A Laugh For Eeyore

Eyero’s gloomy place looked even more boggy and sad now that the cold, dull days had come to the Forest.  Eeyore stood with his donkey tail between his legs, and his ears down.
Winnie the Pooh looked at him and sighed.
“Oh, Eeyore cheer up!” pleaded Pooh Bear.
“Why?”,sniffied Eeyore.
“Because …” said Pooh.
That didn’t help the miserable donkey at all, so Pooh had to think of something else.
“I’ll make up a cheering-up song for him,” decided Pooh.
Pooh thought for moment, and then began to sing:
“DON”T BE SAD,
“CAUSE IT’S VERY BAD TO BE SAD.
YOU OUGHT TO BE A HAPPY LAD.
BE FULL OF JOY-
A CHEERFUL BOY THEN I”LL BE GLAD
THAT YOU’RE NOT SAD.”
“Is that?” asked Eeyore.  “Is that to cheer me up?”.”It is!” beamed Pooh. “I’m rather good at songs and I think that is one of  my best.  It might even be one of the best songs in the whole world.!”
“The best song in the whole world!” snorted Eeyore.”Well, I think it’s the worst! It’s the worst song I’ve ever heard! It’s laughable that you should think it a god song, really laughable!”
In fact, Eeyore thought it so laughable that he began to laugh in a hee-haw donkey kind of way.  He was laughing unkindly and he was laughing at Pooh, but Pooh did not care.  At least Eeyore was laughing-that was the main thing.  Eeyore hadn’t laughed for ages.
“You can laugh at me as such as you like, Eeyore,as long as you laugh!” said Pooh.  “I’d rather her a laughing donkey than a moaning donkey!”
Pooh hurried away to tell Christopher  Robin that he had actually made Eeyore laugh.  Christopher Robin agreed that he must be a very clever bear indeed!