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.

THE WISE MAMMA GOOSE Mamma Goose was trying to think. She had left the barnyard because it was so noisy there that she could not collect her wits and had hidden herself between the rows of tall red hollyhocks which border one side of the garden. Here it was quiet. Thinking had always been hard work for Mamma Goose. Her family kept her so busy that she had no time to think anyway. There was always something to be done for the babies. For Mamma Goose had a dozen of the dearest little goslings, and she was very proud of them.