- Eeyore, I have just one question for you. What is Christopher Robin doing in the mornings these days?
- What do I see in front of me now? - said Eeyore, without looking up.
“Three sticks,” answered the Rabbit without hesitation.
- Here you see? - Eeyore said to Piglet. Then he turned to the Rabbit. “Now I will answer your question,” he said solemnly.
“Thank you,” said the Rabbit.
—What does Christopher Robin do in the morning? He is studying. He is getting an education. He is stunned - I think he used exactly this word, but maybe I’m mistaken - he is stunned by knowledge. To the best of my modest strength, I also - if I have understood this word correctly - obal ... do the same as he does. For example, this is a letter...
“The letter “A,” said the Rabbit, “but not very successful.” Okay, I have to go and tell the others.
Eeyore looked at his sticks and then at Piglet.
- What did the Rabbit say? What it is? - he asked.
“Ah,” said Piglet.
- Did you tell him that?
- No, Eeyore, I didn’t say that. I think he himself knows.
- He knows? Are you saying that some Rabbit knows the letter "A"?
- Yes, Eeyore. He's very smart, Rabbit.
“Smart!...” said Eeyore with contempt, stepping on his three sticks with all his hoofs.
“Education!...” Eeyore said bitterly, jumping on his sticks (there were already six of them).
— What is science? - asked Eeyore, kicking the sticks (there were already twelve of them) so that they flew into the air. - Some Rabbit knows all this. Ha!…
“I think...” Piglet began timidly.
- No need! - said Eeyore.
“I think violets are pretty cute,” said Piglet. He placed his bouquet in front of Eeyore and rushed off.
The next morning the note on Christopher Robin's door read:
I left
be right back
K.R.
That is why all the inhabitants of the Forest - with the exception, of course, of the Spotted or Herbivorous Sasvirnus - now know what Christopher Robin does in the morning.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN,
IN WHICH IT FINDS OUT THAT TIGERS DON'T CLIMB TREES
It happened one day that Winnie the Pooh was thinking about something. And so he thought that it wouldn’t hurt to go and visit Eeyore, because they hadn’t seen each other since yesterday. He went to Eeyore, singing a song, but suddenly he remembered that he had not seen the Owl since the day before yesterday, and decided on the way to look into the Deep Forest and see if the Owl was at home. He walked towards the River, humming the same song, but when he reached the third stone of the masonry by which the River is crossed, he began to worry about how Kanga and Roo and Tigger were doing. Pooh thought: “I haven’t seen Little Roo for a long time, and if I don’t see him today, it will be much, much longer!”
And then he sat down on a pebble in the middle of the River and, wondering what he should do now, sang another piece of the same song.
The piece he sang went something like this:
What should I do, I wonder, in the morning? It’s useful to play leapfrog with Little Roo, - Your waist will become narrower, It suits me. Besides, I will jump no worse than a Kangaroo!
And the sun was so gentle and warm, and the stone. which had been lying in the sun for a long time, was also so warm that Pooh almost decided to spend the whole morning on it. And suddenly he remembered about the Rabbit.
“Yes, Rabbit! - Pooh said to himself. - I like to talk to him. He always speaks clearly. He doesn't like long, difficult words, not like Owl. He loves simple, easy words, for example: “Shall we have a snack?” or: “Help yourself, Pooh!” Yes, I think I should go and see the Rabbit!”
Here a new piece has been added to the song:
The Rabbit can be very cute sometimes. It's nice to sit at a table with him. Yes, yes, yes! Anyone who wants to refresh himself will always come to an agreement with him, if only there is no hurry!
And when Pooh had sung all this, he rose from the stone, returned back to the shore and resolutely went to the Rabbit's house. But he had not walked even a few steps when he began to ask himself (after all, there was no one else nearby):
“What if the Rabbit is not at home?”
“Or will I suddenly get stuck in his door again on the way back, as happened once before, because his door was too narrow?”
“After all, I know that I haven’t gained weight, but his door could well have lost weight!”
“Yes, perhaps it would be better...”
And all this time he quietly went left and left... until he found himself, to his great surprise, at his own door.
It was eleven o'clock. It's a good time to have a little...
In a word, after half an hour Pooh went to where he really wanted to go, namely to Piglet, and on the way he wiped his lips with his paw and sang a rather fluffy song. Here's what:
Winnie the Pooh lives well in the world! That is why he sings these Songs out loud! And it doesn’t matter what he does, If he doesn’t get fat, But he won’t get fat, But, on the contrary, he will lose weight!
Of course, these lines printed here do not seem particularly good, but Pooh, humming this song on a very sunny morning, after a very, very hearty breakfast, was sure that this was one of the best songs he had ever written. And he sang and sang it for his own pleasure.
Piglet was digging a hole in the ground right next to his door
- Hello, Piglet! - Winnie the Pooh shouted
- Oh, hello, Pooh! - answered Piglet, jumping in surprise. - And I knew it was you!
“Me too,” said Pooh. - And what are you doing?
“I plant an acorn, Pooh, and let an oak tree grow from it, and there will be many, many acorns right next to the house, otherwise you have to go God knows where to get them.” Do you understand?
- What if it doesn’t grow up? - asked Pooh.
- He will grow up, because Christopher Robin said he will definitely grow up. That's why I plant him.
“Hm,” said Pooh. - And then I... And then I will plant honeycombs with honey in my garden, and a whole hive will grow from them.
Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
“Or better yet, a piece of honeycomb,” said Pooh. “You don’t have to waste your honeycombs too much.” Only then, not a whole hive can grow, but a piece, and even suddenly the wrong piece - the one where the bees only buzz, but do not make honey. What a shame!
Piglet agreed that it would be quite a shame.
“By the way, Pooh, it’s very difficult to plant if you don’t know how,” he said, “you have to be able to do it.” - And he put the acorn in the prepared hole, covered it with earth and jumped in this place.
“I know how to plant,” said Winnie the Pooh, because Christopher Robin gave me the seeds of claws and cogs, no, carnations! And I planted them, and now I will have a real flower garden near the door - claws and carnations. Or cogs.
“I thought they were called marigolds,” said Piglet hesitantly, still jumping, “and carnations... carnations are probably carnations!”
“No,” said Pooh, “my flowers are called claws and cogs!”
After a good jump. Piglet wiped his paws on his stomach and said, “What are we going to do now?” and Pooh said, “Let’s go and see Kanga, Roo and Tigger,” and Piglet said, “Let’s go, let’s go,” because that he was still a little afraid of the Tiger. Tigger was terribly bouncy, and he had such a way of saying hello that your ears were always full of sand, even after Kanga said: “Tigger, baby, be careful!” - and will help you get up.
They set off.
And on this very day Kanga was in a terrible economic mood. She decided to put everything in order and count all the laundry and find out how many bars of soap she had left, and how many clean napkins she had left, and how many clean aprons she had left, so she kicked them both out of the house, providing Roo with a bag of sandwiches and salad. , and Tiger with a bag of sandwiches with fish oil so that they can have a nice time in the Forest.
