Why we are having a Contradiction is because last week when Christopher Robin said to me, "What about that story you were going to tell me about what happened to Pooh when——" I happened to say very quickly, "What about nine times a hundred and seven?" And when we had done that one, we had one about cows going through a gate at two a minute, and there are three hundred in the field, so how many are left after an hour and a half? We find these very exciting, and when we have been excited quite enough, we curl up and go to sleep ... and Pooh, sitting wakeful a little longer on his chair by our pillow, thinks Grand Thoughts to himself about Nothing, until he, too, closes his eyes and nods his head, and follows us on tip-toe into the Forest. There, still, we have magic adventures, more wonderful than any I have told you about; but now, when we wake up in the morning, they are gone before we can catch hold of them. How did the last one begin? "One day when Pooh was walking in the Forest, there were one hundred and seven cows on a gate...." No, you see, we have lost it. It was the best, I think. Well, here are some of the other ones, all that we shall remember now. But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there ... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

A. A. M.

Contents

I.[IN WHICH A House Is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore]
II.[IN WHICH Tigger Comes to the Forest and Has Breakfast]
III.[IN WHICH A Search Is Organized, and Piglet Nearly Meets the Heffalump Again]
IV.[IN WHICH It Is Shown That Tiggers Don't Climb Trees]
V.[IN WHICH Rabbit Has a Busy Day, and We Learn What Christopher Robin Does in the Mornings]
VI.[IN WHICH Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins In]
VII.[IN WHICH Tigger Is Unbounced]
VIII.[IN WHICH Piglet Does a Very Grand Thing]
IX.[IN WHICH Eeyore Finds the Wolery and Owl Moves Into It]
X.[IN WHICH Christopher Robin and Pooh Come to an Enchanted Place, and We Leave Them There]

THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER

CHAPTER I

IN WHICH A House Is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore