“Look, Pooh!” said Piglet suddenly.
“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 the 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 a sudden Piglet felt that it was a much nicer day than he
had thought it was. All warm and sunny…….
“Pooh!” he cried “I believe it’s Tigger
and Roo!” “
So it is,” said Pooh. “I thought it was a Jagular
and another Jagular.”