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each other about in a friendly way, and Tigger accidentally
knocked over one or two chairs by accident, and Roo
accidentally knocked over one on purpose, and Kanga said, "Now
then, run along."
"Where shall we run along to?" asked Roo.
"You can go and collect some fircones for me," said
Kanga, giving them a basket.
So they went to the Six Pine Trees, and threw fircones
at each other until they had forgotten what they came for, and
they left the basket under the trees and went back to dinner.
And it was just as they were finishing dinner that Christopher
Robin put his head in at the door.
"Where's Pooh?" he asked.
"Tigger dear, where's Pooh?" said Kanga. Tigger
explained what had happened at the same time that Roo was
explaining about his Biscuit Cough and Kanga was telling them
not both to talk at once, so it was some time before
Christopher Robin guessed that Pooh and Piglet and Rabbit were
all lost in the mist on the top of the Forest.
"It's a funny thing about Tiggers," whispered Tigger to
Roo, "how Tiggers never get lost."
"Why don't they, Tigger?"
"They just don't," explained Tigger. "That's how it
is."
"Well," said Christopher Robin, "we shall have to go
and find them, that's all. Come on, Tigger."
"I shall have to go and find them," explained Tigger to
Roo.
"May I find them too?" asked Roo eagerly.
"I think not to-day, dear," said Kanga. "Another day."
"Well, if they're lost to-morrow, may I find them?"
"We'll see," said Kanga, and Roo, who knew what that
meant, went into a corner and practised jumping out at himself,
partly because he wanted to practise this, and partly because