't mind my asking," he went -on, "but what colour was this balloon when it—when it <i>was</i> a balloon?"</p> - -<p>"Red."</p> - -<p>"I just wondered.... Red," he murmured to himself. "My favourite -colour.... How big was it?"</p> - -<p>"About as big as me."</p> - -<p>"I just wondered.... About as big as Piglet," he said to himself -sadly. "My favourite size. Well, well."</p> - -<p>Piglet felt very miserable, and didn't know what to say. He was still -opening his mouth to begin something, and then deciding that it wasn't -any good saying <i>that</i>, when he heard a shout from the other side of the -river, and there was Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Many happy returns of the day," called out Pooh, forgetting that he had -said it already.</p> - -<p>"Thank you, Pooh, I'm having them," said Eeyore gloomily.</p> - -<p>"I've brought you a little present," said Pooh excitedly.</p> - -<p>"I've had it," said Eeyore.</p> - -<p>Pooh had now splashed across the stream to Eeyore, and Piglet was -sitting a little way off, his head in his paws, snuffling to himself.</p> - -<p>"It's a Useful Pot," said Pooh. "Here it is. And it's got 'A Very Happy -Birthday with love from Pooh' written on it. That's what all that -writing is. And it's for putting things in. There!"</p> - -<p>When Eeyore saw the pot, he became quite excited.</p> - -<p>"Why!" he said. "I believe my Balloon will just go into that Pot!"</p> - -<p>"Oh, no, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Balloons are much too big to go into Pots. -What you do with a balloon is, you hold the ballon——"</p> - -<p>"Not mine," said Eeyore proudly. "Look, Piglet!" And as Piglet looked -sorrowfully round, Eeyore picked the balloon up with his teeth, and -placed it carefully in the pot; picked it out and put it on the ground; -and then picked it up again and put it carefully back.</p> - -<p>"So it does!" said Pooh. "It goes in!"</p> - -<p>"So it does!" said Piglet. "And it comes out!"</p> - -<p>"Doesn't it?" said Eeyore. "It goes in and out like anything."</p> - -<p>"I'm very glad," said Pooh happily, "that I thought of giving you a -Useful Pot to put things in."</p> - -<p>"I'm very glad," said Piglet happily, "that I thought of giving you -Something to put in a Useful Pot."</p> - -<p>But Eeyore wasn't listening. He was taking the balloon out, and putting -it back again, as happy as could be....</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus67.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"And didn't <i>I</i> give him anything?" asked Christopher Robin sadly.</p> - -<p>"Of course you did," I said. "You gave him—don't you remember—a -little—a little——"</p> - -<p>"I gave him a box of paints to paint things with."</p> - -<p>"That was it."</p> - -<p>"Why didn't I give it to him in the morning?"</p> - -<p>"You were so busy getting his party ready for him. He had a cake with -icing on the top, and three candles, and his name in pink sugar, -and——"</p> - -<p>"Yes, <i>I</i> remember," said Christopher Robin.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VII" id="CHAPTER_VII"></a>CHAPTER VII</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH KANGA AND BABY ROO COME TO THE FOREST, AND PIGLET HAS A BATH</h3> - - -<p>Nobody seemed to know where they came from, but there they were in the -Forest: Kanga and Baby Roo. When Pooh asked Christopher Robin, "How did -they come here?" Christopher Robin said, "In the Usual Way, if you know -what I mean, Pooh," and Pooh, who didn't, said "Oh!" Then he nodded his -head twice and said, "In the Usual Way. Ah!" Then he went to call upon -his friend Piglet to see what <i>he</i> thought about it. And at Piglet's -house he found Rabbit. So they all talked about it together.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus68.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"What I don't like about it is this," said Rabbit. "Here are we—you, -Pooh, and you, Piglet, and Me—and suddenly——"</p> - -<p>"And Eeyore," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"And Eeyore—and then suddenly——"</p> - -<p>"And Owl," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"And Owl—and then all of a sudden——"</p> - -<p>"Oh, and Eeyore," said Pooh. "I was forgetting <i>him</i>."</p> - -<p>"Here—we—are," said Rabbit very slowly and carefully, "all—of—us, -and then, suddenly, we wake up one morning and, what do we find? We find -a Strange Animal among us. An animal of whom we have never even heard -before! An animal who carries her family about with her in her pocket! -Suppose <i>I</i> carried <i>my</i> family about with me in <i>my</i> pocket, how many -pockets should I want?"</p> - -<p>"Sixteen," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Seventeen, isn't it?" said Rabbit. "And one more for a -handkerchief—that's eighteen. Eighteen pockets in one suit! I haven't -time."</p> - -<p>There was a long and thoughtful silence ... and then Pooh, who had -been frowning very hard for some minutes, said: "<i>I</i> make it fifteen."</p> - -<p>"What?" said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>"Fifteen."</p> - -<p>"Fifteen what?"</p> - -<p>"Your family."</p> - -<p>"What about them?"</p> - -<p>Pooh rubbed his nose and said that he thought Rabbit had been talking -about his family.</p> - -<p>"Did I?" said Rabbit carelessly.</p> - -<p>"Yes, you said——"</p> - -<p>"Never mind, Pooh," said Piglet impatiently.</p> - -<p>"The question is, What are we to do about Kanga?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, I see," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"The best way," said Rabbit, "would be this. The best way would be to -steal Baby Roo and hide him, and then when Kanga says, 'Where's Baby -Roo?' we say, '<i>Aha!</i>'"</p> - -<p>"<i>Aha!</i>" said Pooh, practising. "<i>Aha! Aha!</i> ... Of course," he went -on, "we could say 'Aha!' even if we hadn't stolen Baby Roo."</p> - -<p>"Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain."</p> - -<p>"I know," said Pooh humbly.</p> - -<p>"We say '<i>Aha!</i>' so that Kanga knows that <i>we</i> know where Baby Roo is. -'<i>Aha!</i>' means 'We'll tell you where Baby Roo is, if you promise to go -away from the Forest and never come back.' Now don't talk while I -think."</p> - -<p>Pooh went into a corner and tried saying 'Aha!' in that sort of voice. -Sometimes it seemed to him that it did mean what Rabbit said, and -sometimes it seemed to him that it didn't. "I suppose it's just -practice," he thought. "I wonder if Kanga will have to practise too so -as to understand it."</p> - -<p>"There's just one thing," said Piglet, fidgeting a bit. "I was talking -to Christopher Robin, and he said that a Kanga was Generally Regarded as -One of the Fiercer Animals. I am not frightened of Fierce Animals in the -ordinary way, but it is well known that, if One of the Fiercer Animals -is Deprived of Its Young, it becomes as fierce as Two of the Fiercer -Animals. In which case '<i>Aha!</i>' is perhaps a <i>foolish</i> thing to say."</p> - -<p>"Piglet," said Rabbit, taking out a pencil, and licking the end of it, -"you haven't any pluck."</p> - -<p>"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're -only a Very Small Animal."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus69.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said:</p> - -<p>"It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in -the adventure before us."</p> - -<p>Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful, that he forgot to be -frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were -only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an -Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to -begin being useful at once.</p> - -<p>"What about me?" said Pooh sadly. "I suppose <i>I</i> shan't be useful?"</p> - -<p>"Never mind, Pooh," said Piglet comfortingly. "Another time perhaps."</p> - -<p>"Without Pooh," said Rabbit solemnly as he sharpened his pencil, "the -adventure would be impossible."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Piglet, and tried not to look disappointed. But Pooh went -into a corner of the room and said proudly to himself, "Impossible -without Me! <i>That</i> sort of Bear."</p> - -<p>"Now listen all of you," said Rabbit when he had finished writing, and -Pooh and Piglet sat listening very eagerly with their mouths open. This -was what Rabbit read out:</p> - -<p class="ph1">PLAN TO CAPTURE BABY ROO</p> - -<table summary="plan"> -<tr><td>1.</td><td> <i>General Remarks.</i> Kanga runs faster than any of Us, even Me.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>2.</td><td> <i>More General Remarks.</i> Kanga never takes her eye off Baby Roo, except when he's safely buttoned up in her pocket.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>3.</td><td> <i>Therefore.</i> If we are to capture Baby Roo, we must get a Long Start, because Kanga runs faster than any of Us, even Me. -(<i>See</i> 1.)</td></tr> - -<tr><td>4.</td><td> <i>A Thought.</i> If Roo had jumped out of Kanga's pocket and Piglet had jumped in, Kanga wouldn't know the difference, because Piglet is a Very Small Animal.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>5.</td><td> Like Roo.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>6.</td><td> But Kanga would have to be looking the other way first, so as not to see Piglet jumping in.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>7.</td><td> See 2.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>8.</td><td> <i>Another Thought.</i> But if Pooh was talking to her very excitedly, she <i>might</i> look the other way for a moment.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>9.</td><td> And then I could run away with Roo.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>10.</td><td> Quickly.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>11.</td><td> <i>And Kanga wouldn't discover the difference until Afterwards.</i></td></tr> - -</table> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus70.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Well, Rabbit read this out proudly, and for a little while after he had -read it nobody said anything. And then Piglet, who had been opening and -shutting his mouth without making any noise, managed to say very -huskily:</p> - -<p>"And—Afterwards?"</p> - -<p>"How do you mean?"</p> - -<p>"When Kanga <i>does</i> Discover the Difference?"</p> - -<p>"Then we all say '<i>Aha!</i>'"</p> - -<p>"All three of us?"</p> - -<p>"Yes."</p> - -<p>"Oh!"</p> - -<p>"Why, what's the trouble, Piglet?"</p> - -<p>"Nothing," said Piglet, "as long as <i>we all three</i> say it. As long as we -all three say it," said Piglet, "I don't mind," he said, "but I -shouldn't care to say '<i>Aha!</i>' by myself. It wouldn't sound <i>nearly</i> so -well. By the way," he said, "you <i>are</i> quite sure about what you said -about the winter months?"</p> - -<p>"The winter months?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, only being Fierce in the Winter Months."</p> - -<p>"Oh, yes, yes, that's all right. Well, Pooh? You see what you have to -do?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Pooh Bear. "Not yet," he said. "What <i>do</i> I do?"</p> - -<p>"Well, you just have to talk very hard to Kanga so as she doesn't notice -anything."</p> - -<p>"Oh! What about?"</p> - -<p>"Anything you like."</p> - -<p>"You mean like telling her a little bit of poetry or something?"</p> - -<p>"That's it," said Rabbit. "Splendid. Now come along."</p> - -<p>So they all went out to look for Kanga.</p> - -<p>Kanga and Roo were spending a quiet afternoon in a sandy part of the -Forest. Baby Roo was practising very small jumps in the sand, and -falling down mouse-holes and climbing out of them, and Kanga was -fidgeting about and saying "Just one more jump, dear, and then we must -go home." And at that moment who should come stumping up the hill but -Pooh.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus71.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Good afternoon, Kanga."</p> - -<p>"Good afternoon, Pooh."</p> - -<p>"Look at me jumping," squeaked Roo, and fell into another mouse-hole.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Roo, my little fellow!"</p> - -<p>"We were just going home," said Kanga. "Good afternoon, Rabbit. Good -afternoon, Piglet."</p> - -<p>Rabbit and Piglet, who had now come up from the other side of the hill, -said "Good afternoon," and "Hallo, Roo," and Roo asked them to look at -him jumping, so they stayed and looked.</p> - -<p>And Kanga looked too....</p> - -<p>"Oh, Kanga," said Pooh, after Rabbit had winked at him twice, "I don't -know if you are interested in Poetry at all?"</p> - -<p>"Hardly at all," said Kanga.</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Roo, dear, just one more jump and then we must go home."</p> - -<p>There was a short silence while Roo fell down another mouse-hole.</p> - -<p>"Go on," said Rabbit in a loud whisper behind his paw.</p> - -<p>"Talking of Poetry," said Pooh, "I made up a little piece as I was -coming along. It went like this. Er—now let me see——"</p> - -<p>"Fancy!" said Kanga. "Now Roo, dear——"</p> - -<p>"You'll like this piece of poetry," said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>"You'll love it," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"You must listen very carefully," said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>"So as not to miss any of it," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Oh, yes," said Kanga, but she still looked at Baby Roo.</p> - -<p>"<i>How</i> did it go, Pooh?" said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>Pooh gave a little cough and began.</p> - - - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">LINES WRITTEN BY A BEAR OF VERY LITTLE BRAIN</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">On Monday, when the sun is hot</div> - <div class="verse">I wonder to myself a lot:</div> - <div class="verse">"Now is it true, or is it not,</div> - <div class="verse">"That what is which and which is what?"</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">On Tuesday, when it hails and snows,</div> - <div class="verse">The feeling on me grows and grows</div> - <div class="verse">That hardly anybody knows</div> - <div class="verse">If those are these or these are those.</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,</div> - <div class="verse">And I have nothing else to do,</div> - <div class="verse">I sometimes wonder if it's true</div> - <div class="verse">That who is what and what is who.</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">On Thursday, when it starts to freeze</div> - <div class="verse">And hoar-frost twinkles on the trees,</div> - <div class="verse">How very readily one sees</div> - <div class="verse">That these are whose—but whose are these?</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">On Friday——</div> -</div></div> - -<p>"Yes, it is, isn't it?" said Kanga, not waiting to hear what happened on -Friday. "Just one more jump, Roo, dear, and then we really <i>must</i> be -going."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus72.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Rabbit gave Pooh a hurrying-up sort of nudge.</p> - -<p>"Talking of Poetry," said Pooh quickly, "have you ever noticed that tree -right over there?"</p> - -<p>"Where?" said Kanga. "Now, Roo——"</p> - -<p>"Right over there," said Pooh, pointing behind Kanga's back.</p> - -<p>"No," said Kanga. "Now jump in, Roo, dear, and we'll go home."</p> - -<p>"You ought to look at that tree right over there," said Rabbit. "Shall I -lift you in, Roo?" And he picked up Roo in his paws.</p> - -<p>"I can see a bird in it from here," said Pooh. "Or is it a fish?"</p> - -<p>"You ought to see that bird from here," said Rabbit. "Unless it's a -fish."</p> - -<p>"It isn't a fish, it's a bird," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"So it is," said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>"Is it a starling or a blackbird?" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"That's the whole question," said Rabbit. "Is it a blackbird or a -starling?"</p> - -<p>And then at last Kanga did turn her head to look. And the moment that -her head was turned, Rabbit said in a loud voice "In you go, Roo!" and -in jumped Piglet into Kanga's pocket, and off scampered Rabbit, with Roo -in his paws, as fast as he could.</p> - -<p>"Why, where's Rabbit?" said Kanga, turning round again. "Are you all -right, Roo, dear?"</p> - -<p>Piglet made a squeaky Roo-noise from the bottom of Kanga's pocket.</p> - -<p>"Rabbit had to go away," said Pooh. "I think he thought of something he -had to go and see about suddenly."</p> - -<p>"And Piglet?"</p> - -<p>"I think Piglet thought of something at the same time. Suddenly."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus73.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Well, we must be getting home," said Kanga. "Good-bye, Pooh." And in -three large jumps she was gone.</p> - -<p>Pooh looked after her as she went.</p> - -<p>"I wish I could jump like that," he thought. "Some can and some can't. -That's how it is."</p> - -<p>But there were moments when Piglet wished that Kanga couldn't. Often, -when he had had a long walk home through the Forest, he had wished that -he were a bird; but now he thought jerkily to himself at the bottom of -Kanga's pocket,</p> - -<p><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">this</span> <span style="margin-left: 11.9em;">take</span></p> -<p>"If <span style="margin-left: 2em;">is</span> <span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">shall</span> <span style="margin-left: 2.6em;">really</span> <span style="margin-left: 2.3em;">to</span></p> -<p><span style="margin-left: 4.4em;">flying I</span> <span style="margin-left: 2.4em;"></span>never <span style="margin-left: 6.2em;">it.</span>"</p> - -<p>And as he went up in the air he said, "<i>Ooooooo!</i>" and as he came down -he said, "<i>Ow!</i>" And he was saying, "<i>Ooooooo-ow, Ooooooo-ow, -Ooooooo-ow</i>" all the way to Kanga's house.</p> - -<p>Of course as soon as Kanga unbuttoned her pocket, she saw what had -happened. Just for a moment, she thought she was frightened, and then -she knew she wasn't; for she felt quite sure that Christopher Robin -would never let any harm happen to Roo. So she said to herself, "If they -are having a joke with me, I will have a joke with them."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus74.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Now then, Roo, dear," she said, as she took Piglet out of her pocket. -"Bed-time."</p> - -<p>"<i>Aha!</i>" said Piglet, as well as he could after his Terrifying Journey. -But it wasn't a very good "<i>Aha!</i>" and Kanga didn't seem to understand -what it meant.</p> - -<p>"Bath first," said Kanga in a cheerful voice.</p> - -<p>"<i>Aha!</i>" said Piglet again, looking round anxiously for the others. But -the others weren't there. Rabbit was playing with Baby Roo in his own -house, and feeling more fond of him every minute, and Pooh, who had -decided to be a Kanga, was still at the sandy place on the top of the -Forest, practising jumps.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus75.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I am not at all sure," said Kanga in a thoughtful voice, "that it -wouldn't be a good idea to have a <i>cold</i> bath this evening. Would you -like that, Roo, dear?"</p> - -<p>Piglet, who had never been really fond of baths, shuddered a long -indignant shudder, and said in as brave a voice as he could:</p> - -<p>"Kanga, I see that the time has come to spleak painly."</p> - -<p>"Funny little Roo," said Kanga, as she got the bath-water ready.</p> - -<p>"I am <i>not</i> Roo," said Piglet loudly. "I am Piglet!"</p> - -<p>"Yes, dear, yes," said Kanga soothingly. "And imitating Piglet's voice -too! So clever of him," she went on, as she took a large bar of yellow -soap out of the cupboard. "What <i>will</i> he be doing next?"</p> - -<p>"Can't you <i>see</i>?" shouted Piglet. "Haven't you got <i>eyes</i>? <i>Look</i> at -me!"</p> - -<p>"I <i>am</i> looking, Roo, dear," said Kanga rather severely. "And you know -what I told you yesterday about making faces. If you go on making faces -like Piglet's, you will grow up to <i>look</i> like Piglet—and <i>then</i> think -how sorry you will be. Now then, into the bath, and don't let me have to -speak to you about it again."</p> - -<p>Before he knew where he was, Piglet was in the bath, and Kanga was -scrubbing him firmly with a large lathery flannel.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus76.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Ow!" cried Piglet. "Let me out! I'm Piglet!"</p> - -<p>"Don't open the mouth, dear, or the soap goes in," said Kanga. "There! -What did I tell you?"</p> - -<p>"You—you—you did it on purpose," spluttered Piglet, as soon as he -could speak again ... and then accidentally had another mouthful of -lathery flannel.</p> - -<p>"That's right, dear, don't say anything," said Kanga, and in another -minute Piglet was out of the bath, and being rubbed dry with a towel.</p> - -<p>"Now," said Kanga, "there's your medicine, and then bed."</p> - -<p>"W-w-what medicine?" said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"To make you grow big and strong, dear. You don't want to grow up small -and weak like Piglet, do you? Well, then!"</p> - -<p>At that moment there was a knock at the door.</p> - -<p>"Come in," said Kanga, and in came Christopher Robin.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus77.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Christopher Robin, Christopher Robin!" cried Piglet. "Tell Kanga who I -am! She keeps saying I'm Roo. I'm <i>not</i> Roo, am I?"</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin looked at him very carefully, and shook his head.</p> - -<p>"You can't be Roo," he said, "because I've just seen Roo playing in -Rabbit's house."</p> - -<p>"Well!" said Kanga. "Fancy that! Fancy my making a mistake like that."</p> - -<p>"There you are!" said Piglet. "I told you so. I'm Piglet."</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin shook his head again.</p> - -<p>"Oh, you're not Piglet," he said. "I know Piglet well, and he's <i>quite</i> -a different colour."</p> - -<p>Piglet began to say that this was because he had just had a bath, and -then he thought that perhaps he wouldn't say that, and as he opened his -mouth to say something else, Kanga slipped the medicine spoon in, and -then patted him on the back and told him that it was really quite a nice -taste when you got used to it.</p> - -<p>"I knew it wasn't Piglet," said Kanga. "I wonder who it can be."</p> - -<p>"Perhaps it's some relation of Pooh's," said Christopher Robin. "What -about a nephew or an uncle or something?"</p> - -<p>Kanga agreed that this was probably what it was, and said that they -would have to call it by some name.</p> - -<p>"I shall call it Pootel," said Christopher Robin. "Henry Pootel for -short."</p> - -<p>And just when it was decided, Henry Pootel wriggled out of Kanga's arms -and jumped to the ground. To his great joy Christopher Robin had left -the door open. Never had Henry Pootel Piglet run so fast as he ran then, -and he didn't stop running until he had got quite close to his house. -But when he was a hundred yards away he stopped running, and rolled the -rest of the way home, so as to get his own nice comfortable colour -again....</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus78.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>So Kanga and Roo stayed in the Forest. And every Tuesday Roo spent the -day with his great friend Rabbit, and every Tuesday Kanga spent the day -with her great friend Pooh, teaching him to jump, and every Tuesday -Piglet spent the day with his great friend Christopher Robin. So they -were all happy again.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VIII" id="CHAPTER_VIII"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN LEADS AN EXPOTITION TO THE NORTH POLE</h3> - - -<p>One fine day Pooh had stumped up to the top of the Forest to see if -his friend Christopher Robin was interested in Bears at all. At -breakfast that morning (a simple meal of marmalade spread lightly over a -honeycomb or two) he had suddenly thought of a new song. It began like -this:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">"<i>Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear.</i>"</div> -</div></div> - -<p>When he had got as far as this, he scratched his head, and thought to -himself "That's a very good start for a song, but what about the second -line?" He tried singing "Ho," two or three times, but it didn't seem to -help. "Perhaps it would be better," he thought, "if I sang Hi for the -life of a Bear." So he sang it ... but it wasn't. "Very well, then," -he said, "I shall sing that first line twice, and perhaps if I sing it -very quickly, I shall find myself singing the third and fourth lines -before I have time to think of them, and that will be a Good Song. Now -then:"</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!</div> - <div class="verse">I don't much mind if it rains or snows,</div> - <div class="verse">'Cos I've got a lot of honey on my nice new nose,</div> - <div class="verse">I don't much care if it snows or thaws,</div> - <div class="verse">'Cos I've got a lot of honey on my nice clean paws!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Sing Ho! for a Bear!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Sing Ho! for a Pooh!</div> - <div class="verse">And I'll have a little something in an hour or two!</div> -</div></div> - -<p>He was so pleased with this song that he sang it all the way to the top -of the Forest, "and if I go on singing it much longer," he thought, "it -will be time for the little something, and then the last line won't be -true." So he turned it into a hum instead.</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big -Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was -going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of -his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look Ready -for Anything.</p> - -<p>"Good-morning, Christopher Robin," he called out.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Pooh Bear. I can't get this boot on."</p> - -<p>"That's bad," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Do you think you could very kindly lean against me, 'cos I keep pulling -so hard that I fall over backwards."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus79.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Pooh sat down, dug his feet into the ground, and pushed hard against -Christopher Robin's back, and Christopher Robin pushed hard against his, -and pulled and pulled at his boot until he had got it on.</p> - -<p>"And that's that," said Pooh. "What do we do next?"</p> - -<p>"We are all going on an Expedition," said Christopher Robin, as he got -up and brushed himself. "Thank you, Pooh."</p> - -<p>"Going on an Expotition?" said Pooh eagerly. "I don't think I've ever -been on one of those. Where are we going to on this Expotition?"</p> - -<p>"Expedition, silly old Bear. It's got an 'x' in it."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh. "I know." But he didn't really.</p> - -<p>"We're going to discover the North Pole."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh again. "What <i>is</i> the North Pole?" he asked.</p> - -<p>"It's just a thing you discover," said Christopher Robin carelessly, not -being quite sure himself.</p> - -<p>"Oh! I see," said Pooh. "Are bears any good at discovering it?"</p> - -<p>"Of course they are. And Rabbit and Kanga and all of you. It's an -Expedition. That's what an Expedition means. A long line of everybody. -You'd better tell the others to get ready, while I see if my gun's all -right. And we must all bring Provisions."</p> - -<p>"Bring what?"</p> - -<p>"Things to eat."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh happily. "I thought you said Provisions. I'll go and -tell them." And he stumped off.</p> - -<p>The first person he met was Rabbit.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus80.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?"</p> - -<p>"Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens."</p> - -<p>"I've got a message for you."</p> - -<p>"I'll give it to him."</p> - -<p>"We're all going on an Expotition with Christopher Robin!"</p> - -<p>"What is it when we're on it?"</p> - -<p>"A sort of boat, I think," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Oh! that sort."</p> - -<p>"Yes. And we're going to discover a Pole or something. Or was it a Mole? -Anyhow we're going to discover it."</p> - -<p>"We are, are we?" said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>"Yes. And we've got to bring Pro—things to eat with us. In case we want -to eat them. Now I'm going down to Piglet's. Tell Kanga, will you?"</p> - -<p>He left Rabbit and hurried down to Piglet's house. The Piglet was -sitting on the ground at the door of his house blowing happily at a -dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, -sometime or never. He had just discovered that it would be never, and -was trying to remember what "<i>it</i>" was, and hoping it wasn't anything -nice, when Pooh came up.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus81.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Oh! Piglet," said Pooh excitedly, "we're going on an Expotition, all of -us, with things to eat. To discover something."</p> - -<p>"To discover what?" said Piglet anxiously.</p> - -<p>"Oh! just something."</p> - -<p>"Nothing fierce?"</p> - -<p>"Christopher Robin didn't say anything about fierce. He just said it had -an 'x'."</p> - -<p>"It isn't their necks I mind," said Piglet earnestly. "It's their teeth. -But if Christopher Robin is coming I don't mind anything."</p> - -<p>In a little while they were all ready at the top of the Forest, and the -Expotition started. First came Christopher Robin and Rabbit, then Piglet -and Pooh; then Kanga, with Roo in her pocket, and Owl; then Eeyore; and, -at the end, in a long line, all Rabbit's friends-and-relations.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus82.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I didn't ask them," explained Rabbit carelessly. "They just came. They -always do. They can march at the end, after Eeyore."</p> - -<p>"What I say," said Eeyore, "is that it's unsettling. I didn't want to -come on this Expo—what Pooh said. I only came to oblige. But here I -am; and if I am the end of the Expo—what we're talking about—then -let me <i>be</i> the end. But if, every time I want to sit down for a -little rest, I have to brush away half a dozen of Rabbit's smaller -friends-and-relations first, then this isn't an Expo—whatever it -is—at all, it's simply a Confused Noise. That's what <i>I</i> say."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus83.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I see what Eeyore means," said Owl. "If you ask me——"</p> - -<p>"I'm not asking anybody," said Eeyore. "I'm just telling everybody. We -can look for the North Pole, or we can play 'Here we go gathering Nuts -and May' with the end part of an ant's nest. It's all the same to me."</p> - -<p>There was a shout from the top of the line.</p> - -<p>"Come on!" called Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"Come on!" called Pooh and Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Come on!" called Owl.</p> - -<p>"We're starting," said Rabbit. "I must go." And he hurried off to the -front of the Expotition with Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"All right," said Eeyore. "We're going. Only Don't Blame Me."</p> - -<p>So off they all went to discover the Pole. And as they walked, they -chattered to each other of this and that, all except Pooh, who was -making up a song.</p> - -<p>"This is the first verse," he said to Piglet, when he was ready with it.</p> - -<p>"First verse of what?"</p> - -<p>"My song."</p> - -<p>"What song?"</p> - -<p>"This one."</p> - -<p>"Which one?"</p> - -<p>"Well, if you listen, Piglet, you'll hear it."</p> - -<p>"How do you know I'm not listening?"</p> - -<p>Pooh couldn't answer that one, so he began to sing.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">They all went off to discover the Pole,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Owl and Piglet and Rabbit and all;</div> - <div class="verse">It's a Thing you Discover, as I've been tole</div> - <div class="verse indent2">By Owl and Piglet and Rabbit and all.</div> - <div class="verse">Eeyore, Christopher Robin and Pooh</div> - <div class="verse">And Rabbit's relations all went too—</div> - <div class="verse">And where the Pole was none of them knew....</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Sing Hey! for Owl and Rabbit and all!</div> -</div></div> - -<p>"Hush!" said Christopher Robin turning round to Pooh, "we're just coming -to a Dangerous Place."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus84.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Hush!" said Pooh turning round quickly to Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Hush!" said Piglet to Kanga.</p> - -<p>"Hush!" said Kanga to Owl, while Roo said "Hush!" several times to -himself very quietly.</p> - -<p>"Hush!" said Owl to Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"<i>Hush!</i>" said Eeyore in a terrible voice to all Rabbit's -friends-and-relations, and "Hush!" they said hastily to each other all -down the line, until it got to the last one of all. And the last and -smallest friend-and-relation was so upset to find that the whole -Expotition was saying "Hush!" to <i>him</i>, that he buried himself head -downwards in a crack in the ground, and stayed there for two days until -the danger was over, and then went home in a great hurry, and lived -quietly with his Aunt ever-afterwards. His name was Alexander Beetle.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus85.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>They had come to a stream which twisted and tumbled between high rocky -banks, and Christopher Robin saw at once how dangerous it was.</p> - -<p>"It's just the place," he explained, "for an Ambush."</p> - -<p>"What sort of bush?" whispered Pooh to Piglet. "A gorse-bush?"</p> - -<p>"My dear Pooh," said Owl in his superior way, "don't you know what an -Ambush is?"</p> - -<p>"Owl," said Piglet, looking round at him severely, "Pooh's whisper was a -perfectly private whisper, and there was no need——"</p> - -<p>"An Ambush," said Owl, "is a sort of Surprise."</p> - -<p>"So is a gorse-bush sometimes," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"An Ambush, as I was about to explain to Pooh," said Piglet, "is a sort -of Surprise."</p> - -<p>"If people jump out at you suddenly, that's an Ambush," said Owl.</p> - -<p>"It's an Ambush, Pooh, when people jump at you suddenly," explained -Piglet.</p> - -<p>Pooh, who now knew what an Ambush was, said that a gorse-bush had sprung -at him suddenly one day when he fell off a tree, and he had taken six -days to get all the prickles out of himself.</p> - -<p>"We are not <i>talking</i> about gorse-bushes," said Owl a little crossly.</p> - -<p>"I am," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>They were climbing very cautiously up the stream now, going from rock to -rock, and after they had gone a little way they came to a place where -the banks widened out at each side, so that on each side of the water -there was a level strip of grass on which they could sit down and rest. -As soon as he saw this, Christopher Robin called "Halt!" and they all -sat down and rested.</p> - -<p>"I think," said Christopher Robin, "that we ought to eat all our -Provisions now, so that we shan't have so much to carry."</p> - -<p>"Eat all our what?" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"All that we've brought," said Piglet, getting to work.</p> - -<p>"That's a good idea," said Pooh, and he got to work too.</p> - -<p>"Have you all got something?" asked Christopher Robin with his mouth -full.</p> - -<p>"All except me," said Eeyore. "As Usual." He looked round at them in his -melancholy way. "I suppose none of you are sitting on a thistle by any -chance?"</p> - -<p>"I believe I am," said Pooh. "Ow!" He got up, and looked behind him. -"Yes, I was. I thought so."</p> - -<p>"Thank you, Pooh. If you've quite finished with it." He moved across to -Pooh's place, and began to eat.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus86.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"It don't do them any Good, you know, sitting on them," he went on, as -he looked up munching. "Takes all the Life out of them. Remember that -another time, all of you. A little Consideration, a little Thought for -Others, makes all the difference."</p> - -<p>As soon as he had finished his lunch Christopher Robin whispered to -Rabbit, and Rabbit said "Yes, yes, of course," and they walked a little -way up the stream together.</p> - -<p>"I didn't want the others to hear," said Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"Quite so," said Rabbit, looking important.</p> - -<p>"It's—I wondered—It's only—Rabbit, I suppose <i>you</i> don't know, What -does the North Pole <i>look</i> like?"</p> - -<p>"Well," said Rabbit, stroking his whiskers. "Now you're asking me."</p> - -<p>"I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten," said Christopher Robin -carelessly.</p> - -<p>"It's a funny thing," said Rabbit, "but I've sort of forgotten too, -although I did know <i>once</i>."</p> - -<p>"I suppose it's just a pole stuck in the ground?"</p> - -<p>"Sure to be a pole," said Rabbit, "because of calling it a pole, and if -it's a pole, well, I should think it would be sticking in the ground, -shouldn't you, because there'd be nowhere else to stick it."</p> - -<p>"Yes, that's what I thought."</p> - -<p>"The only thing," said Rabbit, "is, <i>where is it sticking</i>?"</p> - -<p>"That's what we're looking for," said Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>They went back to the others. Piglet was lying on his back, sleeping -peacefully. Roo was washing his face and paws in the stream, while Kanga -explained to everybody proudly that this was the first time he had ever -washed his face himself, and Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting -Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopædia and Rhododendron to which -Kanga wasn't listening.</p> - -<p>"I don't hold with all this washing," grumbled Eeyore. "This modern -Behind-the-ears nonsense. What do <i>you</i> think, Pooh?"</p> - -<p>"Well," said Pooh, "<i>I</i> think——"</p> - -<p>But we shall never know what Pooh thought, for there came a sudden -squeak from Roo, a splash, and a loud cry of alarm from Kanga.</p> - -<p>"So much for <i>washing</i>," said Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"Roo's fallen in!" cried Rabbit, and he and Christopher Robin came -rushing down to the rescue.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus87.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Look at me swimming!" squeaked Roo from the middle of his pool, and was -hurried down a waterfall into the next pool.</p> - -<p>"Are you all right, Roo dear?" called Kanga anxiously.</p> - -<p>"Yes!" said Roo. "Look at me sw——" and down he went over the next -waterfall into another pool.</p> - -<p>Everybody was doing something to help. Piglet, wide awake suddenly, was -jumping up and down and making "Oo, I say" noises; Owl was explaining -that in a case of Sudden and Temporary Immersion the Important Thing was -to keep the Head Above Water; Kanga was jumping along the bank, saying -"Are you <i>sure</i> you're all right, Roo dear?" to which Roo, from whatever -pool he was in at the moment, was answering "Look at me swimming!" -Eeyore had turned round and hung his tail over the first pool into which -Roo fell, and with his back to the accident was grumbling quietly to -himself, and saying, "All this washing; but catch on to my tail, little -Roo, and you'll be all right"; and, Christopher Robin and Rabbit came -hurrying past Eeyore, and were calling out to the others in front of -them.</p> - -<p>"All right, Roo, I'm coming," called Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"Get something across the stream lower down, some of you fellows," -called Rabbit.</p> - -<p>But Pooh was getting something. Two pools below Roo he was standing with -a long pole in his paws, and Kanga came up and took one end of it, and -between them they held it across the lower part of the pool; and Roo, -still bubbling proudly, "Look at me swimming," drifted up against it, -and climbed out.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus88.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Did you see me swimming?" squeaked Roo excitedly, while Kanga scolded -him and rubbed him down. "Pooh, did you see me swimming? That's called -swimming, what I was doing. Rabbit, did you see what I was doing? -Swimming. Hallo, Piglet! I say, Piglet! What do you think I was doing! -Swimming! Christopher Robin, did you see me——"</p> - -<p>But Christopher Robin wasn't listening. He was looking at Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Pooh," he said, "where did you find that pole?"</p> - -<p>Pooh looked at the pole in his hands.</p> - -<p>"I just found it," he said. "I thought it ought to be useful. I just -picked it up."</p> - -<p>"Pooh," said Christopher Robin solemnly, "the Expedition is over. You -have found the North Pole!"</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>Eeyore was sitting with his tail in the water when they all got back to -him.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus89.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Tell Roo to be quick, somebody," he said. "My tail's getting cold. I -don't want to mention it, but I just mention it. I don't want to -complain but there it is. My tail's cold."</p> - -<p>"Here I am!" squeaked Roo.</p> - -<p>"Oh, there you are."</p> - -<p>"Did you see me swimming?"</p> - -<p>Eeyore took his tail out of the water, and swished it from side to side.</p> - -<p>"As I expected," he said. "Lost all feeling. Numbed it. That's what it's -done. Numbed it. Well, as long as nobody minds, I suppose it's all -right."</p> - -<p>"Poor old Eeyore. I'll dry it for you," said Christopher Robin, and he -took out his handkerchief and rubbed it up.</p> - -<p>"Thank you, Christopher Robin. You're the only one who seems to -understand about tails. They don't think—that's what the matter with -some of these others. They've no imagination. A tail isn't a tail to -<i>them</i>, it's just a Little Bit Extra at the back."</p> - -<p>"Never mind, Eeyore," said Christopher Robin, rubbing his hardest. "Is -<i>that</i> better?"</p> - -<p>"It's feeling more like a tail perhaps. It Belongs again, if you know -what I mean."</p> - -<p>"Hullo, Eeyore," said Pooh, coming up to them with his pole.</p> - -<p>"Hullo, Pooh. Thank you for asking, but I shall be able to use it again -in a day or two."</p> - -<p>"Use what?" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"What we are talking about."</p> - -<p>"I wasn't talking about anything," said Pooh, looking puzzled.</p> - -<p>"My mistake again. I thought you were saying how sorry you were about my -tail, being all numb, and could you do anything to help?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Pooh. "That wasn't me," he said. He thought for a little and -then suggested helpfully, "Perhaps it was somebody else."</p> - -<p>"Well, thank him for me when you see him."</p> - -<p>Pooh looked anxiously at Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"Pooh's found the North Pole," said Christopher Robin. "Isn't that -lovely?"</p> - -<p>Pooh looked modestly down.</p> - -<p>"Is that it?" said Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"Is that what we were looking for?"</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Eeyore. "Well, anyhow—it didn't rain," he said.</p> - -<p>They stuck the pole in the ground, and Christopher Robin tied a message -on to it.</p> - -<p class="ph1">NORTH POLE</p> - -<p class="ph1">DISCOVERED BY POOH</p> - -<p class="ph1">POOH FOUND IT.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus90.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Then they all went home again. And I think, but I am not quite sure, -that Roo had a hot bath and went straight to bed. But Pooh went back to -his own house, and feeling very proud of what he had done, had a little -something to revive himself.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IX" id="CHAPTER_IX"></a>CHAPTER IX</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH PIGLET IS ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY WATER</h3> - - -<p>It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet told himself that never -in all his life, and <i>he</i> was goodness knows <i>how</i> old—three, was it, -or four?—never had he seen so much rain. Days and days and days.</p> - -<p>"If only," he thought, as he looked out of the window, "I had been in -Pooh's house, or Christopher Robin's house, or Rabbit's house when it -began to rain, then I should have had Company all this time, instead of -being here all alone, with nothing to do except wonder when it will -stop." And he imagined himself with Pooh, saying, "Did you ever see such -rain, Pooh?" and Pooh saying, "Isn't it <i>awful</i>, Piglet?" and Piglet -saying, "I wonder how it is over Christopher Robin's way" and Pooh -saying, "I should think poor old Rabbit is about flooded out by this -time." It would have been jolly to talk like this, and really, it wasn't -much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn't share -them with somebody.</p> - -<p>For it was rather exciting. The little dry ditches in which Piglet had -nosed about so often had become streams, the little streams across which -he had splashed were rivers, and the river, between whose steep banks -they had played so happily, had sprawled out of its own bed and was -taking up so much room everywhere, that Piglet was beginning to wonder -whether it would be coming into <i>his</i> bed soon.</p> - -<p>"It's a little Anxious," he said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal -Entirely Surrounded by Water. Christopher Robin and Pooh could escape by -Climbing Trees, and Kanga could escape by Jumping, and Rabbit could -escape by Burrowing, and Owl could escape by Flying, and Eeyore could -escape by—by Making a Loud Noise Until Rescued, and here am I, -surrounded by water and I can't do <i>anything</i>."</p> - -<p>It went on raining, and every day the water got a little higher, until -now it was nearly up to Piglet's window ... and still he hadn't done -anything.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus91.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"There's Pooh," he thought to himself. "Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he -never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. -There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would -know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He -hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. -There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so -anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking -about It. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow -that he wouldn't mind about this. But I wonder what Christopher Robin -would do?"</p> - -<p>Then suddenly he remembered a story which Christopher Robin had told him -about a man on a desert island who had written something in a bottle and -thrown it in the sea; and Piglet thought that if he wrote something in a -bottle and threw it in the water, perhaps somebody would come and rescue -<i>him</i>!</p> - -<p>He left the window and began to search his house, all of it that wasn't -under water, and at last he found a pencil and a small piece of dry -paper, and a bottle with a cork to it. And he wrote on one side of the -paper:</p> - -<p class="ph1">HELP!<br /> -PIGLET (ME)</p> - -<p>and on the other side:</p> - -<p class="ph1">IT'S ME PIGLET, HELP HELP.</p> - -<p>Then he put the paper in the bottle, and he corked the bottle up as -tightly as he could, and he leant out of his window as far as he could -lean without falling in, and he threw the bottle as far as he could -throw—<i>splash!</i>—and in a little while it bobbed up again on the water; -and he watched it floating slowly away in the distance, until his eyes -ached with looking, and sometimes he thought it was the bottle, and -sometimes he thought it was just a ripple on the water which he was -following, and then suddenly he knew that he would never see it again -and that he had done all that he could do to save himself.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus92.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"So now," he thought, "somebody else will have to do something, and I -hope they will do it soon, because if they don't I shall have to swim, -which I can't, so I hope they do it soon." And then he gave a very long -sigh and said, "I wish Pooh were here. It's so much more friendly with -two."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>When the rain began Pooh was asleep. It rained, and it rained, and it -rained, and he slept and he slept and he slept. He had had a tiring day. -You remember how he discovered the North Pole; well, he was so proud of -this that he asked Christopher Robin if there were any other Poles such -as a Bear of Little Brain might discover.</p> - -<p>"There's a South Pole," said Christopher Robin, "and I expect there's an -East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them."</p> - -<p>Pooh was very excited when he heard this, and suggested that they should -have an Expotition to discover the East Pole, but Christopher Robin had -thought of something else to do with Kanga; so Pooh went out to discover -the East Pole by himself. Whether he discovered it or not, I forget; but -he was so tired when he got home that, in the very middle of his supper, -after he had been eating for little more than half-an-hour, he fell fast -asleep in his chair, and slept and slept and slept.</p> - -<p>Then suddenly he was dreaming. He was at the East Pole, and it was a -very cold pole with the coldest sort of snow and ice all over it. He had -found a bee-hive to sleep in, but there wasn't room for his legs, so he -had left them outside. And Wild Woozles, such as inhabit the East Pole, -came and nibbled all the fur off his legs to make nests for their Young. -And the more they nibbled, the colder his legs got, until suddenly he -woke up with an <i>Ow!</i>—and there he was, sitting in his chair with his -feet in the water, and water all round him!</p> - -<p>He splashed to his door and looked out....</p> - -<p>"This is Serious," said Pooh. "I must have an Escape."</p> - -<p>So he took his largest pot of honey and escaped with it to a broad -branch of his tree, well above the water, and then he climbed down again -and escaped with another pot ... and when the whole Escape was -finished, there was Pooh sitting on his branch, dangling his legs, and -there, beside him, were ten pots of honey....</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus93.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Two days later, there was Pooh, sitting on his branch, dangling his -legs, and there, beside him, were four pots of honey....</p> - -<p>Three days later, there was Pooh, sitting on his branch, dangling his -legs, and there beside him, was one pot of honey.</p> - -<p>Four days later, there was Pooh ...</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus94.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>And it was on the morning of the fourth day that Piglet's bottle came -floating past him, and with one loud cry of "Honey!" Pooh plunged into -the water, seized the bottle, and struggled back to his tree again.</p> - -<p>"Bother!" said Pooh, as he opened it. "All that wet for nothing. What's -that bit of paper doing?"</p> - -<p>He took it out and looked at it.</p> - -<p>"It's a Missage," he said to himself, "that's what it is. And that -letter is a 'P,' and so is that, and so is that, and 'P' means 'Pooh,' -so it's a very important Missage to me, and I can't read it. I must find -Christopher Robin or Owl or Piglet, one of those Clever Readers who can -read things, and they will tell me what this missage means. Only I can't -swim. Bother!"</p> - -<p>Then he had an idea, and I think that for a Bear of Very Little Brain, -it was a good idea. He said to himself:</p> - -<p>"If a bottle can float, then a jar can float, and if a jar floats, I can -sit on the top of it, if it's a very big jar."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus95.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>So he took his biggest jar, and corked it up. "All boats have to have a -name," he said, "so I shall call mine <i>The Floating Bear</i>." And with -these words he dropped his boat into the water and jumped in after it.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus96.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>For a little while Pooh and <i>The Floating Bear</i> were uncertain as to -which of them was meant to be on the top, but after trying one or two -different positions, they settled down with <i>The Floating Bear</i> -underneath and Pooh triumphantly astride it, paddling vigorously with -his feet.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus97.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Christopher Robin lived at the very top of the Forest. It rained, and it -rained, and it rained, but the water couldn't come up to <i>his</i> house. It -was rather jolly to look down into the valleys and see the water all -round him, but it rained so hard that he stayed indoors most of the -time, and thought about things. Every morning he went out with his -umbrella and put a stick in the place where the water came up to, and -every next morning he went out and couldn't see his stick any more, so -he put another stick in the place where the water came up to, and then -he walked home again, and each morning he had a shorter way to walk than -he had had the morning before. On the morning of the fifth day he saw -the water all round him, and knew that for the first time in his life he -was on a real island. Which was very exciting.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus98.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>It was on this morning that Owl came flying over the water to say "How -do you do," to his friend Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"I say, Owl," said Christopher Robin, "isn't this fun? I'm on an -island!"</p> - -<p>"The atmospheric conditions have been very unfavourable lately," said -Owl.</p> - -<p>"The what?"</p> - -<p>"It has been raining," explained Owl.</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Christopher Robin. "It has."</p> - -<p>"The flood-level has reached an unprecedented height."</p> - -<p>"The who?"</p> - -<p>"There's a lot of water about," explained Owl.</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Christopher Robin, "there is."</p> - -<p>"However, the prospects are rapidly becoming more favourable. At any -moment——"</p> - -<p>"Have you seen Pooh?"</p> - -<p>"No. At any moment——"</p> - -<p>"I hope he's all right," said Christopher Robin. "I've been wondering -about him. I expect Piglet's with him. Do you think they're all right, -Owl?"</p> - -<p>"I expect so. You see, at any moment——"</p> - -<p>"Do go and see, Owl. Because Pooh hasn't got very much brain, and he -might do something silly, and I do love him so, Owl. Do you see, Owl?"</p> - -<p>"That's all right," said Owl. "I'll go. Back directly." And he flew off.</p> - -<p>In a little while he was back again.</p> - -<p>"Pooh isn't there," he said.</p> - -<p>"Not there?"</p> - -<p>"Has <i>been</i> there. He's been sitting on a branch of his tree outside his -house with nine pots of honey. But he isn't there now."</p> - -<p>"Oh, Pooh!" cried Christopher Robin. "Where <i>are</i> you?"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus99.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Here I am," said a growly voice behind him.</p> - -<p>"Pooh!"</p> - -<p>They rushed into each other's arms.</p> - -<p>"How did you get here, Pooh?" asked Christopher Robin, when he was ready -to talk again.</p> - -<p>"On my boat," said Pooh proudly. "I had a Very Important Missage sent me -in a bottle, and owing to having got some water in my eyes, I couldn't -read it, so I brought it to you. On my boat."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus100.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>With these proud words he gave Christopher Robin the missage.</p> - -<p>"But it's from Piglet!" cried Christopher Robin when he had read it.</p> - -<p>"Isn't there anything about Pooh in it?" asked Bear, looking over his -shoulder.</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin read the message aloud.</p> - -<p>"Oh, are those 'P's' piglets? I thought they were poohs."</p> - -<p>"We must rescue him at once! I thought he was with <i>you</i>, Pooh. Owl, -could you rescue him on your back?"</p> - -<p>"I don't think so," said Owl, after grave thought. "It is doubtful if -the necessary dorsal muscles——"</p> - -<p>"Then would you fly to him at <i>once</i> and say that Rescue is Coming? And -Pooh and I will think of a Rescue and come as quick as ever we can. Oh, -don't <i>talk</i>, Owl, go on quick!" And, still thinking of something to -say, Owl flew off.</p> - -<p>"Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?"</p> - -<p>"I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the -island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a -Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends."</p> - -<p>"Depends on what?"</p> - -<p>"On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it."</p> - -<p>"Oh! Well, where is it?"</p> - -<p>"There!" said Pooh, pointing proudly to <i>The Floating Bear</i>.</p> - -<p>It wasn't what Christopher Robin expected, and the more he looked at it, -the more he thought what a Brave and Clever Bear Pooh was, and the more -Christopher Robin thought this, the more Pooh looked modestly down his -nose and tried to pretend he wasn't.</p> - -<p>"But it's too small for two of us," said Christopher Robin sadly.</p> - -<p>"Three of us with Piglet."</p> - -<p>"That makes it smaller still. Oh, Pooh Bear, what shall we do?"</p> - -<p>And then this Bear, Pooh Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, F.O.P. (Friend of -Piglet's), R.C. (Rabbit's Companion), P.D. (Pole Discoverer), E.C. and -T.F. (Eeyore's Comforter and Tail-finder)—in fact, Pooh himself—said -something so clever that Christopher Robin could only look at him with -mouth open and eyes staring, wondering if this was really the Bear of -Very Little Brain whom he had known and loved so long.</p> - -<p>"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"?"</p> - -<p>"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"? ?"</p> - -<p>"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"!!!!!!"</p> - -<p>For suddenly Christopher Robin saw that they might. He opened his -umbrella and put it point downwards in the water. It floated but -wobbled. Pooh got in. He was just beginning to say that it was all right -now, when he found that it wasn't, so after a short drink which he -didn't really want he waded back to Christopher Robin. Then they both -got in together, and it wobbled no longer.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus101.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I shall call this boat <i>The Brain of Pooh</i>," said Christopher Robin, -and <i>The Brain of Pooh</i> set sail forthwith in a south-westerly -direction, revolving gracefully.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus102.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>You can imagine Piglet's joy when at last the ship came in sight of him. -In after-years he liked to think that he had been in Very Great Danger -during the Terrible Flood, but the only danger he had really been in was -in the last half-hour of his imprisonment, when Owl, who had just flown -up, sat on a branch of his tree to comfort him, and told him a very long -story about an aunt who had once laid a seagull's egg by mistake, and -the story went on and on, rather like this sentence, until Piglet who -was listening out of his window without much hope, went to sleep quietly -and naturally, slipping slowly out of the window towards the water until -he was only hanging on by his toes, at which moment luckily, a sudden -loud squawk from Owl, which was really part of the story, being what his -aunt said, woke the Piglet up and just gave him time to jerk himself -back into safety and say, "How interesting, and did she?" when—well, -you can imagine his joy when at last he saw the good ship, <i>Brain of -Pooh</i> (<i>Captain</i>, C. Robin; <i>1st Mate</i>, P. Bear) coming over the sea to -rescue him. Christopher Robin and Pooh again....</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus103.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>And that is really the end of the story, and I am very tired after that -last sentence, I think I shall stop there.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_X" id="CHAPTER_X"></a>CHAPTER X</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN GIVES POOH A PARTY, AND WE SAY GOOD-BYE</h3> - - -<p>One day when the sun had come back over the Forest, bringing with it -the scent of may, and all the streams of the Forest were tinkling -happily to find themselves their own pretty shape again, and the little -pools lay dreaming of the life they had seen and the big things they had -done, and in the warmth and quiet of the Forest the cuckoo was trying -over his voice carefully and listening to see if he liked it, and -wood-pigeons were complaining gently to themselves in their lazy -comfortable way that it was the other fellow's fault, but it didn't -matter very much; on such a day as this Christopher Robin whistled in a -special way he had, and Owl came flying out of the Hundred Acre Wood to -see what was wanted.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus104.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Owl," said Christopher Robin, "I am going to give a party."</p> - -<p>"You are, are you?" said Owl.</p> - -<p>"And it's to be a special sort of party, because it's because of what -Pooh did when he did what he did to save Piglet from the flood."</p> - -<p>"Oh, that's what it's for, is it?" said Owl.</p> - -<p>"Yes, so will you tell Pooh as quickly as you can, and all the others, -because it will be to-morrow."</p> - -<p>"Oh, it will, will it?" said Owl, still being as helpful as possible.</p> - -<p>"So will you go and tell them, Owl?"</p> - -<p>Owl tried to think of something very wise to say, but couldn't, so he -flew off to tell the others. And the first person he told was Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Pooh," he said, "Christopher Robin is giving a party."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh. And then seeing that Owl expected him to say something -else, he said "Will there be those little cake things with pink sugar -icing?"</p> - -<p>Owl felt that it was rather beneath him to talk about little cake things -with pink sugar icing, so he told Pooh exactly what Christopher Robin -had said, and flew off to Eeyore.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus105.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"A party for Me?" thought Pooh to himself. "How grand!" And he began to -wonder if all the other animals would know that it was a special Pooh -Party, and if Christopher Robin had told them about <i>The Floating Bear</i> -and the <i>Brain of Pooh</i> and all the wonderful ships he had invented and -sailed on, and he began to think how awful it would be if everybody had -forgotten about it, and nobody quite knew what the party was for; and -the more he thought like this, the more the party got muddled in his -mind, like a dream when nothing goes right. And the dream began to sing -itself over in his head until it became a sort of song. It was an</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">ANXIOUS POOH SONG.</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">3 Cheers for Pooh!</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>For Who?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">For Pooh—</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>Why what did he do?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">I thought you knew;</div> - <div class="verse">He saved his friend from a wetting!</div> - <div class="verse">3 Cheers for Bear!</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>For where?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">For Bear—</div> - <div class="verse">He couldn't swim,</div> - <div class="verse">But he rescued him!</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>He rescued who?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">Oh, listen, do!</div> - <div class="verse">I am talking of Pooh—</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>Of who?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">Of Pooh!</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>I'm sorry I keep forgetting</i>).</div> - <div class="verse">Well, Pooh was a Bear of Enormous Brain</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>Just say it again!</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">Of enormous brain—</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>Of enormous what?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">Well, he ate a lot,</div> - <div class="verse">And I don't know if he could swim or not,</div> - <div class="verse">But he managed to float</div> - <div class="verse">On a sort of boat</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>On a sort of what?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">Well, a sort of pot—</div> - <div class="verse">So now let's give him three hearty cheers</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>So now let's give him three hearty whiches?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">And hope he'll be with us for years and years,</div> - <div class="verse">And grow in health and wisdom and riches!</div> - <div class="verse">3 Cheers for Pooh!</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>For who?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">For Pooh—</div> - <div class="verse">3 Cheers for Bear!</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>For where?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">For Bear—</div> - <div class="verse">3 Cheers for the wonderful Winnie-the-Pooh!</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>Just tell me, somebody</i>—WHAT DID HE DO?)</div> -</div></div> - -<p>While this was going on inside him, Owl was talking to Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"Eeyore," said Owl, "Christopher Robin is giving a party."</p> - -<p>"Very interesting," said Eeyore. "I suppose they will be sending me down -the odd bits which got trodden on. Kind and Thoughtful. Not at all, -don't mention it."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus106.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"There is an Invitation for you."</p> - -<p>"What's that like?"</p> - -<p>"An Invitation!"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus107.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Yes, I heard you. Who dropped it?"</p> - -<p>"This isn't anything to eat, it's asking you to the party. To-morrow."</p> - -<p>Eeyore shook his head slowly.</p> - -<p>"You mean Piglet. The little fellow with the excited ears. That's -Piglet. I'll tell him."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus108.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"No, no!" said Owl, getting quite fussy. "It's you!"</p> - -<p>"Are you sure?"</p> - -<p>"Of course I'm sure. Christopher Robin said 'All of them! Tell all of -them.'"</p> - -<p>"All of them, except Eeyore?"</p> - -<p>"All of them," said Owl sulkily.</p> - -<p>"Ah!" said Eeyore. "A mistake, no doubt, but still, I shall come. Only -don't blame <i>me</i> if it rains."</p> - -<p>But it didn't rain. Christopher Robin had made a long table out of some -long pieces of wood, and they all sat round it. Christopher Robin sat at -one end, and Pooh sat at the other, and between them on one side were -Owl and Eeyore and Piglet, and between them on the other side were -Rabbit, and Roo and Kanga. And all Rabbit's friends and relations spread -themselves about on the grass, and waited hopefully in case anybody -spoke to them, or dropped anything, or asked them the time.</p> - -<p>It was the first party to which Roo had ever been, and he was very -excited. As soon as ever they had sat down he began to talk.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Pooh!" he squeaked.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Roo!" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>Roo jumped up and down in his seat for a little while and then began -again.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Piglet!" he squeaked.</p> - -<p>Piglet waved a paw at him, being too busy to say anything.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Eeyore!" said Roo.</p> - -<p>Eeyore nodded gloomily at him. "It will rain soon, you see if it -doesn't," he said.</p> - -<p>Roo looked to see if it didn't, and it didn't, so he said "Hallo, -Owl!"—and Owl said "Hallo, my little fellow," in a kindly way, and went -on telling Christopher Robin about an accident which had nearly happened -to a friend of his whom Christopher Robin didn't know, and 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.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus109.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>When they had all nearly eaten enough, Christopher Robin banged on the -table with his spoon, and everybody stopped talking and was very silent, -except Roo who was just finishing a loud attack of hiccups and trying to -look as if it was one of Rabbit's relations.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus110.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"This party," said Christopher Robin, "is a party because of what -someone did, and we all know who it was, and it's his party, because of -what he did, and I've got a present for him and here it is." Then he -felt about a little and whispered, "Where is it?"</p> - -<p>While he was looking, Eeyore coughed in an impressive way and began to -speak.</p> - -<p>"Friends," he said, "including oddments, it is a great pleasure, or -perhaps I had better say it has been a pleasure so far, to see you at my -party. What I did was nothing. Any of you—except Rabbit and Owl and -Kanga—would have done the same. Oh, and Pooh. My remarks do not, of -course, apply to Piglet and Roo, because they are too small. Any of you -would have done the same. But it just happened to be Me. It was not, I -need hardly say, with an idea of getting what Christopher Robin is -looking for now"—and he put his front leg to his mouth and said in a -loud whisper, "Try under the table"—"that I did what I did—but because -I feel that we should all do what we can to help. I feel that we should -all——"</p> - -<p>"H—hup!" said Roo accidentally.</p> - -<p>"Roo, dear!" said Kanga reproachfully.</p> - -<p>"Was it me?" asked Roo, a little surprised.</p> - -<p>"What's Eeyore talking about?" Piglet whispered to Pooh.</p> - -<p>"I don't know," said Pooh rather dolefully.</p> - -<p>"I thought this was <i>your</i> party."</p> - -<p>"I thought it was <i>once</i>. But I suppose it isn't."</p> - -<p>"I'd sooner it was yours than Eeyore's," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"So would I," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"H—hup!" said Roo again.</p> - -<p>"AS—I—WAS—SAYING," said Eeyore loudly and sternly, "as I was saying -when I was interrupted by various Loud Sounds, I feel that——"</p> - -<p>"Here it is!" cried Christopher Robin excitedly. "Pass it down to silly -old Pooh. It's for Pooh."</p> - -<p>"For Pooh?" said Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"Of course it is. The best bear in all the world."</p> - -<p>"I might have known," said Eeyore. "After all, one can't complain. I -have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last -week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!' -The Social Round. Always something going on."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus111.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Nobody was listening, for they were all saying "Open it, Pooh," "What is -it, Pooh?" "I know what it is," "No, you don't" and other helpful -remarks of this sort. And of course Pooh was opening it as quickly as -ever he could, but without cutting the string, because you never know -when a bit of string might be Useful. At last it was undone.</p> - -<p>When Pooh saw what it was, he nearly fell down, he was so pleased. It -was a Special Pencil Case. There were pencils in it marked "B" for Bear, -and pencils marked "HB" for Helping Bear, and pencils marked "BB" for -Brave Bear. There was a knife for sharpening the pencils, and -india-rubber for rubbing out anything which you had spelt wrong, and a -ruler for ruling lines for the words to walk on, and inches marked on -the ruler in case you wanted to know how many inches anything was, and -Blue Pencils and Red Pencils and Green Pencils for saying special things -in blue and red and green. And all these lovely things were in little -pockets of their own in a Special Case which shut with a click when you -clicked it. And they were all for Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Oh, Pooh!" said everybody else except Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"Thank-you," growled Pooh.</p> - -<p>But Eeyore was saying to himself, "This writing business. Pencils and -what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it."</p> - -<p>Later on, when they had all said "Good-bye" and "Thank-you" to -Christopher Robin, Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together in -the golden evening, and for a long time they were silent.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus112.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's -the first thing you say to yourself?"</p> - -<p>"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do <i>you</i> say, Piglet?"</p> - -<p>"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting <i>to-day</i>?" said Piglet.</p> - -<p>Pooh nodded thoughtfully.</p> - -<p>"It's the same thing," he said.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"And what did happen?" asked Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"When?"</p> - -<p>"Next morning."</p> - -<p>"I don't know."</p> - -<p>"Could you think and tell me and Pooh some time?"</p> - -<p>"If you wanted it very much."</p> - -<p>"Pooh does," said Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>He gave a deep sigh, picked his bear up by the leg and walked off to the -door, trailing Winnie-the-Pooh behind him. 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A. Milne - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Winnie-the-Pooh - -Author: A. A. Milne - -Illustrator: Ernest H. Shepard - -Release Date: January 3, 2022 [eBook #67098] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan, Iona Vaughan, David T. Jones and the - online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at - http://www.pgdpcanada.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WINNIE-THE-POOH *** - - - - - - WINNIE-THE-POOH - - _BY A. A. MILNE_ - - - - - _JUVENILES_ - - When We Were Very Young - - "_The best book of verses for children_ _ever written._"--A. EDWARD - NEWTON in _The Atlantic Monthly_. - - Fourteen Songs from When We Were Very Young - - Words by A. A. Milne. Music by H. Fraser-Simson. Decorations by - E. H. Shepard. - - The King's Breakfast - - Words by A. A. Milne. Music by H. Fraser-Simson. Decorations by - E. H. Shepard - - - _ESSAYS_ - - Not That It Matters - The Sunny Side - If I May - - - _MYSTERY STORY_ - - The Red House Mystery - - - - - WINNIE-THE-POOH - BY A. A. MILNE - - McCLELLAND & STEWART, LTD. - - PUBLISHERS - - TORONTO - - - - - Copyright, Canada, 1926 - By McClelland & Stewart, Limited - Publishers, Toronto - - First Printing, October, 1926 - Second " July, 1927 - Third " December, 1928 - Fourth " December, 1929 - Fifth " March, 1931 - - Printed in Canada - - - - - TO HER - - HAND IN HAND WE COME - CHRISTOPHER ROBIN AND I - TO LAY THIS BOOK IN YOUR LAP. - SAY YOU'RE SURPRISED? - SAY YOU LIKE IT? - SAY IT'S JUST WHAT YOU WANTED? - BECAUSE IT'S YOURS---- - BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU. - - - - - INTRODUCTION - -If you happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may -remember that he once had a swan (or the swan had Christopher Robin, I -don't know which) and that he used to call this swan Pooh. That was a -long time ago, and when we said good-bye, we took the name with us, as -we didn't think the swan would want it any more. Well, when Edward Bear -said that he would like an exciting name all to himself, Christopher -Robin said at once, without stopping to think, that he was -Winnie-the-Pooh. And he was. So, as I have explained the Pooh part, I -will now explain the rest of it. - -You can't be in London for long without going to the Zoo. There are some -people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as -quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called -WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the -most, and stay there. So when Christopher Robin goes to the Zoo, he goes -to where the Polar Bears are, and he whispers something to the third -keeper from the left, and doors are unlocked, and we wander through dark -passages and up steep stairs, until at last we come to the special cage, -and the cage is opened, and out trots something brown and furry, and -with a happy cry of "Oh, Bear!" Christopher Robin rushes into its arms. -Now this bear's name is Winnie, which shows what a good name for bears -it is, but the funny thing is that we can't remember whether Winnie is -called after Pooh, or Pooh after Winnie. We did know once, but we have -forgotten.... - -I had written as far as this when Piglet looked up and said in his -squeaky voice, "What about _Me_?" "My dear Piglet," I said, "the whole -book is about you." "So it is about Pooh," he squeaked. You see what it -is. He is jealous because he thinks Pooh is having a Grand Introduction -all to himself. Pooh is the favourite, of course, there's no denying it, -but Piglet comes in for a good many things which Pooh misses; because -you can't take Pooh to school without everybody knowing it, but Piglet -is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comforting to -feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or -twenty-two. Sometimes he slips out and has a good look in the ink-pot, -and in this way he has got more education than Pooh, but Pooh doesn't -mind. Some have brains, and some haven't, he says, and there it is. - -And now all the others are saying, "What about _Us_?" So perhaps the -best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the -book. - - A. A. M. - - - - - CONTENTS - - - I. IN WHICH WE ARE INTRODUCED TO WINNIE-THE-POOH AND SOME - BEES, AND THE STORIES BEGIN - - II. IN WHICH POOH GOES VISITING AND GETS INTO A TIGHT PLACE - - III. IN WHICH POOH AND PIGLET GO HUNTING AND NEARLY CATCH A - WOOZLE - - IV. IN WHICH EEYORE LOSES A TAIL AND POOH FINDS ONE - - V. IN WHICH PIGLET MEETS A HEFFALUMP - - VI. IN WHICH EEYORE HAS A BIRTHDAY AND GETS TWO PRESENTS - - VII. IN WHICH KANGA AND BABY ROO COME TO THE FOREST, AND - PIGLET HAS A BATH - - VIII. IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN LEADS AN EXPOTITION TO THE - NORTH POLE - - IX. IN WHICH PIGLET IS ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY WATER - - X. IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN GIVES A POOH PARTY, AND WE SAY - GOOD-BYE - - - - - WINNIE-THE-POOH - - - - - CHAPTER I - - IN WHICH WE ARE INTRODUCED TO - WINNIE-THE-POOH AND SOME BEES, - AND THE STORIES BEGIN - - -Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the -back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, -the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there -really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and -think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't. Anyhow, here he -is at the bottom, and ready to be introduced to you. Winnie-the-Pooh. - -When I first heard his name, I said, just as you are going to say, "But -I thought he was a boy?" - -"So did I," said Christopher Robin. - -"Then you can't call him Winnie?" - -"I don't." - -"But you said----" - -"He's Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don't you know what '_ther_' means?" - -"Ah, yes, now I do," I said quickly; and I hope you do too, because it -is all the explanation you are going to get. - -Sometimes Winnie-the-Pooh likes a game of some sort when he comes -downstairs, and sometimes he likes to sit quietly in front of the fire -and listen to a story. This evening---- - -"What about a story?" said Christopher Robin. - -"_What_ about a story?" I said. - -"Could you very sweetly tell Winnie-the-Pooh one?" - -"I suppose I could," I said. "What sort of stories does he like?" - -"About himself. Because he's _that_ sort of Bear." - -"Oh, I see." - -"So could you very sweetly?" - -"I'll try," I said. - -So I tried. - - * * * * * - -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. - -(_"What does 'under the name' mean?" asked Christopher Robin._ - -"_It means he had the name over the door in gold letters, and lived -under it._" - -_"Winnie-the-Pooh wasn't quite sure," said Christopher Robin._ - -_"Now I am," said a growly voice._ - -_"Then I will go on," said I._) - -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 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 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, 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 he climbed and he climbed, and as he climbed he sang a -little song to himself. It went like this: - - Isn't it funny - How a bear 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. 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 at the _bottom_ of trees. - And that being so (if the Bees were Bears), - We 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, help!" said Pooh, as he dropped 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 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----" - -"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 a gorse-bush, -"it all comes of _liking_ honey so much. Oh, help!" - -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. - -(_"Was that me?" said Christopher Robin in an awed voice, hardly daring -to believe it._ - -"_That was you._" - -_Christopher Robin said nothing, but his eyes got larger and larger, and -his face got pinker and pinker._) - -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, Winnie-_ther_-Pooh," said you. - -"I wonder if you've got such 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 wondering." - -"What do you want a balloon for?" you said. - -Winnie-the-Pooh looked round to see that nobody was listening, put his -paw to his mouth, and said in a deep whisper: "_Honey!_" - -"But you don't get honey with balloons!" - -"_I_ do," said Pooh. - -Well, 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?" 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 you're coming. Now, if you have -a green balloon, they might think you were 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 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, 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 gracefully up 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," 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. 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. - -"Hallo!" - -"I think the bees _suspect_ something!" - -"What sort of thing?" - -"I don't know. But something tells me that they're _suspicious_!" - -"Perhaps they think that you're after their honey." - -"It may be that. You never can tell with bees." - -There was another little silence, and then he called down to you again. - -"Christopher Robin!" - -"Yes?" - -"Have you an umbrella in 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 -practising on these bees." - -Well, you laughed 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." - -"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." - -"A pity. Well, now, 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 might sing.... Go!" - -So, while you walked up and down and wondered if it would rain, -Winnie-the-Pooh sang this song: - - How sweet to be a Cloud - 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 nests and flew all round 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--_ow!_--Robin," called out the cloud. - -"Yes?" - -"I have just been thinking, and I have come to a very important -decision. _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 you?" - -"Would they?" - -"Yes. So I think I shall come down." - -"How?" asked you. - -Winnie-the-Pooh hadn't thought about this. If he let 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. - -"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. - -"_Ow!_" said Pooh. - -"Did I miss?" you asked. - -"You didn't exactly _miss_," said Pooh, "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 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 am not sure--that _that_ is why he was always -called Pooh. - - * * * * * - -"Is that the end of the story?" asked Christopher Robin. - -"That's the end of that one. There are others." - -"About Pooh and Me?" - -"And Piglet and Rabbit and all of you. Don't you remember?" - -"I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget." - -"That day when Pooh and Piglet tried to catch the Heffalump----" - -"They didn't catch it, did they?" - -"No." - -"Pooh couldn't, because he hasn't any brain. Did _I_ catch it?" - -"Well, that comes into the story." - -Christopher Robin nodded. - -"I do remember," he said, "only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he -likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and -not just a remembering." - -"That's just how _I_ feel," I said. - -Christopher Robin gave a deep sigh, picked his Bear up by the leg, and -walked off to the door, trailing Pooh behind him. At the door he turned -and said, "Coming to see me have my bath?" - -"I might," I said. - -"I didn't hurt him when I shot him, did I?" - -"Not a bit." - -He nodded and went out, and in a moment I heard Winnie-the-Pooh--_bump, -bump, bump_--going up the stairs behind him. - - - - - CHAPTER II - - IN WHICH POOH GOES VISITING AND - GETS INTO A TIGHT PLACE - - -Edward Bear, known to his friends as Winnie-the-Pooh, or Pooh for -short, was walking through the forest one day, humming proudly to -himself. He had made up a little hum that very morning, as he was doing -his Stoutness Exercises in front of the glass: _Tra-la-la, tra-la-la_, -as he stretched up as high as he could go, and then _Tra-la-la, -tra-la--oh, help!--la_, as he tried to reach his toes. After breakfast -he had said it over and over to himself until he had learnt it off by -heart, and now he was humming it right through, properly. It went like -this: - - _Tra-la-la, tra-la-la,_ - _Tra-la-la, tra-la-la,_ - _Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum._ - _Tiddle-iddle, tiddle-iddle,_ - _Tiddle-iddle, tiddle-iddle,_ - _Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um._ - -Well, he was humming this hum to himself, and walking along gaily, -wondering what everybody else was doing, and what it felt like, being -somebody else, when suddenly he came to a sandy bank, and in the bank -was a large hole. - -"Aha!" said Pooh. (_Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum._) "If I know anything about -anything, that hole means Rabbit," he said, "and Rabbit means Company," -he said, "and Company means Food and Listening-to-Me-Humming and such -like. _Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um._" - -So he bent down, put his head into the hole, and called out: - -"Is anybody at home?" - -There was a sudden scuffling noise from inside the hole, and then -silence. - -"What I said was, 'Is anybody at home?'" called out Pooh very loudly. - -"No!" said a voice; and then added, "You needn't shout so loud. I heard -you quite well the first time." - -"Bother!" said Pooh. "Isn't there anybody here at all?" - -"Nobody." - -Winnie-the-Pooh took his head out of the hole, and thought for a little, -and he thought to himself, "There must be somebody there, because -somebody must have _said_ 'Nobody.'" So he put his head back in the -hole, and said: - -"Hallo, Rabbit, isn't that you?" - -"No," said Rabbit, in a different sort of voice this time. - -"But isn't that Rabbit's voice?" - -"I don't _think_ so," said Rabbit. "It isn't _meant_ to be." - -"Oh!" said Pooh. - -He took his head out of the hole, and had another think, and then he put -it back, and said: - -"Well, could you very kindly tell me where Rabbit is?" - -"He has gone to see his friend Pooh Bear, who is a great friend of his." - -"But this _is_ Me!" said Bear, very much surprised. - -"What sort of Me?" - -"Pooh Bear." - -"Are you sure?" said Rabbit, still more surprised. - -"Quite, quite sure," said Pooh. - -"Oh, well, then, come in." - -So Pooh pushed and pushed and pushed his way through the hole, and at -last he got in. - -"You were quite right," said Rabbit, looking at him all over. "It _is_ -you. Glad to see you." - -"Who did you think it was?" - -"Well, I wasn't sure. You know how it is in the Forest. One can't have -_anybody_ coming into one's house. One has to be _careful_. What about a -mouthful of something?" - -Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, -and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and -when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so -excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he -added, "But don't bother about the bread, please." And for a long time -after that he said nothing ... until at last, humming to himself in a -rather sticky voice, he got up, shook Rabbit lovingly by the paw, and -said that he must be going on. - -"Must you?" said Rabbit politely. - -"Well," said Pooh, "I could stay a little longer if it--if you----" and -he tried very hard to look in the direction of the larder. - -"As a matter of fact," said Rabbit, "I was going out myself directly." - -"Oh, well, then, I'll be going on. Good-bye." - -"Well, good-bye, if you're sure you won't have any more." - -"_Is_ there any more?" asked Pooh quickly. - -Rabbit took the covers off the dishes, and said, "No, there wasn't." - -"I thought not," said Pooh, nodding to himself. "Well, good-bye. I must -be going on." - -So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, -and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was out in -the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... -and then his shoulders ... and then---- - -"Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back." - -"Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on." - -"I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help _and_ bother!" - -Now by this time Rabbit wanted to go for a walk too, and finding the -front door full, he went out by the back door, and came round to Pooh, -and looked at him. - -"Hallo, are you stuck?" he asked. - -"N-no," said Pooh carelessly. "Just resting and thinking and humming to -myself." - -"Here, give us a paw." - -Pooh Bear stretched out a paw, and Rabbit pulled and pulled and -pulled.... - -"_Ow!_" cried Pooh. "You're hurting!" - -"The fact is," said Rabbit, "you're stuck." - -"It all comes," said Pooh crossly, "of not having front doors big -enough." - -"It all comes," said Rabbit sternly, "of eating too much. I thought at -the time," said Rabbit, "only I didn't like to say anything," said -Rabbit, "that one of us was eating too much," said Rabbit, "and I knew -if wasn't _me_," he said. "Well, well, I shall go and fetch Christopher -Robin." - -Christopher Robin lived at the other end of the Forest, and when he came -back with Rabbit, and saw the front half of Pooh, he said, "Silly old -Bear," in such a loving voice that everybody felt quite hopeful again. - -"I was just beginning to think," said Bear, sniffing slightly, "that -Rabbit might never be able to use his front door again. And I should -_hate_ that," he said. - -"So should I," said Rabbit. - -"Use his front door again?" said Christopher Robin. "Of course he'll use -his front door again." - -"Good," said Rabbit. - -"If we can't pull you out, Pooh, we might push you back." - -Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully, and pointed out that, when -once Pooh was pushed back, he was back, and of course nobody was more -glad to see Pooh than _he_ was, still there it was, some lived in trees -and some lived underground, and---- - -"You mean I'd _never_ get out?" said Pooh. - -"I mean," said Rabbit, "that having got _so_ far, it seems a pity to -waste it." - -Christopher Robin nodded. - -"Then there's only one thing to be done," he said. "We shall have to -wait for you to get thin again." - -"How long does getting thin take?" asked Pooh anxiously. - -"About a week, I should think." - -"But I can't stay here for a _week_!" - -"You can _stay_ here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out -which is so difficult." - -"We'll read to you," said Rabbit cheerfully. "And I hope it won't snow," -he added. "And I say, old fellow, you're taking up a good deal of room -in my house--_do_ you mind if I use your back legs as a towel-horse? -Because, I mean, there they are--doing nothing--and it would be very -convenient just to hang the towels on them." - -"A week!" said Pooh gloomily. "_What about meals?_" - -"I'm afraid no meals," said Christopher Robin, "because of getting thin -quicker. But we _will_ read to you." - -Bear began to sigh, and then found he couldn't because he was so tightly -stuck; and a tear rolled down his eye, as he said: - -"Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a -Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?" - -So for a week Christopher Robin read that sort of book at the North end -of Pooh, and Rabbit hung his washing on the South end ... and in -between Bear felt himself getting slenderer and slenderer. And at the -end of the week Christopher Robin said, "_Now!_" - -So he took hold of Pooh's front paws and Rabbit took hold of Christopher -Robin, and all Rabbit's friends and relations took hold of Rabbit, and -they all pulled together.... - -And for a long time Pooh only said "_Ow!_" ... - -And "_Oh!_" ... - -And then, all of a sudden, he said "_Pop!_" just as if a cork were -coming out of a bottle. - -And Christopher Robin and Rabbit and all Rabbit's friends and relations -went head-over-heels backwards ... and on the top of them came -Winnie-the-Pooh--free! - -So, with a nod of thanks to his friends, he went on with his walk -through the forest, humming proudly to himself. But, Christopher Robin -looked after him lovingly, and said to himself, "Silly old Bear!" - - - - - CHAPTER III - - IN WHICH POOH AND PIGLET GO HUNTING - AND NEARLY CATCH A WOOZLE - - -The Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, -and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the Piglet lived -in the middle of the house. Next to his house was a piece of broken -board which had: "TRESPASSERS W" on it. When Christopher Robin asked the -Piglet what it meant, he said it was his grandfather's name, and had -been in the family for a long time, Christopher Robin said you -_couldn't_ be called Trespassers W, and Piglet said yes, you could, -because his grandfather was, and it was short for Trespassers Will, -which was short for Trespassers William. And his grandfather had had two -names in case he lost one--Trespassers after an uncle, and William after -Trespassers. - -"I've got two names," said Christopher Robin carelessly. - -"Well, there you are, that proves it," said Piglet. - -One fine winter's day when Piglet was brushing away the snow in front of -his house, he happened to look up, and there was Winnie-the-Pooh. Pooh -was walking round and round in a circle, thinking of something else, and -when Piglet called to him, he just went on walking. - -"Hallo!" said Piglet, "what are _you_ doing?" - -"Hunting," said Pooh. - -"Hunting what?" - -"Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously. - -"Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer. - -"That's just what I ask myself. I ask myself, What?" - -"What do you think you'll answer?" - -"I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh. -"Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do -you see there?" - -"Tracks," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of -excitement. "Oh, Pooh! Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?" - -"It may be," said Pooh. "Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. You -never can tell with paw-marks." - -With these few words he went on tracking, and Piglet, after watching him -for a minute or two, ran after him. Winnie-the-Pooh had come to a sudden -stop, and was bending over the tracks in a puzzled sort of way. - -"What's the matter?" asked Piglet. - -"It's a very funny thing," said Bear, "but there seem to be -_two_ animals now. This--whatever-it-was--has been joined by -another--whatever-it-is--and the two of them are now proceeding -in company. Would you mind coming with me, Piglet, in case they -turn out to be Hostile Animals?" - -Piglet scratched his ear in a nice sort of way, and said that he had -nothing to do until Friday, and would be delighted to come, in case it -really _was_ a Woozle. - -"You mean, in case it really is two Woozles," said Winnie-the-Pooh, and -Piglet said that anyhow he had nothing to do until Friday. So off they -went together. - -There was a small spinney of larch trees just here, and it seemed as if -the two Woozles, if that is what they were, had been going round this -spinney; so round this spinney went Pooh and Piglet after them; Piglet -passing the time by telling Pooh what his Grandfather Trespassers W had -done to Remove Stiffness after Tracking, and how his Grandfather -Trespassers W had suffered in his later years from Shortness of Breath, -and other matters of interest, and Pooh wondering what a Grandfather was -like, and if perhaps this was Two Grandfathers they were after now, and, -if so, whether he would be allowed to take one home and keep it, and -what Christopher Robin would say. And still the tracks went on in front -of them.... - -Suddenly Winnie-the-Pooh stopped, and pointed excitedly in front of him. -"_Look!_" - -"_What?_" said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he hadn't -been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an -exercising sort of way. - -"The tracks!" said Pooh. "_A third animal has joined the other two!_" - -"Pooh!" cried Piglet. "Do you think it is another Woozle?" - -"No," said Pooh, "because it makes different marks. It is either Two -Woozles and one, as it might be, Wizzle, or Two, as it might be, Wizzles -and one, if so it is, Woozle. Let us continue to follow them." - -So they went on, feeling just a little anxious now, in case the three -animals in front of them were of Hostile Intent. And Piglet wished very -much that his Grandfather T. W. were there, instead of elsewhere, and -Pooh thought how nice it would be if they met Christopher Robin suddenly -but quite accidentally, and only because he liked Christopher Robin so -much. And then, all of a sudden, Winnie-the-Pooh stopped again, and -licked the tip of his nose in a cooling manner, for he was feeling more -hot and anxious than ever in his life before. _There were four animals -in front of them!_ - -"Do you see, Piglet? Look at their tracks! Three, as it were, Woozles, -and one, as it was, Wizzle. _Another Woozle has joined them!_" - -And so it seemed to be. There were the tracks; crossing over each other -here, getting muddled up with each other there; but, quite plainly every -now and then, the tracks of four sets of paws. - -"I _think_," said Piglet, when he had licked the tip of his nose too, -and found that it brought very little comfort, "I _think_ that I have -just remembered something. I have just remembered something that I -forgot to do yesterday and shan't be able to do to-morrow. So I suppose -I really ought to go back and do it now." - -"We'll do it this afternoon, and I'll come with you," said Pooh. - -"It isn't the sort of thing you can do in the afternoon," said Piglet -quickly. "It's a very particular morning thing, that has to be done in -the morning, and, if possible, between the hours of----What would you -say the time was?" - -"About twelve," said Winnie-the-Pooh, looking at the sun. - -"Between, as I was saying, the hours of twelve and twelve five. So, -really, dear old Pooh, if you'll excuse me----_What's that?_" - -Pooh looked up at the sky, and then, as he heard the whistle again, he -looked up into the branches of a big oak-tree, and then he saw a friend -of his. - -"It's Christopher Robin," he said. - -"Ah, then you'll be all right," said Piglet. "You'll be quite safe with -_him_. Good-bye," and he trotted off home as quickly as he could, very -glad to be Out of All Danger again. - -Christopher Robin came slowly down his tree. - -"Silly old Bear," he said, "what _were_ you doing? First you went round -the spinney twice by yourself, and then Piglet ran after you and you -went round again together, and then you were just going round a fourth -time----" - -"Wait a moment," said Winnie-the-Pooh, holding up his paw. - -He sat down and thought, in the most thoughtful way he could think. Then -he fitted his paw into one of the Tracks ... and then he scratched his -nose twice, and stood up. - -"Yes," said Winnie-the-Pooh. - -"I see now," said Winnie-the-Pooh. - -"I have been Foolish and Deluded," said he, "and I am a Bear of No Brain -at All." - -"You're the Best Bear in All the World," said Christopher Robin -soothingly. - -"Am I?" said Pooh hopefully. And then he brightened up suddenly. - -"Anyhow," he said, "it is nearly Luncheon Time." - -So he went home for it. - - - - - CHAPTER IV - - IN WHICH EEYORE LOSES A TAIL - AND POOH FINDS ONE - - -The Old Grey Donkey, Eeyore, stood by himself in a thistly corner of -the forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought -about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and -sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch -as which?"--and sometimes he didn't quite know what he _was_ thinking -about. So when Winnie-the-Pooh came stumping along, Eeyore was very glad -to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to say "How do you -do?" in a gloomy manner to him. - -"And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh. - -Eeyore shook his head from side to side. - -"Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a -long time." - -"Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at -you." - -So Eeyore stood there, gazing sadly at the ground, and Winnie-the-Pooh -walked all round him once. - -"Why, what's happened to your tail?" he said in surprise. - -"What _has_ happened to it?" said Eeyore. - -"It isn't there!" - -"Are you sure?" - -"Well, either a tail _is_ there or it isn't there. You can't make a -mistake about it. And yours _isn't_ there!" - -"Then what is?" - -"Nothing." - -"Let's have a look," said Eeyore, and he turned slowly round to the -place where his tail had been a little while ago, and then, finding that -he couldn't catch it up, he turned round the other way, until he came -back to where he was at first, and then he put his head down and looked -between his front legs, and at last he said, with a long, sad sigh, "I -believe you're right." - -"Of course I'm right," said Pooh. - -"That Accounts for a Good Deal," said Eeyore gloomily. "It Explains -Everything. No Wonder." - -"You must have left it somewhere," said Winnie-the-Pooh. - -"Somebody must have taken it," said Eeyore. "How Like Them," he added, -after a long silence. - -Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn't -quite know what. So he decided to do something helpful instead. - -"Eeyore," he said solemnly, "I, Winnie-the-Pooh, will find your tail for -you." - -"Thank you, Pooh," answered Eeyore. "You're a real friend," said he. -"Not like Some," he said. - -So Winnie-the-Pooh went off to find Eeyore's tail. - -It was a fine spring morning in the forest as he started out. Little -soft clouds played happily in a blue sky, skipping from time to time in -front of the sun as if they had come to put it out, and then sliding -away suddenly so that the next might have his turn. Through them and -between them the sun shone bravely; and a copse which had worn its firs -all the year round seemed old and dowdy now beside the new green lace -which the beeches had put on so prettily. Through copse and spinney -marched Bear; down open slopes of gorse and heather, over rocky beds of -streams, up steep banks of sandstone into the heather again; and so at -last, tired and hungry, to the Hundred Acre Wood. For it was in the -Hundred Acre Wood that Owl lived. - -"And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, -"it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's -not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "Which it is," he added. "So there you -are." - -Owl lived at The Chestnuts, an old-world residence of great charm, which -was grander than anybody else's, or seemed so to Bear, because it had -both a knocker _and_ a bell-pull. Underneath the knocker there was a -notice which said: - - PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD. - -Underneath the bell-pull there was a notice which said: - - PLEZ CNOKE IF AN RNSR IS NOT REQID. - -These notices had been written by Christopher Robin, who was the only -one in the forest who could spell; for Owl, wise though he was in many -ways, able to read and write and spell his own name WOL, yet somehow -went all to pieces over delicate words like MEASLES and BUTTEREDTOAST. - -Winnie-the-Pooh read the two notices very carefully, first from left to -right, and afterwards, in case he had missed some of it, from right to -left. Then, to make quite sure, he knocked and pulled the knocker, and -he pulled and knocked the bell-rope, and he called out in a very loud -voice, "Owl! I require an answer! It's Bear speaking." And the door -opened, and Owl looked out. - -"Hallo, Pooh," he said. "How's things?" - -"Terrible and Sad," said Pooh, "because Eeyore, who is a friend of mine, -has lost his tail. And he's Moping about it. So could you very kindly -tell me how to find it for him?" - -"Well," said Owl, "the customary procedure in such cases is as follows." - -"What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?" said Pooh. "For I am a Bear of -Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me." - -"It means the Thing to Do." - -"As long as it means that, I don't mind," said Pooh humbly. - -"The thing to do is as follows. First, Issue a Reward. Then----" - -"Just a moment," said Pooh, holding up his paw. "_What_ do we do to -this--what you were saying? You sneezed just as you were going to tell -me." - -"I _didn't_ sneeze." - -"Yes, you did, Owl." - -"Excuse me, Pooh, I didn't. You can't sneeze without knowing it." - -"Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed." - -"What I _said_ was, 'First _Issue_ a Reward'." - -"You're doing it again," said Pooh sadly. - -"A Reward!" said Owl very loudly. "We write a notice to say that we will -give a large something to anybody who finds Eeyore's tail." - -"I see, I see," said Pooh, nodding his head. "Talking about large -somethings," he went on dreamily, "I generally have a small something -about now--about this time in the morning," and he looked wistfully at -the cupboard in the corner of Owl's parlour; "just a mouthful of -condensed milk or whatnot, with perhaps a lick of honey----" - -"Well, then," said Owl, "we write out this notice, and we put it up all -over the forest." - -"A lick of honey," murmured Bear to himself, "or--or not, as the case -may be." And he gave a deep sigh, and tried very hard to listen to what -Owl was saying. - -But Owl went on and on, using longer and longer words, until at last he -came back to where he started, and he explained that the person to write -out this notice was Christopher Robin. - -"It was he who wrote the ones on my front door for me. Did you see them, -Pooh?" - -For some time now Pooh had been saying "Yes" and "No" in turn, with his -eyes shut, to all that Owl was saying, and having said, "Yes, yes," last -time, he said "No, not at all," now, without really knowing what Owl was -talking about. - -"Didn't you see them?" said Owl, a little surprised. "Come and look at -them now." - -So they went outside. And Pooh looked at the knocker and the notice -below it, and he looked at the bell-rope and the notice below it, and -the more he looked at the bell-rope, the more he felt that he had seen -something like it, somewhere else, sometime before. - -"Handsome bell-rope, isn't it?" said Owl. - -Pooh nodded. - -"It reminds me of something," he said, "but I can't think what. Where -did you get it?" - -"I just came across it in the Forest. It was hanging over a bush, and I -thought at first somebody lived there, so I rang it, and nothing -happened, and then I rang it again very loudly, and it came off in my -hand, and as nobody seemed to want it, I took it home, and----" - -"Owl," said Pooh solemnly, "you made a mistake. Somebody did want it." - -"Who?" - -"Eeyore. My dear friend Eeyore. He was--he was fond of it." - -"Fond of it?" - -"Attached to it," said Winnie-the-Pooh sadly. - - * * * * * - -So with these words he unhooked it, and carried it back to Eeyore; and -when Christopher Robin had nailed it on in its right place again, Eeyore -frisked about the forest, waving his tail so happily that -Winnie-the-Pooh came over all funny, and had to hurry home for a little -snack of something to sustain him. And, wiping his mouth half an hour -afterwards, he sang to himself proudly: - - _Who found the Tail?_ - "I," said Pooh, - "At a quarter to two - (Only it was quarter to eleven really), - _I_ found the Tail!" - - - - - CHAPTER V - - IN WHICH PIGLET MEETS A HEFFALUMP - - -One day, when Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet were -all talking together, Christopher Robin finished the mouthful he was -eating and said carelessly: "I saw a Heffalump to-day, Piglet." - -"What was it doing?" asked Piglet. - -"Just lumping along," said Christopher Robin. "I don't think it saw -_me_." - -"I saw one once," said Piglet. "At least, I think I did," he said. "Only -perhaps it wasn't." - -"So did I," said Pooh, wondering what a Heffalump was like. - -"You don't often see them," said Christopher Robin carelessly. - -"Not now," said Piglet. - -"Not at this time of year," said Pooh. - -Then they all talked about something else, until it was time for Pooh -and Piglet to go home together. At first as they stumped along the path -which edged the Hundred Acre Wood, they didn't say much to each other; -but when they came to the stream and had helped each other across the -stepping stones, and were able to walk side by side again over the -heather, they began to talk in a friendly way about this and that, and -Piglet said, "If you see what I mean, Pooh," and Pooh said, "It's just -what I think myself, Piglet," and Piglet said, "But, on the other hand, -Pooh, we must remember," and Pooh said, "Quite true, Piglet, although I -had forgotten it for the moment." And then, just as they came to the Six -Pine Trees, Pooh looked round to see that nobody else was listening, and -said in a very solemn voice: - -"Piglet, I have decided something." - -"What have you decided, Pooh?" - -"I have decided to catch a Heffalump." - -Pooh nodded his head several times as he said this, and waited for -Piglet to say "How?" or "Pooh, you couldn't!" or something helpful of -that sort, but Piglet said nothing. The fact was Piglet was wishing that -_he_ had thought about it first. - -"I shall do it," said Pooh, after waiting a little longer, "by means of -a trap. And it must be a Cunning Trap, so you will have to help me, -Piglet." - -"Pooh," said Piglet, feeling quite happy again now, "I will." And then -he said, "How shall we do it?" and Pooh said, "That's just it. How?" And -then they sat down together to think it out. - -Pooh's first idea was that they should dig a Very Deep Pit, and then the -Heffalump would come along and fall into the Pit, and---- - -"Why?" said Piglet. - -"Why what?" said Pooh. - -"Why would he fall in?" - -Pooh rubbed his nose with his paw, and said that the Heffalump might be -walking along, humming a little song, and looking up at the sky, -wondering if it would rain, and so he wouldn't see the Very Deep Pit -until he was half-way down, when it would be too late. - -Piglet said that this was a very good Trap, but supposing it were -raining already? - -Pooh rubbed his nose again, and said that he hadn't thought of that. And -then he brightened up, and said that, if it were raining already, the -Heffalump would be looking at the sky wondering if it would _clear up_, -and so he wouldn't see the Very Deep Pit until he was half-way -down.... When it would be too late. - -Piglet said that, now that this point had been explained, he thought it -was a Cunning Trap. - -Pooh was very proud when he heard this, and he felt that the Heffalump -was as good as caught already, but there was just one other thing which -had to be thought about, and it was this. _Where should they dig the -Very Deep Pit?_ - -Piglet said that the best place would be somewhere where a Heffalump -was, just before he fell into it, only about a foot farther on. - -"But then he would see us digging it," said Pooh. - -"Not if he was looking at the sky." - -"He would Suspect," said Pooh, "if he happened to look down." He thought -for a long time and then added sadly, "It isn't as easy as I thought. I -suppose that's why Heffalumps hardly _ever_ get caught." - -"That must be it," said Piglet. - -They sighed and got up; and when they had taken a few gorse prickles out -of themselves they sat down again; and all the time Pooh was saying to -himself, "If only I could _think_ of something!" For he felt sure that a -Very Clever Brain could catch a Heffalump if only he knew the right way -to go about it. - -"Suppose," he said to Piglet, "_you_ wanted to catch _me_, how would you -do it?" - -"Well," said Piglet, "I should do it like this. I should make a Trap, -and I should put a Jar of Honey in the Trap, and you would smell it, and -you would go in after it, and----" - -"And I would go in after it," said Pooh excitedly, "only very carefully -so as not to hurt myself, and I would get to the Jar of Honey, and I -should lick round the edges first of all, pretending that there wasn't -any more, you know, and then I should walk away and think about it a -little, and then I should come back and start licking in the middle of -the jar, and then----" - -"Yes, well never mind about that. There you would be, and there I should -catch you. Now the first thing to think of is, What do Heffalumps like? -I should think acorns, shouldn't you? We'll get a lot of----I say, wake -up, Pooh!" - -Pooh, who had gone into a happy dream, woke up with a start, and said -that Honey was a much more trappy thing than Haycorns. Piglet didn't -think so; and they were just going to argue about it, when Piglet -remembered that, if they put acorns in the Trap, _he_ would have to find -the acorns, but if they put honey, then Pooh would have to give up some -of his own honey, so he said, "All right, honey then," just as Pooh -remembered it too, and was going to say, "All right, haycorns." - -"Honey," said Piglet to himself in a thoughtful way, as if it were now -settled. "_I'll_ dig the pit, while _you_ go and get the honey." - -"Very well," said Pooh, and he stumped off. - -As soon as he got home, he went to the larder; and he stood on a chair, -and took down a very large jar of honey from the top shelf. It had HUNNY -written on it, but, just to make sure, he took off the paper cover and -looked at it, and it _looked_ just like honey. "But you never can tell," -said Pooh. "I remember my uncle saying once that he had seen cheese just -this colour." So he put his tongue in, and took a large lick. "Yes," he -said, "it is. No doubt about that. And honey, I should say, right down -to the bottom of the jar. Unless, of course," he said, "somebody put -cheese in at the bottom just for a joke. Perhaps I had better go a -_little_ further ... just in case ... in case Heffalumps _don't_ -like cheese ... same as me.... Ah!" And he gave a deep sigh. "I -_was_ right. It _is_ honey, right the way down." - -Having made certain of this, he took the jar back to Piglet, and Piglet -looked up from the bottom of his Very Deep Pit, and said, "Got it?" and -Pooh said, "Yes, but it isn't quite a full jar," and he threw it down to -Piglet, and Piglet said, "No, it isn't! Is that all you've got left?" -and Pooh said "Yes." Because it was. So Piglet put the jar at the bottom -of the Pit, and climbed out, and they went off home together. - -"Well, good night, Pooh," said Piglet, when they had got to Pooh's -house. "And we meet at six o'clock to-morrow morning by the Pine Trees, -and see how many Heffalumps we've got in our Trap." - -"Six o'clock, Piglet. And have you got any string?" - -"No. Why do you want string?" - -"To lead them home with." - -"Oh! ... I _think_ Heffalumps come if you whistle." - -"Some do and some don't. You never can tell with Heffalumps. Well, good -night!" - -"Good night!" - -And off Piglet trotted to his house TRESPASSERS W, while Pooh made his -preparations for bed. - -Some hours later, just as the night was beginning to steal away, Pooh -woke up suddenly with a sinking feeling. He had had that sinking feeling -before, and he knew what it meant. _He was hungry._ So he went to the -larder, and he stood on a chair and reached up to the top shelf, and -found--nothing. - -"That's funny," he thought. "I know I had a jar of honey there. A full -jar, full of honey right up to the top, and it had HUNNY written on it, -so that I should know it was honey. That's very funny." And then he -began to wander up and down, wondering where it was and murmuring a -murmur to himself. Like this: - - It's very, very funny, - 'Cos I _know_ I had some honey; - 'Cos it had a label on, - Saying HUNNY. - A goloptious full-up pot too, - And I don't know where it's got to, - No, I don't know where it's gone-- - Well, it's funny. - -He had murmured this to himself three times in a singing sort of way, -when suddenly he remembered. He had put it into the Cunning Trap to -catch the Heffalump. - -"Bother!" said Pooh. "It all comes of trying to be kind to Heffalumps." -And he got back into bed. - -But he couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep, the more he couldn't. -He tried Counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to -sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that -was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight -for a pot of Pooh's honey, _and eating it all_. For some minutes he lay -there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump -was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I -don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer. He -jumped out of bed, he ran out of the house, and he ran straight to the -Six Pine Trees. - -The Sun was still in bed, but there was a lightness in the sky over the -Hundred Acre Wood which seemed to show that it was waking up and would -soon be kicking off the clothes. In the half-light the Pine Trees looked -cold and lonely, and the Very Deep Pit seemed deeper than it was, and -Pooh's jar of honey at the bottom was something mysterious, a shape and -no more. But as he got nearer to it his nose told him that it was indeed -honey, and his tongue came out and began to polish up his mouth, ready -for it. - -"Bother!" said Pooh, as he got his nose inside the jar. "A Heffalump has -been eating it!" And then he thought a little and said, "Oh, no, _I_ -did. I forgot." - -Indeed, he had eaten most of it. But there was a little left at the very -bottom of the jar, and he pushed his head right in, and began to -lick.... - -By and by Piglet woke up. As soon as he woke he said to himself, "Oh!" -Then he said bravely, "Yes," and then, still more bravely, "Quite so." -But he didn't feel very brave, for the word which was really jiggeting -about in his brain was "Heffalumps." - -What was a Heffalump like? - -Was it Fierce? - -_Did_ it come when you whistled? And _how_ did it come? - -Was it Fond of Pigs at all? - -If it was Fond of Pigs, did it make any difference _what sort of Pig_? - -Supposing it was Fierce with Pigs, would it make any difference _if the -Pig had a grandfather called TRESPASSERS WILLIAM_? - -He didn't know the answer to any of these questions ... and he was -going to see his first Heffalump in about an hour from now! - -Of course Pooh would be with him, and it was much more Friendly with -two. But suppose Heffalumps were Very Fierce with Pigs _and_ Bears? -Wouldn't it be better to pretend that he had a headache, and couldn't go -up to the Six Pine Trees this morning? But then suppose that it was a -very fine day, and there was no Heffalump in the trap, here he would be, -in bed all the morning, simply wasting his time for nothing. What should -he do? - -And then he had a Clever Idea. He would go up very quietly to the Six -Pine Trees now, peep very cautiously into the Trap, and see if there -_was_ a Heffalump there. And if there was, he would go back to bed, and -if there wasn't, he wouldn't. - -So off he went. At first he thought that there wouldn't be a Heffalump -in the Trap, and then he thought that there would, and as he got nearer -he was _sure_ that there would, because he could hear it heffalumping -about it like anything. - -"Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear!" said Piglet to himself. And he wanted to -run away. But somehow, having got so near, he felt that he must just see -what a Heffalump was like. So he crept to the side of the Trap and -looked in.... - -And all the time Winnie-the-Pooh had been trying to get the honey-jar -off his head. The more he shook it, the more tightly it stuck. - -"_Bother!_" he said, inside the jar, and "_Oh, help!_" and, mostly, -"_Ow!_" And he tried bumping it against things, but as he couldn't see -what he was bumping it against, it didn't help him; and he tried to -climb out of the Trap, but as he could see nothing but jar, and not much -of that, he couldn't find his way. So at last he lifted up his head, jar -and all, and made a loud, roaring noise of Sadness and Despair ... and -it was at that moment that Piglet looked down. - -"Help, help!" cried Piglet, "a Heffalump, a Horrible Heffalump!" and he -scampered off as hard as he could, still crying out, "Help, help, a -Herrible Hoffalump! Hoff, Hoff, a Hellible Horralump! Holl, Holl, a -Hoffable Hellerump!" And he didn't stop crying and scampering until he -got to Christopher Robin's house. - -"Whatever's the matter, Piglet?" said Christopher Robin, who was just -getting up. - -"Heff," said Piglet, breathing so hard that he could hardly speak, "a -Heff--a Heff--a Heffalump." - -"Where?" - -"Up there," said Piglet, waving his paw. - -"What did it look like?" - -"Like--like----It had the biggest head you ever saw, Christopher Robin. -A great enormous thing, like--like nothing. A huge big--well, like a--I -don't know--like an enormous big nothing. Like a jar." - -"Well," said Christopher Robin, putting on his shoes, "I shall go and -look at it. Come on." - -Piglet wasn't afraid if he had Christopher Robin with him, so off they -went.... - -"I can hear it, can't you?" said Piglet anxiously, as they got near. - -"I can hear _something_," said Christopher Robin. - -It was Pooh bumping his head against a tree-root he had found. - -"There!" said Piglet. "Isn't it _awful_?" And he held on tight to -Christopher Robin's hand. - -Suddenly Christopher Robin began to laugh ... and he laughed ... and he -laughed ... and he laughed. And while he was still laughing--_Crash_ -went the Heffalump's head against the tree-root, Smash went the jar, -and out came Pooh's head again.... - -Then Piglet saw what a Foolish Piglet he had been, and he was so ashamed -of himself that he ran straight off home and went to bed with a -headache. But Christopher Robin and Pooh went home to breakfast -together. - -"Oh, Bear!" said Christopher Robin. "How I do love you!" - -"So do I," said Pooh. - - - - - CHAPTER VI - - IN WHICH EEYORE HAS A BIRTHDAY - AND GETS TWO PRESENTS - - -Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and -looked at himself in the water. - -"Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic." - -He turned and walked slowly down the stream for twenty yards, splashed -across it, and walked slowly back on the other side. Then he looked at -himself in the water again. - -"As I thought," he said. "No better from _this_ side. But nobody minds. -Nobody cares. Pathetic, that's what it is." - -There was a crackling noise in the bracken behind him, and out came -Pooh. - -"Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. - -"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it _is_ a good -morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he. - -"Why, what's the matter?" - -"Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's -all there is to it." - -"Can't all _what_?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. - -"Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush." - -"Oh!" said Pooh. He thought for a long time, and then asked, "What -mulberry bush is that?" - -"Bon-hommy," went on Eeyore gloomily. "French word meaning bonhommy," he -explained. "I'm not complaining, but There It Is." - -Pooh sat down on a large stone, and tried to think this out. It sounded -to him like a riddle, and he was never much good at riddles, being a -Bear of Very Little Brain. So he sang _Cottleston Pie_ instead: - - Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, - A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. - Ask me a riddle and I reply: - "_Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie._" - -That was the first verse. When he had finished it, Eeyore didn't -actually say that he didn't like it, so Pooh very kindly sang the second -verse to him: - - Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, - A fish can't whistle and neither can I. - Ask me a riddle and I reply: - "_Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie_." - -Eeyore still said nothing at all, so Pooh hummed the third verse quietly -to himself: - - Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, - Why does a chicken, I don't know why. - Ask me a riddle and I reply: - "_Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie_." - -"That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go -gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself." - -"I am," said Pooh. - -"Some can," said Eeyore. - -"Why, what's the matter?" - -"_Is_ anything the matter?" - -"You seem so sad, Eeyore." - -"Sad? Why should I be sad? It's my birthday. The happiest day of the -year." - -"Your birthday?" said Pooh in great surprise. - -"Of course it is. Can't you see? Look at all the presents I have had." -He waved a foot from side to side. "Look at the birthday cake. Candles -and pink sugar." - -Pooh looked--first to the right and then to the left. - -"Presents?" said Pooh. "Birthday cake?" said Pooh. "_Where?_" - -"Can't you see them?" - -"No," said Pooh. - -"Neither can I," said Eeyore. "Joke," he explained. "Ha ha!" - -Pooh scratched his head, being a little puzzled by all this. - -"But is it really your birthday?" he asked. - -"It is." - -"Oh! Well, Many happy returns of the day, Eeyore." - -"And many happy returns to you, Pooh Bear." - -"But it isn't _my_ birthday." - -"No, it's mine." - -"But you said 'Many happy returns'----" - -"Well, why not? You don't always want to be miserable on my birthday, do -you?" - -"Oh, I see," said Pooh. - -"It's bad enough," said Eeyore, almost breaking down, "being miserable -myself, what with no presents and no cake and no candles, and no proper -notice taken of me at all, but if everybody else is going to be -miserable too----" - -This was too much for Pooh. "Stay there!" he called to Eeyore, as he -turned and hurried back home as quick as he could; for he felt that he -must get poor Eeyore a present of _some_ sort at once, and he could -always think of a proper one afterwards. - -Outside his house he found Piglet, jumping up and down trying to reach -the knocker. - -"Hallo, Piglet," he said. - -"Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet. - -"What are _you_ trying to do?" - -"I was trying to reach the knocker," said Piglet. "I just came -round----" - -"Let me do it for you," said Pooh kindly. So he reached up and knocked -at the door. "I have just seen Eeyore," he began, "and poor Eeyore is in -a Very Sad Condition, because it's his birthday, and nobody has taken -any notice of it, and he's very Gloomy--you know what Eeyore is--and -there he was, and----What a long time whoever lives here is answering -this door." And he knocked again. - -"But Pooh," said Piglet, "it's your own house!" - -"Oh!" said Pooh. "So it is," he said. "Well, let's go in." - -So in they went. The first thing Pooh did was to go to the cupboard to -see if he had quite a small jar of honey left; and he had, so he took it -down. - -"I'm giving this to Eeyore," he explained, "as a present. What are _you_ -going to give?" - -"Couldn't I give it too?" said Piglet. "From both of us?" - -"No," said Pooh. "That would _not_ be a good plan." - -"All right, then, I'll give him a balloon. I've got one left from my -party. I'll go and get it now, shall I?" - -"That, Piglet, is a _very_ good idea. It is just what Eeyore wants to -cheer him up. Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon." - -So off Piglet trotted; and in the other direction went Pooh, with his -jar of honey. - -It was a warm day, and he had a long way to go. He hadn't gone more than -half-way when a sort of funny feeling began to creep all over him. It -began at the tip of his nose and trickled all through him and out at the -soles of his feet. It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, -"Now then, Pooh, time for a little something." - -"Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I didn't know it was as late as that." So he -sat down and took the top off his jar of honey. "Lucky I brought this -with me," he thought. "Many a bear going out on a warm day like this -would never have thought of bringing a little something with him." And -he began to eat. - -"Now let me see," he thought, as he took his last lick of the inside of -the jar, "where was I going? Ah, yes, Eeyore." He got up slowly. - -And then, suddenly, he remembered. He had eaten Eeyore's birthday -present! - -"_Bother!_" said Pooh. "What _shall_ I do? I _must_ give him -_something_." - -For a little while he couldn't think of anything. Then he thought: -"Well, it's a very nice pot, even if there's no honey in it, and if I -washed it clean, and got somebody to write '_A Happy Birthday_' on it, -Eeyore could keep things in it, which might be Useful." So, as he was -just passing the Hundred Acre Wood, he went inside to call on Owl, who -lived there. - -"Good morning, Owl," he said. - -"Good morning, Pooh," said Owl. - -"Many happy returns of Eeyore's birthday," said Pooh. - -"Oh, is that what it is?" - -"What are you giving him, Owl?" - -"What are _you_ giving him, Pooh?" - -"I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In, and I wanted to ask -you----" - -"Is this it?" said Owl, taking it out of Pooh's paw. - -"Yes, and I wanted to ask you----" - -"Somebody has been keeping honey in it," said Owl. - -"You can keep _anything_ in it," said Pooh earnestly. "It's Very Useful -like that. And I wanted to ask you----" - -"You ought to write '_A Happy Birthday_' on it." - -"_That_ was what I wanted to ask you," said Pooh. "Because my spelling -is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the -wrong places. Would _you_ write 'A Happy Birthday' on it for me?" - -"It's a nice pot," said Owl, looking at it all round. "Couldn't I give -it too? From both of us?" - -"No," said Pooh. "That would _not_ be a good plan. Now I'll just wash it -first, and then you can write on it." - -Well, he washed the pot out, and dried it, while Owl licked the end of -his pencil, and wondered how to spell "birthday." - -"Can you read, Pooh?" he asked a little anxiously. "There's a notice -about knocking and ringing outside my door, which Christopher Robin -wrote. Could you read it?" - -"Christopher Robin told me what it said, and _then_ I could." - -"Well, I'll tell you what _this_ says, and then you'll be able to." - -So Owl wrote ... and this is what he wrote: - - HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. - -Pooh looked on admiringly. - -"I'm just saying 'A Happy Birthday'," said Owl carelessly. - -"It's a nice long one," said Pooh, very much impressed by it. - -"Well, _actually_, of course, I'm saying 'A Very Happy Birthday with -love from Pooh.' Naturally it takes a good deal of pencil to say a long -thing like that." - -"Oh, I see," said Pooh. - -While all this was happening, Piglet had gone back to his own house to -get Eeyore's balloon. He held it very tightly against himself, so that -it shouldn't blow away, and he ran as fast as he could so as to get to -Eeyore before Pooh did; for he thought that he would like to be the -first one to give a present, just as if he had thought of it without -being told by anybody. And running along, and thinking how pleased -Eeyore would be, he didn't look where he was going ... and suddenly he -put his foot in a rabbit hole, and fell down flat on his face. - -BANG!!!???***!!! - -Piglet lay there, wondering what had happened. At first he thought that -the whole world had blown up; and then he thought that perhaps only the -Forest part of it had; and then he thought that perhaps only _he_ had, -and he was now alone in the moon or somewhere, and would never see -Christopher Robin or Pooh or Eeyore again. And then he thought, "Well, -even if I'm in the moon, I needn't be face downwards all the time," so -he got cautiously up and looked about him. - -He was still in the Forest! - -"Well, that's funny," he thought. "I wonder what that bang was. I -couldn't have made such a noise just falling down. And where's my -balloon? And what's that small piece of damp rag doing?" - -It was the balloon! - -"Oh, dear!" said Piglet "Oh, dear, oh, dearie, dearie, dear! Well, it's -too late now. I can't go back, and I haven't another balloon, and -perhaps Eeyore doesn't _like_ balloons so _very_ much." - -So he trotted on, rather sadly now, and down he came to the side of the -stream where Eeyore was, and called out to him. - -"Good morning, Eeyore," shouted Piglet. - -"Good morning, Little Piglet," said Eeyore. "If it _is_ a good morning," -he said. "Which I doubt," said he. "Not that it matters," he said. - -"Many happy returns of the day," said Piglet, having now got closer. - -Eeyore stopped looking at himself in the stream, and turned to stare at -Piglet. - -"Just say that again," he said. - -"Many hap----" - -"Wait a moment." - -Balancing on three legs, he began to bring his fourth leg very -cautiously up to his ear. "I did this yesterday," he explained, as he -fell down for the third time. "It's quite easy. It's so as I can hear -better.... There, that's done it! Now then, what were you saying?" He -pushed his ear forward with his hoof. - -"Many happy returns of the day," said Piglet again. - -"Meaning me?" - -"Of course, Eeyore." - -"My birthday?" - -"Yes." - -"Me having a real birthday?" - -"Yes, Eeyore, and I've brought you a present." - -Eeyore took down his right hoof from his right ear, turned round, and -with great difficulty put up his left hoof. - -"I must have that in the other ear," he said. "Now then." - -"A present," said Piglet very loudly. - -"Meaning me again?" - -"Yes." - -"My birthday still?" - -"Of course, Eeyore." - -"Me going on having a real birthday?" - -"Yes, Eeyore, and I brought you a balloon." - -"_Balloon?_" said Eeyore. "You did say balloon? One of those big -coloured things you blow up? Gaiety, song-and-dance, here we are and -there we are?" - -"Yes, but I'm afraid--I'm very sorry, Eeyore--but when I was running -along to bring it you, I fell down." - -"Dear, dear, how unlucky! You ran too fast, I expect. You didn't hurt -yourself, Little Piglet?" - -"No, but I--I--oh, Eeyore, I burst the balloon!" - -There was a very long silence. - -"My balloon?" said Eeyore at last. - -Piglet nodded. - -"My birthday balloon?" - -"Yes, Eeyore," said Piglet sniffing a little. "Here it is. With--with -many happy returns of the day." And he gave Eeyore the small piece of -damp rag. - -"Is this it?" said Eeyore, a little surprised. - -Piglet nodded. - -"My present?" - -Piglet nodded again. - -"The balloon?" - -"Yes." - -"Thank you, Piglet," said Eeyore. "You don't mind my asking," he went -on, "but what colour was this balloon when it--when it _was_ a balloon?" - -"Red." - -"I just wondered.... Red," he murmured to himself. "My favourite -colour.... How big was it?" - -"About as big as me." - -"I just wondered.... About as big as Piglet," he said to himself -sadly. "My favourite size. Well, well." - -Piglet felt very miserable, and didn't know what to say. He was still -opening his mouth to begin something, and then deciding that it wasn't -any good saying _that_, when he heard a shout from the other side of the -river, and there was Pooh. - -"Many happy returns of the day," called out Pooh, forgetting that he had -said it already. - -"Thank you, Pooh, I'm having them," said Eeyore gloomily. - -"I've brought you a little present," said Pooh excitedly. - -"I've had it," said Eeyore. - -Pooh had now splashed across the stream to Eeyore, and Piglet was -sitting a little way off, his head in his paws, snuffling to himself. - -"It's a Useful Pot," said Pooh. "Here it is. And it's got 'A Very Happy -Birthday with love from Pooh' written on it. That's what all that -writing is. And it's for putting things in. There!" - -When Eeyore saw the pot, he became quite excited. - -"Why!" he said. "I believe my Balloon will just go into that Pot!" - -"Oh, no, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Balloons are much too big to go into Pots. -What you do with a balloon is, you hold the ballon----" - -"Not mine," said Eeyore proudly. "Look, Piglet!" And as Piglet looked -sorrowfully round, Eeyore picked the balloon up with his teeth, and -placed it carefully in the pot; picked it out and put it on the ground; -and then picked it up again and put it carefully back. - -"So it does!" said Pooh. "It goes in!" - -"So it does!" said Piglet. "And it comes out!" - -"Doesn't it?" said Eeyore. "It goes in and out like anything." - -"I'm very glad," said Pooh happily, "that I thought of giving you a -Useful Pot to put things in." - -"I'm very glad," said Piglet happily, "that I thought of giving you -Something to put in a Useful Pot." - -But Eeyore wasn't listening. He was taking the balloon out, and putting -it back again, as happy as could be.... - - * * * * * - -"And didn't _I_ give him anything?" asked Christopher Robin sadly. - -"Of course you did," I said. "You gave him--don't you remember--a -little--a little----" - -"I gave him a box of paints to paint things with." - -"That was it." - -"Why didn't I give it to him in the morning?" - -"You were so busy getting his party ready for him. He had a cake with -icing on the top, and three candles, and his name in pink sugar, -and----" - -"Yes, _I_ remember," said Christopher Robin. - - - - - CHAPTER VII - - IN WHICH KANGA AND BABY ROO COME - TO THE FOREST, AND PIGLET HAS A BATH - - -Nobody seemed to know where they came from, but there they were in the -Forest: Kanga and Baby Roo. When Pooh asked Christopher Robin, "How did -they come here?" Christopher Robin said, "In the Usual Way, if you know -what I mean, Pooh," and Pooh, who didn't, said "Oh!" Then he nodded his -head twice and said, "In the Usual Way. Ah!" Then he went to call upon -his friend Piglet to see what _he_ thought about it. And at Piglet's -house he found Rabbit. So they all talked about it together. - -"What I don't like about it is this," said Rabbit. "Here are we--you, -Pooh, and you, Piglet, and Me--and suddenly----" - -"And Eeyore," said Pooh. - -"And Eeyore--and then suddenly----" - -"And Owl," said Pooh. - -"And Owl--and then all of a sudden----" - -"Oh, and Eeyore," said Pooh. "I was forgetting _him_." - -"Here--we--are," said Rabbit very slowly and carefully, "all--of--us, -and then, suddenly, we wake up one morning and, what do we find? We find -a Strange Animal among us. An animal of whom we have never even heard -before! An animal who carries her family about with her in her pocket! -Suppose _I_ carried _my_ family about with me in _my_ pocket, how many -pockets should I want?" - -"Sixteen," said Piglet. - -"Seventeen, isn't it?" said Rabbit. "And one more for a -handkerchief--that's eighteen. Eighteen pockets in one suit! I haven't -time." - -There was a long and thoughtful silence ... and then Pooh, who had -been frowning very hard for some minutes, said: "_I_ make it fifteen." - -"What?" said Rabbit. - -"Fifteen." - -"Fifteen what?" - -"Your family." - -"What about them?" - -Pooh rubbed his nose and said that he thought Rabbit had been talking -about his family. - -"Did I?" said Rabbit carelessly. - -"Yes, you said----" - -"Never mind, Pooh," said Piglet impatiently. - -"The question is, What are we to do about Kanga?" - -"Oh, I see," said Pooh. - -"The best way," said Rabbit, "would be this. The best way would be to -steal Baby Roo and hide him, and then when Kanga says, 'Where's Baby -Roo?' we say, '_Aha!_'" - -"_Aha!_" said Pooh, practising. "_Aha! Aha!_ ... Of course," he went -on, "we could say 'Aha!' even if we hadn't stolen Baby Roo." - -"Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." - -"I know," said Pooh humbly. - -"We say '_Aha!_' so that Kanga knows that _we_ know where Baby Roo is. -'_Aha!_' means 'We'll tell you where Baby Roo is, if you promise to go -away from the Forest and never come back.' Now don't talk while I -think." - -Pooh went into a corner and tried saying 'Aha!' in that sort of voice. -Sometimes it seemed to him that it did mean what Rabbit said, and -sometimes it seemed to him that it didn't. "I suppose it's just -practice," he thought. "I wonder if Kanga will have to practise too so -as to understand it." - -"There's just one thing," said Piglet, fidgeting a bit. "I was talking -to Christopher Robin, and he said that a Kanga was Generally Regarded as -One of the Fiercer Animals. I am not frightened of Fierce Animals in the -ordinary way, but it is well known that, if One of the Fiercer Animals -is Deprived of Its Young, it becomes as fierce as Two of the Fiercer -Animals. In which case '_Aha!_' is perhaps a _foolish_ thing to say." - -"Piglet," said Rabbit, taking out a pencil, and licking the end of it, -"you haven't any pluck." - -"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're -only a Very Small Animal." - -Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: - -"It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in -the adventure before us." - -Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful, that he forgot to be -frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were -only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an -Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to -begin being useful at once. - -"What about me?" said Pooh sadly. "I suppose _I_ shan't be useful?" - -"Never mind, Pooh," said Piglet comfortingly. "Another time perhaps." - -"Without Pooh," said Rabbit solemnly as he sharpened his pencil, "the -adventure would be impossible." - -"Oh!" said Piglet, and tried not to look disappointed. But Pooh went -into a corner of the room and said proudly to himself, "Impossible -without Me! _That_ sort of Bear." - -"Now listen all of you," said Rabbit when he had finished writing, and -Pooh and Piglet sat listening very eagerly with their mouths open. This -was what Rabbit read out: - - PLAN TO CAPTURE BABY ROO - - 1. _General Remarks._ Kanga runs faster than any of Us, even Me. - - 2. _More General Remarks._ Kanga never takes her eye off Baby Roo, - except when he's safely buttoned up in her pocket. - - 3. _Therefore._ If we are to capture Baby Roo, we must get a Long - Start, because Kanga runs faster than any of Us, even Me. - (_See_ 1.) - - 4. _A Thought._ If Roo had jumped out of Kanga's pocket and Piglet - had jumped in, Kanga wouldn't know the difference, because Piglet - is a Very Small Animal. - - 5. Like Roo. - - 6. But Kanga would have to be looking the other way first, so as not - to see Piglet jumping in. - - 7. See 2. - - 8. _Another Thought._ But if Pooh was talking to her very excitedly, - she _might_ look the other way for a moment. - - 9. And then I could run away with Roo. - - 10. Quickly. - - 11. _And Kanga wouldn't discover the difference until Afterwards._ - -Well, Rabbit read this out proudly, and for a little while after he had -read it nobody said anything. And then Piglet, who had been opening and -shutting his mouth without making any noise, managed to say very -huskily: - -"And--Afterwards?" - -"How do you mean?" - -"When Kanga _does_ Discover the Difference?" - -"Then we all say '_Aha!_'" - -"All three of us?" - -"Yes." - -"Oh!" - -"Why, what's the trouble, Piglet?" - -"Nothing," said Piglet, "as long as _we all three_ say it. As long as we -all three say it," said Piglet, "I don't mind," he said, "but I -shouldn't care to say '_Aha!_' by myself. It wouldn't sound _nearly_ so -well. By the way," he said, "you _are_ quite sure about what you said -about the winter months?" - -"The winter months?" - -"Yes, only being Fierce in the Winter Months." - -"Oh, yes, yes, that's all right. Well, Pooh? You see what you have to -do?" - -"No," said Pooh Bear. "Not yet," he said. "What _do_ I do?" - -"Well, you just have to talk very hard to Kanga so as she doesn't notice -anything." - -"Oh! What about?" - -"Anything you like." - -"You mean like telling her a little bit of poetry or something?" - -"That's it," said Rabbit. "Splendid. Now come along." - -So they all went out to look for Kanga. - -Kanga and Roo were spending a quiet afternoon in a sandy part of the -Forest. Baby Roo was practising very small jumps in the sand, and -falling down mouse-holes and climbing out of them, and Kanga was -fidgeting about and saying "Just one more jump, dear, and then we must -go home." And at that moment who should come stumping up the hill but -Pooh. - -"Good afternoon, Kanga." - -"Good afternoon, Pooh." - -"Look at me jumping," squeaked Roo, and fell into another mouse-hole. - -"Hallo, Roo, my little fellow!" - -"We were just going home," said Kanga. "Good afternoon, Rabbit. Good -afternoon, Piglet." - -Rabbit and Piglet, who had now come up from the other side of the hill, -said "Good afternoon," and "Hallo, Roo," and Roo asked them to look at -him jumping, so they stayed and looked. - -And Kanga looked too.... - -"Oh, Kanga," said Pooh, after Rabbit had winked at him twice, "I don't -know if you are interested in Poetry at all?" - -"Hardly at all," said Kanga. - -"Oh!" said Pooh. - -"Roo, dear, just one more jump and then we must go home." - -There was a short silence while Roo fell down another mouse-hole. - -"Go on," said Rabbit in a loud whisper behind his paw. - -"Talking of Poetry," said Pooh, "I made up a little piece as I was -coming along. It went like this. Er--now let me see----" - -"Fancy!" said Kanga. "Now Roo, dear----" - -"You'll like this piece of poetry," said Rabbit. - -"You'll love it," said Piglet. - -"You must listen very carefully," said Rabbit. - -"So as not to miss any of it," said Piglet. - -"Oh, yes," said Kanga, but she still looked at Baby Roo. - -"_How_ did it go, Pooh?" said Rabbit. - -Pooh gave a little cough and began. - - LINES WRITTEN BY A BEAR OF VERY LITTLE BRAIN - - On Monday, when the sun is hot - I wonder to myself a lot: - "Now is it true, or is it not, - "That what is which and which is what?" - - On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, - The feeling on me grows and grows - That hardly anybody knows - If those are these or these are those. - - On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, - And I have nothing else to do, - I sometimes wonder if it's true - That who is what and what is who. - - On Thursday, when it starts to freeze - And hoar-frost twinkles on the trees, - How very readily one sees - That these are whose--but whose are these? - - On Friday---- - -"Yes, it is, isn't it?" said Kanga, not waiting to hear what happened on -Friday. "Just one more jump, Roo, dear, and then we really _must_ be -going." - -Rabbit gave Pooh a hurrying-up sort of nudge. - -"Talking of Poetry," said Pooh quickly, "have you ever noticed that tree -right over there?" - -"Where?" said Kanga. "Now, Roo----" - -"Right over there," said Pooh, pointing behind Kanga's back. - -"No," said Kanga. "Now jump in, Roo, dear, and we'll go home." - -"You ought to look at that tree right over there," said Rabbit. "Shall I -lift you in, Roo?" And he picked up Roo in his paws. - -"I can see a bird in it from here," said Pooh. "Or is it a fish?" - -"You ought to see that bird from here," said Rabbit. "Unless it's a -fish." - -"It isn't a fish, it's a bird," said Piglet. - -"So it is," said Rabbit. - -"Is it a starling or a blackbird?" said Pooh. - -"That's the whole question," said Rabbit. "Is it a blackbird or a -starling?" - -And then at last Kanga did turn her head to look. And the moment that -her head was turned, Rabbit said in a loud voice "In you go, Roo!" and -in jumped Piglet into Kanga's pocket, and off scampered Rabbit, with Roo -in his paws, as fast as he could. - -"Why, where's Rabbit?" said Kanga, turning round again. "Are you all -right, Roo, dear?" - -Piglet made a squeaky Roo-noise from the bottom of Kanga's pocket. - -"Rabbit had to go away," said Pooh. "I think he thought of something he -had to go and see about suddenly." - -"And Piglet?" - -"I think Piglet thought of something at the same time. Suddenly." - -"Well, we must be getting home," said Kanga. "Good-bye, Pooh." And in -three large jumps she was gone. - -Pooh looked after her as she went. - -"I wish I could jump like that," he thought. "Some can and some can't. -That's how it is." - -But there were moments when Piglet wished that Kanga couldn't. Often, -when he had had a long walk home through the Forest, he had wished that -he were a bird; but now he thought jerkily to himself at the bottom of -Kanga's pocket, - - this take - "If is shall really to - flying I never it." - -And as he went up in the air he said, "_Ooooooo!_" and as he came down -he said, "_Ow!_" And he was saying, "_Ooooooo-ow, Ooooooo-ow, -Ooooooo-ow_" all the way to Kanga's house. - -Of course as soon as Kanga unbuttoned her pocket, she saw what had -happened. Just for a moment, she thought she was frightened, and then -she knew she wasn't; for she felt quite sure that Christopher Robin -would never let any harm happen to Roo. So she said to herself, "If they -are having a joke with me, I will have a joke with them." - -"Now then, Roo, dear," she said, as she took Piglet out of her pocket. -"Bed-time." - -"_Aha!_" said Piglet, as well as he could after his Terrifying Journey. -But it wasn't a very good "_Aha!_" and Kanga didn't seem to understand -what it meant. - -"Bath first," said Kanga in a cheerful voice. - -"_Aha!_" said Piglet again, looking round anxiously for the others. But -the others weren't there. Rabbit was playing with Baby Roo in his own -house, and feeling more fond of him every minute, and Pooh, who had -decided to be a Kanga, was still at the sandy place on the top of the -Forest, practising jumps. - -"I am not at all sure," said Kanga in a thoughtful voice, "that it -wouldn't be a good idea to have a _cold_ bath this evening. Would you -like that, Roo, dear?" - -Piglet, who had never been really fond of baths, shuddered a long -indignant shudder, and said in as brave a voice as he could: - -"Kanga, I see that the time has come to spleak painly." - -"Funny little Roo," said Kanga, as she got the bath-water ready. - -"I am _not_ Roo," said Piglet loudly. "I am Piglet!" - -"Yes, dear, yes," said Kanga soothingly. "And imitating Piglet's voice -too! So clever of him," she went on, as she took a large bar of yellow -soap out of the cupboard. "What _will_ he be doing next?" - -"Can't you _see_?" shouted Piglet. "Haven't you got _eyes_? _Look_ at -me!" - -"I _am_ looking, Roo, dear," said Kanga rather severely. "And you know -what I told you yesterday about making faces. If you go on making faces -like Piglet's, you will grow up to _look_ like Piglet--and _then_ think -how sorry you will be. Now then, into the bath, and don't let me have to -speak to you about it again." - -Before he knew where he was, Piglet was in the bath, and Kanga was -scrubbing him firmly with a large lathery flannel. - -"Ow!" cried Piglet. "Let me out! I'm Piglet!" - -"Don't open the mouth, dear, or the soap goes in," said Kanga. "There! -What did I tell you?" - -"You--you--you did it on purpose," spluttered Piglet, as soon as he -could speak again ... and then accidentally had another mouthful of -lathery flannel. - -"That's right, dear, don't say anything," said Kanga, and in another -minute Piglet was out of the bath, and being rubbed dry with a towel. - -"Now," said Kanga, "there's your medicine, and then bed." - -"W-w-what medicine?" said Piglet. - -"To make you grow big and strong, dear. You don't want to grow up small -and weak like Piglet, do you? Well, then!" - -At that moment there was a knock at the door. - -"Come in," said Kanga, and in came Christopher Robin. - -"Christopher Robin, Christopher Robin!" cried Piglet. "Tell Kanga who I -am! She keeps saying I'm Roo. I'm _not_ Roo, am I?" - -Christopher Robin looked at him very carefully, and shook his head. - -"You can't be Roo," he said, "because I've just seen Roo playing in -Rabbit's house." - -"Well!" said Kanga. "Fancy that! Fancy my making a mistake like that." - -"There you are!" said Piglet. "I told you so. I'm Piglet." - -Christopher Robin shook his head again. - -"Oh, you're not Piglet," he said. "I know Piglet well, and he's _quite_ -a different colour." - -Piglet began to say that this was because he had just had a bath, and -then he thought that perhaps he wouldn't say that, and as he opened his -mouth to say something else, Kanga slipped the medicine spoon in, and -then patted him on the back and told him that it was really quite a nice -taste when you got used to it. - -"I knew it wasn't Piglet," said Kanga. "I wonder who it can be." - -"Perhaps it's some relation of Pooh's," said Christopher Robin. "What -about a nephew or an uncle or something?" - -Kanga agreed that this was probably what it was, and said that they -would have to call it by some name. - -"I shall call it Pootel," said Christopher Robin. "Henry Pootel for -short." - -And just when it was decided, Henry Pootel wriggled out of Kanga's arms -and jumped to the ground. To his great joy Christopher Robin had left -the door open. Never had Henry Pootel Piglet run so fast as he ran then, -and he didn't stop running until he had got quite close to his house. -But when he was a hundred yards away he stopped running, and rolled the -rest of the way home, so as to get his own nice comfortable colour -again.... - -So Kanga and Roo stayed in the Forest. And every Tuesday Roo spent the -day with his great friend Rabbit, and every Tuesday Kanga spent the day -with her great friend Pooh, teaching him to jump, and every Tuesday -Piglet spent the day with his great friend Christopher Robin. So they -were all happy again. - - - - - CHAPTER VIII - - IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN LEADS - AN EXPOTITION TO THE NORTH POLE - - -One fine day Pooh had stumped up to the top of the Forest to see if -his friend Christopher Robin was interested in Bears at all. At -breakfast that morning (a simple meal of marmalade spread lightly over a -honeycomb or two) he had suddenly thought of a new song. It began like -this: - - "_Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear._" - -When he had got as far as this, he scratched his head, and thought to -himself "That's a very good start for a song, but what about the second -line?" He tried singing "Ho," two or three times, but it didn't seem to -help. "Perhaps it would be better," he thought, "if I sang Hi for the -life of a Bear." So he sang it ... but it wasn't. "Very well, then," -he said, "I shall sing that first line twice, and perhaps if I sing it -very quickly, I shall find myself singing the third and fourth lines -before I have time to think of them, and that will be a Good Song. Now -then:" - - Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear! - Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear! - I don't much mind if it rains or snows, - 'Cos I've got a lot of honey on my nice new nose, - I don't much care if it snows or thaws, - 'Cos I've got a lot of honey on my nice clean paws! - Sing Ho! for a Bear! - Sing Ho! for a Pooh! - And I'll have a little something in an hour or two! - -He was so pleased with this song that he sang it all the way to the top -of the Forest, "and if I go on singing it much longer," he thought, "it -will be time for the little something, and then the last line won't be -true." So he turned it into a hum instead. - -Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big -Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was -going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of -his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look Ready -for Anything. - -"Good-morning, Christopher Robin," he called out. - -"Hallo, Pooh Bear. I can't get this boot on." - -"That's bad," said Pooh. - -"Do you think you could very kindly lean against me, 'cos I keep pulling -so hard that I fall over backwards." - -Pooh sat down, dug his feet into the ground, and pushed hard against -Christopher Robin's back, and Christopher Robin pushed hard against his, -and pulled and pulled at his boot until he had got it on. - -"And that's that," said Pooh. "What do we do next?" - -"We are all going on an Expedition," said Christopher Robin, as he got -up and brushed himself. "Thank you, Pooh." - -"Going on an Expotition?" said Pooh eagerly. "I don't think I've ever -been on one of those. Where are we going to on this Expotition?" - -"Expedition, silly old Bear. It's got an 'x' in it." - -"Oh!" said Pooh. "I know." But he didn't really. - -"We're going to discover the North Pole." - -"Oh!" said Pooh again. "What _is_ the North Pole?" he asked. - -"It's just a thing you discover," said Christopher Robin carelessly, not -being quite sure himself. - -"Oh! I see," said Pooh. "Are bears any good at discovering it?" - -"Of course they are. And Rabbit and Kanga and all of you. It's an -Expedition. That's what an Expedition means. A long line of everybody. -You'd better tell the others to get ready, while I see if my gun's all -right. And we must all bring Provisions." - -"Bring what?" - -"Things to eat." - -"Oh!" said Pooh happily. "I thought you said Provisions. I'll go and -tell them." And he stumped off. - -The first person he met was Rabbit. - -"Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?" - -"Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens." - -"I've got a message for you." - -"I'll give it to him." - -"We're all going on an Expotition with Christopher Robin!" - -"What is it when we're on it?" - -"A sort of boat, I think," said Pooh. - -"Oh! that sort." - -"Yes. And we're going to discover a Pole or something. Or was it a Mole? -Anyhow we're going to discover it." - -"We are, are we?" said Rabbit. - -"Yes. And we've got to bring Pro--things to eat with us. In case we want -to eat them. Now I'm going down to Piglet's. Tell Kanga, will you?" - -He left Rabbit and hurried down to Piglet's house. The Piglet was -sitting on the ground at the door of his house blowing happily at a -dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, -sometime or never. He had just discovered that it would be never, and -was trying to remember what "_it_" was, and hoping it wasn't anything -nice, when Pooh came up. - -"Oh! Piglet," said Pooh excitedly, "we're going on an Expotition, all of -us, with things to eat. To discover something." - -"To discover what?" said Piglet anxiously. - -"Oh! just something." - -"Nothing fierce?" - -"Christopher Robin didn't say anything about fierce. He just said it had -an 'x'." - -"It isn't their necks I mind," said Piglet earnestly. "It's their teeth. -But if Christopher Robin is coming I don't mind anything." - -In a little while they were all ready at the top of the Forest, and the -Expotition started. First came Christopher Robin and Rabbit, then Piglet -and Pooh; then Kanga, with Roo in her pocket, and Owl; then Eeyore; and, -at the end, in a long line, all Rabbit's friends-and-relations. - -"I didn't ask them," explained Rabbit carelessly. "They just came. They -always do. They can march at the end, after Eeyore." - -"What I say," said Eeyore, "is that it's unsettling. I didn't want to -come on this Expo--what Pooh said. I only came to oblige. But here I -am; and if I am the end of the Expo--what we're talking about--then -let me _be_ the end. But if, every time I want to sit down for a -little rest, I have to brush away half a dozen of Rabbit's smaller -friends-and-relations first, then this isn't an Expo--whatever it -is--at all, it's simply a Confused Noise. That's what _I_ say." - -"I see what Eeyore means," said Owl. "If you ask me----" - -"I'm not asking anybody," said Eeyore. "I'm just telling everybody. We -can look for the North Pole, or we can play 'Here we go gathering Nuts -and May' with the end part of an ant's nest. It's all the same to me." - -There was a shout from the top of the line. - -"Come on!" called Christopher Robin. - -"Come on!" called Pooh and Piglet - -"Come on!" called Owl. - -"We're starting," said Rabbit. "I must go." And he hurried off to the -front of the Expotition with Christopher Robin. - -"All right," said Eeyore. "We're going. Only Don't Blame Me." - -So off they all went to discover the Pole. And as they walked, they -chattered to each other of this and that, all except Pooh, who was -making up a song. - -"This is the first verse," he said to Piglet, when he was ready with it. - -"First verse of what?" - -"My song." - -"What song?" - -"This one." - -"Which one?" - -"Well, if you listen, Piglet, you'll hear it." - -"How do you know I'm not listening?" - -Pooh couldn't answer that one, so he began to sing. - - They all went off to discover the Pole, - Owl and Piglet and Rabbit and all; - It's a Thing you Discover, as I've been tole - By Owl and Piglet and Rabbit and all. - Eeyore, Christopher Robin and Pooh - And Rabbit's relations all went too-- - And where the Pole was none of them knew.... - Sing Hey! for Owl and Rabbit and all! - -"Hush!" said Christopher Robin turning round to Pooh, "we're just coming -to a Dangerous Place." - -"Hush!" said Pooh turning round quickly to Piglet. - -"Hush!" said Piglet to Kanga. - -"Hush!" said Kanga to Owl, while Roo said "Hush!" several times to -himself very quietly. - -"Hush!" said Owl to Eeyore. - -"_Hush!_" said Eeyore in a terrible voice to all Rabbit's -friends-and-relations, and "Hush!" they said hastily to each other all -down the line, until it got to the last one of all. And the last and -smallest friend-and-relation was so upset to find that the whole -Expotition was saying "Hush!" to _him_, that he buried himself head -downwards in a crack in the ground, and stayed there for two days until -the danger was over, and then went home in a great hurry, and lived -quietly with his Aunt ever-afterwards. His name was Alexander Beetle. - -They had come to a stream which twisted and tumbled between high rocky -banks, and Christopher Robin saw at once how dangerous it was. - -"It's just the place," he explained, "for an Ambush." - -"What sort of bush?" whispered Pooh to Piglet. "A gorse-bush?" - -"My dear Pooh," said Owl in his superior way, "don't you know what an -Ambush is?" - -"Owl," said Piglet, looking round at him severely, "Pooh's whisper was a -perfectly private whisper, and there was no need----" - -"An Ambush," said Owl, "is a sort of Surprise." - -"So is a gorse-bush sometimes," said Pooh. - -"An Ambush, as I was about to explain to Pooh," said Piglet, "is a sort -of Surprise." - -"If people jump out at you suddenly, that's an Ambush," said Owl. - -"It's an Ambush, Pooh, when people jump at you suddenly," explained -Piglet. - -Pooh, who now knew what an Ambush was, said that a gorse-bush had sprung -at him suddenly one day when he fell off a tree, and he had taken six -days to get all the prickles out of himself. - -"We are not _talking_ about gorse-bushes," said Owl a little crossly. - -"I am," said Pooh. - -They were climbing very cautiously up the stream now, going from rock to -rock, and after they had gone a little way they came to a place where -the banks widened out at each side, so that on each side of the water -there was a level strip of grass on which they could sit down and rest. -As soon as he saw this, Christopher Robin called "Halt!" and they all -sat down and rested. - -"I think," said Christopher Robin, "that we ought to eat all our -Provisions now, so that we shan't have so much to carry." - -"Eat all our what?" said Pooh. - -"All that we've brought," said Piglet, getting to work. - -"That's a good idea," said Pooh, and he got to work too. - -"Have you all got something?" asked Christopher Robin with his mouth -full. - -"All except me," said Eeyore. "As Usual." He looked round at them in his -melancholy way. "I suppose none of you are sitting on a thistle by any -chance?" - -"I believe I am," said Pooh. "Ow!" He got up, and looked behind him. -"Yes, I was. I thought so." - -"Thank you, Pooh. If you've quite finished with it." He moved across to -Pooh's place, and began to eat. - -"It don't do them any Good, you know, sitting on them," he went on, as -he looked up munching. "Takes all the Life out of them. Remember that -another time, all of you. A little Consideration, a little Thought for -Others, makes all the difference." - -As soon as he had finished his lunch Christopher Robin whispered to -Rabbit, and Rabbit said "Yes, yes, of course," and they walked a little -way up the stream together. - -"I didn't want the others to hear," said Christopher Robin. - -"Quite so," said Rabbit, looking important. - -"It's--I wondered--It's only--Rabbit, I suppose _you_ don't know, What -does the North Pole _look_ like?" - -"Well," said Rabbit, stroking his whiskers. "Now you're asking me." - -"I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten," said Christopher Robin -carelessly. - -"It's a funny thing," said Rabbit, "but I've sort of forgotten too, -although I did know _once_." - -"I suppose it's just a pole stuck in the ground?" - -"Sure to be a pole," said Rabbit, "because of calling it a pole, and if -it's a pole, well, I should think it would be sticking in the ground, -shouldn't you, because there'd be nowhere else to stick it." - -"Yes, that's what I thought." - -"The only thing," said Rabbit, "is, _where is it sticking_?" - -"That's what we're looking for," said Christopher Robin. - -They went back to the others. Piglet was lying on his back, sleeping -peacefully. Roo was washing his face and paws in the stream, while Kanga -explained to everybody proudly that this was the first time he had ever -washed his face himself, and Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting -Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopædia and Rhododendron to which -Kanga wasn't listening. - -"I don't hold with all this washing," grumbled Eeyore. "This modern -Behind-the-ears nonsense. What do _you_ think, Pooh?" - -"Well," said Pooh, "_I_ think----" - -But we shall never know what Pooh thought, for there came a sudden -squeak from Roo, a splash, and a loud cry of alarm from Kanga. - -"So much for _washing_," said Eeyore. - -"Roo's fallen in!" cried Rabbit, and he and Christopher Robin came -rushing down to the rescue. - -"Look at me swimming!" squeaked Roo from the middle of his pool, and was -hurried down a waterfall into the next pool. - -"Are you all right, Roo dear?" called Kanga anxiously. - -"Yes!" said Roo. "Look at me sw----" and down he went over the next -waterfall into another pool. - -Everybody was doing something to help. Piglet, wide awake suddenly, was -jumping up and down and making "Oo, I say" noises; Owl was explaining -that in a case of Sudden and Temporary Immersion the Important Thing was -to keep the Head Above Water; Kanga was jumping along the bank, saying -"Are you _sure_ you're all right, Roo dear?" to which Roo, from whatever -pool he was in at the moment, was answering "Look at me swimming!" -Eeyore had turned round and hung his tail over the first pool into which -Roo fell, and with his back to the accident was grumbling quietly to -himself, and saying, "All this washing; but catch on to my tail, little -Roo, and you'll be all right"; and, Christopher Robin and Rabbit came -hurrying past Eeyore, and were calling out to the others in front of -them. - -"All right, Roo, I'm coming," called Christopher Robin. - -"Get something across the stream lower down, some of you fellows," -called Rabbit. - -But Pooh was getting something. Two pools below Roo he was standing with -a long pole in his paws, and Kanga came up and took one end of it, and -between them they held it across the lower part of the pool; and Roo, -still bubbling proudly, "Look at me swimming," drifted up against it, -and climbed out. - -"Did you see me swimming?" squeaked Roo excitedly, while Kanga scolded -him and rubbed him down. "Pooh, did you see me swimming? That's called -swimming, what I was doing. Rabbit, did you see what I was doing? -Swimming. Hallo, Piglet! I say, Piglet! What do you think I was doing! -Swimming! Christopher Robin, did you see me----" - -But Christopher Robin wasn't listening. He was looking at Pooh. - -"Pooh," he said, "where did you find that pole?" - -Pooh looked at the pole in his hands. - -"I just found it," he said. "I thought it ought to be useful. I just -picked it up." - -"Pooh," said Christopher Robin solemnly, "the Expedition is over. You -have found the North Pole!" - -"Oh!" said Pooh. - -Eeyore was sitting with his tail in the water when they all got back to -him. - -"Tell Roo to be quick, somebody," he said. "My tail's getting cold. I -don't want to mention it, but I just mention it. I don't want to -complain but there it is. My tail's cold." - -"Here I am!" squeaked Roo. - -"Oh, there you are." - -"Did you see me swimming?" - -Eeyore took his tail out of the water, and swished it from side to side. - -"As I expected," he said. "Lost all feeling. Numbed it. That's what it's -done. Numbed it. Well, as long as nobody minds, I suppose it's all -right." - -"Poor old Eeyore. I'll dry it for you," said Christopher Robin, and he -took out his handkerchief and rubbed it up. - -"Thank you, Christopher Robin. You're the only one who seems to -understand about tails. They don't think--that's what the matter with -some of these others. They've no imagination. A tail isn't a tail to -_them_, it's just a Little Bit Extra at the back." - -"Never mind, Eeyore," said Christopher Robin, rubbing his hardest. "Is -_that_ better?" - -"It's feeling more like a tail perhaps. It Belongs again, if you know -what I mean." - -"Hullo, Eeyore," said Pooh, coming up to them with his pole. - -"Hullo, Pooh. Thank you for asking, but I shall be able to use it again -in a day or two." - -"Use what?" said Pooh. - -"What we are talking about." - -"I wasn't talking about anything," said Pooh, looking puzzled. - -"My mistake again. I thought you were saying how sorry you were about my -tail, being all numb, and could you do anything to help?" - -"No," said Pooh. "That wasn't me," he said. He thought for a little and -then suggested helpfully, "Perhaps it was somebody else." - -"Well, thank him for me when you see him." - -Pooh looked anxiously at Christopher Robin. - -"Pooh's found the North Pole," said Christopher Robin. "Isn't that -lovely?" - -Pooh looked modestly down. - -"Is that it?" said Eeyore. - -"Yes," said Christopher Robin. - -"Is that what we were looking for?" - -"Yes," said Pooh. - -"Oh!" said Eeyore. "Well, anyhow--it didn't rain," he said. - -They stuck the pole in the ground, and Christopher Robin tied a message -on to it. - - NORTH POLE - - DISCOVERED BY POOH - - POOH FOUND IT. - -Then they all went home again. And I think, but I am not quite sure, -that Roo had a hot bath and went straight to bed. But Pooh went back to -his own house, and feeling very proud of what he had done, had a little -something to revive himself. - - - - - CHAPTER IX - - IN WHICH PIGLET IS ENTIRELY - SURROUNDED BY WATER - - -It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet told himself that never -in all his life, and _he_ was goodness knows _how_ old--three, was it, -or four?--never had he seen so much rain. Days and days and days. - -"If only," he thought, as he looked out of the window, "I had been in -Pooh's house, or Christopher Robin's house, or Rabbit's house when it -began to rain, then I should have had Company all this time, instead of -being here all alone, with nothing to do except wonder when it will -stop." And he imagined himself with Pooh, saying, "Did you ever see such -rain, Pooh?" and Pooh saying, "Isn't it _awful_, Piglet?" and Piglet -saying, "I wonder how it is over Christopher Robin's way" and Pooh -saying, "I should think poor old Rabbit is about flooded out by this -time." It would have been jolly to talk like this, and really, it wasn't -much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn't share -them with somebody. - -For it was rather exciting. The little dry ditches in which Piglet had -nosed about so often had become streams, the little streams across which -he had splashed were rivers, and the river, between whose steep banks -they had played so happily, had sprawled out of its own bed and was -taking up so much room everywhere, that Piglet was beginning to wonder -whether it would be coming into _his_ bed soon. - -"It's a little Anxious," he said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal -Entirely Surrounded by Water. Christopher Robin and Pooh could escape by -Climbing Trees, and Kanga could escape by Jumping, and Rabbit could -escape by Burrowing, and Owl could escape by Flying, and Eeyore could -escape by--by Making a Loud Noise Until Rescued, and here am I, -surrounded by water and I can't do _anything_." - -It went on raining, and every day the water got a little higher, until -now it was nearly up to Piglet's window ... and still he hadn't done -anything. - -"There's Pooh," he thought to himself. "Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he -never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. -There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would -know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He -hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. -There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so -anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking -about It. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow -that he wouldn't mind about this. But I wonder what Christopher Robin -would do?" - -Then suddenly he remembered a story which Christopher Robin had told him -about a man on a desert island who had written something in a bottle and -thrown it in the sea; and Piglet thought that if he wrote something in a -bottle and threw it in the water, perhaps somebody would come and rescue -_him_! - -He left the window and began to search his house, all of it that wasn't -under water, and at last he found a pencil and a small piece of dry -paper, and a bottle with a cork to it. And he wrote on one side of the -paper: - - HELP! - PIGLET (ME) - -and on the other side: - - IT'S ME PIGLET, HELP HELP. - -Then he put the paper in the bottle, and he corked the bottle up as -tightly as he could, and he leant out of his window as far as he could -lean without falling in, and he threw the bottle as far as he could -throw--_splash!_--and in a little while it bobbed up again on the water; -and he watched it floating slowly away in the distance, until his eyes -ached with looking, and sometimes he thought it was the bottle, and -sometimes he thought it was just a ripple on the water which he was -following, and then suddenly he knew that he would never see it again -and that he had done all that he could do to save himself. - -"So now," he thought, "somebody else will have to do something, and I -hope they will do it soon, because if they don't I shall have to swim, -which I can't, so I hope they do it soon." And then he gave a very long -sigh and said, "I wish Pooh were here. It's so much more friendly with -two." - - * * * * * - -When the rain began Pooh was asleep. It rained, and it rained, and it -rained, and he slept and he slept and he slept. He had had a tiring day. -You remember how he discovered the North Pole; well, he was so proud of -this that he asked Christopher Robin if there were any other Poles such -as a Bear of Little Brain might discover. - -"There's a South Pole," said Christopher Robin, "and I expect there's an -East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them." - -Pooh was very excited when he heard this, and suggested that they should -have an Expotition to discover the East Pole, but Christopher Robin had -thought of something else to do with Kanga; so Pooh went out to discover -the East Pole by himself. Whether he discovered it or not, I forget; but -he was so tired when he got home that, in the very middle of his supper, -after he had been eating for little more than half-an-hour, he fell fast -asleep in his chair, and slept and slept and slept. - -Then suddenly he was dreaming. He was at the East Pole, and it was a -very cold pole with the coldest sort of snow and ice all over it. He had -found a bee-hive to sleep in, but there wasn't room for his legs, so he -had left them outside. And Wild Woozles, such as inhabit the East Pole, -came and nibbled all the fur off his legs to make nests for their Young. -And the more they nibbled, the colder his legs got, until suddenly he -woke up with an _Ow!_--and there he was, sitting in his chair with his -feet in the water, and water all round him! - -He splashed to his door and looked out... - -"This is Serious," said Pooh. "I must have an Escape." - -So he took his largest pot of honey and escaped with it to a broad -branch of his tree, well above the water, and then he climbed down again -and escaped with another pot ... and when the whole Escape was -finished, there was Pooh sitting on his branch, dangling his legs, and -there, beside him, were ten pots of honey.... - -Two days later, there was Pooh, sitting on his branch, dangling his -legs, and there, beside him, were four pots of honey.... - -Three days later, there was Pooh, sitting on his branch, dangling his -legs, and there beside him, was one pot of honey. - -Four days later, there was Pooh ... - -And it was on the morning of the fourth day that Piglet's bottle came -floating past him, and with one loud cry of "Honey!" Pooh plunged into -the water, seized the bottle, and struggled back to his tree again. - -"Bother!" said Pooh, as he opened it. "All that wet for nothing. What's -that bit of paper doing?" - -He took it out and looked at it. - -"It's a Missage," he said to himself, "that's what it is. And that -letter is a 'P,' and so is that, and so is that, and 'P' means 'Pooh,' -so it's a very important Missage to me, and I can't read it. I must find -Christopher Robin or Owl or Piglet, one of those Clever Readers who can -read things, and they will tell me what this missage means. Only I can't -swim. Bother!" - -Then he had an idea, and I think that for a Bear of Very Little Brain, -it was a good idea. He said to himself: - -"If a bottle can float, then a jar can float, and if a jar floats, I can -sit on the top of it, if it's a very big jar." - -So he took his biggest jar, and corked it up. "All boats have to have a -name," he said, "so I shall call mine _The Floating Bear_." And with -these words he dropped his boat into the water and jumped in after it. - -For a little while Pooh and _The Floating Bear_ were uncertain as to -which of them was meant to be on the top, but after trying one or two -different positions, they settled down with _The Floating Bear_ -underneath and Pooh triumphantly astride it, paddling vigorously with -his feet. - - * * * * * - -Christopher Robin lived at the very top of the Forest. It rained, and it -rained, and it rained, but the water couldn't come up to _his_ house. It -was rather jolly to look down into the valleys and see the water all -round him, but it rained so hard that he stayed indoors most of the -time, and thought about things. Every morning he went out with his -umbrella and put a stick in the place where the water came up to, and -every next morning he went out and couldn't see his stick any more, so -he put another stick in the place where the water came up to, and then -he walked home again, and each morning he had a shorter way to walk than -he had had the morning before. On the morning of the fifth day he saw -the water all round him, and knew that for the first time in his life he -was on a real island. Which was very exciting. - -It was on this morning that Owl came flying over the water to say "How -do you do," to his friend Christopher Robin. - -"I say, Owl," said Christopher Robin, "isn't this fun? I'm on an -island!" - -"The atmospheric conditions have been very unfavourable lately," said -Owl. - -"The what?" - -"It has been raining," explained Owl. - -"Yes," said Christopher Robin. "It has." - -"The flood-level has reached an unprecedented height." - -"The who?" - -"There's a lot of water about," explained Owl. - -"Yes," said Christopher Robin, "there is." - -"However, the prospects are rapidly becoming more favourable. At any -moment----" - -"Have you seen Pooh?" - -"No. At any moment----" - -"I hope he's all right," said Christopher Robin. "I've been wondering -about him. I expect Piglet's with him. Do you think they're all right, -Owl?" - -"I expect so. You see, at any moment----" - -"Do go and see, Owl. Because Pooh hasn't got very much brain, and he -might do something silly, and I do love him so, Owl. Do you see, Owl?" - -"That's all right," said Owl. "I'll go. Back directly." And he flew off. - -In a little while he was back again. - -"Pooh isn't there," he said. - -"Not there?" - -"Has _been_ there. He's been sitting on a branch of his tree outside his -house with nine pots of honey. But he isn't there now." - -"Oh, Pooh!" cried Christopher Robin. "Where _are_ you?" - -"Here I am," said a growly voice behind him. - -"Pooh!" - -They rushed into each other's arms. - -"How did you get here, Pooh?" asked Christopher Robin, when he was ready -to talk again. - -"On my boat," said Pooh proudly. "I had a Very Important Missage sent me -in a bottle, and owing to having got some water in my eyes, I couldn't -read it, so I brought it to you. On my boat." - -With these proud words he gave Christopher Robin the missage. - -"But it's from Piglet!" cried Christopher Robin when he had read it. - -"Isn't there anything about Pooh in it?" asked Bear, looking over his -shoulder. - -Christopher Robin read the message aloud. - -"Oh, are those 'P's' piglets? I thought they were poohs." - -"We must rescue him at once! I thought he was with _you_, Pooh. Owl, -could you rescue him on your back?" - -"I don't think so," said Owl, after grave thought. "It is doubtful if -the necessary dorsal muscles----" - -"Then would you fly to him at _once_ and say that Rescue is Coming? And -Pooh and I will think of a Rescue and come as quick as ever we can. Oh, -don't _talk_, Owl, go on quick!" And, still thinking of something to -say, Owl flew off. - -"Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" - -"I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the -island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a -Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." - -"Depends on what?" - -"On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it." - -"Oh! Well, where is it?" - -"There!" said Pooh, pointing proudly to _The Floating Bear_. - -It wasn't what Christopher Robin expected, and the more he looked at it, -the more he thought what a Brave and Clever Bear Pooh was, and the more -Christopher Robin thought this, the more Pooh looked modestly down his -nose and tried to pretend he wasn't. - -"But it's too small for two of us," said Christopher Robin sadly. - -"Three of us with Piglet." - -"That makes it smaller still. Oh, Pooh Bear, what shall we do?" - -And then this Bear, Pooh Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, F.O.P. (Friend of -Piglet's), R.C. (Rabbit's Companion), P.D. (Pole Discoverer), E.C. and -T.F. (Eeyore's Comforter and Tail-finder)--in fact, Pooh himself--said -something so clever that Christopher Robin could only look at him with -mouth open and eyes staring, wondering if this was really the Bear of -Very Little Brain whom he had known and loved so long. - -"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh. - -"?" - -"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh. - -"? ?" - -"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh. - -"!!!!!!" - -For suddenly Christopher Robin saw that they might. He opened his -umbrella and put it point downwards in the water. It floated but -wobbled. Pooh got in. He was just beginning to say that it was all right -now, when he found that it wasn't, so after a short drink which he -didn't really want he waded back to Christopher Robin. Then they both -got in together, and it wobbled no longer. - -"I shall call this boat _The Brain of Pooh_," said Christopher Robin, -and _The Brain of Pooh_ set sail forthwith in a south-westerly -direction, revolving gracefully. - -You can imagine Piglet's joy when at last the ship came in sight of him. -In after-years he liked to think that he had been in Very Great Danger -during the Terrible Flood, but the only danger he had really been in was -in the last half-hour of his imprisonment, when Owl, who had just flown -up, sat on a branch of his tree to comfort him, and told him a very long -story about an aunt who had once laid a seagull's egg by mistake, and -the story went on and on, rather like this sentence, until Piglet who -was listening out of his window without much hope, went to sleep quietly -and naturally, slipping slowly out of the window towards the water until -he was only hanging on by his toes, at which moment luckily, a sudden -loud squawk from Owl, which was really part of the story, being what his -aunt said, woke the Piglet up and just gave him time to jerk himself -back into safety and say, "How interesting, and did she?" when--well, -you can imagine his joy when at last he saw the good ship, _Brain of -Pooh_ (_Captain_, C. Robin; _1st Mate_, P. Bear) coming over the sea to -rescue him. Christopher Robin and Pooh again.... - -And that is really the end of the story, and I am very tired after that -last sentence, I think I shall stop there. - - - - - CHAPTER X - - IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN GIVES - POOH A PARTY, AND WE SAY GOOD-BYE - - -One day when the sun had come back over the Forest, bringing with it -the scent of may, and all the streams of the Forest were tinkling -happily to find themselves their own pretty shape again, and the little -pools lay dreaming of the life they had seen and the big things they had -done, and in the warmth and quiet of the Forest the cuckoo was trying -over his voice carefully and listening to see if he liked it, and -wood-pigeons were complaining gently to themselves in their lazy -comfortable way that it was the other fellow's fault, but it didn't -matter very much; on such a day as this Christopher Robin whistled in a -special way he had, and Owl came flying out of the Hundred Acre Wood to -see what was wanted. - -"Owl," said Christopher Robin, "I am going to give a party." - -"You are, are you?" said Owl. - -"And it's to be a special sort of party, because it's because of what -Pooh did when he did what he did to save Piglet from the flood." - -"Oh, that's what it's for, is it?" said Owl. - -"Yes, so will you tell Pooh as quickly as you can, and all the others, -because it will be to-morrow." - -"Oh, it will, will it?" said Owl, still being as helpful as possible. - -"So will you go and tell them, Owl?" - -Owl tried to think of something very wise to say, but couldn't, so he -flew off to tell the others. And the first person he told was Pooh. - -"Pooh," he said, "Christopher Robin is giving a party." - -"Oh!" said Pooh. And then seeing that Owl expected him to say something -else, he said "Will there be those little cake things with pink sugar -icing?" - -Owl felt that it was rather beneath him to talk about little cake things -with pink sugar icing, so he told Pooh exactly what Christopher Robin -had said, and flew off to Eeyore. - -"A party for Me?" thought Pooh to himself. "How grand!" And he began to -wonder if all the other animals would know that it was a special Pooh -Party, and if Christopher Robin had told them about _The Floating Bear_ -and the _Brain of Pooh_ and all the wonderful ships he had invented and -sailed on, and he began to think how awful it would be if everybody had -forgotten about it, and nobody quite knew what the party was for; and -the more he thought like this, the more the party got muddled in his -mind, like a dream when nothing goes right. And the dream began to sing -itself over in his head until it became a sort of song. It was an - - ANXIOUS POOH SONG. - - 3 Cheers for Pooh! - (_For Who?_) - For Pooh-- - (_Why what did he do?_) - I thought you knew; - He saved his friend from a wetting! - 3 Cheers for Bear! - (_For where?_) - For Bear-- - He couldn't swim, - But he rescued him! - (_He rescued who?_) - Oh, listen, do! - I am talking of Pooh-- - (_Of who?_) - Of Pooh! - (_I'm sorry I keep forgetting_). - Well, Pooh was a Bear of Enormous Brain - (_Just say it again!_) - Of enormous brain-- - (_Of enormous what?_) - Well, he ate a lot, - And I don't know if he could swim or not, - But he managed to float - On a sort of boat - (_On a sort of what?_) - Well, a sort of pot-- - So now let's give him three hearty cheers - (_So now let's give him three hearty whiches?_) - And hope he'll be with us for years and years, - And grow in health and wisdom and riches! - 3 Cheers for Pooh! - (_For who?_) - For Pooh-- - 3 Cheers for Bear! - (_For where?_) - For Bear-- - 3 Cheers for the wonderful Winnie-the-Pooh! - (_Just tell me, somebody_--WHAT DID HE DO?) - -While this was going on inside him, Owl was talking to Eeyore. - -"Eeyore," said Owl, "Christopher Robin is giving a party." - -"Very interesting," said Eeyore. "I suppose they will be sending me down -the odd bits which got trodden on. Kind and Thoughtful. Not at all, -don't mention it." - -"There is an Invitation for you." - -"What's that like?" - -"An Invitation!" - -"Yes, I heard you. Who dropped it?" - -"This isn't anything to eat, it's asking you to the party. To-morrow." - -Eeyore shook his head slowly. - -"You mean Piglet. The little fellow with the excited ears. That's -Piglet. I'll tell him." - -"No, no!" said Owl, getting quite fussy. "It's you!" - -"Are you sure?" - -"Of course I'm sure. Christopher Robin said 'All of them! Tell all of -them.'" - -"All of them, except Eeyore?" - -"All of them," said Owl sulkily. - -"Ah!" said Eeyore. "A mistake, no doubt, but still, I shall come. Only -don't blame _me_ if it rains." - -But it didn't rain. Christopher Robin had made a long table out of some -long pieces of wood, and they all sat round it. Christopher Robin sat at -one end, and Pooh sat at the other, and between them on one side were -Owl and Eeyore and Piglet, and between them on the other side were -Rabbit, and Roo and Kanga. And all Rabbit's friends and relations spread -themselves about on the grass, and waited hopefully in case anybody -spoke to them, or dropped anything, or asked them the time. - -It was the first party to which Roo had ever been, and he was very -excited. As soon as ever they had sat down he began to talk. - -"Hallo, Pooh!" he squeaked. - -"Hallo, Roo!" said Pooh. - -Roo jumped up and down in his seat for a little while and then began -again. - -"Hallo, Piglet!" he squeaked. - -Piglet waved a paw at him, being too busy to say anything. - -"Hallo, Eeyore!" said Roo. - -Eeyore nodded gloomily at him. "It will rain soon, you see if it -doesn't," he said. - -Roo looked to see if it didn't, and it didn't, so he said "Hallo, -Owl!"--and Owl said "Hallo, my little fellow," in a kindly way, and went -on telling Christopher Robin about an accident which had nearly happened -to a friend of his whom Christopher Robin didn't know, and 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. - -When they had all nearly eaten enough, Christopher Robin banged on the -table with his spoon, and everybody stopped talking and was very silent, -except Roo who was just finishing a loud attack of hiccups and trying to -look as if it was one of Rabbit's relations. - -"This party," said Christopher Robin, "is a party because of what -someone did, and we all know who it was, and it's his party, because of -what he did, and I've got a present for him and here it is." Then he -felt about a little and whispered, "Where is it?" - -While he was looking, Eeyore coughed in an impressive way and began to -speak. - -"Friends," he said, "including oddments, it is a great pleasure, or -perhaps I had better say it has been a pleasure so far, to see you at my -party. What I did was nothing. Any of you--except Rabbit and Owl and -Kanga--would have done the same. Oh, and Pooh. My remarks do not, of -course, apply to Piglet and Roo, because they are too small. Any of you -would have done the same. But it just happened to be Me. It was not, I -need hardly say, with an idea of getting what Christopher Robin is -looking for now"--and he put his front leg to his mouth and said in a -loud whisper, "Try under the table"--"that I did what I did--but because -I feel that we should all do what we can to help. I feel that we should -all----" - -"H--hup!" said Roo accidentally. - -"Roo, dear!" said Kanga reproachfully. - -"Was it me?" asked Roo, a little surprised. - -"What's Eeyore talking about?" Piglet whispered to Pooh. - -"I don't know," said Pooh rather dolefully. - -"I thought this was _your_ party." - -"I thought it was _once_. But I suppose it isn't." - -"I'd sooner it was yours than Eeyore's," said Piglet. - -"So would I," said Pooh. - -"H--hup!" said Roo again. - -"AS--I--WAS--SAYING," said Eeyore loudly and sternly, "as I was saying -when I was interrupted by various Loud Sounds, I feel that----" - -"Here it is!" cried Christopher Robin excitedly. "Pass it down to silly -old Pooh. It's for Pooh." - -"For Pooh?" said Eeyore. - -"Of course it is. The best bear in all the world." - -"I might have known," said Eeyore. "After all, one can't complain. I -have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last -week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!' -The Social Round. Always something going on." - -Nobody was listening, for they were all saying "Open it, Pooh," "What is -it, Pooh?" "I know what it is," "No, you don't" and other helpful -remarks of this sort. And of course Pooh was opening it as quickly as -ever he could, but without cutting the string, because you never know -when a bit of string might be Useful. At last it was undone. - -When Pooh saw what it was, he nearly fell down, he was so pleased. It -was a Special Pencil Case. There were pencils in it marked "B" for Bear, -and pencils marked "HB" for Helping Bear, and pencils marked "BB" for -Brave Bear. There was a knife for sharpening the pencils, and -india-rubber for rubbing out anything which you had spelt wrong, and a -ruler for ruling lines for the words to walk on, and inches marked on -the ruler in case you wanted to know how many inches anything was, and -Blue Pencils and Red Pencils and Green Pencils for saying special things -in blue and red and green. And all these lovely things were in little -pockets of their own in a Special Case which shut with a click when you -clicked it. And they were all for Pooh. - -"Oh!" said Pooh. - -"Oh, Pooh!" said everybody else except Eeyore. - -"Thank-you," growled Pooh. - -But Eeyore was saying to himself, "This writing business. Pencils and -what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it." - -Later on, when they had all said "Good-bye" and "Thank-you" to -Christopher Robin, Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together in -the golden evening, and for a long time they were silent. - -"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's -the first thing you say to yourself?" - -"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do _you_ say, Piglet?" - -"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting _to-day_?" said Piglet. - -Pooh nodded thoughtfully. - -"It's the same thing," he said. - - * * * * * - -"And what did happen?" asked Christopher Robin. - -"When?" - -"Next morning." - -"I don't know." - -"Could you think and tell me and Pooh some time?" - -"If you wanted it very much." - -"Pooh does," said Christopher Robin. - -He gave a deep sigh, picked his bear up by the leg and walked off to the -door, trailing Winnie-the-Pooh behind him. At the door he turned and -said "Coming to see me have my bath?" - -"I might," I said. - -"Was Pooh's pencil case any better than mine?" - -"It was just the same," I said. - -He nodded and went out ... and in a moment I heard -Winnie-the-Pooh--_bump, bump, bump_--going up the stairs behind him. - - - - - Printed in Canada - by Warwick Bros. & Rutter, Limited - Printers and Bookbinders - Toronto - - - - -[Transcriber's Note: Near the end of Chapter VI, the reference to -Kanga was modified to read "...and every Tuesday Kanga spent the day -with her good friend Pooh ..."] - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WINNIE-THE-POOH *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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EDWARD NEWTON in <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i>.<br /> -<br /> -Fourteen Songs from When We Were Very Young<br />Words by A. A. Milne. -Music by H. Fraser-Simson. Decorations by E. H. Shepard.<br /> -<br /> -The King's Breakfast<br />Words by A. A. Milne. Music by H. Fraser-Simson. -Decorations by E. H. Shepard</p> - - -<p><i>ESSAYS</i><br /> -<br /> -Not That It Matters<br /> - -The Sunny Side<br /> - -If I May</p> - - -<p><i>MYSTERY STORY</i><br /> -<br /> -The Red House Mystery</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p>WINNIE-THE-POOH</p> - -<p>BY A. A. MILNE</p> - -<p>McCLELLAND & STEWART, LTD.<br /> -PUBLISHERS—TORONTO</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p>Copyright, Canada, 1926<br /> -By McClelland & Stewart, Limited<br /> -Publishers, Toronto<br /> -First Printing, October, 1926<br /> -Second " July, 1927<br /> - -Third " December, 1928<br /> -Fourth " December, 1929<br /> -Fifth " March, 1931<br /> - -Printed in Canada</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent6"><span class="smcap">To Her</span></div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">HAND IN HAND WE COME</div> - <div class="verse indent2">CHRISTOPHER ROBIN AND I</div> - <div class="verse">TO LAY THIS BOOK IN YOUR LAP.</div> - <div class="verse indent3">SAY YOU'RE SURPRISED?</div> - <div class="verse indent3">SAY YOU LIKE IT?</div> - <div class="verse indent3">SAY IT'S JUST WHAT YOU WANTED?</div> - <div class="verse indent4">BECAUSE IT'S YOURS——</div> - <div class="verse indent4">BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU.</div> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus1.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>INTRODUCTION</h2> - -<p>If you happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may -remember that he once had a swan (or the swan had Christopher Robin, I -don't know which) and that he used to call this swan Pooh. That was a -long time ago, and when we said good-bye, we took the name with us, as -we didn't think the swan would want it any more. Well, when Edward Bear -said that he would like an exciting name all to himself, Christopher -Robin said at once, without stopping to think, that he was -Winnie-the-Pooh. And he was. So, as I have explained the Pooh part, I -will now explain the rest of it.</p> - -<p>You can't be in London for long without going to the Zoo. There are some -people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as -quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called -WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the -most, and stay there. So when Christopher Robin goes to the Zoo, he goes -to where the Polar Bears are, and he whispers something to the third -keeper from the left, and doors are unlocked, and we wander through dark -passages and up steep stairs, until at last we come to the special cage, -and the cage is opened, and out trots something brown and furry, and -with a happy cry of "Oh, Bear!" Christopher Robin rushes into its arms. -Now this bear's name is Winnie, which shows what a good name for bears -it is, but the funny thing is that we can't remember whether Winnie is -called after Pooh, or Pooh after Winnie. We did know once, but we have -forgotten....</p> - -<p>I had written as far as this when Piglet looked up and said in his -squeaky voice, "What about <i>Me</i>?" "My dear Piglet," I said, "the whole -book is about you." "So it is about Pooh," he squeaked. You see what it -is. He is jealous because he thinks Pooh is having a Grand Introduction -all to himself. Pooh is the favourite, of course, there's no denying it, -but Piglet comes in for a good many things which Pooh misses; because -you can't take Pooh to school without everybody knowing it, but Piglet -is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comforting to -feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or -twenty-two. Sometimes he slips out and has a good look in the ink-pot, -and in this way he has got more education than Pooh, but Pooh doesn't -mind. Some have brains, and some haven't, he says, and there it is.</p> - -<p>And now all the others are saying, "What about <i>Us</i>?" So perhaps the -best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the -book.</p> - -<p class="ph2">A. A. M.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>CONTENTS</h2> - -<table summary="contents"> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_I">I.</a></td><td>IN WHICH WE ARE INTRODUCED TO WINNIE-THE-POOH AND SOME BEES, AND THE -STORIES BEGIN</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_II">II.</a></td><td> IN WHICH POOH GOES VISITING AND GETS INTO A TIGHT PLACE</td></tr> - - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_III">III.</a></td><td> IN WHICH POOH AND PIGLET GO HUNTING AND NEARLY CATCH A WOOZLE</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_IV">IV.</a></td><td> IN WHICH EEYORE LOSES A TAIL AND POOH FINDS ONE</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_V">V.</a></td><td> IN WHICH PIGLET MEETS A HEFFALUMP</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_VI">VI.</a></td><td> IN WHICH EEYORE HAS A BIRTHDAY AND GETS TWO PRESENTS</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_VII">VII.</a></td><td> IN WHICH KANGA AND BABY ROO COME TO THE FOREST, AND PIGLET HAS A -BATH</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_VIII">VIII.</a></td><td> IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN LEADS AN EXPOTITION TO THE NORTH POLE</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_IX">IX.</a></td><td> IN WHICH PIGLET IS ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY WATER</td></tr> - -<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_X">X.</a></td><td> IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN GIVES A POOH PARTY, AND WE SAY GOOD-BYE</td></tr> - -</table> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/map.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>WINNIE-THE-POOH</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus2.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH WE ARE INTRODUCED TO WINNIE-THE-POOH AND SOME BEES, AND THE -STORIES BEGIN</h3> - -<p>Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the -back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, -the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there -really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and -think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't. Anyhow, here he -is at the bottom, and ready to be introduced to you. Winnie-the-Pooh.</p> - -<p>When I first heard his name, I said, just as you are going to say, "But -I thought he was a boy?"</p> - -<p>"So did I," said Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"Then you can't call him Winnie?"</p> - -<p>"I don't."</p> - -<p>"But you said——"</p> - -<p>"He's Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don't you know what '<i>ther</i>' means?"</p> - -<p>"Ah, yes, now I do," I said quickly; and I hope you do too, because it -is all the explanation you are going to get.</p> - -<p>Sometimes Winnie-the-Pooh likes a game of some sort when he comes -downstairs, and sometimes he likes to sit quietly in front of the fire -and listen to a story. This evening——</p> - -<p>"What about a story?" said Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"<i>What</i> about a story?" I said.</p> - -<p>"Could you very sweetly tell Winnie-the-Pooh one?"</p> - -<p>"I suppose I could," I said. "What sort of stories does he like?"</p> - -<p>"About himself. Because he's <i>that</i> sort of Bear."</p> - -<p>"Oh, I see."</p> - -<p>"So could you very sweetly?"</p> - -<p>"I'll try," I said.</p> - -<p>So I tried.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>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.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus3.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>(<i>"What does 'under the name' mean?" asked Christopher Robin.</i></p> - -<p>"<i>It means he had the name over the door in gold letters, and lived -under it.</i>"</p> - -<p><i>"Winnie-the-Pooh wasn't quite sure," said Christopher Robin.</i></p> - -<p><i>"Now I am," said a growly voice.</i></p> - -<p><i>"Then I will go on," said I.</i>)</p> - -<p>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 a large oak-tree, -and, from the top of the tree, there came a loud buzzing-noise.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus4.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Winnie-the-Pooh sat down at the foot of the tree, put his head between -his paws and began to think.</p> - -<p>First of all he said to himself: "That buzzing-noise means something. -You don't get a buzzing-noise like that, just buzzing and 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>I</i> know of is because you're a bee."</p> - -<p>Then he thought another long time, and said: "And the only reason for -being a bee that I know of is making honey."</p> - -<p>And then he got up, and said: "And the only reason for making honey is -so as <i>I</i> can eat it." So he began to climb the tree.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus5.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He climbed and he climbed and he climbed, and as he climbed he sang a -little song to himself. It went like this:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Isn't it funny</div> - <div class="verse">How a bear likes honey?</div> - <div class="verse">Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!</div> - <div class="verse">I wonder why he does?</div> -</div></div> - -<p>Then he climbed a little further ... and a little further ... and -then just a little further. By that time he had thought of another song.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">It's a very funny thought that, if Bears were Bees,</div> - <div class="verse">They'd build their nests at the <i>bottom</i> of trees.</div> - <div class="verse">And that being so (if the Bees were Bears),</div> - <div class="verse">We shouldn't have to climb up all these stairs.</div> -</div></div> - -<p>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 ...</p> - -<p><i>Crack!</i></p> - -<p>"Oh, help!" said Pooh, as he dropped ten feet on the branch below him.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus6.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"If only I hadn't——" he said, as he bounced twenty feet on to the next -branch.</p> - -<p>"You see, what I <i>meant</i> to do," he explained, as he turned -head-over-heels, and crashed on to another branch thirty feet below, -"what I <i>meant</i> to do——"</p> - -<p>"Of course, it <i>was</i> rather——" he admitted, as he slithered very -quickly through the next six branches.</p> - -<p>"It all comes, I suppose," he decided, as he said good-bye to the last -branch, spun round three times, and flew gracefully into a gorse-bush, -"it all comes of <i>liking</i> honey so much. Oh, help!"</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus7.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>(<i>"Was that me?" said Christopher Robin in an awed voice, hardly daring -to believe it.</i></p> - -<p>"<i>That was you.</i>"</p> - -<p><i>Christopher Robin said nothing, but his eyes got larger and larger, and -his face got pinker and pinker.</i>)</p> - -<p>So Winnie-the-Pooh went round to his friend Christopher Robin, who lived -behind a green door in another part of the forest.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus8.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Good morning, Christopher Robin," he said.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Winnie-<i>ther</i>-Pooh," said you.</p> - -<p>"I wonder if you've got such a thing as a balloon about you?"</p> - -<p>"A balloon?"</p> - -<p>"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 wondering."</p> - -<p>"What do you want a balloon for?" you said.</p> - -<p>Winnie-the-Pooh looked round to see that nobody was listening, put his -paw to his mouth, and said in a deep whisper: "<i>Honey!</i>"</p> - -<p>"But you don't get honey with balloons!"</p> - -<p>"<i>I</i> do," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>Well, 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 <i>and</i> the blue one -home with you.</p> - -<p>"Which one would you like?" you asked Pooh.</p> - -<p>He put his head between his paws and thought very carefully.</p> - -<p>"It's like this," he said. "When you go after honey with a balloon, the -great thing is not to let the bees know you're coming. Now, if you have -a green balloon, they might think you were 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?"</p> - -<p>"Wouldn't they notice <i>you</i> underneath the balloon?" you asked.</p> - -<p>"They might or 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."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus9.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Then you had better have the blue balloon," you said; and so it was -decided.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus10.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Well, 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 gracefully up into the sky, and stayed -there—level with the top of the tree and about twenty feet away from -it.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus11.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Hooray!" you shouted.</p> - -<p>"Isn't that fine?" shouted Winnie-the-Pooh down to you. "What do I look -like?"</p> - -<p>"You look like a Bear holding on to a balloon," you said.</p> - -<p>"Not," said Pooh anxiously, "—not like a small black cloud in a blue -sky?"</p> - -<p>"Not very much."</p> - -<p>"Ah, well, perhaps from up here it looks different. And, as I say, you -never can tell with bees."</p> - -<p>There was no wind to blow him nearer to the tree, so there he stayed. He -could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn't quite -reach the honey.</p> - -<p>After a little while he called down to you.</p> - -<p>"Christopher Robin!" he said in a loud whisper.</p> - -<p>"Hallo!"</p> - -<p>"I think the bees <i>suspect</i> something!"</p> - -<p>"What sort of thing?"</p> - -<p>"I don't know. But something tells me that they're <i>suspicious</i>!"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus12.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Perhaps they think that you're after their honey."</p> - -<p>"It may be that. You never can tell with bees."</p> - -<p>There was another little silence, and then he called down to you again.</p> - -<p>"Christopher Robin!"</p> - -<p>"Yes?"</p> - -<p>"Have you an umbrella in your house?"</p> - -<p>"I think so."</p> - -<p>"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 -practising on these bees."</p> - -<p>Well, you laughed 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.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus13.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"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."</p> - -<p>"Shall I put my umbrella up?" you said.</p> - -<p>"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?"</p> - -<p>"No."</p> - -<p>"A pity. Well, now, 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 might sing.... Go!"</p> - -<p>So, while you walked up and down and wondered if it would rain, -Winnie-the-Pooh sang this song:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">How sweet to be a Cloud</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Floating in the Blue!</div> - <div class="verse">Every little cloud</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Always</i> sings aloud.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">"How sweet to be a Cloud</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Floating in the Blue!"</div> - <div class="verse">It makes him very proud</div> - <div class="verse">To be a little cloud.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p>The bees were still buzzing as suspiciously as ever. Some of them, -indeed, left their nests and flew all round 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.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus14.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Christopher—<i>ow!</i>—Robin," called out the cloud.</p> - -<p>"Yes?"</p> - -<p>"I have just been thinking, and I have come to a very important -decision. <i>These are the wrong sort of bees.</i>"</p> - -<p>"Are they?"</p> - -<p>"Quite the wrong sort. So I should think they would make the wrong sort -of honey, shouldn't you?"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus15.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Would they?"</p> - -<p>"Yes. So I think I shall come down."</p> - -<p>"How?" asked you.</p> - -<p>Winnie-the-Pooh hadn't thought about this. If he let go of the string, -he would fall—<i>bump</i>—and he didn't like the idea of that. So he -thought for a long time, and then he said:</p> - -<p>"Christopher Robin, you must shoot the balloon with your gun. Have you -got your gun?"</p> - -<p>"Of course I have," you said. "But if I do that, it will spoil the -balloon," you said.</p> - -<p>"But if you <i>don't</i>," said Pooh, "I shall have to let go, and that would -spoil <i>me</i>."</p> - -<p>When he put it like this, you saw how it was, and you aimed very -carefully at the balloon, and fired.</p> - -<p>"<i>Ow!</i>" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Did I miss?" you asked.</p> - -<p>"You didn't exactly <i>miss</i>," said Pooh, "but you missed the <i>balloon</i>."</p> - -<p>"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.</p> - -<p>But his arms were so stiff from holding on to the string of the balloon -all that time that they stayed up straight in 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 am not sure—that <i>that</i> is why he was always -called Pooh.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus16.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Is that the end of the story?" asked Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"That's the end of that one. There are others."</p> - -<p>"About Pooh and Me?"</p> - -<p>"And Piglet and Rabbit and all of you. Don't you remember?"</p> - -<p>"I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget."</p> - -<p>"That day when Pooh and Piglet tried to catch the Heffalump——"</p> - -<p>"They didn't catch it, did they?"</p> - -<p>"No."</p> - -<p>"Pooh couldn't, because he hasn't any brain. Did <i>I</i> catch it?"</p> - -<p>"Well, that comes into the story."</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin nodded.</p> - -<p>"I do remember," he said, "only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he -likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and -not just a remembering."</p> - -<p>"That's just how <i>I</i> feel," I said.</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin gave a deep sigh, picked his Bear up by the leg, and -walked off to the door, trailing Pooh behind him. At the door he turned -and said, "Coming to see me have my bath?"</p> - -<p>"I might," I said.</p> - -<p>"I didn't hurt him when I shot him, did I?"</p> - -<p>"Not a bit."</p> - -<p>He nodded and went out, and in a moment I heard Winnie-the-Pooh—<i>bump, -bump, bump</i>—going up the stairs behind him.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus17.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH POOH GOES VISITING AND GETS INTO A TIGHT PLACE</h3> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus18.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Edward Bear, known to his friends as Winnie-the-Pooh, or Pooh for -short, was walking through the forest one day, humming proudly to -himself. He had made up a little hum that very morning, as he was doing -his Stoutness Exercises in front of the glass: <i>Tra-la-la, tra-la-la</i>, -as he stretched up as high as he could go, and then <i>Tra-la-la, -tra-la—oh, help!—la</i>, as he tried to reach his toes. After breakfast -he had said it over and over to himself until he had learnt it off by -heart, and now he was humming it right through, properly. It went like -this:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Tra-la-la, tra-la-la,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Tra-la-la, tra-la-la,</i></div> - <div class="verse"><i>Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum.</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Tiddle-iddle, tiddle-iddle,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Tiddle-iddle, tiddle-iddle,</i></div> - <div class="verse"><i>Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um.</i></div> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus19.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Well, he was humming this hum to himself, and walking along gaily, -wondering what everybody else was doing, and what it felt like, being -somebody else, when suddenly he came to a sandy bank, and in the bank -was a large hole.</p> - -<p>"Aha!" said Pooh. (<i>Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum.</i>) "If I know anything about -anything, that hole means Rabbit," he said, "and Rabbit means Company," -he said, "and Company means Food and Listening-to-Me-Humming and such -like. <i>Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um.</i>"</p> - -<p>So he bent down, put his head into the hole, and called out:</p> - -<p>"Is anybody at home?"</p> - -<p>There was a sudden scuffling noise from inside the hole, and then -silence.</p> - -<p>"What I said was, 'Is anybody at home?'" called out Pooh very loudly.</p> - -<p>"No!" said a voice; and then added, "You needn't shout so loud. I heard -you quite well the first time."</p> - -<p>"Bother!" said Pooh. "Isn't there anybody here at all?"</p> - -<p>"Nobody."</p> - -<p>Winnie-the-Pooh took his head out of the hole, and thought for a little, -and he thought to himself, "There must be somebody there, because -somebody must have <i>said</i> 'Nobody.'" So he put his head back in the -hole, and said:</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Rabbit, isn't that you?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Rabbit, in a different sort of voice this time.</p> - -<p>"But isn't that Rabbit's voice?"</p> - -<p>"I don't <i>think</i> so," said Rabbit. "It isn't <i>meant</i> to be."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>He took his head out of the hole, and had another think, and then he put -it back, and said:</p> - -<p>"Well, could you very kindly tell me where Rabbit is?"</p> - -<p>"He has gone to see his friend Pooh Bear, who is a great friend of his."</p> - -<p>"But this <i>is</i> Me!" said Bear, very much surprised.</p> - -<p>"What sort of Me?"</p> - -<p>"Pooh Bear."</p> - -<p>"Are you sure?" said Rabbit, still more surprised.</p> - -<p>"Quite, quite sure," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Oh, well, then, come in."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus20.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>So Pooh pushed and pushed and pushed his way through the hole, and at -last he got in.</p> - -<p>"You were quite right," said Rabbit, looking at him all over. "It <i>is</i> -you. Glad to see you."</p> - -<p>"Who did you think it was?"</p> - -<p>"Well, I wasn't sure. You know how it is in the Forest. One can't have -<i>anybody</i> coming into one's house. One has to be <i>careful</i>. What about a -mouthful of something?"</p> - -<p>Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, -and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and -when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so -excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he -added, "But don't bother about the bread, please." And for a long time -after that he said nothing ... until at last, humming to himself in a -rather sticky voice, he got up, shook Rabbit lovingly by the paw, and -said that he must be going on.</p> - -<p>"Must you?" said Rabbit politely.</p> - -<p>"Well," said Pooh, "I could stay a little longer if it—if you——" and -he tried very hard to look in the direction of the larder.</p> - -<p>"As a matter of fact," said Rabbit, "I was going out myself directly."</p> - -<p>"Oh, well, then, I'll be going on. Good-bye."</p> - -<p>"Well, good-bye, if you're sure you won't have any more."</p> - -<p>"<i>Is</i> there any more?" asked Pooh quickly.</p> - -<p>Rabbit took the covers off the dishes, and said, "No, there wasn't."</p> - -<p>"I thought not," said Pooh, nodding to himself. "Well, good-bye. I must -be going on."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus21.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, -and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was out in -the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... -and then his shoulders ... and then——</p> - -<p>"Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."</p> - -<p>"Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."</p> - -<p>"I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help <i>and</i> bother!"</p> - -<p>Now by this time Rabbit wanted to go for a walk too, and finding the -front door full, he went out by the back door, and came round to Pooh, -and looked at him.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus22.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Hallo, are you stuck?" he asked.</p> - -<p>"N-no," said Pooh carelessly. "Just resting and thinking and humming to -myself."</p> - -<p>"Here, give us a paw."</p> - -<p>Pooh Bear stretched out a paw, and Rabbit pulled and pulled and -pulled....</p> - -<p>"<i>Ow!</i>" cried Pooh. "You're hurting!"</p> - -<p>"The fact is," said Rabbit, "you're stuck."</p> - -<p>"It all comes," said Pooh crossly, "of not having front doors big -enough."</p> - -<p>"It all comes," said Rabbit sternly, "of eating too much. I thought at -the time," said Rabbit, "only I didn't like to say anything," said -Rabbit, "that one of us was eating too much," said Rabbit, "and I knew -if wasn't <i>me</i>," he said. "Well, well, I shall go and fetch Christopher -Robin."</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin lived at the other end of the Forest, and when he came -back with Rabbit, and saw the front half of Pooh, he said, "Silly old -Bear," in such a loving voice that everybody felt quite hopeful again.</p> - -<p>"I was just beginning to think," said Bear, sniffing slightly, "that -Rabbit might never be able to use his front door again. And I should -<i>hate</i> that," he said.</p> - -<p>"So should I," said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>"Use his front door again?" said Christopher Robin. "Of course he'll use -his front door again."</p> - -<p>"Good," said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>"If we can't pull you out, Pooh, we might push you back."</p> - -<p>Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully, and pointed out that, when -once Pooh was pushed back, he was back, and of course nobody was more -glad to see Pooh than <i>he</i> was, still there it was, some lived in trees -and some lived underground, and——</p> - -<p>"You mean I'd <i>never</i> get out?" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"I mean," said Rabbit, "that having got <i>so</i> far, it seems a pity to -waste it."</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin nodded.</p> - -<p>"Then there's only one thing to be done," he said. "We shall have to -wait for you to get thin again."</p> - -<p>"How long does getting thin take?" asked Pooh anxiously.</p> - -<p>"About a week, I should think."</p> - -<p>"But I can't stay here for a <i>week</i>!"</p> - -<p>"You can <i>stay</i> here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out -which is so difficult."</p> - -<p>"We'll read to you," said Rabbit cheerfully. "And I hope it won't snow," -he added. "And I say, old fellow, you're taking up a good deal of room -in my house—<i>do</i> you mind if I use your back legs as a towel-horse? -Because, I mean, there they are—doing nothing—and it would be very -convenient just to hang the towels on them."</p> - -<p>"A week!" said Pooh gloomily. "<i>What about meals?</i>"</p> - -<p>"I'm afraid no meals," said Christopher Robin, "because of getting thin -quicker. But we <i>will</i> read to you."</p> - -<p>Bear began to sigh, and then found he couldn't because he was so tightly -stuck; and a tear rolled down his eye, as he said:</p> - -<p>"Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a -Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus23.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>So for a week Christopher Robin read that sort of book at the North end -of Pooh, and Rabbit hung his washing on the South end ... and in -between Bear felt himself getting slenderer and slenderer. And at the -end of the week Christopher Robin said, "<i>Now!</i>"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus24.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>So he took hold of Pooh's front paws and Rabbit took hold of Christopher -Robin, and all Rabbit's friends and relations took hold of Rabbit, and -they all pulled together....</p> - -<p>And for a long time Pooh only said "<i>Ow!</i>" ...</p> - -<p>And "<i>Oh!</i>" ...</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus25.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>And then, all of a sudden, he said "<i>Pop!</i>" just as if a cork were -coming out of a bottle.</p> - -<p>And Christopher Robin and Rabbit and all Rabbit's friends and relations -went head-over-heels backwards ... and on the top of them came -Winnie-the-Pooh—free!</p> - -<p>So, with a nod of thanks to his friends, he went on with his walk -through the forest, humming proudly to himself. But, Christopher Robin -looked after him lovingly, and said to himself, "Silly old Bear!"</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH POOH AND PIGLET GO HUNTING AND NEARLY CATCH A WOOZLE</h3> - - -<p>The Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, -and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the Piglet lived -in the middle of the house. Next to his house was a piece of broken -board which had: "TRESPASSERS W" on it. When Christopher Robin asked the -Piglet what it meant, he said it was his grandfather's name, and had -been in the family for a long time, Christopher Robin said you -<i>couldn't</i> be called Trespassers W, and Piglet said yes, you could, -because his grandfather was, and it was short for Trespassers Will, -which was short for Trespassers William. And his grandfather had had two -names in case he lost one—Trespassers after an uncle, and William after -Trespassers.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus26.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I've got two names," said Christopher Robin carelessly.</p> - -<p>"Well, there you are, that proves it," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>One fine winter's day when Piglet was brushing away the snow in front of -his house, he happened to look up, and there was Winnie-the-Pooh. Pooh -was walking round and round in a circle, thinking of something else, and -when Piglet called to him, he just went on walking.</p> - -<p>"Hallo!" said Piglet, "what are <i>you</i> doing?"</p> - -<p>"Hunting," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Hunting what?"</p> - -<p>"Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.</p> - -<p>"Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.</p> - -<p>"That's just what I ask myself. I ask myself, What?"</p> - -<p>"What do you think you'll answer?"</p> - -<p>"I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh. -"Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do -you see there?"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus27.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Tracks," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of -excitement. "Oh, Pooh! Do you think it's a—a—a Woozle?"</p> - -<p>"It may be," said Pooh. "Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. You -never can tell with paw-marks."</p> - -<p>With these few words he went on tracking, and Piglet, after watching him -for a minute or two, ran after him. Winnie-the-Pooh had come to a sudden -stop, and was bending over the tracks in a puzzled sort of way.</p> - -<p>"What's the matter?" asked Piglet.</p> - -<p>"It's a very funny thing," said Bear, "but there seem to be -<i>two</i> animals now. This—whatever-it-was—has been joined by -another—whatever-it-is—and the two of them are now proceeding in -company. Would you mind coming with me, Piglet, in case they turn out -to be Hostile Animals?"</p> - -<p>Piglet scratched his ear in a nice sort of way, and said that he had -nothing to do until Friday, and would be delighted to come, in case it -really <i>was</i> a Woozle.</p> - -<p>"You mean, in case it really is two Woozles," said Winnie-the-Pooh, and -Piglet said that anyhow he had nothing to do until Friday. So off they -went together.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus28.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>There was a small spinney of larch trees just here, and it seemed as if -the two Woozles, if that is what they were, had been going round this -spinney; so round this spinney went Pooh and Piglet after them; Piglet -passing the time by telling Pooh what his Grandfather Trespassers W had -done to Remove Stiffness after Tracking, and how his Grandfather -Trespassers W had suffered in his later years from Shortness of Breath, -and other matters of interest, and Pooh wondering what a Grandfather was -like, and if perhaps this was Two Grandfathers they were after now, and, -if so, whether he would be allowed to take one home and keep it, and -what Christopher Robin would say. And still the tracks went on in front -of them....</p> - -<p>Suddenly Winnie-the-Pooh stopped, and pointed excitedly in front of him. -"<i>Look!</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>What?</i>" said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he hadn't -been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an -exercising sort of way.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus29.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"The tracks!" said Pooh. "<i>A third animal has joined the other two!</i>"</p> - -<p>"Pooh!" cried Piglet. "Do you think it is another Woozle?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Pooh, "because it makes different marks. It is either Two -Woozles and one, as it might be, Wizzle, or Two, as it might be, Wizzles -and one, if so it is, Woozle. Let us continue to follow them."</p> - -<p>So they went on, feeling just a little anxious now, in case the three -animals in front of them were of Hostile Intent. And Piglet wished very -much that his Grandfather T. W. were there, instead of elsewhere, and -Pooh thought how nice it would be if they met Christopher Robin suddenly -but quite accidentally, and only because he liked Christopher Robin so -much. And then, all of a sudden, Winnie-the-Pooh stopped again, and -licked the tip of his nose in a cooling manner, for he was feeling more -hot and anxious than ever in his life before. <i>There were four animals -in front of them!</i></p> - -<p>"Do you see, Piglet? Look at their tracks! Three, as it were, Woozles, -and one, as it was, Wizzle. <i>Another Woozle has joined them!</i>"</p> - -<p>And so it seemed to be. There were the tracks; crossing over each other -here, getting muddled up with each other there; but, quite plainly every -now and then, the tracks of four sets of paws.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus30.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I <i>think</i>," said Piglet, when he had licked the tip of his nose too, -and found that it brought very little comfort, "I <i>think</i> that I have -just remembered something. I have just remembered something that I -forgot to do yesterday and shan't be able to do to-morrow. So I suppose -I really ought to go back and do it now."</p> - -<p>"We'll do it this afternoon, and I'll come with you," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"It isn't the sort of thing you can do in the afternoon," said Piglet -quickly. "It's a very particular morning thing, that has to be done in -the morning, and, if possible, between the hours of——What would you -say the time was?"</p> - -<p>"About twelve," said Winnie-the-Pooh, looking at the sun.</p> - -<p>"Between, as I was saying, the hours of twelve and twelve five. So, -really, dear old Pooh, if you'll excuse me——<i>What's that?</i>"</p> - -<p>Pooh looked up at the sky, and then, as he heard the whistle again, he -looked up into the branches of a big oak-tree, and then he saw a friend -of his.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus31.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"It's Christopher Robin," he said.</p> - -<p>"Ah, then you'll be all right," said Piglet. "You'll be quite safe with -<i>him</i>. Good-bye," and he trotted off home as quickly as he could, very -glad to be Out of All Danger again.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus32.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Christopher Robin came slowly down his tree.</p> - -<p>"Silly old Bear," he said, "what <i>were</i> you doing? First you went round -the spinney twice by yourself, and then Piglet ran after you and you -went round again together, and then you were just going round a fourth -time——"</p> - -<p>"Wait a moment," said Winnie-the-Pooh, holding up his paw.</p> - -<p>He sat down and thought, in the most thoughtful way he could think. Then -he fitted his paw into one of the Tracks ... and then he scratched his -nose twice, and stood up.</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Winnie-the-Pooh.</p> - -<p>"I see now," said Winnie-the-Pooh.</p> - -<p>"I have been Foolish and Deluded," said he, "and I am a Bear of No Brain -at All."</p> - -<p>"You're the Best Bear in All the World," said Christopher Robin -soothingly.</p> - -<p>"Am I?" said Pooh hopefully. And then he brightened up suddenly.</p> - -<p>"Anyhow," he said, "it is nearly Luncheon Time."</p> - -<p>So he went home for it.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH EEYORE LOSES A TAIL AND POOH FINDS ONE</h3> - - -<p>The Old Grey Donkey, Eeyore, stood by himself in a thistly corner of -the forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought -about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and -sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch -as which?"—and sometimes he didn't quite know what he <i>was</i> thinking -about. So when Winnie-the-Pooh came stumping along, Eeyore was very glad -to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to say "How do you -do?" in a gloomy manner to him.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus33.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.</p> - -<p>Eeyore shook his head from side to side.</p> - -<p>"Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a -long time."</p> - -<p>"Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at -you."</p> - -<p>So Eeyore stood there, gazing sadly at the ground, and Winnie-the-Pooh -walked all round him once.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus34.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Why, what's happened to your tail?" he said in surprise.</p> - -<p>"What <i>has</i> happened to it?" said Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"It isn't there!"</p> - -<p>"Are you sure?"</p> - -<p>"Well, either a tail <i>is</i> there or it isn't there. You can't make a -mistake about it. And yours <i>isn't</i> there!"</p> - -<p>"Then what is?"</p> - -<p>"Nothing."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus35.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Let's have a look," said Eeyore, and he turned slowly round to the -place where his tail had been a little while ago, and then, finding that -he couldn't catch it up, he turned round the other way, until he came -back to where he was at first, and then he put his head down and looked -between his front legs, and at last he said, with a long, sad sigh, "I -believe you're right."</p> - -<p>"Of course I'm right," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"That Accounts for a Good Deal," said Eeyore gloomily. "It Explains -Everything. No Wonder."</p> - -<p>"You must have left it somewhere," said Winnie-the-Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Somebody must have taken it," said Eeyore. "How Like Them," he added, -after a long silence.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus36.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn't -quite know what. So he decided to do something helpful instead.</p> - -<p>"Eeyore," he said solemnly, "I, Winnie-the-Pooh, will find your tail for -you."</p> - -<p>"Thank you, Pooh," answered Eeyore. "You're a real friend," said he. -"Not like Some," he said.</p> - -<p>So Winnie-the-Pooh went off to find Eeyore's tail.</p> - -<p>It was a fine spring morning in the forest as he started out. Little -soft clouds played happily in a blue sky, skipping from time to time in -front of the sun as if they had come to put it out, and then sliding -away suddenly so that the next might have his turn. Through them and -between them the sun shone bravely; and a copse which had worn its firs -all the year round seemed old and dowdy now beside the new green lace -which the beeches had put on so prettily. Through copse and spinney -marched Bear; down open slopes of gorse and heather, over rocky beds of -streams, up steep banks of sandstone into the heather again; and so at -last, tired and hungry, to the Hundred Acre Wood. For it was in the -Hundred Acre Wood that Owl lived.</p> - -<p>"And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, -"it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's -not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "Which it is," he added. "So there you -are."</p> - -<p>Owl lived at The Chestnuts, an old-world residence of great charm, which -was grander than anybody else's, or seemed so to Bear, because it had -both a knocker <i>and</i> a bell-pull. Underneath the knocker there was a -notice which said:</p> - -<p class="ph1">PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD.</p> - -<p>Underneath the bell-pull there was a notice which said:</p> - -<p class="ph1">PLEZ CNOKE IF AN RNSR IS NOT REQID.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus37.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>These notices had been written by Christopher Robin, who was the only -one in the forest who could spell; for Owl, wise though he was in many -ways, able to read and write and spell his own name WOL, yet somehow -went all to pieces over delicate words like MEASLES and BUTTEREDTOAST.</p> - -<p>Winnie-the-Pooh read the two notices very carefully, first from left to -right, and afterwards, in case he had missed some of it, from right to -left. Then, to make quite sure, he knocked and pulled the knocker, and -he pulled and knocked the bell-rope, and he called out in a very loud -voice, "Owl! I require an answer! It's Bear speaking." And the door -opened, and Owl looked out.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Pooh," he said. "How's things?"</p> - -<p>"Terrible and Sad," said Pooh, "because Eeyore, who is a friend of mine, -has lost his tail. And he's Moping about it. So could you very kindly -tell me how to find it for him?"</p> - -<p>"Well," said Owl, "the customary procedure in such cases is as follows."</p> - -<p>"What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?" said Pooh. "For I am a Bear of -Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me."</p> - -<p>"It means the Thing to Do."</p> - -<p>"As long as it means that, I don't mind," said Pooh humbly.</p> - -<p>"The thing to do is as follows. First, Issue a Reward. Then——"</p> - -<p>"Just a moment," said Pooh, holding up his paw. "<i>What</i> do we do to -this—what you were saying? You sneezed just as you were going to tell -me."</p> - -<p>"I <i>didn't</i> sneeze."</p> - -<p>"Yes, you did, Owl."</p> - -<p>"Excuse me, Pooh, I didn't. You can't sneeze without knowing it."</p> - -<p>"Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed."</p> - -<p>"What I <i>said</i> was, 'First <i>Issue</i> a Reward'."</p> - -<p>"You're doing it again," said Pooh sadly.</p> - -<p>"A Reward!" said Owl very loudly. "We write a notice to say that we will -give a large something to anybody who finds Eeyore's tail."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus38.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I see, I see," said Pooh, nodding his head. "Talking about large -somethings," he went on dreamily, "I generally have a small something -about now—about this time in the morning," and he looked wistfully at -the cupboard in the corner of Owl's parlour; "just a mouthful of -condensed milk or whatnot, with perhaps a lick of honey——"</p> - -<p>"Well, then," said Owl, "we write out this notice, and we put it up all -over the forest."</p> - -<p>"A lick of honey," murmured Bear to himself, "or—or not, as the case -may be." And he gave a deep sigh, and tried very hard to listen to what -Owl was saying.</p> - -<p>But Owl went on and on, using longer and longer words, until at last he -came back to where he started, and he explained that the person to write -out this notice was Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"It was he who wrote the ones on my front door for me. Did you see them, -Pooh?"</p> - -<p>For some time now Pooh had been saying "Yes" and "No" in turn, with his -eyes shut, to all that Owl was saying, and having said, "Yes, yes," last -time, he said "No, not at all," now, without really knowing what Owl was -talking about.</p> - -<p>"Didn't you see them?" said Owl, a little surprised. "Come and look at -them now."</p> - -<p>So they went outside. And Pooh looked at the knocker and the notice -below it, and he looked at the bell-rope and the notice below it, and -the more he looked at the bell-rope, the more he felt that he had seen -something like it, somewhere else, sometime before.</p> - -<p>"Handsome bell-rope, isn't it?" said Owl.</p> - -<p>Pooh nodded.</p> - -<p>"It reminds me of something," he said, "but I can't think what. Where -did you get it?"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus39.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I just came across it in the Forest. It was hanging over a bush, and I -thought at first somebody lived there, so I rang it, and nothing -happened, and then I rang it again very loudly, and it came off in my -hand, and as nobody seemed to want it, I took it home, and——"</p> - -<p>"Owl," said Pooh solemnly, "you made a mistake. Somebody did want it."</p> - -<p>"Who?"</p> - -<p>"Eeyore. My dear friend Eeyore. He was—he was fond of it."</p> - -<p>"Fond of it?"</p> - -<p>"Attached to it," said Winnie-the-Pooh sadly.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus40.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>So with these words he unhooked it, and carried it back to Eeyore; and -when Christopher Robin had nailed it on in its right place again, Eeyore -frisked about the forest, waving his tail so happily that -Winnie-the-Pooh came over all funny, and had to hurry home for a little -snack of something to sustain him. And, wiping his mouth half an hour -afterwards, he sang to himself proudly:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse"><i>Who found the Tail?</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2">"I," said Pooh,</div> - <div class="verse">"At a quarter to two</div> - <div class="verse indent2">(Only it was quarter to eleven really),</div> - <div class="verse"><i>I</i> found the Tail!"</div> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus41.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus42.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH PIGLET MEETS A HEFFALUMP</h3> - - -<p>One day, when Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet were -all talking together, Christopher Robin finished the mouthful he was -eating and said carelessly: "I saw a Heffalump to-day, Piglet."</p> - -<p>"What was it doing?" asked Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Just lumping along," said Christopher Robin. "I don't think it saw -<i>me</i>."</p> - -<p>"I saw one once," said Piglet. "At least, I think I did," he said. "Only -perhaps it wasn't."</p> - -<p>"So did I," said Pooh, wondering what a Heffalump was like.</p> - -<p>"You don't often see them," said Christopher Robin carelessly.</p> - -<p>"Not now," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Not at this time of year," said Pooh.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus43.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Then they all talked about something else, until it was time for Pooh -and Piglet to go home together. At first as they stumped along the path -which edged the Hundred Acre Wood, they didn't say much to each other; -but when they came to the stream and had helped each other across the -stepping stones, and were able to walk side by side again over the -heather, they began to talk in a friendly way about this and that, and -Piglet said, "If you see what I mean, Pooh," and Pooh said, "It's just -what I think myself, Piglet," and Piglet said, "But, on the other hand, -Pooh, we must remember," and Pooh said, "Quite true, Piglet, although I -had forgotten it for the moment." And then, just as they came to the Six -Pine Trees, Pooh looked round to see that nobody else was listening, and -said in a very solemn voice:</p> - -<p>"Piglet, I have decided something."</p> - -<p>"What have you decided, Pooh?"</p> - -<p>"I have decided to catch a Heffalump."</p> - -<p>Pooh nodded his head several times as he said this, and waited for -Piglet to say "How?" or "Pooh, you couldn't!" or something helpful of -that sort, but Piglet said nothing. The fact was Piglet was wishing that -<i>he</i> had thought about it first.</p> - -<p>"I shall do it," said Pooh, after waiting a little longer, "by means of -a trap. And it must be a Cunning Trap, so you will have to help me, -Piglet."</p> - -<p>"Pooh," said Piglet, feeling quite happy again now, "I will." And then -he said, "How shall we do it?" and Pooh said, "That's just it. How?" And -then they sat down together to think it out.</p> - -<p>Pooh's first idea was that they should dig a Very Deep Pit, and then the -Heffalump would come along and fall into the Pit, and——</p> - -<p>"Why?" said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Why what?" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Why would he fall in?"</p> - -<p>Pooh rubbed his nose with his paw, and said that the Heffalump might be -walking along, humming a little song, and looking up at the sky, -wondering if it would rain, and so he wouldn't see the Very Deep Pit -until he was half-way down, when it would be too late.</p> - -<p>Piglet said that this was a very good Trap, but supposing it were -raining already?</p> - -<p>Pooh rubbed his nose again, and said that he hadn't thought of that. And -then he brightened up, and said that, if it were raining already, the -Heffalump would be looking at the sky wondering if it would <i>clear up</i>, -and so he wouldn't see the Very Deep Pit until he was half-way -down.... When it would be too late.</p> - -<p>Piglet said that, now that this point had been explained, he thought it -was a Cunning Trap.</p> - -<p>Pooh was very proud when he heard this, and he felt that the Heffalump -was as good as caught already, but there was just one other thing which -had to be thought about, and it was this. <i>Where should they dig the -Very Deep Pit?</i></p> - -<p>Piglet said that the best place would be somewhere where a Heffalump -was, just before he fell into it, only about a foot farther on.</p> - -<p>"But then he would see us digging it," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Not if he was looking at the sky."</p> - -<p>"He would Suspect," said Pooh, "if he happened to look down." He thought -for a long time and then added sadly, "It isn't as easy as I thought. I -suppose that's why Heffalumps hardly <i>ever</i> get caught."</p> - -<p>"That must be it," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>They sighed and got up; and when they had taken a few gorse prickles out -of themselves they sat down again; and all the time Pooh was saying to -himself, "If only I could <i>think</i> of something!" For he felt sure that a -Very Clever Brain could catch a Heffalump if only he knew the right way -to go about it.</p> - -<p>"Suppose," he said to Piglet, "<i>you</i> wanted to catch <i>me</i>, how would you -do it?"</p> - -<p>"Well," said Piglet, "I should do it like this. I should make a Trap, -and I should put a Jar of Honey in the Trap, and you would smell it, and -you would go in after it, and——"</p> - -<p>"And I would go in after it," said Pooh excitedly, "only very carefully -so as not to hurt myself, and I would get to the Jar of Honey, and I -should lick round the edges first of all, pretending that there wasn't -any more, you know, and then I should walk away and think about it a -little, and then I should come back and start licking in the middle of -the jar, and then——"</p> - -<p>"Yes, well never mind about that. There you would be, and there I should -catch you. Now the first thing to think of is, What do Heffalumps like? -I should think acorns, shouldn't you? We'll get a lot of——I say, wake -up, Pooh!"</p> - -<p>Pooh, who had gone into a happy dream, woke up with a start, and said -that Honey was a much more trappy thing than Haycorns. Piglet didn't -think so; and they were just going to argue about it, when Piglet -remembered that, if they put acorns in the Trap, <i>he</i> would have to find -the acorns, but if they put honey, then Pooh would have to give up some -of his own honey, so he said, "All right, honey then," just as Pooh -remembered it too, and was going to say, "All right, haycorns."</p> - -<p>"Honey," said Piglet to himself in a thoughtful way, as if it were now -settled. "<i>I'll</i> dig the pit, while <i>you</i> go and get the honey."</p> - -<p>"Very well," said Pooh, and he stumped off.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus44.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>As soon as he got home, he went to the larder; and he stood on a chair, -and took down a very large jar of honey from the top shelf. It had HUNNY -written on it, but, just to make sure, he took off the paper cover and -looked at it, and it <i>looked</i> just like honey. "But you never can tell," -said Pooh. "I remember my uncle saying once that he had seen cheese just -this colour." So he put his tongue in, and took a large lick. "Yes," he -said, "it is. No doubt about that. And honey, I should say, right down -to the bottom of the jar. Unless, of course," he said, "somebody put -cheese in at the bottom just for a joke. Perhaps I had better go a -<i>little</i> further ... just in case ... in case Heffalumps <i>don't</i> -like cheese ... same as me.... Ah!" And he gave a deep sigh. "I -<i>was</i> right. It <i>is</i> honey, right the way down."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus45.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Having made certain of this, he took the jar back to Piglet, and Piglet -looked up from the bottom of his Very Deep Pit, and said, "Got it?" and -Pooh said, "Yes, but it isn't quite a full jar," and he threw it down to -Piglet, and Piglet said, "No, it isn't! Is that all you've got left?" -and Pooh said "Yes." Because it was. So Piglet put the jar at the bottom -of the Pit, and climbed out, and they went off home together.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus46.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Well, good night, Pooh," said Piglet, when they had got to Pooh's -house. "And we meet at six o'clock to-morrow morning by the Pine Trees, -and see how many Heffalumps we've got in our Trap."</p> - -<p>"Six o'clock, Piglet. And have you got any string?"</p> - -<p>"No. Why do you want string?"</p> - -<p>"To lead them home with."</p> - -<p>"Oh! ... I <i>think</i> Heffalumps come if you whistle."</p> - -<p>"Some do and some don't. You never can tell with Heffalumps. Well, good -night!"</p> - -<p>"Good night!"</p> - -<p>And off Piglet trotted to his house TRESPASSERS W, while Pooh made his -preparations for bed.</p> - -<p>Some hours later, just as the night was beginning to steal away, Pooh -woke up suddenly with a sinking feeling. He had had that sinking feeling -before, and he knew what it meant. <i>He was hungry.</i> So he went to the -larder, and he stood on a chair and reached up to the top shelf, and -found—nothing.</p> - -<p>"That's funny," he thought. "I know I had a jar of honey there. A full -jar, full of honey right up to the top, and it had HUNNY written on it, -so that I should know it was honey. That's very funny." And then he -began to wander up and down, wondering where it was and murmuring a -murmur to himself. Like this:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">It's very, very funny,</div> - <div class="verse">'Cos I <i>know</i> I had some honey;</div> - <div class="verse">'Cos it had a label on,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Saying HUNNY.</div> - <div class="verse">A goloptious full-up pot too,</div> - <div class="verse">And I don't know where it's got to,</div> - <div class="verse">No, I don't know where it's gone—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Well, it's funny.</div> -</div></div> - -<p>He had murmured this to himself three times in a singing sort of way, -when suddenly he remembered. He had put it into the Cunning Trap to -catch the Heffalump.</p> - -<p>"Bother!" said Pooh. "It all comes of trying to be kind to Heffalumps." -And he got back into bed.</p> - -<p>But he couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep, the more he couldn't. -He tried Counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to -sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that -was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight -for a pot of Pooh's honey, <i>and eating it all</i>. For some minutes he lay -there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump -was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I -don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer. He -jumped out of bed, he ran out of the house, and he ran straight to the -Six Pine Trees.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus47.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>The Sun was still in bed, but there was a lightness in the sky over the -Hundred Acre Wood which seemed to show that it was waking up and would -soon be kicking off the clothes. In the half-light the Pine Trees looked -cold and lonely, and the Very Deep Pit seemed deeper than it was, and -Pooh's jar of honey at the bottom was something mysterious, a shape and -no more. But as he got nearer to it his nose told him that it was indeed -honey, and his tongue came out and began to polish up his mouth, ready -for it.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus48.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Bother!" said Pooh, as he got his nose inside the jar. "A Heffalump has -been eating it!" And then he thought a little and said, "Oh, no, <i>I</i> -did. I forgot."</p> - -<p>Indeed, he had eaten most of it. But there was a little left at the very -bottom of the jar, and he pushed his head right in, and began to -lick....</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus49.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>By and by Piglet woke up. As soon as he woke he said to himself, "Oh!" -Then he said bravely, "Yes," and then, still more bravely, "Quite so." -But he didn't feel very brave, for the word which was really jiggeting -about in his brain was "Heffalumps."</p> - -<p>What was a Heffalump like?</p> - -<p>Was it Fierce?</p> - -<p><i>Did</i> it come when you whistled? And <i>how</i> did it come?</p> - -<p>Was it Fond of Pigs at all?</p> - -<p>If it was Fond of Pigs, did it make any difference <i>what sort of Pig</i>?</p> - -<p>Supposing it was Fierce with Pigs, would it make any difference <i>if the -Pig had a grandfather called TRESPASSERS WILLIAM</i>?</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus50.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He didn't know the answer to any of these questions ... and he was -going to see his first Heffalump in about an hour from now!</p> - -<p>Of course Pooh would be with him, and it was much more Friendly with -two. But suppose Heffalumps were Very Fierce with Pigs <i>and</i> Bears? -Wouldn't it be better to pretend that he had a headache, and couldn't go -up to the Six Pine Trees this morning? But then suppose that it was a -very fine day, and there was no Heffalump in the trap, here he would be, -in bed all the morning, simply wasting his time for nothing. What should -he do?</p> - -<p>And then he had a Clever Idea. He would go up very quietly to the Six -Pine Trees now, peep very cautiously into the Trap, and see if there -<i>was</i> a Heffalump there. And if there was, he would go back to bed, and -if there wasn't, he wouldn't.</p> - -<p>So off he went. At first he thought that there wouldn't be a Heffalump -in the Trap, and then he thought that there would, and as he got nearer -he was <i>sure</i> that there would, because he could hear it heffalumping -about it like anything.</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear!" said Piglet to himself. And he wanted to -run away. But somehow, having got so near, he felt that he must just see -what a Heffalump was like. So he crept to the side of the Trap and -looked in....</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus51.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>And all the time Winnie-the-Pooh had been trying to get the honey-jar -off his head. The more he shook it, the more tightly it stuck.</p> - -<p>"<i>Bother!</i>" he said, inside the jar, and "<i>Oh, help!</i>" and, mostly, -"<i>Ow!</i>" And he tried bumping it against things, but as he couldn't see -what he was bumping it against, it didn't help him; and he tried to -climb out of the Trap, but as he could see nothing but jar, and not much -of that, he couldn't find his way. So at last he lifted up his head, jar -and all, and made a loud, roaring noise of Sadness and Despair ... and -it was at that moment that Piglet looked down.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus52.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Help, help!" cried Piglet, "a Heffalump, a Horrible Heffalump!" and he -scampered off as hard as he could, still crying out, "Help, help, a -Herrible Hoffalump! Hoff, Hoff, a Hellible Horralump! Holl, Holl, a -Hoffable Hellerump!" And he didn't stop crying and scampering until he -got to Christopher Robin's house.</p> - -<p>"Whatever's the matter, Piglet?" said Christopher Robin, who was just -getting up.</p> - -<p>"Heff," said Piglet, breathing so hard that he could hardly speak, "a -Heff—a Heff—a Heffalump."</p> - -<p>"Where?"</p> - -<p>"Up there," said Piglet, waving his paw.</p> - -<p>"What did it look like?"</p> - -<p>"Like—like——It had the biggest head you ever saw, Christopher Robin. -A great enormous thing, like—like nothing. A huge big—well, like a—I -don't know—like an enormous big nothing. Like a jar."</p> - -<p>"Well," said Christopher Robin, putting on his shoes, "I shall go and -look at it. Come on."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus53.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Piglet wasn't afraid if he had Christopher Robin with him, so off they -went....</p> - -<p>"I can hear it, can't you?" said Piglet anxiously, as they got near.</p> - -<p>"I can hear <i>something</i>," said Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>It was Pooh bumping his head against a tree-root he had found.</p> - -<p>"There!" said Piglet. "Isn't it <i>awful</i>?" And he held on tight to -Christopher Robin's hand.</p> - -<p>Suddenly Christopher Robin began to laugh ... and he laughed ... and he -laughed ... and he laughed. And while he was still laughing—<i>Crash</i> -went the Heffalump's head against the tree-root, Smash went the jar, -and out came Pooh's head again....</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus54.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Then Piglet saw what a Foolish Piglet he had been, and he was so ashamed -of himself that he ran straight off home and went to bed with a -headache. But Christopher Robin and Pooh went home to breakfast -together.</p> - -<p>"Oh, Bear!" said Christopher Robin. "How I do love you!"</p> - -<p>"So do I," said Pooh.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VI" id="CHAPTER_VI"></a>CHAPTER VI</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH EEYORE HAS A BIRTHDAY AND GETS TWO PRESENTS</h3> - - -<p>Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and -looked at himself in the water.</p> - -<p>"Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."</p> - -<p>He turned and walked slowly down the stream for twenty yards, splashed -across it, and walked slowly back on the other side. Then he looked at -himself in the water again.</p> - -<p>"As I thought," he said. "No better from <i>this</i> side. But nobody minds. -Nobody cares. Pathetic, that's what it is."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus55.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>There was a crackling noise in the bracken behind him, and out came -Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it <i>is</i> a good -morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.</p> - -<p>"Why, what's the matter?"</p> - -<p>"Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's -all there is to it."</p> - -<p>"Can't all <i>what</i>?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose.</p> - -<p>"Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh. He thought for a long time, and then asked, "What -mulberry bush is that?"</p> - -<p>"Bon-hommy," went on Eeyore gloomily. "French word meaning bonhommy," he -explained. "I'm not complaining, but There It Is."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus56.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Pooh sat down on a large stone, and tried to think this out. It sounded -to him like a riddle, and he was never much good at riddles, being a -Bear of Very Little Brain. So he sang <i>Cottleston Pie</i> instead:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,</div> - <div class="verse">A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.</div> - <div class="verse">Ask me a riddle and I reply:</div> - <div class="verse">"<i>Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.</i>"</div> -</div></div> - -<p>That was the first verse. When he had finished it, Eeyore didn't -actually say that he didn't like it, so Pooh very kindly sang the second -verse to him:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,</div> - <div class="verse">A fish can't whistle and neither can I.</div> - <div class="verse">Ask me a riddle and I reply:</div> - <div class="verse">"<i>Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie</i>."</div> -</div></div> - -<p>Eeyore still said nothing at all, so Pooh hummed the third verse quietly -to himself:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,</div> - <div class="verse">Why does a chicken, I don't know why.</div> - <div class="verse">Ask me a riddle and I reply:</div> - <div class="verse">"<i>Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie</i>."</div> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus57.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go -gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself."</p> - -<p>"I am," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Some can," said Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"Why, what's the matter?"</p> - -<p>"<i>Is</i> anything the matter?"</p> - -<p>"You seem so sad, Eeyore."</p> - -<p>"Sad? Why should I be sad? It's my birthday. The happiest day of the -year."</p> - -<p>"Your birthday?" said Pooh in great surprise.</p> - -<p>"Of course it is. Can't you see? Look at all the presents I have had." -He waved a foot from side to side. "Look at the birthday cake. Candles -and pink sugar."</p> - -<p>Pooh looked—first to the right and then to the left.</p> - -<p>"Presents?" said Pooh. "Birthday cake?" said Pooh. "<i>Where?</i>"</p> - -<p>"Can't you see them?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Neither can I," said Eeyore. "Joke," he explained. "Ha ha!"</p> - -<p>Pooh scratched his head, being a little puzzled by all this.</p> - -<p>"But is it really your birthday?" he asked.</p> - -<p>"It is."</p> - -<p>"Oh! Well, Many happy returns of the day, Eeyore."</p> - -<p>"And many happy returns to you, Pooh Bear."</p> - -<p>"But it isn't <i>my</i> birthday."</p> - -<p>"No, it's mine."</p> - -<p>"But you said 'Many happy returns'——"</p> - -<p>"Well, why not? You don't always want to be miserable on my birthday, do -you?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, I see," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"It's bad enough," said Eeyore, almost breaking down, "being miserable -myself, what with no presents and no cake and no candles, and no proper -notice taken of me at all, but if everybody else is going to be -miserable too——"</p> - -<p>This was too much for Pooh. "Stay there!" he called to Eeyore, as he -turned and hurried back home as quick as he could; for he felt that he -must get poor Eeyore a present of <i>some</i> sort at once, and he could -always think of a proper one afterwards.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus58.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Outside his house he found Piglet, jumping up and down trying to reach -the knocker.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Piglet," he said.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"What are <i>you</i> trying to do?"</p> - -<p>"I was trying to reach the knocker," said Piglet. "I just came -round——"</p> - -<p>"Let me do it for you," said Pooh kindly. So he reached up and knocked -at the door. "I have just seen Eeyore," he began, "and poor Eeyore is in -a Very Sad Condition, because it's his birthday, and nobody has taken -any notice of it, and he's very Gloomy—you know what Eeyore is—and -there he was, and——What a long time whoever lives here is answering -this door." And he knocked again.</p> - -<p>"But Pooh," said Piglet, "it's your own house!"</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh. "So it is," he said. "Well, let's go in."</p> - -<p>So in they went. The first thing Pooh did was to go to the cupboard to -see if he had quite a small jar of honey left; and he had, so he took it -down.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus59.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I'm giving this to Eeyore," he explained, "as a present. What are <i>you</i> -going to give?"</p> - -<p>"Couldn't I give it too?" said Piglet. "From both of us?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Pooh. "That would <i>not</i> be a good plan."</p> - -<p>"All right, then, I'll give him a balloon. I've got one left from my -party. I'll go and get it now, shall I?"</p> - -<p>"That, Piglet, is a <i>very</i> good idea. It is just what Eeyore wants to -cheer him up. Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon."</p> - -<p>So off Piglet trotted; and in the other direction went Pooh, with his -jar of honey.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus60.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>It was a warm day, and he had a long way to go. He hadn't gone more than -half-way when a sort of funny feeling began to creep all over him. It -began at the tip of his nose and trickled all through him and out at the -soles of his feet. It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, -"Now then, Pooh, time for a little something."</p> - -<p>"Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I didn't know it was as late as that." So he -sat down and took the top off his jar of honey. "Lucky I brought this -with me," he thought. "Many a bear going out on a warm day like this -would never have thought of bringing a little something with him." And -he began to eat.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus61.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Now let me see," he thought, as he took his last lick of the inside of -the jar, "where was I going? Ah, yes, Eeyore." He got up slowly.</p> - -<p>And then, suddenly, he remembered. He had eaten Eeyore's birthday -present!</p> - -<p>"<i>Bother!</i>" said Pooh. "What <i>shall</i> I do? I <i>must</i> give him -<i>something</i>."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus62.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>For a little while he couldn't think of anything. Then he thought: -"Well, it's a very nice pot, even if there's no honey in it, and if I -washed it clean, and got somebody to write '<i>A Happy Birthday</i>' on it, -Eeyore could keep things in it, which might be Useful." So, as he was -just passing the Hundred Acre Wood, he went inside to call on Owl, who -lived there.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Owl," he said.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Pooh," said Owl.</p> - -<p>"Many happy returns of Eeyore's birthday," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Oh, is that what it is?"</p> - -<p>"What are you giving him, Owl?"</p> - -<p>"What are <i>you</i> giving him, Pooh?"</p> - -<p>"I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In, and I wanted to ask -you——"</p> - -<p>"Is this it?" said Owl, taking it out of Pooh's paw.</p> - -<p>"Yes, and I wanted to ask you——"</p> - -<p>"Somebody has been keeping honey in it," said Owl.</p> - -<p>"You can keep <i>anything</i> in it," said Pooh earnestly. "It's Very Useful -like that. And I wanted to ask you——"</p> - -<p>"You ought to write '<i>A Happy Birthday</i>' on it."</p> - -<p>"<i>That</i> was what I wanted to ask you," said Pooh. "Because my spelling -is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the -wrong places. Would <i>you</i> write 'A Happy Birthday' on it for me?"</p> - -<p>"It's a nice pot," said Owl, looking at it all round. "Couldn't I give -it too? From both of us?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Pooh. "That would <i>not</i> be a good plan. Now I'll just wash it -first, and then you can write on it."</p> - -<p>Well, he washed the pot out, and dried it, while Owl licked the end of -his pencil, and wondered how to spell "birthday."</p> - -<p>"Can you read, Pooh?" he asked a little anxiously. "There's a notice -about knocking and ringing outside my door, which Christopher Robin -wrote. Could you read it?"</p> - -<p>"Christopher Robin told me what it said, and <i>then</i> I could."</p> - -<p>"Well, I'll tell you what <i>this</i> says, and then you'll be able to."</p> - -<p>So Owl wrote ... and this is what he wrote:</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus63.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph1">HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY.</p> - -<p>Pooh looked on admiringly.</p> - -<p>"I'm just saying 'A Happy Birthday'," said Owl carelessly.</p> - -<p>"It's a nice long one," said Pooh, very much impressed by it.</p> - -<p>"Well, <i>actually</i>, of course, I'm saying 'A Very Happy Birthday with -love from Pooh.' Naturally it takes a good deal of pencil to say a long -thing like that."</p> - -<p>"Oh, I see," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>While all this was happening, Piglet had gone back to his own house to -get Eeyore's balloon. He held it very tightly against himself, so that -it shouldn't blow away, and he ran as fast as he could so as to get to -Eeyore before Pooh did; for he thought that he would like to be the -first one to give a present, just as if he had thought of it without -being told by anybody. And running along, and thinking how pleased -Eeyore would be, he didn't look where he was going ... and suddenly he -put his foot in a rabbit hole, and fell down flat on his face.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus64.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>BANG!!!???***!!!</p> - -<p>Piglet lay there, wondering what had happened. At first he thought that -the whole world had blown up; and then he thought that perhaps only the -Forest part of it had; and then he thought that perhaps only <i>he</i> had, -and he was now alone in the moon or somewhere, and would never see -Christopher Robin or Pooh or Eeyore again. And then he thought, "Well, -even if I'm in the moon, I needn't be face downwards all the time," so -he got cautiously up and looked about him.</p> - -<p>He was still in the Forest!</p> - -<p>"Well, that's funny," he thought. "I wonder what that bang was. I -couldn't have made such a noise just falling down. And where's my -balloon? And what's that small piece of damp rag doing?"</p> - -<p>It was the balloon!</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear!" said Piglet "Oh, dear, oh, dearie, dearie, dear! Well, it's -too late now. I can't go back, and I haven't another balloon, and -perhaps Eeyore doesn't <i>like</i> balloons so <i>very</i> much."</p> - -<p>So he trotted on, rather sadly now, and down he came to the side of the -stream where Eeyore was, and called out to him.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Eeyore," shouted Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Little Piglet," said Eeyore. "If it <i>is</i> a good morning," -he said. "Which I doubt," said he. "Not that it matters," he said.</p> - -<p>"Many happy returns of the day," said Piglet, having now got closer.</p> - -<p>Eeyore stopped looking at himself in the stream, and turned to stare at -Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Just say that again," he said.</p> - -<p>"Many hap——"</p> - -<p>"Wait a moment."</p> - -<p>Balancing on three legs, he began to bring his fourth leg very -cautiously up to his ear. "I did this yesterday," he explained, as he -fell down for the third time. "It's quite easy. It's so as I can hear -better.... There, that's done it! Now then, what were you saying?" He -pushed his ear forward with his hoof.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus65.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Many happy returns of the day," said Piglet again.</p> - -<p>"Meaning me?"</p> - -<p>"Of course, Eeyore."</p> - -<p>"My birthday?"</p> - -<p>"Yes."</p> - -<p>"Me having a real birthday?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, Eeyore, and I've brought you a present."</p> - -<p>Eeyore took down his right hoof from his right ear, turned round, and -with great difficulty put up his left hoof.</p> - -<p>"I must have that in the other ear," he said. "Now then."</p> - -<p>"A present," said Piglet very loudly.</p> - -<p>"Meaning me again?"</p> - -<p>"Yes."</p> - -<p>"My birthday still?"</p> - -<p>"Of course, Eeyore."</p> - -<p>"Me going on having a real birthday?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, Eeyore, and I brought you a balloon."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus66.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"<i>Balloon?</i>" said Eeyore. "You did say balloon? One of those big -coloured things you blow up? Gaiety, song-and-dance, here we are and -there we are?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, but I'm afraid—I'm very sorry, Eeyore—but when I was running -along to bring it you, I fell down."</p> - -<p>"Dear, dear, how unlucky! You ran too fast, I expect. You didn't hurt -yourself, Little Piglet?"</p> - -<p>"No, but I—I—oh, Eeyore, I burst the balloon!"</p> - -<p>There was a very long silence.</p> - -<p>"My balloon?" said Eeyore at last.</p> - -<p>Piglet nodded.</p> - -<p>"My birthday balloon?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, Eeyore," said Piglet sniffing a little. "Here it is. With—with -many happy returns of the day." And he gave Eeyore the small piece of -damp rag.</p> - -<p>"Is this it?" said Eeyore, a little surprised.</p> - -<p>Piglet nodded.</p> - -<p>"My present?"</p> - -<p>Piglet nodded again.</p> - -<p>"The balloon?"</p> - -<p>"Yes."</p> - -<p>"Thank you, Piglet," said Eeyore. "You don't mind my asking," he went -on, "but what colour was this balloon when it—when it <i>was</i> a balloon?"</p> - -<p>"Red."</p> - -<p>"I just wondered.... Red," he murmured to himself. "My favourite -colour.... How big was it?"</p> - -<p>"About as big as me."</p> - -<p>"I just wondered.... About as big as Piglet," he said to himself -sadly. "My favourite size. Well, well."</p> - -<p>Piglet felt very miserable, and didn't know what to say. He was still -opening his mouth to begin something, and then deciding that it wasn't -any good saying <i>that</i>, when he heard a shout from the other side of the -river, and there was Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Many happy returns of the day," called out Pooh, forgetting that he had -said it already.</p> - -<p>"Thank you, Pooh, I'm having them," said Eeyore gloomily.</p> - -<p>"I've brought you a little present," said Pooh excitedly.</p> - -<p>"I've had it," said Eeyore.</p> - -<p>Pooh had now splashed across the stream to Eeyore, and Piglet was -sitting a little way off, his head in his paws, snuffling to himself.</p> - -<p>"It's a Useful Pot," said Pooh. "Here it is. And it's got 'A Very Happy -Birthday with love from Pooh' written on it. That's what all that -writing is. And it's for putting things in. There!"</p> - -<p>When Eeyore saw the pot, he became quite excited.</p> - -<p>"Why!" he said. "I believe my Balloon will just go into that Pot!"</p> - -<p>"Oh, no, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Balloons are much too big to go into Pots. -What you do with a balloon is, you hold the ballon——"</p> - -<p>"Not mine," said Eeyore proudly. "Look, Piglet!" And as Piglet looked -sorrowfully round, Eeyore picked the balloon up with his teeth, and -placed it carefully in the pot; picked it out and put it on the ground; -and then picked it up again and put it carefully back.</p> - -<p>"So it does!" said Pooh. "It goes in!"</p> - -<p>"So it does!" said Piglet. "And it comes out!"</p> - -<p>"Doesn't it?" said Eeyore. "It goes in and out like anything."</p> - -<p>"I'm very glad," said Pooh happily, "that I thought of giving you a -Useful Pot to put things in."</p> - -<p>"I'm very glad," said Piglet happily, "that I thought of giving you -Something to put in a Useful Pot."</p> - -<p>But Eeyore wasn't listening. He was taking the balloon out, and putting -it back again, as happy as could be....</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus67.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"And didn't <i>I</i> give him anything?" asked Christopher Robin sadly.</p> - -<p>"Of course you did," I said. "You gave him—don't you remember—a -little—a little——"</p> - -<p>"I gave him a box of paints to paint things with."</p> - -<p>"That was it."</p> - -<p>"Why didn't I give it to him in the morning?"</p> - -<p>"You were so busy getting his party ready for him. He had a cake with -icing on the top, and three candles, and his name in pink sugar, -and——"</p> - -<p>"Yes, <i>I</i> remember," said Christopher Robin.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VII" id="CHAPTER_VII"></a>CHAPTER VII</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH KANGA AND BABY ROO COME TO THE FOREST, AND PIGLET HAS A BATH</h3> - - -<p>Nobody seemed to know where they came from, but there they were in the -Forest: Kanga and Baby Roo. When Pooh asked Christopher Robin, "How did -they come here?" Christopher Robin said, "In the Usual Way, if you know -what I mean, Pooh," and Pooh, who didn't, said "Oh!" Then he nodded his -head twice and said, "In the Usual Way. Ah!" Then he went to call upon -his friend Piglet to see what <i>he</i> thought about it. And at Piglet's -house he found Rabbit. So they all talked about it together.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus68.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"What I don't like about it is this," said Rabbit. "Here are we—you, -Pooh, and you, Piglet, and Me—and suddenly——"</p> - -<p>"And Eeyore," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"And Eeyore—and then suddenly——"</p> - -<p>"And Owl," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"And Owl—and then all of a sudden——"</p> - -<p>"Oh, and Eeyore," said Pooh. "I was forgetting <i>him</i>."</p> - -<p>"Here—we—are," said Rabbit very slowly and carefully, "all—of—us, -and then, suddenly, we wake up one morning and, what do we find? We find -a Strange Animal among us. An animal of whom we have never even heard -before! An animal who carries her family about with her in her pocket! -Suppose <i>I</i> carried <i>my</i> family about with me in <i>my</i> pocket, how many -pockets should I want?"</p> - -<p>"Sixteen," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Seventeen, isn't it?" said Rabbit. "And one more for a -handkerchief—that's eighteen. Eighteen pockets in one suit! I haven't -time."</p> - -<p>There was a long and thoughtful silence ... and then Pooh, who had -been frowning very hard for some minutes, said: "<i>I</i> make it fifteen."</p> - -<p>"What?" said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>"Fifteen."</p> - -<p>"Fifteen what?"</p> - -<p>"Your family."</p> - -<p>"What about them?"</p> - -<p>Pooh rubbed his nose and said that he thought Rabbit had been talking -about his family.</p> - -<p>"Did I?" said Rabbit carelessly.</p> - -<p>"Yes, you said——"</p> - -<p>"Never mind, Pooh," said Piglet impatiently.</p> - -<p>"The question is, What are we to do about Kanga?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, I see," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"The best way," said Rabbit, "would be this. The best way would be to -steal Baby Roo and hide him, and then when Kanga says, 'Where's Baby -Roo?' we say, '<i>Aha!</i>'"</p> - -<p>"<i>Aha!</i>" said Pooh, practising. "<i>Aha! Aha!</i> ... Of course," he went -on, "we could say 'Aha!' even if we hadn't stolen Baby Roo."</p> - -<p>"Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain."</p> - -<p>"I know," said Pooh humbly.</p> - -<p>"We say '<i>Aha!</i>' so that Kanga knows that <i>we</i> know where Baby Roo is. -'<i>Aha!</i>' means 'We'll tell you where Baby Roo is, if you promise to go -away from the Forest and never come back.' Now don't talk while I -think."</p> - -<p>Pooh went into a corner and tried saying 'Aha!' in that sort of voice. -Sometimes it seemed to him that it did mean what Rabbit said, and -sometimes it seemed to him that it didn't. "I suppose it's just -practice," he thought. "I wonder if Kanga will have to practise too so -as to understand it."</p> - -<p>"There's just one thing," said Piglet, fidgeting a bit. "I was talking -to Christopher Robin, and he said that a Kanga was Generally Regarded as -One of the Fiercer Animals. I am not frightened of Fierce Animals in the -ordinary way, but it is well known that, if One of the Fiercer Animals -is Deprived of Its Young, it becomes as fierce as Two of the Fiercer -Animals. In which case '<i>Aha!</i>' is perhaps a <i>foolish</i> thing to say."</p> - -<p>"Piglet," said Rabbit, taking out a pencil, and licking the end of it, -"you haven't any pluck."</p> - -<p>"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're -only a Very Small Animal."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus69.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said:</p> - -<p>"It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in -the adventure before us."</p> - -<p>Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful, that he forgot to be -frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were -only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an -Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to -begin being useful at once.</p> - -<p>"What about me?" said Pooh sadly. "I suppose <i>I</i> shan't be useful?"</p> - -<p>"Never mind, Pooh," said Piglet comfortingly. "Another time perhaps."</p> - -<p>"Without Pooh," said Rabbit solemnly as he sharpened his pencil, "the -adventure would be impossible."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Piglet, and tried not to look disappointed. But Pooh went -into a corner of the room and said proudly to himself, "Impossible -without Me! <i>That</i> sort of Bear."</p> - -<p>"Now listen all of you," said Rabbit when he had finished writing, and -Pooh and Piglet sat listening very eagerly with their mouths open. This -was what Rabbit read out:</p> - -<p class="ph1">PLAN TO CAPTURE BABY ROO</p> - -<table summary="plan"> -<tr><td>1.</td><td> <i>General Remarks.</i> Kanga runs faster than any of Us, even Me.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>2.</td><td> <i>More General Remarks.</i> Kanga never takes her eye off Baby Roo, except when he's safely buttoned up in her pocket.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>3.</td><td> <i>Therefore.</i> If we are to capture Baby Roo, we must get a Long Start, because Kanga runs faster than any of Us, even Me. -(<i>See</i> 1.)</td></tr> - -<tr><td>4.</td><td> <i>A Thought.</i> If Roo had jumped out of Kanga's pocket and Piglet had jumped in, Kanga wouldn't know the difference, because Piglet is a Very Small Animal.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>5.</td><td> Like Roo.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>6.</td><td> But Kanga would have to be looking the other way first, so as not to see Piglet jumping in.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>7.</td><td> See 2.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>8.</td><td> <i>Another Thought.</i> But if Pooh was talking to her very excitedly, she <i>might</i> look the other way for a moment.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>9.</td><td> And then I could run away with Roo.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>10.</td><td> Quickly.</td></tr> - -<tr><td>11.</td><td> <i>And Kanga wouldn't discover the difference until Afterwards.</i></td></tr> - -</table> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus70.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Well, Rabbit read this out proudly, and for a little while after he had -read it nobody said anything. And then Piglet, who had been opening and -shutting his mouth without making any noise, managed to say very -huskily:</p> - -<p>"And—Afterwards?"</p> - -<p>"How do you mean?"</p> - -<p>"When Kanga <i>does</i> Discover the Difference?"</p> - -<p>"Then we all say '<i>Aha!</i>'"</p> - -<p>"All three of us?"</p> - -<p>"Yes."</p> - -<p>"Oh!"</p> - -<p>"Why, what's the trouble, Piglet?"</p> - -<p>"Nothing," said Piglet, "as long as <i>we all three</i> say it. As long as we -all three say it," said Piglet, "I don't mind," he said, "but I -shouldn't care to say '<i>Aha!</i>' by myself. It wouldn't sound <i>nearly</i> so -well. By the way," he said, "you <i>are</i> quite sure about what you said -about the winter months?"</p> - -<p>"The winter months?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, only being Fierce in the Winter Months."</p> - -<p>"Oh, yes, yes, that's all right. Well, Pooh? You see what you have to -do?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Pooh Bear. "Not yet," he said. "What <i>do</i> I do?"</p> - -<p>"Well, you just have to talk very hard to Kanga so as she doesn't notice -anything."</p> - -<p>"Oh! What about?"</p> - -<p>"Anything you like."</p> - -<p>"You mean like telling her a little bit of poetry or something?"</p> - -<p>"That's it," said Rabbit. "Splendid. Now come along."</p> - -<p>So they all went out to look for Kanga.</p> - -<p>Kanga and Roo were spending a quiet afternoon in a sandy part of the -Forest. Baby Roo was practising very small jumps in the sand, and -falling down mouse-holes and climbing out of them, and Kanga was -fidgeting about and saying "Just one more jump, dear, and then we must -go home." And at that moment who should come stumping up the hill but -Pooh.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus71.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Good afternoon, Kanga."</p> - -<p>"Good afternoon, Pooh."</p> - -<p>"Look at me jumping," squeaked Roo, and fell into another mouse-hole.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Roo, my little fellow!"</p> - -<p>"We were just going home," said Kanga. "Good afternoon, Rabbit. Good -afternoon, Piglet."</p> - -<p>Rabbit and Piglet, who had now come up from the other side of the hill, -said "Good afternoon," and "Hallo, Roo," and Roo asked them to look at -him jumping, so they stayed and looked.</p> - -<p>And Kanga looked too....</p> - -<p>"Oh, Kanga," said Pooh, after Rabbit had winked at him twice, "I don't -know if you are interested in Poetry at all?"</p> - -<p>"Hardly at all," said Kanga.</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Roo, dear, just one more jump and then we must go home."</p> - -<p>There was a short silence while Roo fell down another mouse-hole.</p> - -<p>"Go on," said Rabbit in a loud whisper behind his paw.</p> - -<p>"Talking of Poetry," said Pooh, "I made up a little piece as I was -coming along. It went like this. Er—now let me see——"</p> - -<p>"Fancy!" said Kanga. "Now Roo, dear——"</p> - -<p>"You'll like this piece of poetry," said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>"You'll love it," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"You must listen very carefully," said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>"So as not to miss any of it," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Oh, yes," said Kanga, but she still looked at Baby Roo.</p> - -<p>"<i>How</i> did it go, Pooh?" said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>Pooh gave a little cough and began.</p> - - - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">LINES WRITTEN BY A BEAR OF VERY LITTLE BRAIN</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">On Monday, when the sun is hot</div> - <div class="verse">I wonder to myself a lot:</div> - <div class="verse">"Now is it true, or is it not,</div> - <div class="verse">"That what is which and which is what?"</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">On Tuesday, when it hails and snows,</div> - <div class="verse">The feeling on me grows and grows</div> - <div class="verse">That hardly anybody knows</div> - <div class="verse">If those are these or these are those.</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,</div> - <div class="verse">And I have nothing else to do,</div> - <div class="verse">I sometimes wonder if it's true</div> - <div class="verse">That who is what and what is who.</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">On Thursday, when it starts to freeze</div> - <div class="verse">And hoar-frost twinkles on the trees,</div> - <div class="verse">How very readily one sees</div> - <div class="verse">That these are whose—but whose are these?</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">On Friday——</div> -</div></div> - -<p>"Yes, it is, isn't it?" said Kanga, not waiting to hear what happened on -Friday. "Just one more jump, Roo, dear, and then we really <i>must</i> be -going."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus72.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Rabbit gave Pooh a hurrying-up sort of nudge.</p> - -<p>"Talking of Poetry," said Pooh quickly, "have you ever noticed that tree -right over there?"</p> - -<p>"Where?" said Kanga. "Now, Roo——"</p> - -<p>"Right over there," said Pooh, pointing behind Kanga's back.</p> - -<p>"No," said Kanga. "Now jump in, Roo, dear, and we'll go home."</p> - -<p>"You ought to look at that tree right over there," said Rabbit. "Shall I -lift you in, Roo?" And he picked up Roo in his paws.</p> - -<p>"I can see a bird in it from here," said Pooh. "Or is it a fish?"</p> - -<p>"You ought to see that bird from here," said Rabbit. "Unless it's a -fish."</p> - -<p>"It isn't a fish, it's a bird," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"So it is," said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>"Is it a starling or a blackbird?" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"That's the whole question," said Rabbit. "Is it a blackbird or a -starling?"</p> - -<p>And then at last Kanga did turn her head to look. And the moment that -her head was turned, Rabbit said in a loud voice "In you go, Roo!" and -in jumped Piglet into Kanga's pocket, and off scampered Rabbit, with Roo -in his paws, as fast as he could.</p> - -<p>"Why, where's Rabbit?" said Kanga, turning round again. "Are you all -right, Roo, dear?"</p> - -<p>Piglet made a squeaky Roo-noise from the bottom of Kanga's pocket.</p> - -<p>"Rabbit had to go away," said Pooh. "I think he thought of something he -had to go and see about suddenly."</p> - -<p>"And Piglet?"</p> - -<p>"I think Piglet thought of something at the same time. Suddenly."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus73.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Well, we must be getting home," said Kanga. "Good-bye, Pooh." And in -three large jumps she was gone.</p> - -<p>Pooh looked after her as she went.</p> - -<p>"I wish I could jump like that," he thought. "Some can and some can't. -That's how it is."</p> - -<p>But there were moments when Piglet wished that Kanga couldn't. Often, -when he had had a long walk home through the Forest, he had wished that -he were a bird; but now he thought jerkily to himself at the bottom of -Kanga's pocket,</p> - -<p>this take</p> -<p>"If is shall really to</p> -<p>flying I never it."</p> - -<p>And as he went up in the air he said, "<i>Ooooooo!</i>" and as he came down -he said, "<i>Ow!</i>" And he was saying, "<i>Ooooooo-ow, Ooooooo-ow, -Ooooooo-ow</i>" all the way to Kanga's house.</p> - -<p>Of course as soon as Kanga unbuttoned her pocket, she saw what had -happened. Just for a moment, she thought she was frightened, and then -she knew she wasn't; for she felt quite sure that Christopher Robin -would never let any harm happen to Roo. So she said to herself, "If they -are having a joke with me, I will have a joke with them."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus74.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Now then, Roo, dear," she said, as she took Piglet out of her pocket. -"Bed-time."</p> - -<p>"<i>Aha!</i>" said Piglet, as well as he could after his Terrifying Journey. -But it wasn't a very good "<i>Aha!</i>" and Kanga didn't seem to understand -what it meant.</p> - -<p>"Bath first," said Kanga in a cheerful voice.</p> - -<p>"<i>Aha!</i>" said Piglet again, looking round anxiously for the others. But -the others weren't there. Rabbit was playing with Baby Roo in his own -house, and feeling more fond of him every minute, and Pooh, who had -decided to be a Kanga, was still at the sandy place on the top of the -Forest, practising jumps.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus75.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I am not at all sure," said Kanga in a thoughtful voice, "that it -wouldn't be a good idea to have a <i>cold</i> bath this evening. Would you -like that, Roo, dear?"</p> - -<p>Piglet, who had never been really fond of baths, shuddered a long -indignant shudder, and said in as brave a voice as he could:</p> - -<p>"Kanga, I see that the time has come to spleak painly."</p> - -<p>"Funny little Roo," said Kanga, as she got the bath-water ready.</p> - -<p>"I am <i>not</i> Roo," said Piglet loudly. "I am Piglet!"</p> - -<p>"Yes, dear, yes," said Kanga soothingly. "And imitating Piglet's voice -too! So clever of him," she went on, as she took a large bar of yellow -soap out of the cupboard. "What <i>will</i> he be doing next?"</p> - -<p>"Can't you <i>see</i>?" shouted Piglet. "Haven't you got <i>eyes</i>? <i>Look</i> at -me!"</p> - -<p>"I <i>am</i> looking, Roo, dear," said Kanga rather severely. "And you know -what I told you yesterday about making faces. If you go on making faces -like Piglet's, you will grow up to <i>look</i> like Piglet—and <i>then</i> think -how sorry you will be. Now then, into the bath, and don't let me have to -speak to you about it again."</p> - -<p>Before he knew where he was, Piglet was in the bath, and Kanga was -scrubbing him firmly with a large lathery flannel.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus76.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Ow!" cried Piglet. "Let me out! I'm Piglet!"</p> - -<p>"Don't open the mouth, dear, or the soap goes in," said Kanga. "There! -What did I tell you?"</p> - -<p>"You—you—you did it on purpose," spluttered Piglet, as soon as he -could speak again ... and then accidentally had another mouthful of -lathery flannel.</p> - -<p>"That's right, dear, don't say anything," said Kanga, and in another -minute Piglet was out of the bath, and being rubbed dry with a towel.</p> - -<p>"Now," said Kanga, "there's your medicine, and then bed."</p> - -<p>"W-w-what medicine?" said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"To make you grow big and strong, dear. You don't want to grow up small -and weak like Piglet, do you? Well, then!"</p> - -<p>At that moment there was a knock at the door.</p> - -<p>"Come in," said Kanga, and in came Christopher Robin.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus77.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Christopher Robin, Christopher Robin!" cried Piglet. "Tell Kanga who I -am! She keeps saying I'm Roo. I'm <i>not</i> Roo, am I?"</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin looked at him very carefully, and shook his head.</p> - -<p>"You can't be Roo," he said, "because I've just seen Roo playing in -Rabbit's house."</p> - -<p>"Well!" said Kanga. "Fancy that! Fancy my making a mistake like that."</p> - -<p>"There you are!" said Piglet. "I told you so. I'm Piglet."</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin shook his head again.</p> - -<p>"Oh, you're not Piglet," he said. "I know Piglet well, and he's <i>quite</i> -a different colour."</p> - -<p>Piglet began to say that this was because he had just had a bath, and -then he thought that perhaps he wouldn't say that, and as he opened his -mouth to say something else, Kanga slipped the medicine spoon in, and -then patted him on the back and told him that it was really quite a nice -taste when you got used to it.</p> - -<p>"I knew it wasn't Piglet," said Kanga. "I wonder who it can be."</p> - -<p>"Perhaps it's some relation of Pooh's," said Christopher Robin. "What -about a nephew or an uncle or something?"</p> - -<p>Kanga agreed that this was probably what it was, and said that they -would have to call it by some name.</p> - -<p>"I shall call it Pootel," said Christopher Robin. "Henry Pootel for -short."</p> - -<p>And just when it was decided, Henry Pootel wriggled out of Kanga's arms -and jumped to the ground. To his great joy Christopher Robin had left -the door open. Never had Henry Pootel Piglet run so fast as he ran then, -and he didn't stop running until he had got quite close to his house. -But when he was a hundred yards away he stopped running, and rolled the -rest of the way home, so as to get his own nice comfortable colour -again....</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus78.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>So Kanga and Roo stayed in the Forest. And every Tuesday Roo spent the -day with his great friend Rabbit, and every Tuesday Kanga spent the day -with her great friend Pooh, teaching him to jump, and every Tuesday -Piglet spent the day with his great friend Christopher Robin. So they -were all happy again.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VIII" id="CHAPTER_VIII"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN LEADS AN EXPOTITION TO THE NORTH POLE</h3> - - -<p>One fine day Pooh had stumped up to the top of the Forest to see if -his friend Christopher Robin was interested in Bears at all. At -breakfast that morning (a simple meal of marmalade spread lightly over a -honeycomb or two) he had suddenly thought of a new song. It began like -this:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">"<i>Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear.</i>"</div> -</div></div> - -<p>When he had got as far as this, he scratched his head, and thought to -himself "That's a very good start for a song, but what about the second -line?" He tried singing "Ho," two or three times, but it didn't seem to -help. "Perhaps it would be better," he thought, "if I sang Hi for the -life of a Bear." So he sang it ... but it wasn't. "Very well, then," -he said, "I shall sing that first line twice, and perhaps if I sing it -very quickly, I shall find myself singing the third and fourth lines -before I have time to think of them, and that will be a Good Song. Now -then:"</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!</div> - <div class="verse">I don't much mind if it rains or snows,</div> - <div class="verse">'Cos I've got a lot of honey on my nice new nose,</div> - <div class="verse">I don't much care if it snows or thaws,</div> - <div class="verse">'Cos I've got a lot of honey on my nice clean paws!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Sing Ho! for a Bear!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Sing Ho! for a Pooh!</div> - <div class="verse">And I'll have a little something in an hour or two!</div> -</div></div> - -<p>He was so pleased with this song that he sang it all the way to the top -of the Forest, "and if I go on singing it much longer," he thought, "it -will be time for the little something, and then the last line won't be -true." So he turned it into a hum instead.</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big -Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was -going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of -his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look Ready -for Anything.</p> - -<p>"Good-morning, Christopher Robin," he called out.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Pooh Bear. I can't get this boot on."</p> - -<p>"That's bad," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Do you think you could very kindly lean against me, 'cos I keep pulling -so hard that I fall over backwards."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus79.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Pooh sat down, dug his feet into the ground, and pushed hard against -Christopher Robin's back, and Christopher Robin pushed hard against his, -and pulled and pulled at his boot until he had got it on.</p> - -<p>"And that's that," said Pooh. "What do we do next?"</p> - -<p>"We are all going on an Expedition," said Christopher Robin, as he got -up and brushed himself. "Thank you, Pooh."</p> - -<p>"Going on an Expotition?" said Pooh eagerly. "I don't think I've ever -been on one of those. Where are we going to on this Expotition?"</p> - -<p>"Expedition, silly old Bear. It's got an 'x' in it."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh. "I know." But he didn't really.</p> - -<p>"We're going to discover the North Pole."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh again. "What <i>is</i> the North Pole?" he asked.</p> - -<p>"It's just a thing you discover," said Christopher Robin carelessly, not -being quite sure himself.</p> - -<p>"Oh! I see," said Pooh. "Are bears any good at discovering it?"</p> - -<p>"Of course they are. And Rabbit and Kanga and all of you. It's an -Expedition. That's what an Expedition means. A long line of everybody. -You'd better tell the others to get ready, while I see if my gun's all -right. And we must all bring Provisions."</p> - -<p>"Bring what?"</p> - -<p>"Things to eat."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh happily. "I thought you said Provisions. I'll go and -tell them." And he stumped off.</p> - -<p>The first person he met was Rabbit.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus80.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?"</p> - -<p>"Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens."</p> - -<p>"I've got a message for you."</p> - -<p>"I'll give it to him."</p> - -<p>"We're all going on an Expotition with Christopher Robin!"</p> - -<p>"What is it when we're on it?"</p> - -<p>"A sort of boat, I think," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Oh! that sort."</p> - -<p>"Yes. And we're going to discover a Pole or something. Or was it a Mole? -Anyhow we're going to discover it."</p> - -<p>"We are, are we?" said Rabbit.</p> - -<p>"Yes. And we've got to bring Pro—things to eat with us. In case we want -to eat them. Now I'm going down to Piglet's. Tell Kanga, will you?"</p> - -<p>He left Rabbit and hurried down to Piglet's house. The Piglet was -sitting on the ground at the door of his house blowing happily at a -dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, -sometime or never. He had just discovered that it would be never, and -was trying to remember what "<i>it</i>" was, and hoping it wasn't anything -nice, when Pooh came up.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus81.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Oh! Piglet," said Pooh excitedly, "we're going on an Expotition, all of -us, with things to eat. To discover something."</p> - -<p>"To discover what?" said Piglet anxiously.</p> - -<p>"Oh! just something."</p> - -<p>"Nothing fierce?"</p> - -<p>"Christopher Robin didn't say anything about fierce. He just said it had -an 'x'."</p> - -<p>"It isn't their necks I mind," said Piglet earnestly. "It's their teeth. -But if Christopher Robin is coming I don't mind anything."</p> - -<p>In a little while they were all ready at the top of the Forest, and the -Expotition started. First came Christopher Robin and Rabbit, then Piglet -and Pooh; then Kanga, with Roo in her pocket, and Owl; then Eeyore; and, -at the end, in a long line, all Rabbit's friends-and-relations.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus82.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I didn't ask them," explained Rabbit carelessly. "They just came. They -always do. They can march at the end, after Eeyore."</p> - -<p>"What I say," said Eeyore, "is that it's unsettling. I didn't want to -come on this Expo—what Pooh said. I only came to oblige. But here I -am; and if I am the end of the Expo—what we're talking about—then -let me <i>be</i> the end. But if, every time I want to sit down for a -little rest, I have to brush away half a dozen of Rabbit's smaller -friends-and-relations first, then this isn't an Expo—whatever it -is—at all, it's simply a Confused Noise. That's what <i>I</i> say."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus83.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I see what Eeyore means," said Owl. "If you ask me——"</p> - -<p>"I'm not asking anybody," said Eeyore. "I'm just telling everybody. We -can look for the North Pole, or we can play 'Here we go gathering Nuts -and May' with the end part of an ant's nest. It's all the same to me."</p> - -<p>There was a shout from the top of the line.</p> - -<p>"Come on!" called Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"Come on!" called Pooh and Piglet</p> - -<p>"Come on!" called Owl.</p> - -<p>"We're starting," said Rabbit. "I must go." And he hurried off to the -front of the Expotition with Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"All right," said Eeyore. "We're going. Only Don't Blame Me."</p> - -<p>So off they all went to discover the Pole. And as they walked, they -chattered to each other of this and that, all except Pooh, who was -making up a song.</p> - -<p>"This is the first verse," he said to Piglet, when he was ready with it.</p> - -<p>"First verse of what?"</p> - -<p>"My song."</p> - -<p>"What song?"</p> - -<p>"This one."</p> - -<p>"Which one?"</p> - -<p>"Well, if you listen, Piglet, you'll hear it."</p> - -<p>"How do you know I'm not listening?"</p> - -<p>Pooh couldn't answer that one, so he began to sing.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">They all went off to discover the Pole,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Owl and Piglet and Rabbit and all;</div> - <div class="verse">It's a Thing you Discover, as I've been tole</div> - <div class="verse indent2">By Owl and Piglet and Rabbit and all.</div> - <div class="verse">Eeyore, Christopher Robin and Pooh</div> - <div class="verse">And Rabbit's relations all went too—</div> - <div class="verse">And where the Pole was none of them knew....</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Sing Hey! for Owl and Rabbit and all!</div> -</div></div> - -<p>"Hush!" said Christopher Robin turning round to Pooh, "we're just coming -to a Dangerous Place."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus84.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Hush!" said Pooh turning round quickly to Piglet.</p> - -<p>"Hush!" said Piglet to Kanga.</p> - -<p>"Hush!" said Kanga to Owl, while Roo said "Hush!" several times to -himself very quietly.</p> - -<p>"Hush!" said Owl to Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"<i>Hush!</i>" said Eeyore in a terrible voice to all Rabbit's -friends-and-relations, and "Hush!" they said hastily to each other all -down the line, until it got to the last one of all. And the last and -smallest friend-and-relation was so upset to find that the whole -Expotition was saying "Hush!" to <i>him</i>, that he buried himself head -downwards in a crack in the ground, and stayed there for two days until -the danger was over, and then went home in a great hurry, and lived -quietly with his Aunt ever-afterwards. His name was Alexander Beetle.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus85.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>They had come to a stream which twisted and tumbled between high rocky -banks, and Christopher Robin saw at once how dangerous it was.</p> - -<p>"It's just the place," he explained, "for an Ambush."</p> - -<p>"What sort of bush?" whispered Pooh to Piglet. "A gorse-bush?"</p> - -<p>"My dear Pooh," said Owl in his superior way, "don't you know what an -Ambush is?"</p> - -<p>"Owl," said Piglet, looking round at him severely, "Pooh's whisper was a -perfectly private whisper, and there was no need——"</p> - -<p>"An Ambush," said Owl, "is a sort of Surprise."</p> - -<p>"So is a gorse-bush sometimes," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"An Ambush, as I was about to explain to Pooh," said Piglet, "is a sort -of Surprise."</p> - -<p>"If people jump out at you suddenly, that's an Ambush," said Owl.</p> - -<p>"It's an Ambush, Pooh, when people jump at you suddenly," explained -Piglet.</p> - -<p>Pooh, who now knew what an Ambush was, said that a gorse-bush had sprung -at him suddenly one day when he fell off a tree, and he had taken six -days to get all the prickles out of himself.</p> - -<p>"We are not <i>talking</i> about gorse-bushes," said Owl a little crossly.</p> - -<p>"I am," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>They were climbing very cautiously up the stream now, going from rock to -rock, and after they had gone a little way they came to a place where -the banks widened out at each side, so that on each side of the water -there was a level strip of grass on which they could sit down and rest. -As soon as he saw this, Christopher Robin called "Halt!" and they all -sat down and rested.</p> - -<p>"I think," said Christopher Robin, "that we ought to eat all our -Provisions now, so that we shan't have so much to carry."</p> - -<p>"Eat all our what?" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"All that we've brought," said Piglet, getting to work.</p> - -<p>"That's a good idea," said Pooh, and he got to work too.</p> - -<p>"Have you all got something?" asked Christopher Robin with his mouth -full.</p> - -<p>"All except me," said Eeyore. "As Usual." He looked round at them in his -melancholy way. "I suppose none of you are sitting on a thistle by any -chance?"</p> - -<p>"I believe I am," said Pooh. "Ow!" He got up, and looked behind him. -"Yes, I was. I thought so."</p> - -<p>"Thank you, Pooh. If you've quite finished with it." He moved across to -Pooh's place, and began to eat.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus86.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"It don't do them any Good, you know, sitting on them," he went on, as -he looked up munching. "Takes all the Life out of them. Remember that -another time, all of you. A little Consideration, a little Thought for -Others, makes all the difference."</p> - -<p>As soon as he had finished his lunch Christopher Robin whispered to -Rabbit, and Rabbit said "Yes, yes, of course," and they walked a little -way up the stream together.</p> - -<p>"I didn't want the others to hear," said Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"Quite so," said Rabbit, looking important.</p> - -<p>"It's—I wondered—It's only—Rabbit, I suppose <i>you</i> don't know, What -does the North Pole <i>look</i> like?"</p> - -<p>"Well," said Rabbit, stroking his whiskers. "Now you're asking me."</p> - -<p>"I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten," said Christopher Robin -carelessly.</p> - -<p>"It's a funny thing," said Rabbit, "but I've sort of forgotten too, -although I did know <i>once</i>."</p> - -<p>"I suppose it's just a pole stuck in the ground?"</p> - -<p>"Sure to be a pole," said Rabbit, "because of calling it a pole, and if -it's a pole, well, I should think it would be sticking in the ground, -shouldn't you, because there'd be nowhere else to stick it."</p> - -<p>"Yes, that's what I thought."</p> - -<p>"The only thing," said Rabbit, "is, <i>where is it sticking</i>?"</p> - -<p>"That's what we're looking for," said Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>They went back to the others. Piglet was lying on his back, sleeping -peacefully. Roo was washing his face and paws in the stream, while Kanga -explained to everybody proudly that this was the first time he had ever -washed his face himself, and Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting -Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopædia and Rhododendron to which -Kanga wasn't listening.</p> - -<p>"I don't hold with all this washing," grumbled Eeyore. "This modern -Behind-the-ears nonsense. What do <i>you</i> think, Pooh?"</p> - -<p>"Well," said Pooh, "<i>I</i> think——"</p> - -<p>But we shall never know what Pooh thought, for there came a sudden -squeak from Roo, a splash, and a loud cry of alarm from Kanga.</p> - -<p>"So much for <i>washing</i>," said Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"Roo's fallen in!" cried Rabbit, and he and Christopher Robin came -rushing down to the rescue.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus87.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Look at me swimming!" squeaked Roo from the middle of his pool, and was -hurried down a waterfall into the next pool.</p> - -<p>"Are you all right, Roo dear?" called Kanga anxiously.</p> - -<p>"Yes!" said Roo. "Look at me sw——" and down he went over the next -waterfall into another pool.</p> - -<p>Everybody was doing something to help. Piglet, wide awake suddenly, was -jumping up and down and making "Oo, I say" noises; Owl was explaining -that in a case of Sudden and Temporary Immersion the Important Thing was -to keep the Head Above Water; Kanga was jumping along the bank, saying -"Are you <i>sure</i> you're all right, Roo dear?" to which Roo, from whatever -pool he was in at the moment, was answering "Look at me swimming!" -Eeyore had turned round and hung his tail over the first pool into which -Roo fell, and with his back to the accident was grumbling quietly to -himself, and saying, "All this washing; but catch on to my tail, little -Roo, and you'll be all right"; and, Christopher Robin and Rabbit came -hurrying past Eeyore, and were calling out to the others in front of -them.</p> - -<p>"All right, Roo, I'm coming," called Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"Get something across the stream lower down, some of you fellows," -called Rabbit.</p> - -<p>But Pooh was getting something. Two pools below Roo he was standing with -a long pole in his paws, and Kanga came up and took one end of it, and -between them they held it across the lower part of the pool; and Roo, -still bubbling proudly, "Look at me swimming," drifted up against it, -and climbed out.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus88.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Did you see me swimming?" squeaked Roo excitedly, while Kanga scolded -him and rubbed him down. "Pooh, did you see me swimming? That's called -swimming, what I was doing. Rabbit, did you see what I was doing? -Swimming. Hallo, Piglet! I say, Piglet! What do you think I was doing! -Swimming! Christopher Robin, did you see me——"</p> - -<p>But Christopher Robin wasn't listening. He was looking at Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Pooh," he said, "where did you find that pole?"</p> - -<p>Pooh looked at the pole in his hands.</p> - -<p>"I just found it," he said. "I thought it ought to be useful. I just -picked it up."</p> - -<p>"Pooh," said Christopher Robin solemnly, "the Expedition is over. You -have found the North Pole!"</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>Eeyore was sitting with his tail in the water when they all got back to -him.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus89.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Tell Roo to be quick, somebody," he said. "My tail's getting cold. I -don't want to mention it, but I just mention it. I don't want to -complain but there it is. My tail's cold."</p> - -<p>"Here I am!" squeaked Roo.</p> - -<p>"Oh, there you are."</p> - -<p>"Did you see me swimming?"</p> - -<p>Eeyore took his tail out of the water, and swished it from side to side.</p> - -<p>"As I expected," he said. "Lost all feeling. Numbed it. That's what it's -done. Numbed it. Well, as long as nobody minds, I suppose it's all -right."</p> - -<p>"Poor old Eeyore. I'll dry it for you," said Christopher Robin, and he -took out his handkerchief and rubbed it up.</p> - -<p>"Thank you, Christopher Robin. You're the only one who seems to -understand about tails. They don't think—that's what the matter with -some of these others. They've no imagination. A tail isn't a tail to -<i>them</i>, it's just a Little Bit Extra at the back."</p> - -<p>"Never mind, Eeyore," said Christopher Robin, rubbing his hardest. "Is -<i>that</i> better?"</p> - -<p>"It's feeling more like a tail perhaps. It Belongs again, if you know -what I mean."</p> - -<p>"Hullo, Eeyore," said Pooh, coming up to them with his pole.</p> - -<p>"Hullo, Pooh. Thank you for asking, but I shall be able to use it again -in a day or two."</p> - -<p>"Use what?" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"What we are talking about."</p> - -<p>"I wasn't talking about anything," said Pooh, looking puzzled.</p> - -<p>"My mistake again. I thought you were saying how sorry you were about my -tail, being all numb, and could you do anything to help?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Pooh. "That wasn't me," he said. He thought for a little and -then suggested helpfully, "Perhaps it was somebody else."</p> - -<p>"Well, thank him for me when you see him."</p> - -<p>Pooh looked anxiously at Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"Pooh's found the North Pole," said Christopher Robin. "Isn't that -lovely?"</p> - -<p>Pooh looked modestly down.</p> - -<p>"Is that it?" said Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"Is that what we were looking for?"</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Eeyore. "Well, anyhow—it didn't rain," he said.</p> - -<p>They stuck the pole in the ground, and Christopher Robin tied a message -on to it.</p> - -<p class="ph1">NORTH POLE</p> - -<p class="ph1">DISCOVERED BY POOH</p> - -<p class="ph1">POOH FOUND IT.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus90.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Then they all went home again. And I think, but I am not quite sure, -that Roo had a hot bath and went straight to bed. But Pooh went back to -his own house, and feeling very proud of what he had done, had a little -something to revive himself.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IX" id="CHAPTER_IX"></a>CHAPTER IX</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH PIGLET IS ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY WATER</h3> - - -<p>It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet told himself that never -in all his life, and <i>he</i> was goodness knows <i>how</i> old—three, was it, -or four?—never had he seen so much rain. Days and days and days.</p> - -<p>"If only," he thought, as he looked out of the window, "I had been in -Pooh's house, or Christopher Robin's house, or Rabbit's house when it -began to rain, then I should have had Company all this time, instead of -being here all alone, with nothing to do except wonder when it will -stop." And he imagined himself with Pooh, saying, "Did you ever see such -rain, Pooh?" and Pooh saying, "Isn't it <i>awful</i>, Piglet?" and Piglet -saying, "I wonder how it is over Christopher Robin's way" and Pooh -saying, "I should think poor old Rabbit is about flooded out by this -time." It would have been jolly to talk like this, and really, it wasn't -much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn't share -them with somebody.</p> - -<p>For it was rather exciting. The little dry ditches in which Piglet had -nosed about so often had become streams, the little streams across which -he had splashed were rivers, and the river, between whose steep banks -they had played so happily, had sprawled out of its own bed and was -taking up so much room everywhere, that Piglet was beginning to wonder -whether it would be coming into <i>his</i> bed soon.</p> - -<p>"It's a little Anxious," he said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal -Entirely Surrounded by Water. Christopher Robin and Pooh could escape by -Climbing Trees, and Kanga could escape by Jumping, and Rabbit could -escape by Burrowing, and Owl could escape by Flying, and Eeyore could -escape by—by Making a Loud Noise Until Rescued, and here am I, -surrounded by water and I can't do <i>anything</i>."</p> - -<p>It went on raining, and every day the water got a little higher, until -now it was nearly up to Piglet's window ... and still he hadn't done -anything.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus91.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"There's Pooh," he thought to himself. "Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he -never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. -There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would -know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He -hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. -There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so -anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking -about It. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow -that he wouldn't mind about this. But I wonder what Christopher Robin -would do?"</p> - -<p>Then suddenly he remembered a story which Christopher Robin had told him -about a man on a desert island who had written something in a bottle and -thrown it in the sea; and Piglet thought that if he wrote something in a -bottle and threw it in the water, perhaps somebody would come and rescue -<i>him</i>!</p> - -<p>He left the window and began to search his house, all of it that wasn't -under water, and at last he found a pencil and a small piece of dry -paper, and a bottle with a cork to it. And he wrote on one side of the -paper:</p> - -<p class="ph1">HELP!<br /> -PIGLET (ME)</p> - -<p>and on the other side:</p> - -<p class="ph1">IT'S ME PIGLET, HELP HELP.</p> - -<p>Then he put the paper in the bottle, and he corked the bottle up as -tightly as he could, and he leant out of his window as far as he could -lean without falling in, and he threw the bottle as far as he could -throw—<i>splash!</i>—and in a little while it bobbed up again on the water; -and he watched it floating slowly away in the distance, until his eyes -ached with looking, and sometimes he thought it was the bottle, and -sometimes he thought it was just a ripple on the water which he was -following, and then suddenly he knew that he would never see it again -and that he had done all that he could do to save himself.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus92.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"So now," he thought, "somebody else will have to do something, and I -hope they will do it soon, because if they don't I shall have to swim, -which I can't, so I hope they do it soon." And then he gave a very long -sigh and said, "I wish Pooh were here. It's so much more friendly with -two."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>When the rain began Pooh was asleep. It rained, and it rained, and it -rained, and he slept and he slept and he slept. He had had a tiring day. -You remember how he discovered the North Pole; well, he was so proud of -this that he asked Christopher Robin if there were any other Poles such -as a Bear of Little Brain might discover.</p> - -<p>"There's a South Pole," said Christopher Robin, "and I expect there's an -East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them."</p> - -<p>Pooh was very excited when he heard this, and suggested that they should -have an Expotition to discover the East Pole, but Christopher Robin had -thought of something else to do with Kanga; so Pooh went out to discover -the East Pole by himself. Whether he discovered it or not, I forget; but -he was so tired when he got home that, in the very middle of his supper, -after he had been eating for little more than half-an-hour, he fell fast -asleep in his chair, and slept and slept and slept.</p> - -<p>Then suddenly he was dreaming. He was at the East Pole, and it was a -very cold pole with the coldest sort of snow and ice all over it. He had -found a bee-hive to sleep in, but there wasn't room for his legs, so he -had left them outside. And Wild Woozles, such as inhabit the East Pole, -came and nibbled all the fur off his legs to make nests for their Young. -And the more they nibbled, the colder his legs got, until suddenly he -woke up with an <i>Ow!</i>—and there he was, sitting in his chair with his -feet in the water, and water all round him!</p> - -<p>He splashed to his door and looked out.. .</p> - -<p>"This is Serious," said Pooh. "I must have an Escape."</p> - -<p>So he took his largest pot of honey and escaped with it to a broad -branch of his tree, well above the water, and then he climbed down again -and escaped with another pot ... and when the whole Escape was -finished, there was Pooh sitting on his branch, dangling his legs, and -there, beside him, were ten pots of honey....</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus93.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Two days later, there was Pooh, sitting on his branch, dangling his -legs, and there, beside him, were four pots of honey....</p> - -<p>Three days later, there was Pooh, sitting on his branch, dangling his -legs, and there beside him, was one pot of honey.</p> - -<p>Four days later, there was Pooh ...</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus94.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>And it was on the morning of the fourth day that Piglet's bottle came -floating past him, and with one loud cry of "Honey!" Pooh plunged into -the water, seized the bottle, and struggled back to his tree again.</p> - -<p>"Bother!" said Pooh, as he opened it. "All that wet for nothing. What's -that bit of paper doing?"</p> - -<p>He took it out and looked at it.</p> - -<p>"It's a Missage," he said to himself, "that's what it is. And that -letter is a 'P,' and so is that, and so is that, and 'P' means 'Pooh,' -so it's a very important Missage to me, and I can't read it. I must find -Christopher Robin or Owl or Piglet, one of those Clever Readers who can -read things, and they will tell me what this missage means. Only I can't -swim. Bother!"</p> - -<p>Then he had an idea, and I think that for a Bear of Very Little Brain, -it was a good idea. He said to himself:</p> - -<p>"If a bottle can float, then a jar can float, and if a jar floats, I can -sit on the top of it, if it's a very big jar."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus95.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>So he took his biggest jar, and corked it up. "All boats have to have a -name," he said, "so I shall call mine <i>The Floating Bear</i>." And with -these words he dropped his boat into the water and jumped in after it.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus96.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>For a little while Pooh and <i>The Floating Bear</i> were uncertain as to -which of them was meant to be on the top, but after trying one or two -different positions, they settled down with <i>The Floating Bear</i> -underneath and Pooh triumphantly astride it, paddling vigorously with -his feet.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus97.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Christopher Robin lived at the very top of the Forest. It rained, and it -rained, and it rained, but the water couldn't come up to <i>his</i> house. It -was rather jolly to look down into the valleys and see the water all -round him, but it rained so hard that he stayed indoors most of the -time, and thought about things. Every morning he went out with his -umbrella and put a stick in the place where the water came up to, and -every next morning he went out and couldn't see his stick any more, so -he put another stick in the place where the water came up to, and then -he walked home again, and each morning he had a shorter way to walk than -he had had the morning before. On the morning of the fifth day he saw -the water all round him, and knew that for the first time in his life he -was on a real island. Which was very exciting.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus98.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>It was on this morning that Owl came flying over the water to say "How -do you do," to his friend Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"I say, Owl," said Christopher Robin, "isn't this fun? I'm on an -island!"</p> - -<p>"The atmospheric conditions have been very unfavourable lately," said -Owl.</p> - -<p>"The what?"</p> - -<p>"It has been raining," explained Owl.</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Christopher Robin. "It has."</p> - -<p>"The flood-level has reached an unprecedented height."</p> - -<p>"The who?"</p> - -<p>"There's a lot of water about," explained Owl.</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Christopher Robin, "there is."</p> - -<p>"However, the prospects are rapidly becoming more favourable. At any -moment——"</p> - -<p>"Have you seen Pooh?"</p> - -<p>"No. At any moment——"</p> - -<p>"I hope he's all right," said Christopher Robin. "I've been wondering -about him. I expect Piglet's with him. Do you think they're all right, -Owl?"</p> - -<p>"I expect so. You see, at any moment——"</p> - -<p>"Do go and see, Owl. Because Pooh hasn't got very much brain, and he -might do something silly, and I do love him so, Owl. Do you see, Owl?"</p> - -<p>"That's all right," said Owl. "I'll go. Back directly." And he flew off.</p> - -<p>In a little while he was back again.</p> - -<p>"Pooh isn't there," he said.</p> - -<p>"Not there?"</p> - -<p>"Has <i>been</i> there. He's been sitting on a branch of his tree outside his -house with nine pots of honey. But he isn't there now."</p> - -<p>"Oh, Pooh!" cried Christopher Robin. "Where <i>are</i> you?"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus99.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Here I am," said a growly voice behind him.</p> - -<p>"Pooh!"</p> - -<p>They rushed into each other's arms.</p> - -<p>"How did you get here, Pooh?" asked Christopher Robin, when he was ready -to talk again.</p> - -<p>"On my boat," said Pooh proudly. "I had a Very Important Missage sent me -in a bottle, and owing to having got some water in my eyes, I couldn't -read it, so I brought it to you. On my boat."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus100.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>With these proud words he gave Christopher Robin the missage.</p> - -<p>"But it's from Piglet!" cried Christopher Robin when he had read it.</p> - -<p>"Isn't there anything about Pooh in it?" asked Bear, looking over his -shoulder.</p> - -<p>Christopher Robin read the message aloud.</p> - -<p>"Oh, are those 'P's' piglets? I thought they were poohs."</p> - -<p>"We must rescue him at once! I thought he was with <i>you</i>, Pooh. Owl, -could you rescue him on your back?"</p> - -<p>"I don't think so," said Owl, after grave thought. "It is doubtful if -the necessary dorsal muscles——"</p> - -<p>"Then would you fly to him at <i>once</i> and say that Rescue is Coming? And -Pooh and I will think of a Rescue and come as quick as ever we can. Oh, -don't <i>talk</i>, Owl, go on quick!" And, still thinking of something to -say, Owl flew off.</p> - -<p>"Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?"</p> - -<p>"I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the -island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a -Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends."</p> - -<p>"Depends on what?"</p> - -<p>"On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it."</p> - -<p>"Oh! Well, where is it?"</p> - -<p>"There!" said Pooh, pointing proudly to <i>The Floating Bear</i>.</p> - -<p>It wasn't what Christopher Robin expected, and the more he looked at it, -the more he thought what a Brave and Clever Bear Pooh was, and the more -Christopher Robin thought this, the more Pooh looked modestly down his -nose and tried to pretend he wasn't.</p> - -<p>"But it's too small for two of us," said Christopher Robin sadly.</p> - -<p>"Three of us with Piglet."</p> - -<p>"That makes it smaller still. Oh, Pooh Bear, what shall we do?"</p> - -<p>And then this Bear, Pooh Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, F.O.P. (Friend of -Piglet's), R.C. (Rabbit's Companion), P.D. (Pole Discoverer), E.C. and -T.F. (Eeyore's Comforter and Tail-finder)—in fact, Pooh himself—said -something so clever that Christopher Robin could only look at him with -mouth open and eyes staring, wondering if this was really the Bear of -Very Little Brain whom he had known and loved so long.</p> - -<p>"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"?"</p> - -<p>"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"? ?"</p> - -<p>"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"!!!!!!"</p> - -<p>For suddenly Christopher Robin saw that they might. He opened his -umbrella and put it point downwards in the water. It floated but -wobbled. Pooh got in. He was just beginning to say that it was all right -now, when he found that it wasn't, so after a short drink which he -didn't really want he waded back to Christopher Robin. Then they both -got in together, and it wobbled no longer.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus101.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"I shall call this boat <i>The Brain of Pooh</i>," said Christopher Robin, -and <i>The Brain of Pooh</i> set sail forthwith in a south-westerly -direction, revolving gracefully.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus102.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>You can imagine Piglet's joy when at last the ship came in sight of him. -In after-years he liked to think that he had been in Very Great Danger -during the Terrible Flood, but the only danger he had really been in was -in the last half-hour of his imprisonment, when Owl, who had just flown -up, sat on a branch of his tree to comfort him, and told him a very long -story about an aunt who had once laid a seagull's egg by mistake, and -the story went on and on, rather like this sentence, until Piglet who -was listening out of his window without much hope, went to sleep quietly -and naturally, slipping slowly out of the window towards the water until -he was only hanging on by his toes, at which moment luckily, a sudden -loud squawk from Owl, which was really part of the story, being what his -aunt said, woke the Piglet up and just gave him time to jerk himself -back into safety and say, "How interesting, and did she?" when—well, -you can imagine his joy when at last he saw the good ship, <i>Brain of -Pooh</i> (<i>Captain</i>, C. Robin; <i>1st Mate</i>, P. Bear) coming over the sea to -rescue him. Christopher Robin and Pooh again....</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus103.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>And that is really the end of the story, and I am very tired after that -last sentence, I think I shall stop there.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_X" id="CHAPTER_X"></a>CHAPTER X</h2> - -<h3>IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN GIVES POOH A PARTY, AND WE SAY GOOD-BYE</h3> - - -<p>One day when the sun had come back over the Forest, bringing with it -the scent of may, and all the streams of the Forest were tinkling -happily to find themselves their own pretty shape again, and the little -pools lay dreaming of the life they had seen and the big things they had -done, and in the warmth and quiet of the Forest the cuckoo was trying -over his voice carefully and listening to see if he liked it, and -wood-pigeons were complaining gently to themselves in their lazy -comfortable way that it was the other fellow's fault, but it didn't -matter very much; on such a day as this Christopher Robin whistled in a -special way he had, and Owl came flying out of the Hundred Acre Wood to -see what was wanted.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus104.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Owl," said Christopher Robin, "I am going to give a party."</p> - -<p>"You are, are you?" said Owl.</p> - -<p>"And it's to be a special sort of party, because it's because of what -Pooh did when he did what he did to save Piglet from the flood."</p> - -<p>"Oh, that's what it's for, is it?" said Owl.</p> - -<p>"Yes, so will you tell Pooh as quickly as you can, and all the others, -because it will be to-morrow."</p> - -<p>"Oh, it will, will it?" said Owl, still being as helpful as possible.</p> - -<p>"So will you go and tell them, Owl?"</p> - -<p>Owl tried to think of something very wise to say, but couldn't, so he -flew off to tell the others. And the first person he told was Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Pooh," he said, "Christopher Robin is giving a party."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh. And then seeing that Owl expected him to say something -else, he said "Will there be those little cake things with pink sugar -icing?"</p> - -<p>Owl felt that it was rather beneath him to talk about little cake things -with pink sugar icing, so he told Pooh exactly what Christopher Robin -had said, and flew off to Eeyore.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus105.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"A party for Me?" thought Pooh to himself. "How grand!" And he began to -wonder if all the other animals would know that it was a special Pooh -Party, and if Christopher Robin had told them about <i>The Floating Bear</i> -and the <i>Brain of Pooh</i> and all the wonderful ships he had invented and -sailed on, and he began to think how awful it would be if everybody had -forgotten about it, and nobody quite knew what the party was for; and -the more he thought like this, the more the party got muddled in his -mind, like a dream when nothing goes right. And the dream began to sing -itself over in his head until it became a sort of song. It was an</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">ANXIOUS POOH SONG.</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">3 Cheers for Pooh!</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>For Who?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">For Pooh—</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>Why what did he do?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">I thought you knew;</div> - <div class="verse">He saved his friend from a wetting!</div> - <div class="verse">3 Cheers for Bear!</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>For where?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">For Bear—</div> - <div class="verse">He couldn't swim,</div> - <div class="verse">But he rescued him!</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>He rescued who?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">Oh, listen, do!</div> - <div class="verse">I am talking of Pooh—</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>Of who?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">Of Pooh!</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>I'm sorry I keep forgetting</i>).</div> - <div class="verse">Well, Pooh was a Bear of Enormous Brain</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>Just say it again!</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">Of enormous brain—</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>Of enormous what?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">Well, he ate a lot,</div> - <div class="verse">And I don't know if he could swim or not,</div> - <div class="verse">But he managed to float</div> - <div class="verse">On a sort of boat</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>On a sort of what?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">Well, a sort of pot—</div> - <div class="verse">So now let's give him three hearty cheers</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>So now let's give him three hearty whiches?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">And hope he'll be with us for years and years,</div> - <div class="verse">And grow in health and wisdom and riches!</div> - <div class="verse">3 Cheers for Pooh!</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>For who?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">For Pooh—</div> - <div class="verse">3 Cheers for Bear!</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>For where?</i>)</div> - <div class="verse">For Bear—</div> - <div class="verse">3 Cheers for the wonderful Winnie-the-Pooh!</div> - <div class="verse">(<i>Just tell me, somebody</i>—WHAT DID HE DO?)</div> -</div></div> - -<p>While this was going on inside him, Owl was talking to Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"Eeyore," said Owl, "Christopher Robin is giving a party."</p> - -<p>"Very interesting," said Eeyore. "I suppose they will be sending me down -the odd bits which got trodden on. Kind and Thoughtful. Not at all, -don't mention it."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus106.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"There is an Invitation for you."</p> - -<p>"What's that like?"</p> - -<p>"An Invitation!"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus107.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Yes, I heard you. Who dropped it?"</p> - -<p>"This isn't anything to eat, it's asking you to the party. To-morrow."</p> - -<p>Eeyore shook his head slowly.</p> - -<p>"You mean Piglet. The little fellow with the excited ears. That's -Piglet. I'll tell him."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus108.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"No, no!" said Owl, getting quite fussy. "It's you!"</p> - -<p>"Are you sure?"</p> - -<p>"Of course I'm sure. Christopher Robin said 'All of them! Tell all of -them.'"</p> - -<p>"All of them, except Eeyore?"</p> - -<p>"All of them," said Owl sulkily.</p> - -<p>"Ah!" said Eeyore. "A mistake, no doubt, but still, I shall come. Only -don't blame <i>me</i> if it rains."</p> - -<p>But it didn't rain. Christopher Robin had made a long table out of some -long pieces of wood, and they all sat round it. Christopher Robin sat at -one end, and Pooh sat at the other, and between them on one side were -Owl and Eeyore and Piglet, and between them on the other side were -Rabbit, and Roo and Kanga. And all Rabbit's friends and relations spread -themselves about on the grass, and waited hopefully in case anybody -spoke to them, or dropped anything, or asked them the time.</p> - -<p>It was the first party to which Roo had ever been, and he was very -excited. As soon as ever they had sat down he began to talk.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Pooh!" he squeaked.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Roo!" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>Roo jumped up and down in his seat for a little while and then began -again.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Piglet!" he squeaked.</p> - -<p>Piglet waved a paw at him, being too busy to say anything.</p> - -<p>"Hallo, Eeyore!" said Roo.</p> - -<p>Eeyore nodded gloomily at him. "It will rain soon, you see if it -doesn't," he said.</p> - -<p>Roo looked to see if it didn't, and it didn't, so he said "Hallo, -Owl!"—and Owl said "Hallo, my little fellow," in a kindly way, and went -on telling Christopher Robin about an accident which had nearly happened -to a friend of his whom Christopher Robin didn't know, and 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.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus109.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>When they had all nearly eaten enough, Christopher Robin banged on the -table with his spoon, and everybody stopped talking and was very silent, -except Roo who was just finishing a loud attack of hiccups and trying to -look as if it was one of Rabbit's relations.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus110.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"This party," said Christopher Robin, "is a party because of what -someone did, and we all know who it was, and it's his party, because of -what he did, and I've got a present for him and here it is." Then he -felt about a little and whispered, "Where is it?"</p> - -<p>While he was looking, Eeyore coughed in an impressive way and began to -speak.</p> - -<p>"Friends," he said, "including oddments, it is a great pleasure, or -perhaps I had better say it has been a pleasure so far, to see you at my -party. What I did was nothing. Any of you—except Rabbit and Owl and -Kanga—would have done the same. Oh, and Pooh. My remarks do not, of -course, apply to Piglet and Roo, because they are too small. Any of you -would have done the same. But it just happened to be Me. It was not, I -need hardly say, with an idea of getting what Christopher Robin is -looking for now"—and he put his front leg to his mouth and said in a -loud whisper, "Try under the table"—"that I did what I did—but because -I feel that we should all do what we can to help. I feel that we should -all——"</p> - -<p>"H—hup!" said Roo accidentally.</p> - -<p>"Roo, dear!" said Kanga reproachfully.</p> - -<p>"Was it me?" asked Roo, a little surprised.</p> - -<p>"What's Eeyore talking about?" Piglet whispered to Pooh.</p> - -<p>"I don't know," said Pooh rather dolefully.</p> - -<p>"I thought this was <i>your</i> party."</p> - -<p>"I thought it was <i>once</i>. But I suppose it isn't."</p> - -<p>"I'd sooner it was yours than Eeyore's," said Piglet.</p> - -<p>"So would I," said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"H—hup!" said Roo again.</p> - -<p>"AS—I—WAS—SAYING," said Eeyore loudly and sternly, "as I was saying -when I was interrupted by various Loud Sounds, I feel that——"</p> - -<p>"Here it is!" cried Christopher Robin excitedly. "Pass it down to silly -old Pooh. It's for Pooh."</p> - -<p>"For Pooh?" said Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"Of course it is. The best bear in all the world."</p> - -<p>"I might have known," said Eeyore. "After all, one can't complain. I -have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last -week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!' -The Social Round. Always something going on."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus111.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Nobody was listening, for they were all saying "Open it, Pooh," "What is -it, Pooh?" "I know what it is," "No, you don't" and other helpful -remarks of this sort. And of course Pooh was opening it as quickly as -ever he could, but without cutting the string, because you never know -when a bit of string might be Useful. At last it was undone.</p> - -<p>When Pooh saw what it was, he nearly fell down, he was so pleased. It -was a Special Pencil Case. There were pencils in it marked "B" for Bear, -and pencils marked "HB" for Helping Bear, and pencils marked "BB" for -Brave Bear. There was a knife for sharpening the pencils, and -india-rubber for rubbing out anything which you had spelt wrong, and a -ruler for ruling lines for the words to walk on, and inches marked on -the ruler in case you wanted to know how many inches anything was, and -Blue Pencils and Red Pencils and Green Pencils for saying special things -in blue and red and green. And all these lovely things were in little -pockets of their own in a Special Case which shut with a click when you -clicked it. And they were all for Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Oh!" said Pooh.</p> - -<p>"Oh, Pooh!" said everybody else except Eeyore.</p> - -<p>"Thank-you," growled Pooh.</p> - -<p>But Eeyore was saying to himself, "This writing business. Pencils and -what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it."</p> - -<p>Later on, when they had all said "Good-bye" and "Thank-you" to -Christopher Robin, Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together in -the golden evening, and for a long time they were silent.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus112.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's -the first thing you say to yourself?"</p> - -<p>"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do <i>you</i> say, Piglet?"</p> - -<p>"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting <i>to-day</i>?" said Piglet.</p> - -<p>Pooh nodded thoughtfully.</p> - -<p>"It's the same thing," he said.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"And what did happen?" asked Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>"When?"</p> - -<p>"Next morning."</p> - -<p>"I don't know."</p> - -<p>"Could you think and tell me and Pooh some time?"</p> - -<p>"If you wanted it very much."</p> - -<p>"Pooh does," said Christopher Robin.</p> - -<p>He gave a deep sigh, picked his bear up by the leg and walked off to the -door, trailing Winnie-the-Pooh behind him. At the door he turned and -said "Coming to see me have my bath?"</p> - -<p>"I might," I said.</p> - -<p>"Was Pooh's pencil case any better than mine?"</p> - -<p>"It was just the same," I said.</p> - -<p>He nodded and went out ... and in a moment I heard -Winnie-the-Pooh—<i>bump, bump, bump</i>—going up the stairs behind him.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus113.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph1">Printed in Canada<br /> - -by Warwick Bros. & Rutter, Limited<br /> - -Printers and Bookbinders<br /> - -Toronto</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p>[Transcriber's Note: Near the end of Chapter VI, the reference to Kanga was modified to -read "... and every Tuesday Kanga spent the day with her good friend -Pooh ..."]</p> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WINNIE-THE-POOH ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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