Winnie the Pooh

And Rabbit's relations all went too

And where the Pole was none of them knew...

Sing Hey! for Owl and Rabbit and all!

'Hush!' said Christopher Robin turning round to Pooh, 'we're just coming to a

Dangerous Place.'

'Hush!' said Pooh turning round quickly to Piglet.

'Hush!' said Piglet to Kanga.

'Hush!' said Kanga to Owl, while Roo said

'Hush!' several times to himself, very quietly.

'Hush!' said Owl to Eeyore.

'Hush!' said Eeyore in a terrible voice to all Rabbit's friends-and-relations, and 'Hush!' they said hastily to each other all down the line, until it got to the last one of all. And the last and smallest friend-and-relation was so upset to find that the whole Expotition was saying 'Hush!' to him, that he buried himself head downwards in a crack in the ground, and stayed there for two days until the danger was over, and then went home in a great hurry, and lived quietly with his Aunt ever-afterwards. His name was Alexander Beetle.

They had come to a stream which twisted and tumbled between high rocky banks,

and Christopher Robin saw at once how dangerous it was.

'It's just the place,' he explained, 'for an Ambush.'

'What sort of bush?' whispered Pooh to Piglet. 'A gorse-bush?'

'My dear Pooh,' said Owl in his superior way, 'don't you know what an Ambush

is?'

'Owl,' said Piglet, looking round at him severely, 'Pooh's whisper was a

perfectly private whisper, and there was no need-'

'An Ambush,' said Owl, 'is a sort of Surprise.'

'So is a gorse-bush sometimes,' said Pooh.

'An Ambush, as I was about to explain to Pooh,' said Piglet, 'is a sort of

Surprise.'

'If people jump out at you suddenly, that's an Ambush,' said Owl.

'It's an Ambush, Pooh, when people jump at you suddenly,' explained Piglet.

Pooh, who now knew what an Ambush was, said that a gorse-bush had sprung at him suddenly one day when he fell off a tree, and he had taken six days to get all

the prickles out of himself.

'We are not talking about gorse-bushes,' said Owl a little crossly.

'I am,' said Pooh.

They were climbing very cautiously up the stream now, going from rock to rock, and after they had gone a little way they came to a place where the banks widened out at each side, so that on each side of the water there was a level strip of grass on which they could sit down and rest. As soon as he saw this,

Christopher Robin called 'Halt!' and they all sat down and rested.

'I think,' said Christopher Robin, 'that we ought to eat all our Provisions now,