Inga - draft 2 (continued from draft 1)

Draft 2 - Inga

"Oh dear" Piglet felt worried now. "I'd better go fetch Christopher Robin, he'll know what to do!"

When Piglet arrived at Christopher Robin's he was panting and he kept muddling his words.
"What's the matter, Piglet" Christopher Robin asked, holding up his hands.
"It's Pooh" Piglet panted, jumping up and down now, and pulling on C.R.'s hand urgently.

"Pooh?"

"Yes, yes, Pooh, I'm tellin' yer... follow me." Piglet pointed.

They hurried off to Owl's Piglet in the lead.

Meanwhile Pooh dozed in his chair, just as he'd fallen, his arms and legs flung out.
When his snoring startled him awake it seemed to Pooh that Piglet was taking a very long time.

"Here" Piglet said. Stopping at the roots of Owl's beach. They climbed up.
Leaning over Pooh's shoulder, shaking him gently, Christopher Robin asked,
"How are you now?"

"Uhh, hmm" Pooh groaned, holding his belly and then his head too.

They hummed and harred and fussed over Pooh until they heard a 'whosh, whosh'.
"That'll be Owl coming home" Christopher Robin sighed in relief.

"Well, hello Po-oh," Owl hooted.

Christopher Robin quickly explained why they were all gathered at Owl's.

Owl nodded, then in his usually careful way he thought outloud.

"Well it would appear that Pooh came here because he wanted honey, and finding no honey here..."

Christopher Robin, interrupted him to say,
"So Owl, you think Pooh is hungry?"

"Yes - yes quite, that is what I'd thought."

"Well, could you very sweetly go and get his honey for him?"

"Why, yes I suppose I could"

"Here he is", piglet squealed from his lookout by the door.

They carefully gave Pooh bear his jar of honey and after a few pawfuls Pooh already felt much more himself.

He offered honey to all his friend in turn.
"Thank you Piglet for getting Christopher and thank you Christopher for helping and Owl for getting my honey." Pooh said gratefully.

As they said goodbye to Owl, Pooh realised that it was already afternoon. Maybe I'll call it an adventure he thought and go home.
Pooh, Piglet and Christopher Robin walked back arm in arm. As Pooh started humming, Christopher Robin sighed under his breath,
"Dear, silly old bear".

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Winnie the Pooh

An adventure of Winnie-The-Pooh

In which Pooh goes out and Piglet after him

It was a sunny morning in the Hundred Acre Woods.

‘Just the thing’, thought Pooh. ‘Yes, perfect for a nice walk’. He set off, first along the meadow and then along the forest path.

As he walked along, he hummed a little ditty to himself. It went something like this; “oh a sunny, sunny morning, with a honey honey jar……………………….”

It wasn’t until a while later when he sang his ditty a second time that he felt for his honey jar and saw that he’d forgotten it. “Oh Bother” Pooh sighed. ‘Well I’ll just have to go back for it’, he decided.

Looking around Pooh wondered where exactly he was. He wondered if he had walked past those pines. The pine stand did look similar.

‘Well, anyhow,’ Pooh reasoned to himself. ‘If I simply walk back the way I came…that is, walk backwards, so as not to confuse myself, then I shall walk back home.’ And nodding each time he said the word ‘back’ to assure himself that this would work; he began shuffling back.

He even found a rhythm to his feet, and sang; oh a sunny sunny morning, with no honey honey jar, it’s a funny funny feeling  with no honey honey jar…he even thought oh rhyming in ‘runny’ but then decided against it as it reminded him of how delicious runny honey was.

Sometime later, as Pooh was tiring of his fun he walked into something hard. “Ugh” grunted Pooh, rubbing his back. “Ouch, hmm mm” He continued, staring up at the pine he had stumbled into.

The stand of pines seemed familiar. He decided to sit down for a moment, to catch his breath as it were. As he was sitting he held his back, and then his stomach too. Feeling hungry and a little sorry for himself.

Pooh scratched his nose, deep in thought. Yes, he did know these pines. The more he thought about it, the more Pooh realised that yes, these Pines were the ones close to Owl’s house.

“If Owl has some honey… then I wouldn’t have to walk home again,’ Pooh wondered,‘hmm, yes’. With this thought in mind Pooh set off once again – forwards this time.

When Pooh arrived at Owl’s no one answered. Pooh called out. ‘Owl, oh Owl, are you there?’ He pulled on the bell pull and he knocked on the knocker. Finally he pushed on the door and finding it open wandered in. Pooh carefully looked if there was any honey in the kitchen, hoping owl wouldn’t mind. Then, upon finding the cupboards empty, except for some feathers, settled in one of owl’s fireplace chairs.

Now as it happens Piglet had ventured out to go see Pooh, and finding Pooh out, to see Owl. Having arrived, Piglet called up from the forest floor, “Owl? Owl? It’s Piglet”.

Pooh pulled himself out of owl’s chair “Not home” He called.

Piglet seemed a long way down when Pooh leaned through the door. “Oh,” squealed Piglet, “it’s you” “Well, I, I suppose I was looking for yer” Piglet continued.

 Pooh leaned out a little further – feeling queasy now. Piglet’s words became muddled in his head.

“Oh” he said, then again “oh Piglet, I’m not feeling so well”

“Pooh?” Piglet stood on tiptoe.

“Yes, yes I must have the flu” Pooh nodded collapsing back in to owl’s chair.

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Pooh bear rubbed his tummy which was feeling quite empty by now. He climbed the beach tree, pushed on owl’s door.

He felt hungry and a little tired too.

Meanwhile Owl had gone out to visit some relatives.

Soon after noon, Piglet walked to rabbits, hoping to find out what had been shuffling around in the forest. Later, finding Pooh’s house empty, he tried owls. ‘Owl, owl, are you home?’ Piglet called.

Pooh woke, “No, no. He’s not. But I’m here, just resting..."