"I don't know how it is, Christopher Robin, but what with
all this snow and one thing and another, not to mention icicles and such-like,
it isn't so Hot in my field about three o’clock in the morning as some
people think it is. It isn't Close, if you know what I mean - not so as
to be uncomfortable. It isn't Stuffy. In fact, Christopher Robin," he went
on in a loud whisper, "quite-between-ourselves-and-don't-tell anybody,
it's Cold."
"Oh, Eeyore!"
"And I said to myself: The others will be sorry if I'm
getting myself all cold. They haven't got Brains, any of them, only grey
fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think, but
if it goes on snowing for another six weeks or so, one of them will begin
to say to himself: 'Eeyore can't be so very much too Hot about three o'clock
in the morning.' And then it will Get About. And they'll be Sorry."
"Oh, Eeyore!" said Christopher Robin, feeling very sorry
already.
"I don't mean you, Christopher Robin. You're different.
So what it all comes to is that I built myself a house down by my little
wood."
"Did you really? How exciting!"
"The really exciting part," said Eeyore in his most melancholy
voice, "is that when I left it this morning it was there, and when I came
back it wasn't. Not at all, very natural, and it was only Eeyore's house.
But still I just wondered."
Christopher Robin didn't stop to wonder. He was already
back in his house, putting on his waterproof hat, his waterproof boots
and his waterproof mackintosh as fast as he could.
"We'll go and look for it at once, he called out
to Eeyore.
"Sometimes," said Eeyore, "when people have quite finished
taking a person's house, there are one or two bits which they don't want
and are rather glad for the person to take back, if you know what I mean.
So I thought if we just went
"Come on, said Christopher Robin, and off they hurried,
and in a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side
of the pine wood, where Eeyore’s house wasn't any longer.
"There!" said Eeyore. "Not a stick of it left! Of course,
I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain."
But Christopher Robin wasn't listening to Eeyore, he
was listening to something else.
"Can you hear it?" he asked.
"What is it? Somebody laughing?"
''Listen.''
They both listened . . . and they heard a deep gruff
voice saying in a singing voice that the more it snowed the more it went
on snowing and a small high voice tiddely~pomming in between.
"It's Pooh," said Christopher Robin excitedly. .
"Possibly," said Eeyore.
"And Piglet!" said Christopher Robin excitedly.
"Probably," said Eeyore. "What we want is a Trained Bloodhound."