Winnie the Pooh: Piglet Finds a Heffalump

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It's finally March and here in Idaho the sun is coming out , and nothing reminds me of a spring day like the classic stories of Winnie the Pooh . This is one of our most requested books . So I'm looking forward to reading the chapter in which Piglet finds a heffalump . So snuggle up in your blankets and have sweet dreams , thank you .

One day , when Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh and Piglet were all talking together , christopher Robin finished the mouthful he was eating and said , carelessly I saw a heffalump today , piglet . What was it doing ? Asked Piglet . Just lumping along , said Christopher Robin . I don't think it saw me .

I saw one once , said Piglet , at least I think I did , he said Only , perhaps it wasn't so did I , said Pooh , wondering what a heffalump was like . You don't often see them , said Christopher Robin . Carelessly . Not now , said Piglet , not at this time of year , said Pooh .

Then they all talked about something else until it was time for Pooh and Piglet to go home together . At first , as they stumped along the path which edged the hundred-acre wood , they didn't say much to each other .

But when they came to the stream and had helped each other cross the stepping stones and were able to walk side by side again over the heather , they began to talk in a friendly way about this and that , and Piglet said If you see what I mean , pooh , and Pooh said it's just what I think myself , piglet and Pigoh said .

It's just what I think myself , piglet and Piglet said . But on the other hand , pooh , we must remember . And Pooh said Quite true , piglet , although I had forgotten it for the moment . And then , just as they came to the six pine trees , pooh looked round to see that nobody else was listening and said in a very solemn voice Piglet , I have decided something .

What have you decided , pooh ? I have decided to catch a heffalump . Pooh nodded his head several times as he said this and waited for Piglet to say how , or , pooh , you couldn't , or something helpful of that sort . But Piglet said nothing . The fact was , piglet was wishing that he had thought about it first .

I shall do it , said Pooh , after waiting a little longer , by means of a trap , and it must be a cunning trap . So you will have to help me , piglet . Who said Piglet , feeling quite happy again , now I will . And then he said how shall we do it ? And Pooh said that's just it , how . And then they sat down together . And Pooh said that's just it , how .

And then they sat down together to think it out . Pooh's first idea was that they should dig a very deep pit and then the heffalump would come along and fall into the pit . And why , said Piglet ? And then the heffalump would come along and fall into the pit . And why , said Piglet , why ? What said Pooh ? Why would he fall in ?

Pooh rubbed his nose with his paw and said that the heffalump might be walking along humming a little song and looking up at the sky wondering if it would rain , and so he wouldn't see the very deep pit until he was halfway down , when it would be too late .

Piglet said that this was a very good trap , but supposing it were raining already , pooh rubbed his nose again and said that he hadn't thought of that .

And then he brightened up and said that if it were raining already , the heffalump would be looking at the sky wondering if it would clear up , and so he wouldn't see the very deep pit until he was halfway down , when it would be too late . Piglet said that now that this point had been explained , he thought it was a cunning trap .

Pooh was very proud when he heard this and he felt that the heffalump was as good as caught already . But there was just one thing which had to be thought about , and it was this when should they dig the very deep pit ? Piglet said that the best place would be somewhere where Heflump was just before he fell into it , only about a foot farther on .

But then he would see us digging it , said Pooh . Not if he was looking at the sky , you would suspect , said Pooh , if he happened to look down . He thought for a long time and then added sadly , it isn't as easy as I thought . I suppose that's why heffalumps hardly ever get caught . That must be it , said Piglet .

They sighed and got up , and when they had taken a few gorse prickles out of themselves they sat down again . And all the time Pooh was saying to himself If only I could think of something . For he felt sure that a very clever brain could catch a heffalump , if only he knew the right way to go about it .

Suppose he said to Piglet "'you wanted to catch me ? "'how would you do it' ? "'well' said Piglet , "'i should do it like this "'I should make a trap , "'and I put a jar of honey in the trap , "'and you would smell it . "'and you would go in after it .

"'and I would go in after it , said Pooh excitedly , only very carefully so as not to hurt myself , and I would get the jar of honey and I should lick round the edges , first of all pretending that there wasn't any more , you know , and then I should walk away and think about it a little , and then I should come back and start looking in the middle of the

jar and then , yes , well , never mind about that , there you would be , and there I should catch you . Now the first thing to think of is what do heffalumps like ? I should think acorns , wouldn't . You Will get a lot of . I say wake up , pooh .

Pooh , who had gone into a happy dream , woke up with a start and said that honey was a much more trappy thing than acorns .

Piglet didn't think so , and they were just going to argue about it when Piglet remembered that if they put acorns in the trap , he would have to find the acorns , but if they put honey , then Pooh would have to give up some of his own honey . So he said All right , honey .

Then , just as Pooh remembered it too and was going to say All right , acorns , honey , said Piglet to himself in a thoughtful way , as if it were now settled , I'll dig the pit while you go and get the honey . Very well , said Pooh , and he stumped off .

As soon as he got home he went to the larder and he stood on a chair and he took down a very large jar of honey from the top shelf . It had honey written on it but just to make sure , he took off the paper cover and looked at it and it looked just like honey . But you never can tell , said Pooh .

I remember my uncle saying once that he had seen cheese just this color . So he put his tongue in and took a large lick . Yes , he said , it is no doubt about that . And honey , I should say , right down to the bottom of the jar . Unless , of course , he said somebody put cheese in at the bottom just for a joke .

Perhaps I'd better go a little further , just in case , in case Hufflumps don't like cheese , same as me . Ah , and he gave a deep sigh . I was right , it is honey , right the way down . Having made certain of this , he took the jar back to Piglet and Piglet looked up from the bottom of his very deep pit and said Got it ?

And Pooh said yes , but it isn't quite a full jar . And he threw it down to Piglet and Piglet said no , it isn't . Is that all you've got left ? And Pooh said yes , because it was . So Piglet put the jar at the bottom of the pit and climbed out and they went off home together . Well , good night , pooh , said Piglet , when they had got to Pooh's house .

And we meet at six o'clock tomorrow morning by the pine trees and see how many heffalumps we've got in our trap . Six o'clock , piglet . But have you got any string ? No , why do you want string To lead them home with ? Oh , I think heffalumps come if you whistle . Some do and some don't . You never can tell with heffalumps . Well , good night , good night .

And off , piglet trotted to his house , trespassers W , while Pooh made his preparations for bed . Some hours later , just as the night was beginning to steal away , pooh woke up suddenly with a sinking feeling . He had had that sinking feeling before and he knew what it meant . He was hungry .

So he went to the larder and he stood on a chair and reached up to the top shelf and found nothing . That's funny . He thought I know I had a jar of honey there , a full jar full of honey , right up to the top , and it had honey written on it , so that I should know it was honey . That's very funny .

And then he began to wander up and down , wondering where it was and murmuring a murmur to himself Like this it's very funny . Very funny Because I know I had some honey Because it had a label on . Very funny Because I know I had some honey Because it had a label on Saying honey , a globsious 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 . He had murmured this to himself three times in a singing sort of way , when suddenly he remembered he had put it into the cunning trap to catch the heffalump . Bother said Pooh , it all comes of trying to be kind to heffalumps . And he got back into bed but he couldn't sleep .

The more he back into bed , but he couldn't sleep . The more he tried to sleep , the more he couldn't . He tried counting sheep , which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep , and as that was no good , he tried counting heffa-lumps , and that was worse . Heffalumps .

And that was worse because every heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey and eating it all . For some minutes there he lay miserably . But when the 587th heffalump was licking its jaws and saying to itself Very good honey , this I don't know when I've tasted better who could bear it no longer .

He jumped out of bed , he ran out of the house and he ran straight to the six pine trees . The sun was still in bed , but there was a lightness in the sky over the hundred-acre wood which seemed to show that it was waking up and would soon be kicking off the clothes .

In the half-light , the pine trees looked cold and lonely and the very deep pit seemed deeper than it was . And Pooh's jar of honey at the bottom was something mysterious a shape and no more . But as he got nearer to it , his nose told him that it was indeed honey and his tongue came out and began to polish up his mouth ready for it .

Father , said Pooh , as he got his nose inside the jar , a heffalump has been eating it . A heffalump has been eating it . And then he thought a little and said oh no , I did . I forgot . Indeed , he had eaten most of it , but there was a little left at the very bottom of the jar and he pushed his head right in and began to lick .

By and by , the glit woke up . As soon as he woke , he said to himself , oh . Then he said , bravely , yes . And then still more bravely , quite so . But he didn't feel very brave , for the word which was really jiggering about his brain was heffalumps . What was a heffalump like ? Was it fierce ? Did it come when you whistled ? And how did it come ?

Was it fond of pigs at all ? If it was fond of pigs , did it make any difference ? What sort of pig , supposing it was fierce with pigs ? Would it make any difference if the pig had a grandfather called Trespassers William ? He didn't know the answer to any of these questions and he was going to see his first heffalump in about an hour from now .

Of course Pooh would be with him and it was much more friendly with two , him and it was much more friendly with two . But suppose heffalumps were very fierce with pigs and bears . Wouldn't it be better to pretend that he had a headache and couldn't go up to the six pine trees this morning ?

But then suppose that it was a very fine day and there was no heffalump in the trap here . He would be in bed all the morning simply wasting his time for nothing . What should he do ? And then he had a clever idea .

He would go up very quietly to the six pine trees now , peep very cautiously into the trap and see if there was a heffalump there , and if there was he would go back to bed , and if there wasn't he wouldn't . So off he went . At first he thought that there wouldn't be a heffalump in the trap , and then he thought that there would .

And as he got near he was sure that there would , because he could hear it heffalumping about like anything . Oh dear , oh dear , oh dear , said Piglet to himself , and he wanted to run away . But somehow , having got so near , he felt that he must see what Heffalump was like .

So he crept to the side of the trap and looked in , and all the time Winnie the Pooh had been trying to get the honey jar off his head . The more he shook it , the more tightly it stuck . Father , he said inside the jar . And oh , help , and mostly ow .

And he tried bumping it against things , but as he couldn't see what he was , bumping it against , it didn't help him . And he tried to climb out of the trap , but as he could see nothing but jar and not much of that , he couldn't find his way . So so at last he lifted up his head , jar and all , and made a loud , roaring noise of sadness and despair .

And it was at that moment that Piglet looked down that Piglet looked down . Help , help , cried Piglet . A heffalump , a horrible heffalump . And he scampered off as hard as he could , still crying out Help , help . A horrible heffalump , a heffalump , a horrible heffalump , a heffalump , a horrible heffolump .

Huff , huff , a hellable horlump , hull , hull , a huffable hellerump . And he didn't stop crying and scampering until he got to Christopher Robin's house . Whatever's the matter , piglet , said Christopher Robin , who was just getting up . F , said Piglet , breathing so hard that he could hardly speak .

A hell , a heff , a heff , a lump when Up there , said Piglet , waving his paw . What did it look ? like , like , like it had the biggest head you ever saw , Christopher Robin . A great , enormous thing . Like like nothing . A huge , big . Well , like a I don't know . Like an enormous big , nothing Like a jar .

Well , said Christopher Robin putting on his shoes , I shall go and look at it , come on . Piglet wasn't afraid if he had Christopher Robin with him . So off they went . I can hear it , can't you , said Piglet anxiously as they got near . I can hear something , said Christopher Robin .

It was Pooh bumping his head against a tree root he had found there , said Piglet , isn't it awful ? And he held on tight to Christopher Robin's hand .

Suddenly Christopher Robin began to laugh and he laughed and he laughed and he laughed and while he was still laughing , crash went the heffalump's head against the tree root , smash went the jar and out came Pooh's head again .

Then Piglet saw what a foolish piglet he had been and he was so ashamed of himself that he ran straight off home and went to bed with a headache . But Christopher Robin and Pooh went home to breakfast together . Oh bear , said Christopher Robin , how I do love you . So do I , said Christopher Robin , how I do love you no-transcript .