Eeyore
looses a Tail
The Grey Old Donkey, Eeyore, stood by himself in a thistly corner of the forest, his fron 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 to hear 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.
'Well, 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?'
'Nothing.'
'Let's have a look,' said Eeyore, and he turned slowly round to
hte place where his tail had been a little while ago, and then,
finding that he couldn't catch it up, he turned round the other
way, until he came back to where he was at first, and then he put
his head down and looked between his front legs, and at last he
said, with a long, sad sigh,'I believe you're right.'
'Of course I'm right,' said Pooh.
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