Winnie the Pooh

so that we shan't have so much to carry.'

'Eat all our what?' said Pooh.

'All that we've brought,' said Piglet, getting to work.

'That's a good idea,' said Pooh, and he got to work too.

'Have you all got something?' asked Christopher Robin with his mouth full.

'All except me,' said Eeyore. 'As Usual.' He looked round at them in his

melancholy way.

I suppose none of you are sitting on a thistle by any chance?'

'I believe I am,' said Pooh. 'Ow!' He got up, and looked behind him. 'Yes, I was. I thought so.'

'Thank you, Pooh. If you've quite finished with it.' He moved across to Pooh's

place, and began to eat.

'It doesn't do them any Good, you know, sitting on them,' he went on, as he looked up munching. 'Takes all the Life out of them. Remember that another time, all of you. A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the

difference.'

As soon as he had finished his lunch Christopher Robin whispered to Rabbit, and

Rabbit said 'Yes, yes, of course,' and they walked a little way up the stream

together.

'I didn't want the others to hear,' said Christopher Robin.

'Quite so,' said Rabbit, looking important.

'It's-I wondered-It's only-Rabbit, I suppose you don't know, What does the

North Pole look like?'

'Well,' said Rabbit, stroking his whiskers. 'Now you're asking me.'

'I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten,' said Christopher Robin

carelessly.

'It's a funny thing,' said Rabbit, 'but I've sort of forgotten too, although I

did know once.'

'I suppose it's just a pole stuck in the ground?'

'Sure to be a pole,' said Rabbit, 'because of calling it a pole, and if it's a pole, well, I should think it would be sticking in the ground, shouldn't you,

because there'd be nowhere else to stick it.'

'Yes, that's what I thought.'

'The only thing,' said Rabbit, 'is, where is it sticking?'

'That's what we're looking for,' said Christopher Robin.

They went back to the others. Piglet was lying on his back, sleeping peacefully.

Roo was washing his face and paws in the stream, while Kanga explained to everybody proudly that this was the first time he had ever washed his face himself, and Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopedia and Rhododendron to which Kanga wasn't listening.

'I don't hold with all this washing,' grumbled Eeyore. 'This modern

Behind-the-ears nonsense. What do you think, Pooh?'

'Well, said Pooh, 'I think-'

But we shall never know what Pooh thought, for there came a sudden squeak from