then thereтАЩs Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldnтАЩt mind about this. But I wonder what Christopher Robin would do?тАЭ
Then suddenly he remembered a story which Christopher Robin had told him about a man on a desert island who had written something in a bottle and thrown it in the sea; and Piglet thought that if he wrote something in a bottle and threw it in the water, perhaps somebody would come and rescue him !
He left the window and began to search his house, all of it that wasnтАЩt under water, and at last he found a pencil and a small piece of dry paper, and a bottle with a cork to it. And he wrote on one side of the paper:
Help!
Piglet (Me)
and on the other side:
ItтАЩs me Piglet, Help Help.
Then he put the paper in the bottle, and he corked the bottle up as tightly as he could, and he leant out of his window as far as he could lean without falling in, and he threw the bottle as far as he could throwтБатАФ splash! тБатАФand in a little while it bobbed up again on the water; and he watched it floating slowly away in the distance, until his eyes ached with looking, and sometimes he thought it was the bottle, and sometimes he thought it was just a ripple on the water which he was following, and then suddenly he knew that he would never see it again and that he had done all that he could do to save himself.
тАЬSo now,тАЭ he thought, тАЬsomebody else will have to do something, and I hope they will do it soon, because if they donтАЩt I shall have to swim, which I canтАЩt, so I hope they do it soon.тАЭ And then he gave a very long sigh and said, тАЬI wish Pooh were here. ItтАЩs so much more friendly with two.тАЭ
When the rain began Pooh was asleep. It rained, and it rained, and it rained, and he slept and he slept and he slept. He had had a tiring day. You remember how he discovered the North Pole; well, he was so proud of this that he asked Christopher Robin if there were any other Poles such as a Bear of Little Brain might discover.
тАЬThereтАЩs a South Pole,тАЭ said Christopher Robin, тАЬand I expect thereтАЩs an East Pole and a West Pole, though people donтАЩt like talking about them.тАЭ