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Robin  and  Pooh  and  Piglet  were  left  on  the  bridge   by
themselves.
        For  a long time they looked at the river beneath them,
saying nothing, and the river said nothing  too,  for  it  felt
very quiet and peaceful on this summer afternoon.
        "Tigger is all right really," said Piglet lazily.
        "Of course he is," said Christopher Robin.
        "Everybody  is  really,"  said  Pooh.  "That's  what  I
think," said Pooh. "But I don't suppose I'm right," he said.
        "Of course you are," said Christopher Robin.



Chapter VII. In which Tigger is unbounced


    ONE day Rabbit and Piglet were sitting outside Pooh's front
door listening to Rabbit, and Pooh was sitting  with  them.  It
was  a  drowsy  summer  afternoon,  and  the Forest was full of
gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying  to  Pooh,  "Don't
listen  to  Rabbit, listen to me." So he got into a comfortable
position for not listening to Rabbit, and from time to time  he
opened  his eyes to say "Ah!" and then closed them again to say
"True," and from time to time Rabbit  said,  "You  see  what  I
mean,  Piglet  " very earnestly, and Piglet nodded earnestly to
show that he did.
        "In fact," said Rabbit, coming to  the  end  of  it  at
last,  "Tigger's  getting  so Bouncy nowadays that it's time we
taught him a lesson. Don't you think so, Piglet?"
        Piglet said that Tigger was very Bouncy,  and  that  if
they could think of a way of unbouncing him, it would be a Very
Good  Idea.  "Just what I feel," said Rabbit. "What do you say,
Pooh?"
        Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, "Extremely."
        "Extremely what?" asked Rabbit.
        "What you were saying," said Pooh. "Undoubtably."
        Piglet gave Pooh a stiffening sort of nudge, and  Pooh,

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