Alan Alexander Miln. The house at Pooh Corner -
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"Let's go and see everybody," said Pooh. "Because when
you've been walking in the wind for miles, and you suddenly go
into somebody's house, and he says, 'Hallo, Pooh, you're just
in time for a little smackerel of something,' and you are, then
it's what I call a Friendly Day."
Piglet thought that they ought to have a Reason for
going to see everybody, like Looking for Small or Organizing an
Expotition, if Pooh could think of something
Pooh could.
"We'll go because it's Thursday," he said, "and we'll
go to wish everybody a Very Happy Thursday. Come on, Piglet."
They got up; and when Piglet had sat down again,
because he didn't know the wind was so strong, and had been
helped up by Pooh, they started off. They went to Pooh's house
first, and luckily Pooh was at home just as they got there, so
he asked them in, and they had some, and then they went on to
Kanga's house, holding on to each other, and shouting "Isn't
it?" and "What?" and "I can't hear." By the time they got to
Kanga's house they were so buffeted that they stayed to lunch.
Just at first it seemed rather cold outside afterwards, so they
pushed on to Rabbit's as quickly as they could.
"We've come to wish you a Very Happy Thursday," said
Pooh, when he had gone in and out once or twice just to make
sure that he could get
out again.
"Why, what's going to happen on Thursday?" asked
Rabbit, and when Pooh had explained, and Rabbit, whose life was
made up of Important
Things, said, "Oh, I thought you'd really come about
something," they sat down for a little . . . and by-and-by Pooh
and Piglet went on again. The wind was behind them now, so they
didn't have to shout.
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.