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Eeyore Has a Birthday Pooh looked on admiringly.

"I'm just saying 'A Happy Birthday, said Owl carelessly.

"It's a nice long one," said Pooh, very much impressed by it.

"Well,, of course, I'm saying 'A Very Happy Birthday with love from Pooh.' Naturally it takes a good deal of pencil to say a long thing like that."

"Oh, I see," said Pooh.

While all this was happening, Piglet had gone back to his own house to get Eeyore's balloon. He held it very tightly against himself, so that it shouldn't blow away, and he ran as fast as he could so as to get to Eeyore before Pooh did; for he thought that he would like to be the first one to give a present, just as if he had thought of it without being told by anybody.



And running along, and thinking how pleased Eeyore would be, he didn't look where he was going and suddenly he put his foot in a rabbit hole, and fell down flat on his face.