тАЬLetтАЩs have a look,тАЭ said Eeyore, and he turned slowly round to the place where his tail had been a little while ago, and then, finding that he couldnтАЩt 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, тАЬI believe youтАЩre right.тАЭ
тАЬOf course IтАЩm right,тАЭ said Pooh.
тАЬThat Accounts for a Good Deal,тАЭ said Eeyore gloomily. тАЬIt Explains Everything. No Wonder.тАЭ
тАЬYou must have left it somewhere,тАЭ said Winnie-the-Pooh.
тАЬSomebody must have taken it,тАЭ said Eeyore. тАЬHow Like Them,тАЭ he added, after a long silence.
Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didnтАЩt quite know what. So he decided to do something helpful instead.
тАЬEeyore,тАЭ he said solemnly, тАЬI, Winnie-the-Pooh, will find your tail for you.тАЭ
тАЬThank you, Pooh,тАЭ answered Eeyore. тАЬYouтАЩre a real friend,тАЭ said he. тАЬNot like Some,тАЭ he said.
So Winnie-the-Pooh went off to find EeyoreтАЩs tail.
It was a fine spring morning in the forest as he started out. Little soft clouds played happily in a blue sky, skipping from time to time in front of the sun as if they had come to put it out, and then sliding away suddenly so that the next might have his turn. Through them and between them the sun shone bravely; and a copse which had worn its firs all the year round seemed old and dowdy now beside the new green lace which the beeches had put on so prettily. Through copse and spinney marched Bear; down open slopes of gorse and heather, over rocky beds of streams, up steep banks of sandstone into the heather again; and so at last, tired and hungry, to the Hundred Acre Wood. For it was in the Hundred Acre Wood that Owl lived.
тАЬAnd if anyone knows anything about anything,тАЭ said Bear to himself, тАЬitтАЩs Owl who knows something about something,тАЭ he said, тАЬor my nameтАЩs not Winnie-the-Pooh,тАЭ he said. тАЬWhich it is,тАЭ he added. тАЬSo there you are.тАЭ
Owl lived at The Chestnuts, an old-world residence of great charm, which was grander than anybody elseтАЩs, or seemed so to Bear, because it had both a knocker and a bellpull. Underneath the knocker there was a notice which said:
Ples ring if an rnser is reqird.