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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?"
"Nothing."


"Let's have a look," said Eeyore, and he turned slowly round to the 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
"That accounts for a Good Deal," said Eeyore gloomily. "It explains Everything.