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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

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