for a week Christopherread 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! Raquo; 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 ... for a long time Pooh only said Ow! ... Oh! ... then, all of a sudden, he said Pop! just as if a cork were coming out of bottle.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 !, 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! Raquo; 3
... in which Pooh and piglet go hunting and nearly catch a woozlePiglet 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.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? Raquo;
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? Raquo;
It may be, said Pooh. Sometimes it is, and sometimes it is not. You never can tell with paw-marks. Raquo; 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 -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? Raquo; 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.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 ... Winnie-the-Pooh stopped, and pointed excitedly in front of him. Look!
What? said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he had not been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an exercis...
