The American Soul
The American Soul
Winnie the Pooh. Chapter IV
What happens when a donkey loses his tail? Find out in our latest episode as we embark on Eeyore's Lost Tail Adventure! Eeyore is in one of his classic gloomy moods, and it’s up to his loyal friend, Winnie the Pooh, to lift his spirits. Join us as Pooh ventures through the enchanting Hundred Acre Wood, meeting quirky forest friends and seeking the wisdom of the wise Owl to solve the mystery of Eeyore’s missing tail. Through whimsical dialogue and charming moments, you'll experience the heartwarming essence of friendship and Pooh’s unwavering determination to comfort his dear friend.
In The Tale of Eeyore’s Bell-Rope, Pooh stumbles upon a surprising discovery that sets the stage for more heartwarming moments. When Pooh realizes that an oddly familiar bell-rope is actually Eeyore’s lost tail, it’s a race against time to reunite the tail with its rightful owner. With the help of Christopher Robin, Pooh succeeds in bringing joy back to Eeyore, culminating in a touching celebration of kindness and camaraderie. Tune in to savor these delightful tales and relish the profound simplicity of helping others in the Hundred Acre Wood.
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Winnie the Pooh by A A Malm, chapter 4, in which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one. The old grey donkey, eeyore, stood by himself in a thistle corner of the forest. Stood by himself in a thistle 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 know quite 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 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 around 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 sigh, sad sigh I believe you're right. Of course I'm right, said Pooh. I believe you're right". Of course I'm right", said Pooh. That accounts for a good deal", said Eeyore gloomily. It explains everything. No wonder you must have left it somewhere", said Winnie the Pooh. Somebody must have taken it, said Eeyore. How like them, he added.
Speaker 1:After a long silence, pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn't quite know what. So he decided to do something helpful instead. To do something helpful instead, eeyore, he said solemnly I, winnie the Pooh, will find your tail for you. Thank you, pooh, answered. Eeyore, you're a real friend, said he, not like some. He said so, winnie the Pooh went off to find Eeyore's tail.
Speaker 1: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 furs all the year round, seemed old and dowdy. Now, beside the new green lace which the beaches had put on so prettily Through, copse and spinning marched bare 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 Al lived, and if anyone knows anything about anything, said Bear to himself, it's Owl who knows something about something he said. Or my name's not Winnie the Pooh, he said. Which it is, he added. So there you are.
Speaker 1:Owl lived at the chestnuts, an old-world resonance of great charm which was grander than anybody else's, or seemed so to bear, because it had both a knocker and a bell-pull. Underneath the knocker there was a notice which said Place ring if an renter is required. Underneath the bell pull. There was a notice which said Please check if an answer is not required. These notices had been written by Christopher Robin, who was the only one in the forest who could spell for Al. Wise, though he was in many ways able to read and write and spell his own name, wool, yet somehow went all to pieces over delicate words like measles and buttered toast.
Speaker 1:Winnie the Pooh read the two notices very carefully, first from left to right and afterwards, in case he had missed some of it, from right to left, then to make quite sure, he knocked and pulled the knocker. And he pulled and knocked the bell rope and he called out in a very loud voice Owl, I require an answer. It's Bear speaking. And the door opened and Owl looked out. Hello Pooh.
Speaker 1:He said How's things? "'terrible and sad', said Pooh, "'because Eeyore, who is a friend of mine, has lost his tail, "'and he's moping about it. "'so could you very kindly tell me how to find it for him'? "'well', said Al, "'the customary procedure in such cases is as follows "'What does customary proceed? Cake mean, said Pooh, for I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. It means the thing to do, as long as it means that I don't mind, said Pooh humbly. The thing to do is as follows First issue a reward.
Speaker 1:Then, just a moment, said Pooh, holding up his paw, what do we do to this? Do we do to this what you were saying? You sneezed, just as you were going to tell me I didn't sneeze. Yes, you did, Al. Excuse me, pooh, I didn't. You can't sneeze without knowing it. Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. What I said was first issue a reward. You're doing it again, said Pooh, sadly. A reward, said Owl very loudly.
Speaker 1:We write a notice to say that we will give a large something to anybody who finds Eeyore's tail. I see, I see, said Pooh, nodding his head, talking about large somethings. He went on dreamily. I generally have a small something about now, about this time in the morning, and he looked wistfully at the cupboard in the corner of Al's parlor Just a mouthful of condensed milk, or what not, with perhaps a lick of honey. Well then, said Al, we write out this notice and we put it up all over the forest. A lick of honey, murmured Bear to himself, or not, as the case may be, and he gave a deep sigh and tried very hard to listen to what Al was saying. But Al went on and on using longer and longer words until at last he came back to where he started and explained that the person to write out this notice was Christopher Robin.
Speaker 1:It was he who wrote the ones on my front door for me. Did you see them, pooh? Did you see them, pooh? For some time now, pooh had been saying yes and no in turn, with his eyes shut to all that Owl was saying. And having said yes, yes, last time, he said no, not at all Now, without really knowing what Owl was talking about. Didn't you see them? Said Al a little surprised. Come and look at them now.
Speaker 1:So they went outside and Pooh looked at the knocker and the notice below it. And he looked at the bell rope and the notice below it, and the more he looked at the bell-rope, the more he felt that he had seen something like it somewhere else sometime before. Handsome bell-rope, isn't it? Said Al. Pooh nodded. It reminds me of something he said.
Speaker 1:But I can't think what? Where did you get it? I just came across it in the forest. It was hanging over a bush and I thought at first somebody lived there. So I rang it and nothing happened. And then I rang it again very loudly and it came off in my hand and as nobody seemed to want it, I took it home and— Ow, said Pooh solemnly, you made a mistake. Somebody did want it. Who? Eeyore? My dear friend Eeyore he was. He was fond of it' "'Fond of it' "'Attached to it', said Winnie the Pooh sadly. So with these words he unhooked it and carried it back to Eeyore, and when Christopher Robin had nailed it on in its right place, again Eeyore frisked about the forest, waving his tail so happily that Winnie the Pooh came over all funny, and had to hurry home for a little snack of something to sustain him and, wiping his mouth, half an hour afterwards he sang to himself proudly who found the tale? I said Pooh. At a quarter to two Only. It was a quarter to eleven really. I found the tale.