“It’s very silly,” said Rabbit, “but just for the moment I⁠—Ah, of course. Come on.⁠ ⁠…”

“Here we are,” said Rabbit ten minutes later. “No, we’re not.⁠ ⁠…”

“Now,” said Rabbit ten minutes later, “I think we ought to be getting⁠—or are we a little bit more to the right than I thought?⁠ ⁠…”

“It’s a funny thing,” said Rabbit ten minutes later, “how everything looks the same in a mist. Have you noticed it, Pooh?”

Pooh said that he had.

“Lucky we know the Forest so well, or we might get lost,” said Rabbit half an hour later, and he gave the careless laugh which you give when you know the Forest so well that you can’t get lost.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.

“Pooh!” he whispered.