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Alan Alexander Miln. Winnie-The-Pooh and All, All, All
...in which we are introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and some bees, and the stories begin
...in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place
...in which Pooh and piglet go hunting and nearly catch a woozle
...in which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one
...in which Piglet meets a heffalump
...in which Eeyore has a birthday and gets two presents
...in which Kanga and Baby Roo come to the forest, and piglet has a bath
...in which Christopher Robin leads an expotition to the north pole
...in which Piglet is entirely surrounded by water
...in which Christopher Robin gives a pooh party, and we say good-bye
& & & To her
& & & Hand in hand we come
& & & Christopher Robin and I
& & & To lay this book in your lap.
& & & Say you're surprised?
& & & Say it's just what you wanted?
& & & Because it's yours -
& & & because we love you.
Introduction
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
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
Winnie-the-Pooh.
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
There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning,
called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past
they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people
go straight to the animal they love the most, and
So when Christopher Robin goes to the Zoo, he goes to where the
Bears are, and he whispers something to the third keeper
from the left, and doors are unlocked, and
dark passages and up steep stairs, until at last we come to the
and the cage is opened, and out trots something
Christopher Robin rushes into its arms. Now this bear's name is
shows what a good name for bears it is, but the
funny thing is that we can't remember whether Winnie is
after Pooh, or Pooh after Winnie. We did know once, but we have
forgotten. . . .
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,"
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
for a good many things which P because you can't
take Pooh to school without everybody knowing it, but Piglet is
so small that
comforting
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
and some haven't, he says, and there it is.
now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So
perhaps the best thing to do is to stop
Introductions
and get on with the book.
& & & A. A. M.
* PART 1 *
Chapter 1 ...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,
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
at the bottom, and ready to be introduced to you.
Winnie-the-Pooh.
& & & When I first heard his name, I said, just
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.
what 'ther'
& & & "Ah, yes, now I do," I and I hope you
too, because it is all the explanation you are going to get.
& & & Sometimes
Winnie-the-Pooh
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
& & & "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
Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under
the name of Sanders.
& & & ("What does 'under the name' mean?"
Christopher
Robin. "It means he had the name over the door in gold letters,
and lived under it."
& & & "Winnie-the-Pooh
quite sure," said Christopher
& & & "Now I am," said a growly voice.
& & & "Then I will go on," said I.)
& & & One day when he was out walking, he
middle of the forest, and in the middle of this
place was a large oak-tree, and, from
there came a loud buzzing-noise.
& & & Winnie-the-Pooh
down at the foot of the tree, put
his head between his paws and began to think.
& & & First of all he said to
buzzing-noise
something. You don't get a buzzing-noise like that, just
buzzing and buzzing, without its meaning something. If
buzzing-noise,
somebody's
a buzzing-noise, and the
only reason for making
buzzing-noise
because you're a bee."
& & & Then
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
is so as I can eat it." So he began to climb the
& & & He climbed and he climbed and
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 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,
why he sang a Complaining Song. He was nearly there now, and if
he just s t o o d o n t h a t branch . . .
& & & Crack !
& & & "Oh,
Pooh, as he dropped ten feet on the
branch below him.
& & & "If only I hadn't -- " he said, as
feet on to the next branch.
& & & "You
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
slithered very quickly through the next six branches.
decided, as he said
good-bye to the last branch, spun round three times,
gracefully
into a gorse-bush, "it all comes of liking honey so
much. Oh, help!"
& & & He crawled out of the gorse-bush, brushed the
nose, and began to think again. And the first person
he thought of was Christopher Robin.
& & & ("Was that me?"
Christopher
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
green door in another part of the
& & & "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
& & & "A balloon?"
& & & "Yes, I just said to myself coming along: 'I wonder
Christopher
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
listening,
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
balloons at the party. You had had and one
relations had had a big blue one, and had left it
behind, being really too young to
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
great thing is not to let the bees know
you're coming. Now, if you have a
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:
most likely?"
& & & "Wouldn't
they notice you underneath the balloon?" you
& & & "They might or they might not,"
Winnie-the-Pooh.
with bees." He thought for a moment and
said: "I shall try to look like a small black cloud. That
deceive them."
& & & "Then
you had better have the blue balloon,"
and so it was decided.
& & & Well, you both went out with the blue balloon, and
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 h and
was blown up as big as big, and you and Pooh were
both holding on to the string, you let go
gracefully
up into the sky, and stayed there --
level with the top of the tree and about twenty feet away
& & & "Hooray!" you shouted.
& & & "Isn't that fine?" shouted Winnie-the-Pooh down to you.
"What do I look like?"
& & & "You
Bear holding on to a balloon," you
& & & "Not," said Pooh anxiously, " -- not like a small black
cloud in a blue sky?"
& & & "Not very much."
& & & "Ah, well, perhaps from up
different.
And, as I say, you never can tell with bees."
& & & There
wind to blow him nearer to the tree, so
there he stayed. He could see the honey,
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?"
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
down to you again.
& & & "Christopher Robin!"
& & & "Yes?"
& & & "Have you an umbrella in your house?"
& & & "I think so."
would bring it out here, and walk up and
down with it, and look up at me every now
rain.' I think, if you did that, it
would help the deception
practising
& & & Well,
laughed to yourself, "Silly old Bear !" but
you didn't say it aloud because you were so fond
you went home for your umbrella.
& & & "Oh,
are!" called down Winnie-the-Pooh, as
soon as you got back to the
discovered
that the bees are now definitely
Suspicious."
& & & "Shall I put my umbrella up?" you said.
& & & "Yes,
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
looks like rain,' I shall do
what I can by singing a little Cloud
might sing. . . . Go!"
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
them, indeed, left their nests and flew all round the
cloud as it began the second verse of this song,
sat down on the nose of the cloud for a moment, and then got up
& & & "Christopher -- ow! -- Robin," called out the cloud.
& & & "Yes?"
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
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
your gun. Have you got your gun?"
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,
aimed very carefully at the balloon, and fired.
& & & "Ow!" said Pooh.
& & & "Did I miss?" you asked.
& & & "You
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
Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.
from holding on to the
string of 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
story?" asked Christopher
& & & "That's the end of that one. There are others."
& & & "About Pooh and Me?"
& & & "And Piglet and
remember?"
when I try to remember, I
& & & "That day when Pooh
Heffalump -- "
& & & "They didn't catch it, did they?"
& & & "No."
& & & "Pooh
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
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,
At the door he turned and said, "Coming to see me have my
bath?" "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 2 ...in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place
& & & EDWARD BEAR, known to his friends
Winnie-the-Pooh,
walking through the forest one day,
humming proudly to himself. He had made up a
morning, as he was doing his Stoutness Exercises in front
of the glass: Tra-la-la, tra-la-la, as he stretched up 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
over to himself until he had learnt it off by heart,
and now he was humming it right through, properly. It went like
& & & 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,
gaily, wondering what everybody else was doing, and what
it felt like, being somebody else, when suddenly he came
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
Listening-to-Me-Humming and such like. Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um.
& & & So he bent down, put his head into the hole, and called
& & & "Is anybody at home?"
& & & There
noise from inside the
hole, and then silence.
& & & "What I said was, 'Is anybody
Pooh very loudly.
& & & "No!" 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
thought for a little, and he thought to himself, "There must be
because somebody must have said 'Nobody.'" So
he put his head back in the hole,
isn't that you?"
& & & "No,"
in a different sort of voice this
& & & "But isn't that Rabbit's voice?"
& & & "I don't think so," said Rabbit.
& & & "Oh!" said Pooh.
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
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."
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
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
and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed
milk with your bread?" he was so excited that he said,
and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother
And for a long time after that he
said nothing . . . until at
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
you -- " and he tried very hard to look in the direction
of the larder.
& & & "As a matter of fact," said Rabbit, "I
myself directly."
& & & "Oh well, then, I'll be going on. Good-bye."
& & & "Well,
you won't have any
& & & "Is there any more?" asked Pooh quickly.
& & & Rabbit took the covers off the dishes, and
there wasn't."
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
front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little
while his nose was out in the open again . .
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,
this time Rabbit wanted to go for a walk too,
and finding the front door full, he went out by the back
and came round to Pooh, and looked at him.
& & & "Hallo, are you stuck?" he asked.
& & & "N-no,"
carelessly.
thinking and humming to myself."
& & & "Here, give us a paw."
& & & Pooh Bear stretched out a paw, and
pulled and pulled....
& & & "0w!" 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."
Rabbit sternly, "of eating too
much. I thought at the time," said Rabbit, "only I didn't
anything," said Rabbit, "that one of us has eating too
much," said Rabbit, "and I knew it wasn't me," he said.
well, I shall go and fetch Christopher Robin."
& & & Christopher Robin lived at the other end of the Forest,
back with Rabbit, and saw the front half of
Pooh, he said, "Silly old Bear," in such a
everybody felt quite hopeful again.
beginning to think," said Bear, sniffing
slightly, "that Rabbit might never be able
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.
out, Pooh, we might push you
& & & Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully, and pointed
out that, when once Pooh was pushed back, he was back,
to see Pooh than he was, still
there it was, some lived in trees and some
underground,
& & & "You mean I'd never get out?" said Pooh.
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.
shall have to wait for you to get thin again."
& & & "How
anxiously.
& & & "About a week, I should think."
& & & "But I can't stay here for a week!"
& & & "You can stay here all
getting you out which is so difficult."
& & & "We'll
said Rabbit cheerfully. "And I
hope it won't snow," he added. "And I say, old
a good deal of room in my house -- do you mind if I
use your back legs as a towel-horse?
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
and a tear rolled down his eye, as he
& & & "Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such
a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?" So for a
week Christopher
& & & Robin read that sort of book at the North end of
the South end . . . and in
between Bear felt himself getting slenderer and slenderer.
at the end of the week Christopher Robin said, "Now!"
hold of Pooh's front paws and Rabbit took
Christopher
relations took hold of Rabbit, and they all pulled together....
& & & And for a long time Pooh only said "Ow!" . . .
& & & And "Oh!" . . .
then, all of a sudden, he said "Pop!" just as if a
cork were coming out of bottle.
& & & And Christopher
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
walk through the forest, humming proudly to himself.
But, Christopher Robin looked after him lovingly, and
himself, "Silly old Bear!"
Chapter 3 ...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,
beech-tree
the middle of the
forest, and the Piglet lived in the middle of the
"TRESPASSERS W" on it. When Christopher Robin asked the
meant, he said it was his grandfather's name, and had
been in the family for a long time. Christopher Robin said
Trespassers
and Piglet said yes, you
could, because his
grandfather
Trespassers
Will, which was short for Trespassers William. And
his grandfather had had two
Trespassers after an uncle, and William after Trespassers.
& & & "I've
Christopher
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,
Winnie-the-Pooh.
round and round in a
circle, thinking of something else, and when Piglet
him, he just went on walking.
& & & "Hallo!" said Piglet, "what are you doing?"
& & & "Hunting," said Pooh.
& & & "Hunting what?"
& & & "Tracking
something,"
Winnie-the-Pooh
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
Winnie-the-Pooh. "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in
front of him. "What do you see there?"
& & & "Tracks,"
"Paw-marks." He gave a little
squeak of excitement. "Oh, Pooh! Do you think it's a -- a --
& & & "It may be," said Pooh. "Sometimes it is, and sometimes
it isn't. You never can tell with paw-marks."
& & & With
few words he went on tracking, and Piglet,
after watching
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
very funny thing," said Bear, "but there seem
to be two animals now. This
whatever-it-was
joined by another -- whatever-it-is --
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
do until Friday, and would be
delighted to come, in case it really was a Woozle.
& & & "You mean, in case it
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 goin so round this spinney went
P Piglet passing the time by telling Pooh
what his Grandfather Trespassers W had done to Remove Stiffness
after Tracking, and
Grandfather
Trespassers
suffered in his later years from Shortness of Breath, and other
of interest, and Pooh wondering what a Grandfather was
like, and if perhaps this was Two Grandfathers they were
if so, whether he would be allowed to take one home
and keep it, and what Christopher Robin would
the tracks went on in front of them....
& & & Suddenly Winnie-the-Pooh stopped, and pointed excitedly
in front of him. "Look!"
& & & "What?"
a jump. And then, to show
that he hadn't been frightened, he jumped up and down
twice more in an exercising sort of way.
& & & "The tracks!" said Pooh. "A third animal has joined the
other two!"
Piglet "Do you think it is another
& & & "No," said Pooh, "because it makes different marks.
either Two Woozles and one, as it might be, Wizzle, or Two,
as it might be, Wizzles and one, if so it is,
continue to follow them."
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
there, instead of elsewhere, and Pooh thought how nice it would
Christopher
accidentally, and only because he liked
Christopher
much. And then, all of a sudden, Winnie-the-Pooh stopped again,
licked the tip of his nose in a cooling manner, for he was
feeling more hot and anxious than
There were four animals in front of them!
& & & "Do you see, Piglet? Look at their tracks! Three, as it
were, Woozles,
one, as it was, Wizzle. Another Woozle has
joined them!"
& & & And so it seemed to be. T crossing
over each other here, getting muddled up w
but, quite plainly every now and then, the tracks of four
said Piglet, when he had licked the tip of
his nose too, and found that it brought very little comfort, "I
think that I
remembered
something.
remembered
something that I forgot to do yesterday and sha'n'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
said Pooh.
afternoon,"
particular
be done in the morning, and, if
possible, between the hours of What
& & & "About
Winnie-the-Pooh, looking at the
& & & "Between, as I was saying,
five. So, really, dear old Pooh, if you'll excuse me --
What's that."
& & & Pooh looked up at the sky, and then, as
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
Good-bye,"
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
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
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
Christopher Robin soothingly.
& & & "Am I?" said Pooh hopefully. And then he brightened
& & & "Anyhow," he said, "it is nearly Luncheon Time."
& & & So he went home for it.
Chapter 4 ...in which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one
stood by himself in a
thistly corner of the forest, his front feet
things. Sometimes he
thought sadly to himself,
"Wherefore?"
and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" --
and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking
Winnie-the-Pooh
came stumping along, Eeyore was very
glad to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to
"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
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 has happened to it?" said Eeyore.
& & & "It isn't there!"
& & & "Are you sure?"
& & & "Well, either a tail is there or
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
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
his head down and looked between his front legs,
and at last he said, with a long, sad sigh, "I
& & & "Of course I'm right," said Pooh
& & & "That
accounts for a Good Deal," said Eeyore gloomily.
"It explains Everything. No Wonder."
& & & "You
somewhere,"
Winnie-the-Pooh.
& & & "Somebody must have taken it," said Eeyore.
& & & "How
Them," he added, after a long silence. Pooh
felt that he ought to
didn't quite know what.
& & & So he decided to do something helpful instead.
& & & "Eeyore,"
said solemnly, "I, Winnie-the-Pooh, will
find your tail for you."
& & & "Thank you, Pooh,"
friend," said he. "Not like Some," he said.
& & & So Winnie-the-Pooh went off to find Eeyore's tail.
the forest as he
started out. Little soft clouds played happily in a
time to time in front of the sun as if they had
come to put it out, and then sliding away suddenly so that
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
seemed old and dowdy now beside the new green lace which
the beeches had put on so prettily. Through copse
marched B down open slopes of gorse and heather, over rocky
streams, up steep banks of sandstone into the heather
and so at last, tired and hungry, to
Wood. For it was in the Hundred Acre Wood that Owl lived.
& & & "And
anything about anything," said
something,"
my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he
said. "Which it is," he added. "So there you are."
& & & Owl lived at The Chestnuts, and old-world residence
which was grander than anybody else's, or seemed
so to Bear, because it had both
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
been written by Christopher Robin,
who was the only one in the for
in many ways, able to read and write and
spell his own name WOL, yet somehow went
delicate words like MEASLES and BUTTEREDTOAST.
& & & Winnie-the-Pooh
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
pulled the knocker, and he pulled and knocked the
bell-rope, and he called out in a
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
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,
cases is as follows."
& & & "What
Crustimoney
Proseedcake mean?" said Pooh.
"For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and
& & & "It means the Thing to Do."
means that, I don't mind," said Pooh
& & & "The thing to do is as follows. First, Issue a
& & & "Just
moment," said Pooh, holding up his paw. "What
do we do to this -- what you were saying? You sneezed
you were going to tell me."
& & & "I didn't sneeze."
& & & "Yes, you did, Owl."
& & & "Excuse
I didn't. You can't sneeze without
knowing it."
& & & "Well, you can't know it without something having
& & & "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
give a large something to anybody who finds
Eeyore's tail."
& & & "I see, I see," said Pooh, nodding his
about large somethings," he went on dreamily, "I generally have
a small something about now -- about this time in the morning,"
he looked wistfully at the cupboard in the corner of Owl's
"just a mouthful of condensed milk
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 --
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
started, and he
Christopher Robin.
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"
his eyes shut, to all that Owl was saying, and
having said, "Yes, yes," last time, he said "No, not
now, without really knowing what Owl was talking about? "Didn't
see them?" said Owl, a little surprised. "Come and look at
them now."
& & & So they went outside. And Pooh looked
and the notice below it, and he looked at the bell-rope and the
it, and the more he looked at the bell-rope, the
more he felt that he had
else, sometime before.
& & & "Handsome bell-rope, isn't it?" said Owl.
& & & Pooh nodded.
something," he said, "but I can't
think what. Where did you get it?"
& & & "I just came across it in the Forest.
a bush, and I thought at first somebody lived there, so I
rang it, and nothing happened, and then I rang
off in my hand, and as nobody seemed to
want it, I took it home, and"
& & & "Owl,"
Somebody did want it."
& & & "Who?"
& & & "Eeyore.
dear friend Eeyore. He was -- he was fond
& & & "Fond of it?"
& & & "Attached to it," said Winnie-the-Pooh sadly.
& & & So with these words he unhooked it, and carried it back
to E and when Christopher Robin
place again, Eeyore frisked about the forest, waving his
tail so happily that Winnie-the-Pooh came over all
home for a little snack of something to sustain
him. And wiping his mouth half an hour afterwards, he
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 5 ...in which Piglet meets a heffalump
& & & ONE day, when Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh and
Piglet were
together, Christopher Robin finished
the mouthful he was
carelessly:
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
did," he said. "Only perhaps it wasn't."
I," said Pooh, wondering what a Heffalump was
& & & "You don't often
Christopher
carelessly.
& & & "Not now," said Piglet.
& & & "Not at this time of year," said Pooh.
& & & Then they all talked about something else, until it was
Pooh and Piglet to go home together. At first as they
stumped along the path which edged the Hundred Acre Wood,
when they came to the
stream, and had helped each other across the
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
Piglet," and Piglet said, "But, on the
other hand, Pooh, we must
remember,"
Piglet, although I had forgotten it for the moment." And
then, just as they came to the
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
"How?" or "Pooh, you couldn't!" or
something helpful of that sort, but Piglet
fact was Piglet was wishing that he had thought about it first.
Pooh, after waiting a little
longer, "by means of a trap. And it must be a Cunning Trap,
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
"That's just it. How?" And then they sat down together to think
& & & Pooh's
first idea was that they should dig a Very Deep
Pit, and then the Heffalump would come along and fall into
Pit, and --
& & & "Why?" said Piglet.
& & & "Why what?" said Pooh.
& & & "Why would he fall in?"
& & & Pooh
nose with his paw, and said that the
Heffalump might be walking along, humming a
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
supposing it were raining already?
& & & Pooh
again, and said that he hadn't
thought of that. And then he brightened up, and said
were raining already, the Heffalump would be looking at the
sky wondering if it would clear up, and so he wouldn't see
Pit until he was half-way down.... When it would be
& & & Piglet
explained, he thought it was a Cunning Trap.
& & & Pooh
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
this. Where should they dig the Very Deep Pit?
& & & Piglet
place would be somewhere
where a Heffalump was, just before he fell into it, only
a foot farther on.
& & & "But then he would see us digging it," said Pooh.
& & & "Not if he was looking at the sky."
would Suspect," said Pooh, "if he happened to look
down." He thought for a long time and
I thought. I suppose that's why Heffalumps
hardly ever get caught."
& & & "That must be it," said Piglet.
& & & Th and when they had taken
out of themselves and all
the time Pooh was saying to himself, "If only I could think
something!"
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
would you do it?"
& & & "Well,"
it like this. I
should make a Trap, and I should put a
Trap, and you would smell it, and you would go in after it, and
& & & "And
after it," said Pooh excitedly,
"only very carefully so as not to hurt myself, and I would
to the Jar of Honey, and I should lick round the edges first of
pretending that there wasn't any more, you know, and then
I should walk away and think about it
and start licking in the middle of the jar,
and then -- "
& & & "Yes, well never mind about that where
I should catch you. Now the first thing to think of
is, What do Heffalumps like? I should think
you? We'll get a lot of -- I say, wake up, Pooh!"
& & & Pooh,
had gone into a happy dream, woke up with a
start, and said that Honey was a much more
didn' 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
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
settled. "I'll dig the pit, while you go and get the honey."
& & & "Very well," said Pooh, and he stumped off.
as he got home, h and he
stood on a chair, and took down a very large jar of honey
It had HUNNY written on it, but, just to make
sure, he took off the paper cover and
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,"
said, "it is. No doubt about that. And honey, I should say,
right down to the bottom of the jar.
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. . .
And he gave a deep sigh. "I was right. It is honey, right
the way down."
& & & Having made certain of this, he took the
Piglet looked up from the bottom of his Very Deep
Pit, and said, "Got it?" and Pooh
full jar," and he threw it down to Piglet, and Piglet
said, "No, it isn't! Is that all you've
Piglet put the jar at the
bottom of the Pit, and climbed out,
& & & "Well,
Pooh," said Piglet, when they had
got to Pooh's house. "And we
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
Heffalumps. Well, good night!"
& & & "Good night!"
his house TRESPASSERS W,
while Pooh made his preparations for bed.
& & & Some hours later, just as the night
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,
chair and reached up to the top shelf, and found -- nothing.
& & & "That's
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
where it was and murmuring a murmur to himself. Like
& & & 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
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.
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
Heffalumps.
And that was worse. Because every
Heffalump that he counted was making
honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there
miserably,
eighty-seventh
jaws, and saying to itself, "Very
good honey this, I don't know when I've
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
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
was something mysterious, a shape and no more. But
as he got nearer lo it his nose told him
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
and said, "Oh, no, I did. I forgot."
& & & Indeed, he had eaten most of it. But there was a little
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,
so." But he didn't feel very brave, for
the word which was really jiggeting
"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
Fierce with Pigs, would it make any
difference if the Pig
grandfather
TRESPASSERS
& & & He didn't know the answer to any of these questions . .
was going to see his first Heffalump in about an hour
& & & Of course Pooh would be with him, and it was much
Friendly with two. But suppose Heffalumps were Very Fierce with
Pigs and Bears?
& & & Wouldn't
headache, and couldn't
it was a very fine day, and
there was no Heffalump in the trap, here he would
his time for nothing. What
should he do?
& & & And then he had a Clever Idea.
Six Pine Trees now, peep very cautiously into
the Trap, and see if there was a Heffalump there. And if
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
then he thought that there
would, and as he got nearer
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
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
more he shook it, the more
tightly it stuck. "Bother!" he said, inside the jar,
tried bumping it against
things, but as he couldn't see what he was bumping it
didn' and he tried to climb out of the Trap, but
as he could see nothing but jar,
way. So at last he lifted up his head, jar
and all, and made a loud, roaring noise of Sadness and
. . . and it was at that moment that Piglet looked down.
& & & "Help,
Piglet, "a Heffalump, a Horrible
Heffalump!" and he scampered off as hard
help, a Herrible Hoffalump! Hoff, Hoff, a
Hellible Horralump! Holl, Holl, a Hoffable Hellerump!"
crying and scampering until he got to Christopher
Robin's house.
& & & "Whatever's
Christopher
Robin, who was just getting up.
& & & "Heff,"
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
Christopher
nothing. A huge big -- well, like a -- I don't know -- like
enormous big nothing. Like a jar."
& & & "Well,"
Christopher Robin, putting on his shoes,
"I shall go and look at it. Come on."
& & & Piglet wasn't afraid if he had Christopher
him, so off they went....
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
& & & "There!" said Piglet. "Isn't it awful?" And he held
tight to Christopher Robin's hand.
& & & Suddenly
Christopher Robin began to laugh . . . and he
laughed . . and he laughed . . . and he laughed. And
laughing -- Crash went the Heffalump's head against
the tree-root, Smash went the jar, and
& & & Then
Piglet saw what a Foolish Piglet he had been, and
he was so ashamed of himself that he ran straight off home
a headache. But Christopher Robin and Pooh
went home to breakfast together.
& & & "Oh, Bear!" said Christopher
& & & "So do I," said Pooh.
Chapter 6 ...in which Eeyore has a birthday and gets two presents
& & & EEYORE,
old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the
stream, and looked at himself in the water.
& & & "Pathetic," he said. s' That's what it is. Pathetic."
& & & He turned and walked slowly down the stream for
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
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
& & & "Oh!" said Pooh. He thought for a long time,
asked, "What mulberry bush is that?"
& & & "Bon-hommy,"
"French word
meaning bonhommy," he
explained.
complaining,
There It Is."
& & & Pooh sat down on a large stone, and tried to think this
like a riddle, and he was never much
good at riddles, being a Bear of Very Little Brain. So he
Cottleston Pie instead:
& & & Cottleslon, 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
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
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
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
happiest day of the year."
& & & "Your birthday?" said Pooh in great surprise.
Look at all the
presents I have had." He waved a foot from side to side.
at the birthday cake. Candles and pink sugar."
& & & Pooh looked -- first to the right and then to the left.
& & & "Presents?"
said Pooh.
& & & "Can't you see them?"
& & & "No," said Pooh.
& & & "Neither can I," said Eeyore. "Joke," he explained. "Ha
& & & Pooh scratched his head, being a little puzzled by
& & & "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,
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.
miserable myself, what with no presents and no cake and
no candles, and no proper notice taken of me
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
felt that he must get poor Eeyore a present of
some sort at once, and he could always think of
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,"
just came round -- "
& & & "Let me do it for you," said Pooh kindly. So he reached
up and knocked
door. "I have just seen Eeyore is in a
Very Sad Condition, because it's his birthday, and
notice of it, and he's very Gloomy -- you know what
Eeyore is -- and there he was, and -What a
lives here is answering this door." And he knocked again.
& & & "But Pooh," said Piglet, "it's your own house!"
& & & "Oh!"
Pooh. "So it is," he said. "Well, let's go
& & & So in they went. The first thing Pooh did was to go
cupboard to see if he had quite a sma
and he had, so he took it down.
& & & "I'm giving
explained,
present. What are you going to give?"
& & & "Couldn't
it too?" said Piglet. "From both of
& & & "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.
cheer him up. Nobody can be uncheered with a
& & & So off P and in the other direction
Pooh, with his jar of honey.
and he had a long way to go. He
hadn't gone more than half-way when a
all over him. It began at the tip of his nose
and trickled all through him and out at the soles of his
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
as that." So he sat down and took the top off his jar of honey.
I brought this with me," he thought. "Many a bear going
out on a warm
bringing a little something with him." And he began to eat.
& & & "Now let me see," he thought! as he took his last
of the inside of the jar, "Where was I going? Ah, yes, Eeyore."
He got up slowly.
remembered.
Eeyore's birthday present!
& & & "Bother!" said Pooh. "What shall I do? I must give
something."
a little while he couldn't think of anything. Then
he thought: "Well, it's a very nice pot,
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
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
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
earnestly.
"It's Very Useful like that. And I wanted to ask you -- "
& & & "You ought to write 'A Happy Birthday' on it."
& & & "That
said Pooh.
"Because my spelling is
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
"Couldn't I give it too? From both of us?"
& & & "No,"
"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
how to spell
"birthday."
& & & "Can you read, Pooh?"
anxiously.
notice about knocking and ringing outside my door,
which Christopher Robin wrote. Could you read it?"
& & & "Christopher Robin told me what it
& & & "Well, I'll tell you what this says, and then you'll be
& & & So Owl wrote . . . and this is what he wrote:
& & & HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA
& & & BTHUTHDY.
& & & Pooh looked on admiringly.
& & & "I'm
Birthday',"
carelessly.
& & & "It's a nice long one," said Pooh, very much
& & & "Well,
course, I'm saying 'A Very Happy
Birthday with love from Pooh.' Naturally it takes a
of pencil to say a long thing like that."
& & & "Oh, I see," said Pooh.
& & & While
this was happening, Piglet had gone back to
his own house to get Eeyore's balloon. He held it very
himself, so that it shouldn't blow away, and he ran as
fast as he could so as to get to Eeyore before P for he
thought that he would like to
just as if he had thought of it without being told by
anybody. And running along, and
be, he didn't look where he was going . . . and suddenly
he put his foot in a rabbit hole, and fell
& & & BANG!!!???***!!!
& & & Piglet lay there, wondering what had happened. At first
he thought
and then he
thought that perhaps only the F
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
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
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
& & & 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
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
matters," he said.
& & & "Many
of the day," said Piglet, having
now got closer.
& & & Eeyore stopped looking at himself in
turned to stare at Piglet.
& & & "Just say that again," he said.
& & & "Many hap -- "
& & & "Wait a moment."
& & & Balancing
three legs, he began to bring his fourth
leg very cautiously up to his ear. "I did this
yesterday,"
explained,
for the third time. "It's quite
easy. It's so as I can hear better. ... There, that's done
Now then, what were you saying?" He pushed his ear forward with
& & & "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
right hoof from his right ear,
turned round, and with great difficulty put up his left hoof.
& & & "I must have that in the
& & & "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?"
"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,
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,
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."
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
said Eeyore. "You don't mind my
asking," he went on, "but what colour was this balloon when
-- 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."
just wondered. ... About as big as Piglet," he said
to himself sadly. "My favourite size. Well, well."
& & & Piglet felt very miserable, and
opening his mouth to begin something, and
then deciding that it wasn't any
shout from the other side of the river, and there was
& & & "Many happy returns
forgetting that he had said it already.
& & & "Thank
& & & "I've
excitedly.
& & & "I've had it," said Eeyore.
& & & Pooh
had now splashed across the stream to Eeyore, and
Piglet was sitting a little way off,
snuffling to himself.
& & & "It's
Useful Pot," said Pooh. "Here it is. And it's
got 'A Very Happy Birthday with love from Pooh' written on
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