“I shan’t say anything,” said Pooh at last. “I shall just hum to myself, as if I was waiting for something.”

“Then perhaps he’ll say, ‘Ho- ho !’ again?” suggested Piglet anxiously.

“He will,” said Pooh.

Piglet’s ears twitched so quickly that he had to lean them against the side of the Trap to keep them quiet.

“He will say it again,” said Pooh, “and I shall go on humming. And that will Upset him. Because when you say ‘Ho- ho ’ twice, in a gloating sort of way, and the other person only hums, you suddenly find, just as you begin to say it the third time⁠—that⁠—well, you find⁠—”

“What?”

“That it isn’t,” said Pooh.