English

The story you’re about to hear is called Winnie-the-Pooh and Eeyore’s Lost Tail by A.A. Milne. This is a LibraryCall adaptation and recording. The Old Gray Donkey, Eeyore, stood by himself in a thistly corner of the forest, his front feet apart, his head to one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "When?" and other times he thought, "Which?"—and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

THE LITTLE GINGERBREAD MAN ONE day, the cook went into the kitchen to make some gingerbread. She took some flour, water, molasses, ginger, and mixed them all together. She then rolled it out into a beautiful, smooth, dark-yellow dough. She took out square and round pans to make cakes. Cook said, “I’m going to make a gingerbread man for little Bobby.” She took a nice round lump of dough for his body, and a smaller lump for his head, which she stretched a little for the neck.