Pooh was very excited when he heard this, and suggested that they should have an Expotition to discover the East Pole, but Christopher Robin had thought of something else to do with Kanga; so Pooh went out to discover the East Pole by himself. Whether he discovered it or not, I forget; but he was so tired when he got home that, in the very middle of his supper, after he had been eating for little more than half-an-hour, he fell fast asleep in his chair, and slept and slept and slept.
Then suddenly he was dreaming. He was at the East Pole, and it was a very cold pole with the coldest sort of snow and ice all over it. He had found a beehive to sleep in, but there wasnтАЩt room for his legs, so he had left them outside. And Wild Woozles, such as inhabit the East Pole, came and nibbled all the fur off his legs to make nests for their Young. And the more they nibbled, the colder his legs got, until suddenly he woke up with an Ow! тБатАФand there he was, sitting in his chair with his feet in the water, and water all round him!
He splashed to his door and looked out.тБатАКтБатАж
тАЬThis is Serious,тАЭ said Pooh. тАЬI must have an Escape.тАЭ
So he took his largest pot of honey and escaped with it to a broad branch of his tree, well above the water, and then he climbed down again and escaped with another potтБатАКтБатАж and when the whole Escape was finished, there was Pooh sitting on his branch, dangling his legs, and there, beside him, were ten pots of honey.тБатАКтБатАж
Two days later, there was Pooh, sitting on his branch, dangling his legs, and there, beside him, were four pots of honey.тБатАКтБатАж
Three days later, there was Pooh, sitting on his branch, dangling his legs, and there beside him, was one pot of honey.
Four days later, there was PoohтБатАКтБатАж
And it was on the morning of the fourth day that PigletтАЩs bottle came floating past him, and with one loud cry of тАЬHoney!тАЭ Pooh plunged into the water, seized the bottle, and struggled back to his tree again.
тАЬBother!тАЭ said Pooh, as he opened it. тАЬAll that wet for nothing. WhatтАЩs that bit of paper doing?тАЭ
He took it out and looked at it.
тАЬItтАЩs a Missage,тАЭ he said to himself, тАЬthatтАЩs what it is. And that letter is a P , and so is that, and so is that, and P means тАШPooh,тАЩ so itтАЩs a very important Missage to me, and I canтАЩt read it. I must find Christopher Robin or Owl or Piglet, one of those Clever Readers who can read things, and they will tell me what this missage means. Only I canтАЩt swim. Bother!тАЭ