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        Eeyore went inside . . . and came out again.
        "It's a remarkable thing," he said. "It  is  my  house,
and  I built it where I said I did, so the wind must have blown
it here. And the wind blew it right over the wood, and blew  it
down  here,  and here it is as good as ever. In fact, better in
places."
        "Much better," said Pooh and Piglet together.
        "It just shows what can be  done  by  taking  a  little
trouble,"  said Eeyore. "Do you see, Pooh ? Do you see, Piglet?
Brains first and then Hard Work. Look at it! That's the way  to
build a house," said Eeyore proudly.
        So they left him in it; and Christopher Robin went back
to lunch  with his friends Pooh and Piglet, and on the way they
told him of the Awful Mistake they had made. And  when  he  had
finished  laughing,  they  all  sang the Outdoor Song for Snowy
Weather the rest of the way home, Piglet,  who  was  still  not
quite sure of his voice, putting in the tiddely-poms again.
        "And  I  know  it  seems easy," said Piglet to himself,
"but it isn't every one who could do it."


Chapter II. In which Tigger comes
 to the forest and
has breakfast

     WINNIE-THE-POOH  woke  up  suddenly  in  the middle of the
night and listened. Then he got out of bed, and lit his candle,
and stumped across the room to see if anybody was trying to get
into his honey-cupboard, and they weren't, so he  stumped  back
again, blew out his candle, and got into bed. Then he heard the
noise again.
        "Is that you, Piglet?" he said. But it wasn't.
        "Come in, Christopher Robin," he said.
        But Christopher Robin didn't.
        "Tell  me  about  it  to-morrow,  Eeyore,"  said   Pooh
sleepily.
        But the noise went on.
        "Worraworraworraworraworra,"  said Whatever-it-was, and

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