“Just here,” said Eeyore.

“Made of sticks?”

“Yes.”

“Oh!” said Piglet.

“What?” said Eeyore.

“I just said ‘Oh!’ ” said Piglet nervously. And so as to seem quite at ease he hummed Tiddely-pom once or twice in a what-shall-we-do-now kind of way.

“You’re sure it was a house?” said Pooh. “I mean, you’re sure the house was just here?”

“Of course I am,” said Eeyore. And he murmured to himself, “No brain at all some of them.”

“Why, what’s the matter, Pooh?” asked Christopher Robin.