тАЬI thought it was once . But I suppose it isnтАЩt.тАЭ
тАЬIтАЩd sooner it was yours than EeyoreтАЩs,тАЭ said Piglet.
тАЬSo would I,тАЭ said Pooh.
тАЬ HтБатАФhup! тАЭ said Roo again.
тАЬ AsтБатАФIтБатАФwasтБатАФsaying ,тАЭ said Eeyore loudly and sternly, тАЬas I was saying when I was interrupted by various Loud Sounds, I feel thatтБатАФтАЭ
тАЬHere it is!тАЭ cried Christopher Robin excitedly. тАЬPass it down to silly old Pooh. ItтАЩs for Pooh.тАЭ
тАЬFor Pooh?тАЭ said Eeyore.
тАЬOf course it is. The best bear in all the world.тАЭ
тАЬI might have known,тАЭ said Eeyore. тАЬAfter all, one canтАЩt complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said тАШBother!тАЩ The Social Round. Always something going on.тАЭ
Nobody was listening, for they were all saying тАЬOpen it, Pooh,тАЭ тАЬWhat is it, Pooh?тАЭ тАЬI know what it is,тАЭ тАЬNo, you donтАЩtтАЭ and other helpful remarks of this sort. And of course Pooh was opening it as quickly as ever he could, but without cutting the string, because you never know when a bit of string might be Useful. At last it was undone.
When Pooh saw what it was, he nearly fell down, he was so pleased. It was a Special Pencil Case. There were pencils in it marked тАЬBтАЭ for Bear, and pencils marked тАЬHBтАЭ for Helping Bear, and pencils marked тАЬBBтАЭ for Brave Bear. There was a knife for sharpening the pencils, and india-rubber for rubbing out anything which you had spelt wrong, and a ruler for ruling lines for the words to walk on, and inches marked on the ruler in case you wanted to know how many inches anything was, and Blue Pencils and Red Pencils and Green Pencils for saying special things in blue and red and green. And all these lovely things were in little pockets of their own in a Special Case which shut with a click when you clicked it. And they were all for Pooh.
тАЬOh!тАЭ said Pooh.
тАЬOh, Pooh!тАЭ said everybody else except Eeyore.