Winnie the Pooh

'Ah, then you'll be all right,' said Piglet.

'You'll be quite safe with him. Good-bye,' and he trotted off home as quickly as

he could, very glad to be Out of All Danger again.

Christopher Robin came slowly down his tree.

'Silly old Bear,' he said, 'what were you doing? First you went round the spinney twice by yourself, and then Piglet ran after you and you went round again together, and then you were just going round a fourth time'

'Wait a moment,' said Winnie-the-Pooh, holding up his paw.

He sat down and thought, in the most thoughtful way he could think. Then he fitted his paw into one of the Tracks... and then he scratched his nose twice, and stood up.

'Yes,' said Winnie-the-Pooh.

'I see now,' said Winnie-the-Pooh.

'I have been Foolish and Deluded,' said he, 'and I am a Bear of No Brain at

All.'

'You're the Best Bear in All the World,' said Christopher Robin soothingly.

'Am I?' said Pooh hopefully. And then he brightened up suddenly.

'Anyhow,' he said, 'it is nearly Luncheon Time.'

So he went home for it.

Winnie-The-Pooh - Chapter 4

...IN WHICH EEYORE LOSES A TAIL AND POOH FINDS ONE

THE Old Grey Donkey, Eeyore, stood by himself in a thistly corner of the forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things.

Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, 'Why?' and sometimes he thought,

'Wherefore?' and sometimes he thought, 'Inasmuch as which?'-and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about. So when Winnie-the-Pooh came stumping along, Eeyore was very glad to be able to stop thinking for a little,

in order to say 'How do you do?' in a gloomy manner to him.

'And how are you?' said Winnie-the-Pooh.

Eeyore shook his head from side to side.

'Not very how,' he said. 'I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.'

'Dear, dear,' said Pooh, 'I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at you.' So

Eeyore stood there, gazing sadly at the ground, and Winnie-the-Pooh walked all

round him once.

'Why, what's happened to your tail?' he said in surprise.

'What has happened to it?' said Eeyore.

'It isn't there!'

'Are you sure?'

'Well, either a tail is there or it isn't there You can't make a mistake about

it. And yours isn't there!'

'Then what is?'