"Mline, AA - Winnie the Pooh, Book 1" - читать интересную книгу автора (Milne A A)

haycorns." "Honey," said Piglet to himself in a thoughtful way, as if it were
now settled. "I'll dig the pit, while you go and get the honey."
"Very well," said Pooh, and he stumped off.
As soon as he got home, he went to the larder; and he stood on a chair, and took
down a very large jar of honey from the top shelf. It had HUNNY written on it,
but, just to make sure, he took off the paper cover and looked at it, and it
looked just like honey. "But you never can tell," said Pooh. "I remember my
uncle saying once that he had seen cheese just this colour." So he put his
tongue in, and took a large lick. "Yes," he said, "it is. No doubt about that.
And honey, I should say, right down to the bottom of the jar. Unless, of
course," he said, "somebody put cheese in at the bottom just for a joke. Perhaps
I had better go a little further . . . just in case . . . in case Heffalumps
don't like cheese . . . same as me. . . . Ah!" And he
gave a deep sigh. "I was right. It is honey, right the way down."
Having made certain of this, he took the jar back to Piglet, and Piglet looked
up from the bottom of his Very Deep Pit, and said, "Got it?" and Pooh said,
"Yes, but it isn't quite a full jar," and he threw it down to Piglet, and Piglet
said, "No, it isn't! Is that all you've got left?" and Pooh said, "Yes." Because
it was. So Piglet put the jar at the bottom of the Pit, and climbed out, and
they went off home together.
"Well, good night, Pooh," said Piglet, when they had got to Pooh's house. "And
we meet at six o'clock to-morrow morning by the Pine Trees, and see how many
Heffalumps we've got in our Trap."
"Six o'clock, Piglet. And have you got any string?"
"No. Why do you want string?"
"To lead them home with."
"Oh! . . . I think Heffalumps come if you whistle."
"Some do and some don't. You never can tell with Heffalumps. Well, good night!"
"Good night!"
And off Piglet trotted to his house TRESPASSERS W, while Pooh made his
preparations for bed.
Some hours later, just as the night was beginning to steal away, Pooh woke up
suddenly with a sinking feeling. He had had that sinking feeling before, and he
knew what it meant. He was hungry. So he went to the larder, and he stood on a
chair and reached up to the top shelf, and
found--nothing.
"That's funny," he thought. "I know I had a jar of honey there. A full jar, full
of honey right up to the top, and it had HUNNY written on it, so that I should
know it was honey. That's very funny." And then he began to wander up and down,
wondering where it was and murmuring a murmur to himself. Like this:

It's very, very funny,
'Cos I know I had some honey :
'Cos it had a label on,
Saying HUNNY,
A goloptious full-up pot too,
And I don't know where it's got to,
No, I don't know where it's gone--
Well, it's funny.