"A_A_Milne_-_The_House_at_Pooh_Corner" - читать интересную книгу автора (Milne A A)

Are growing.

He sang it like that, which is much the best way of singing it, and
when he had finished, he waited for Piglet to say that, of all the Outdoor
Hums for Snowy Weather he had ever heard, this was the best. And, after
thinking the matter out carefully, Piglet said:

"Pooh," he said solemnly, "it isn't the toes so much as the ears."

By this time they were getting near Eeyore's Gloomy Place, which was
where he lived, and as it was still very snowy behind Piglet's ears, and he
was getting tired of it, they turned into a little pine-wood, and sat down
on the gate which led into it. They were out of the snow now, but it was
very cold, and to keep themselves warm they sang Pooh's song right through
six times, Piglet doing the tiddely-poms and Pooh doing the rest of it, and
both of them thumping on the top of the gate with pieces of stick at the
proper places.

And in a little while they felt much warmer, and were able to talk
again.

"I've been thinking," said Pooh, "and what I've been thinking about is
this. I've been thinking about Eeyore."

"What about Eeyore?"

"Well, poor Eeyore has nowhere to live."

"Nor he has," said Piglet.

"You have a house, Piglet, and I have a house, and they are very good
houses. And Christopher Robin has a house, and Owl and Kanga and Rabbit
have houses, and even Rabbit's friends and relations have houses or
somethings, but poor Eeyore has nothing. So what I've been thinking is:
Let's build him a house."

"That," said Piglet, "is a Grand Idea. Where shall we build it?"

"We will build it here," said Pooh, "just by this wood, out of the
wind, because this is where I thought of it. And we will call this Pooh
Corner. And we will build an Eeyore House with sticks at Pooh Corner for
Eeyore."

"There was a heap of sticks on the other side of the wood," said
Piglet. "I saw them. Lots and lots. All piled up."

"Thank you, Piglet," said Pooh. "What you have just said will be a
Great Help to us, and because of it I could call this place Poohanpiglet
Corner if Pooh Corner didn't sound better, which it does, being smaller and
more like a corner. Come along."