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

end of the Expo--what we're talking about--then let me be the end. But if, every
time I want to sit down for a little rest, I have to brush away half a dozen of
Rabbit's smaller friends-and-relations first, then this isn't an Expo--whatever
it is--at all, it's simply a Confused Noise. That's what I say."
"I see what Eeyore means," said Owl. "If you ask me--"
"I'm not asking anybody," said Eeyore. "I'm just telling everybody. We can look
for the North Pole, or we can play 'Here we go gathering Nuts and May' with the
end part of an ants' nest. It's all the same to me."
There was a shout from the top of the line.
"Come on!" called Christopher Robin.
"Come on!" called Owl.
"We're starting," said Rabbit. "I must go." And he hurried off to the front of
the Expotition with Christopher Robin.
"All right," said Eeyore. "We're going. Only Don't Blame Me."
So off they all went to discover the Pole. And as they walked, they chattered to
each other of this and that, all except Pooh, who was making up a song.
"This is the first verse," he said to Piglet, when he was ready with it.
"First verse of what?"
"My song."
"What song?"
"This one."
"Which one?"
"Well, if you listen, Piglet, you'll hear it."
"How do you know I'm not listening?" Pooh couldn't answer that one, so he began
to sing.
They all went off to discover the Pole,
Owl and Piglet and Rabbit and all;
It's a Thing you Discover, as I've been tole
By Owl and Piglet and Rabbit and all.
Eeyore, Christopher Robin and 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."