Alan Alexander Miln. The house at Pooh Corner -
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"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never
understands anything."
Christopher Robin was at home by this time, because it
was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they
stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a
Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and
hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was
too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.
"Hallo, Eeyore," they called out cheerfully.
"Ah!" said Eeyore. "Lost your way?"
"We just came to see you," said Piglet. "And to see how
your house was. Look, Pooh, it's still standing!"
"I know," said Eeyore. "Very odd. Somebody ought to
have come down and pushed it over."
"We wondered whether the wind would blow it down," said
Pooh.
"Ah, that's why nobody's bothered, I suppose. I thought
perhaps they'd forgotten."
"Well, we're very glad to see you, Eeyore, and now
we're going on to see Owl."
"That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or
two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind
you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him, I thought.
Encouraging."
Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said,
"Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they
had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on.
"Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown
away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say 'Where's
little Piglet been blown to?'--really wanting to know. Well,
good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me."
"Good-bye," said Pooh and Piglet for the last time, and