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

man on a desert island who had written something in a bottle and thrown it in
the sea; and Piglet thought that if he wrote something in a bottle and threw it
in the water, perhaps somebody would come and rescue him!
He left the window and began to search his house, all of it that wasn't under
water, and at last he found a pencil and a small piece of dry paper, and a
bottle with a cork to it. And he wrote on one side of the paper:

HELP!
PIGLIT (ME)

and on the other side:

IT'S ME PIGLIT, HELP HELP!

Then he put the paper in the bottle, and he corked the bottle up as tightly as
he could, and he leant out of his window as far as he could lean without falling
in, and he threw the bottle as far as he could throw --splash!--and in a little
while it bobbed up again on the water; and he watched it floating slowly away in
the distance, until his eyes ached with looking, and sometimes he thought it was
the bottle, and sometimes he thought it was just a ripple on the water which he
was following, and then suddenly he knew that he would never see it again and
that he had done all that he could do to save himself.
"So now," he thought, "somebody else will have to do something, and I hope they
will do it soon, because if they don't I shall have to swim, which I can't, so I
hope they do it soon." And then he gave a very long sigh and said, "I wish Pooh
were here. It's so much more friendly with two."

When the rain began Pooh was asleep. It rained, and it rained, and it rained,
and he slept and he slept and he slept. He had had a tiring day. You remember
how he discovered the North Pole; well, he was so proud of this that he asked
Christopher Robin if there were any other Poles such as a Bear of Little Brain
might discover.
"There's a South Pole," said Christopher Robin, "and I expect there's an East
Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them." Pooh was
very excited when he heard this, and suggested that they should have an
Expotition to discover the East Pole, but Christopher Robin had thought of
something else to do with Kanga; so Pooh went out to discover the East Pole by
himself. Whether he discovered it or not, I forget; but he was so tired when he
got home that, in the very middle of his supper, after he had been eating for
little more than half-an-hour, he fell fast asleep in his chair, and slept and
slept and slept.
Then suddenly he was dreaming. He was at the East Pole, and it was a very cold
pole with the coldest sort of snow and ice all over it. He had found a bee-hive
to sleep in, but there wasn't room for his legs, so he had left them outside.
And Wild Woozles, such as inhabit the East Pole, came and nibbled all the fur
off his legs to make Nests for their Young. And the more they nibbled, the
colder his legs got, until suddenly he woke up with an Ow!--and there he was,
sitting in his chair with his feet in the water, and water all round him!
He splashed to his door and looked out....
"This is Serious," said Pooh. "I must have an Escape."