"Balloon?" said Eeyore. "You did say balloon? One of those big coloured things you blow up? Gaiety, song-and-dance, here we are and there we are?"
"Yes, but I'm afraid-I'm very sorry, Eeyore- but when I was running along to bring it you, I fell down."
"Dear, dear, how unlucky! You ran too fast, I expect. You didn't hurt yourself,
There was a very long silence.
"Yes, Eeyore," said Piglet sniffing a little. "Here it is. With-with many happy returns of the day." And he gave Eeyore the small piece of damp rag.
"Is this it?" said Eeyore, a little surprised.
"Thank you, Piglet," said Eeyore. "You don't mind my asking," he went on, "but what colour was this balloon when it-when it was a balloon?"
"I just wondered... Red," he murmured to himself. "My favourite colour...
"I just wondered... About as big as Piglet," he said to himself sadly. "My favourite size. Well, well."
Piglet felt very miserable, and didn't know what to say. He was still opening his mouth to begin something, and then deciding that it wasn't any good saying that, when he heard a shout from the other side of the river, and there was
Pooh.
"Many happy returns of the day," called out Pooh, forgetting that he had said it
"Thank you, Pooh, I'm having them," said Eeyore gloomily.
"I've brought you a little present," said Pooh excitedly.
"I've had it," said Eeyore.
Pooh had now splashed across the stream to Eeyore, and Piglet was sitting a little way off, his head in his paws, snuffling to himself.
"It's a Useful Pot," said Pooh. "Here it is. And it's got 'A Very Happy Birthday with love from Pooh' written on it. That's what all that writing is. And it's
When Eeyore saw the pot, he became quite excited.
"Why!" he said. "I believe my Balloon will just go into that Pot!"
"Oh, no, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Balloons are much too big to go into Pots. What
"Not mine," said Eeyore proudly. "Look, Piglet!" And as Piglet looked sorrowfully round, Eeyore picked the balloon up with his teeth, and placed it carefully in the pot; picked it out and put it on the ground; and then picked it
up again and put it carefully back.
"Doesn't it?" said Eeyore. "It goes in and out like anything."
"I'm very glad," said Pooh happily, "that I thought of giving you a Useful Pot
"I'm very glad," said Piglet happily, "that thought of giving you something to
But Eeyore wasn't listening. He was taking the balloon out, and putting it back
"And didn't I give him anything?" asked Christopher Robin sadly.
"Of course you did," I said. "You gave him don't you remember-a little-a
"You were so busy getting his party ready for him. He had a cake with icing on the top, and three candles, and his name in pink sugar? and "
Winnie-The-Pooh - Chapter 7
...IN WHICH KANGA AND BABY ROO COME TO THE FOREST, AND PIGLET HAS A BATH
NOBODY seemed to know where they came from, but there they were in the Forest:
Kanga and Baby Roo. When Pooh asked Christopher Robin,
"How did they come here?" Christopher Robin said, "In the Usual Way, if you know what I mean, Pooh," and Pooh, who didn't, said "Oh!" Then he nodded his head twice and said, "In the Usual Way. Ah!" Then he went to call upon his friend
Piglet to see what he thought about it. And at Piglet's house he found Rabbit.
