It was the last day of summer in the Hundred-Acre Wood. Pooh and Christopher Robin were having a grand time playing on the Enchanted Hill.Christopher Robin had some important news, but he wasn't quite sure how to tell it to tell it to Pooh.
Finally, Christopher Robin said, "Pooh, if you ever need me and I'm not around , you mudt remember this: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
"And what's most important to know is that even if we're apart, I shall always be with you."
The next morning, Pooh rushed out to play in the leaves and found a honey pot. Of course, he wanted to eat all the honey right away. But he wasn't sure he should. So he set off to ask Christopher Robin.
But Pooh couldn't find Christopher Robin. Instead, he found Piglet high up in a tree, squeaking with fear. "Whatever are you doing up there, Piglet?" asked Pooh.
"I'm learning not to be afraid of heights," Piglet explained - just as he started to fall. Tigger tried to bounce up to catch Piglet. But his tail wasn't strong enough foe such a big bounce. (Or so he thought.)
Luckily, Piglet fell right into Tigger's arms.
Pooh went to see Rabbit, but Rabbit didn't know where Christopher Robin was, either. Rabbit spotted a note stuck to the honey pot, but he couldn't read it because it was covered with honey.
Owl didn't let that stop him. He read around the honey. This note is from Christopher Robin," said Owl. "He's gone away to a terrible place called SKULL! He needs our help!"
Pooh decided to rescue Christopher Robin. Owl drew a map of how to reach him in the Eye of the Skull, beyoun the Forbidden Mountains.
Piglet didn't like the sound of that. "Are there monsters there?" he fretted.
"Oh, thank you, I nearly forgot!" Owl said , quickly adding monsters to his map.
"There are heffalumps, woozles, jagulars...and fabled Skullasaurus!"
No one knew what a Skullasaurus was (including Owl) and everyone was afraid of it.
Still , for Christopher Robin's sake, his friends set off to save him.
They crossed the bridge from the Hundred-Acre Wood into the Great Unknown.
Before long, Pooh said, "I wonder if those rather forbidden-looking things up ahead might be the Forbidden Mountains."
But Rabbit did not trust his eyes. "We must follow the map," he declared.
Soon the friends were completely lost. They found themselves near a dark cave.Piglet looked up. "Skuh - skuh - skuh - SKULL!" he stammered.
The friends suddenly realized they had reached Skull Cave! Pooh rush inside to save Christopher Robin.
The others hesitated outside. Then they heard a horrible rumbling.
"The Skullasaurus!" Piglet squeaded. It's getting c-c-closer!"
"And hungry!" added Tigger.
Without another thought, they all rushed into the cave.
It was a huge place, with tunnels leading everywhere. Pooh took a wrong turn, slipped, and rolled away from his friends. The shining, crystal-covered walls echoed with more terrible rumbling.
"The Skullasaurus got Pooh!" Tigger cried. Then Rabbit spotted an opening high in the cave. It's the Eye of the Skull!" he called.
"We must rescue Christopher Robin - for Pooh's sake," said Eeyore. "That is, if anybidy has an idea hoe to get up there."
Rabbit looked at the map. "This is useless," he said in disgust. "I'm not smart enough to figure this out." But after a moment, Rabbit came up with a plan. "Tigger, you bounce Piglet up to the ledge. And, Piglet, you toss that vine to us," he said.
Tigger didn't think his tail was strong enough for the bounce. Piglet was afraid of bouncing that high. But they knew they had to do something to save Christopher Robin and Pooh.
And-what do you know-the plan worked! Christopher Robin's advice to Pooh was true for all of them: Rabbit was smarter than he had seemed. Tigger was stronger. And Piglet was braver. The friends reached the Eye of the Skull and found Christopher Robin. (Or, actually, he found them.)
But Christopher Robin was confused. "I wasn't in any danger. I was just in school," he said. Then a horrible growling rumbled from deep inside the cave.
"Oh," Piglet sobbed, "now the Skullasaurus wants to eat us, too!" Christopher Robin shook his head. "I know that sound," he said.
Christopher Robin lowered a pot of honey into the cave. When he pulled it up again, the pot was empty of honey and full of bear.
The rumbling had stopped. The noise of the Skullasaurus had only been the grumbling of Pooh's tummy!
In fact, all the things the friends had been afraid of didn't seem scary any longer…now that they were together.
Where's my honey?
It’s very, very funny,‘Cos I know I had some honey;
‘Cos it had a label on,
Saying HUNNY.
A goloptious full-up pot too,
And I don’t know where it’s got to,
No, I don’t know where it’s gone-
Well, it’s funny.
Aesop's Fable
The Wolf and the Lamb
WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born."
Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well."
"No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying,
"Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations."
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
