“And how are you?” said Winnie-the-Pooh.
Eeyore shook his head from side to side.
“Not very how,” he said. “I don’t seem to have felt at all how for a long time.”

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]

Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 4 “Eeyore Loses a Tail” (1926)
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