Alan Alexander Miln. The house at Pooh Corner -
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nervously. "What do you think, Pooh?"
Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them
was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one
of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he
never could remember how to begin.
"Well," he said slowly.
"Come on," said Rabbit. "I know it's this way."
They went on. Ten minutes later they stopped again.
"It's very silly," said Rabbit, "but just for the
moment I-- Ah, of course. Come on.". . .
"Here we are," said Rabbit ten minutes later. "No,
we're not.". . .
"Now," said Rabbit ten minutes later, "I think we ought
to be getting--or are we a little bit more to the right than I
thought?". . .
"It's a funny thing," said Rabbit ten minutes later,
"how everything, looks the same in a mist. Have you noticed it,
Pooh?"
Pooh said that he had.
"Lucky we know the Forest so well, or we might get
lost," said Rabbit half an hour later, and he gave the careless
laugh which you give when you know the Forest so well that you
can't get lost.
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just
wanted to be sure of you."
When Tigger had finished waiting for the others to
catch him up, and they hadn't, and when he had got tired of
having nobody to say, "I say, come on" to, he thought he would
go home. So he trotted back; and the first thing Kanga said
when she saw him was, "There's a good Tigger. You're just in
time for your Strengthening Medicine," and she poured it out
for him. Roo said proudly, "I've had mine," and Tigger
swallowed his and said, "So have I," and then he and Roo pushed