Maailma Kõigearmsam Puhh / The Most Endearing Pooh

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Chapter I

~ In Which ~

We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump,
on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs,
but sometimes he feels that there really is another way.

If only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.
And then he feels that perhaps there isn’t.
Anyhow, here he is at the bottom
and ready to be introduced to you.

~ Winnie-the-Pooh ~


Chapter II

~ In Which ~

Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place

Hallo, are you stuck?” he asked.
“N-no,” said Pooh carelessly.
“Just resting and thinking and humming
to myself.”

 
 

So he took hold of Pooh’s front paws and
Rabbit took hold of Christopher Robin, and
all Rabbit’s friends and relations took hold
of Rabbit, and they all pulled together…

Christopher Robin looked after him lovingly
and said to himself, “Silly old Bear!”


Chapter III

~ In Which ~

Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle

Christopher Robin came slowly down his tree.
“Silly old Bear,” he said, “what were you doing?”…

 
 
He sat down and thought, in the most thoughtful way he could think…
“I see now,” said Winnie-the-Pooh. “I have been Foolish and Deluded,” said he, “and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.”

“You’re the Best Bear
in All the World,”
said Christopher Robin soothingly.


Chapter IV

~ In Which ~

Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One

Why, what’s happened to your tail?” he said in surprise.
“What has happened to it?” said Eeyore.
“It isn’t there!”
“Are you sure?”
“Well, either a tail is there or it isn’t there.
You can’t make a mistake about it.

Eeyore's tail

And yours isn’t there!”

* “Eeyore,” he said solemnly,
“I, Winnie-the-Pooh,
will find your tail for you.” *

“And if anyone knows anything about anything,” said Bear to himself,” it’s Owl who knows something about something,” he said, “or my name’s not Winnie-the-Pooh,” he said.
“Which it is,” he added. “So there you are.”

asking Owl

“Handsome bell-rope, isn’t it?” said Owl. Pooh nodded.
“It reminds me of something,” he said, “but I can’t think what. Where did you get it?”
“I just came across it in the Forest…and as nobody seemed to want it, I took it home…”

“Owl, said Pooh solemnly,
“You made a mistake.
Somebody did want it… Eeyore.
My dear friend Eeyore.”

helping Eeyore

So with these words he unhooked it and carried it back to Eeyore; and when Christopher Robin had nailed it on in its right place again, Eeyore frisked about the forest, wearing his tail so happily…


Chapter V

~ In Which ~

Piglet Meets a Heffalump

One day, when Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet were all talking together, Christopher Robin finished the mouthful he was eating and said carelessly: “I saw a Heffalump to-day, Piglet.”
“What was it doing?” asked Piglet.
“Just lumping along,” said Christopher Robin. “I don’t think it saw me.”
“I saw one once,” said Piglet. “At least, I think I did,” he said. “Only perhaps it wasn’t.”
“So did I,” said Pooh, wondering what a Heffalump was like.
“You don’t often see them,” said Christopher Robin carelessly.
“Not now,” said Piglet.
“Not at this time of year,” said Pooh. *

“Piglet, I have decided something.”
“What have you decided, Pooh?”
“I have decided to catch a Heffalump.”

* * *

“Help, help!” cried Piglet, “a Heffalump, a Horrible Heffalump!” and he scampered off as hard as he could, still crying out, “Help, help, a Herrible Hoffalump! Hoff, Hoff, a Hellible Horralump! Holl, Holl, a Hoffable Hellerump!” And he didn’t stop crying and scampering until he got to Christopher Robin’s house.

Suddenly Christopher Robin began to laugh… and he laughed… and he laughed… and he laughed.
And while he was still laughing – Crash went the Heffalump’s head against the tree-root, Smash went the jar, and out came Pooh’s head…

“Oh, Bear!” said Christopher Robin. “How I do love you!”
“So do I,” said Pooh. *


Chapter VI

~ In Which ~

Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents

Why, what’s the matter?”
Is anything the matter?”
“You seem so sad, Eeyore.”
“Sad? Why should I be sad? It’s my birthday.
The happiest day of the year.”

… “It’s bad enough,” said Eeyore, almost breaking down, “being miserable myself, what with no presents and no cake and no candles, and no proper notice taken of me at all…This was too much for Pooh. “Stay there!” he called to Eeyore, as he turned and hurried back home as quick as he could; for he felt that he must get poor Eeyore a present of some sort at once… Outside his house he found Piglet, jumping up and down trying to reach the knocker.… “I have just seen Eeyore,” he began, “and poor Eeyore is in a Very Sad Condition, because it’s his birthday, and nobody has taken any notice of it, and he’s very Gloomy —”

  “…I’ll give him a balloon.”And running along, and thinking how pleased Eeyore would be, he didn’t look where he was going … and suddenly he put his foot in a rabbit hole, and fell down flat on his face. BANG!!!???***!!!  

“Thank you, Piglet,” said Eeyore.

“I’ve brought you a little present,” said Pooh excitedly…
“It’s a Useful Pot,” said Pooh. “Here it is.
And it’s got ‘A Very Happy Birthday with love from Pooh’ written on it.
That’s what all that writing is.
And it’s for putting things in. There!”

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But Eeyore wasn’t listening. He was taking
the balloon out, and putting it back again, as
happy as could be….


Chapter VII

~ In Which ~

Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest,
and Piglet Has a Bath

Strange animal

“Here – we – are,” said Rabbit very slowly and carefully, “all – of – us, and then, suddenly, we wake up one morning and, what do we find? We find a Strange Animal among us.”The Plan

“The question is, What are we to do about Kanga?”
“The best way,” said Rabbit, “would be this.
The best way would be to steal Baby Roo and hide him…”

And then at last Kanga did turn her head… And the moment that her head was turned, Rabbit said in a loud voice, “In you go, Roo!” and in jumped Piglet into Kanga’s pocket…

Bath first “Now then, Roo, dear,” she said, as she took Piglet out of her pocket, “Bed-time.”
“Bath first,” said Kanga in a cheerful voice.

“I am not Roo,” said Piglet loudly. “I am Piglet!”
“Yes, dear, yes,” said Kanga soothingly…

…There was a knock at the door… and in came Christopher Robin.

Tell Kanga

“Christopher Robin! Christopher Robin!” cried Piglet. “Tell Kanga who I am! She keeps saying I’m Roo. I’m not Roo, am I?”
Christopher Robin looked at him very carefully, and shook his head.
“You can’t be Roo,” he said, “because I’ve just seen Roo playing in Rabbit’s house.”
“Well!” said Kanga. “Fancy that! Fancy my making a mistake like that.”

Quiet afternoon

So Kanga and Roo stayed in the Forest.
And every Tuesday Roo spent the day with his great friend Rabbit,
and every Tuesday Kanga spent the day with her great friend Pooh, teaching him to jump,
and every Tuesday Piglet spent the day with his great friend Christopher Robin.
So they were all happy again.


Chapter VIII

~ In Which ~

Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition
to the North Pole

As soon as he saw the Big Boots,
Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen.

Big boots

“Good-morning, Christopher Robin,” he called out.
“Hallo, Pooh Bear. I can’t get this boot on.”
That’s bad,” said Pooh.
“Do you think you could very kindly lean against me,
‘cos I keep pulling so hard that I fall over backwards.”

expotition

“We are all going on an Expedition,” said Christopher Robin, as he got up and brushed himself…”
“Going on an Expotition?” said Pooh eagerly. “I don’t think I’ve ever been on one of those…”
“Expedition, silly old Bear… We’re going to discover the North Pole.”pole

“Pooh,” said Christopher Robin, “where did you find that pole?”
Pooh looked at the pole in his hands.
“I just found it,” he said. “I thought it ought to be useful. I just picked it up.”
“Pooh,” said Christopher Robin solemnly, “the Expedition is over. You have found the North Pole!”

* * *

They stuck the pole in the ground,
and Christopher Robin tied a message on to it.

NORTH POLE
DISCOVERED BY POOH
POOH FOUND IT

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Then they all went home again. And I think, but I am not quite sure, that Roo had a hot bath and went straight to bed. But Pooh went back to his own house, and feeling very proud of what he had done, had a little something to revive himself. *


Chapter IX

~ In Which ~

Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water

It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet told himself that never in all his life, and he was goodness knows how old — three, was it, or four? — never had he seen so much rain. Days and days and days.surrounded

He left the window and began to search his house, all of it that wasn’t under water, and at last he found a pencil and a small piece of dry paper, and a bottle with a cork to it. And he wrote on one side of the paper:

HELP!
PIGLET (ME)

And on the other side:

IT’S ME PIGLET, HELP HELP.

help

Then he put the paper in the bottle, and he corked the bottle up as tightly as he could, and he leant out of his window as far as he could… and he threw the bottle as far as he could throw — splash!

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“I had a Very Important Missage sent me in a bottle, and owing to having got some water in my eyes, I couldn’t read it, so I brought it to you. On my boat.

Christopher Robin read the message aloud.
“We must rescue him at once!”

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Well, you can imagine his joy
when at last he saw the good ship…
coming over the sea to rescue him.


Chapter X

~ In Which ~

Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party
and We Say Good-bye

party1 This party,” said Christopher Robin,” is a party because of what someone did, and we all know who it was, and it’s his party, because of what he did, and I’ve got a present for him and here it is.” party2

…They were all saying… “Open it, Pooh,” “What is it, Pooh?” “I know what it is,” “No, you don’t” and other helpful remarks of this sort.

presentWhen Pooh saw what it was, he nearly fell down, he was so pleased. It was a special Pencil Case. There were pencils in it marked “B” for Bear, and pencils marked “HB” for Helping Bear, and pencils marked “BB” for Brave Bear. There was a knife…india rubber…a ruler…

Blue Pencils
Red Pencils
Green Pencils

And all these lovely things were in little pockets of their own in a Special Case which shut with a click when you clicked it. And they were all for Pooh.

goodbye

Later on, when they had all said
“Good-bye” and “Thank-you”
to Christopher Robin,
Pooh and Piglet walked home
thoughtfully together in the golden evening,
and for a long time they were silent.

* * *

He gave a deep sigh, picked his bear up by the leg and walked off to the door, trailing Winnie-the-Pooh behind him.

At the door he turned and said “Coming to see me have my bath?”
“I might,” I said.
“Was Pooh’s pencil case any better than mine?”
“It was just about the same,” I said.

He nodded and went out…
and in a moment I heard Winnie-the-Pooh
bump, bump, bump — going up the stairs behind him.

bump

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Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and
his Bear will always be playing…
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  1. Saschamarlowe ütles,

    22 juuni 2009 kell 1:00

    hi


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