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

So off he went. At first he thought that there wouldn't be a Heffalump in the
Trap, and then he thought that there would, and as he got nearer he was sure
that there would, because he could hear it heffalumping about it like anything.
"Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear!" said Piglet to himself. And he wanted to run
away. But somehow, having got so near, he felt that he must just see what a
Heffalump was like. So he crept to the side of the Trap and looked in.
And all the time Winnie-the-Pooh had been trying to get the honey-jar off his
head. The more he shook it, the more tightly it stuck. "Bother!" he said, inside
the jar, and "Oh, help!" and, mostly, "Ow!" And he tried bumping it against
things, but as he couldn't see what he was bumping it against, it didn't help
him; and he tried to climb out of the Trap, but as he could see nothing but jar,
and not much of that, he couldn't find his way. So at last he lifted up his
head, jar and all, and made a loud, roaring noise of Sadness and Despair . . .
and it was at that moment that Piglet looked down.
"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.
"Whatever's the matter, Piglet?" said Christopher Robin, who was just getting
up.
"Heff," said Piglet, breathing so hard that he could hardly speak, "a Heff--a
Heff--a Heffalump."
"Where?"
"Up there," said Piglet, waving his paw.
"What did it look like?"
"Like--like---- It had the biggest head you ever saw, Christopher Robin. A great
enormous thing, like--like nothing. A huge big--well, like a--I don't know--like
an enormous big nothing. Like a jar."
"Well," said Christopher Robin, putting on his shoes, "I shall go and look at
it. Come on."
Piglet wasn't afraid if he had Christopher Robin with him, so off they went....
"I can hear it, can't you?" said Piglet anxiously, as they got near.
"I can hear something," said Christopher Robin.
It was Pooh bumping his head against a tree-root he had found.
"There!" said Piglet. "Isn't it awful?" And he held on tight to Christopher
Robin's hand.
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 again....
Then Piglet saw what a Foolish Piglet he had been, and he was so ashamed of
himself that he ran straight off home and went to bed with a headache. But
Christopher Robin and Pooh went home to breakfast together.
"Oh, Bear!" said Christopher Robin. "How I do love you!"
"So do I," said Pooh.


Winnie-The-Pooh - Chapter 6