Winnie-The-Pooh - A. A. Milne [30]
‘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 sometime?’
‘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.
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
To Her
Introduction
Map
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Map