Tiggers Don't Climb Trees
Of course they can. Tiggers can do everything.' 'Can they climb trees better then Pooh?' asked Roo,
stopping under the tallest Pine Tree, and looking up at it. 'Climbing
trees is what they do the best,' said Tigger. 'Much better then Poohs.'
'Could they climb this one?' 'They're always climb trees like that,'
said Tigger. 'Up and down all day.' 'Oo Tigger, are they really?' 'I'll
show you,' said Tigger bravely, 'and you can sit on my back and watch
me.' For all the things which he had said Tiggers could do, the only one
he felt really certain about suddenly was climbing trees.
'Oo, Tigger-oo, Tigger-oo. Tigger!' squeaked Roo
excitedly. So he sat on Tigger's back and up they went. And for the
first ten feet Tigger said happily to himself, 'Up we go!' And for the
next ten feet he said: 'I always said Tiggers could climb trees.' And
for the next ten feet he said: 'Not that it's easy, mind you.' And for
the next ten feet he said: 'Of course, there's the coming down too.
Backwards.' And then he said: 'Which will be difficult...' 'Unless one
fell...' 'When it would be...' 'EASY.'
And at the word 'easy', the branch he was standing on broke suddenly
and he just managed to clutch at the one above him as he felt himself
going...and then slowly he got his chin over it...and then one back
paw...and then the other...until at last he was sitting on it, breathing
very quickly, and wishing that he gone for swimming instead. Roo
climbed off, and sat down next to him. 'Oo, Tigger,' he said excitedly, 'are we at the top?' 'No,' said tigger. 'Are we going to the top?' 'NO,' said Tigger...
...'There's something in one of the Pine Trees.' 'So there is!' said Pooh, looking up wonderingly. 'There's an animal.' Piglet
took Pooh's arm, in case Pooh was frightened. 'Is it one of the Fiercer
Animals?' he said, looking the other way. Pooh nodded. 'It's a
Jagular,' he said. 'what do Jagulars do?' asked Piglet, hoping that they
wouldn't. 'They hide in the branches of trees, and drop on you as you
go underneath,' said Pooh. 'Christopher Robin
told me.' 'Perhaps we better hadn't go underneath, Pooh. In case he
dropped and hurt himself.' 'They don't hurt themselves, ' said Pooh.
'They're such very good droppers.'
Piglet
still felt that to be underneath a Very Good Dropper would be a
mistake, and he was just going to hurry back for something which he had
forgotten when the Jagular called out to them. 'Help! Help!' it called.
'That's what Jagulars always do,' said Pooh,
much interested. 'They call "Help! Help!" and then when you look up,
they drop on you,' 'I'm looking down,' cried Piglet loudly, so as the
Jagular shouldn't do the wrong thing by accident. Something very excited
next to the Jagular heard him, and squeaked: Pooh and Piglet! Pooh and
Piglet!' All of sudden Piglet felt that it was a much nicer day then he
had thought it was. All warm and sunny-'Pooh!' he cried. 'I believe it's
Tigger and Roo!'
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