A very Grand Thing. An Afternoon

Drawing by E.H. Shepard

But Pooh was thinking too, and he said suddenly to Christopher Robin: 

"Is it a very Grand thing to be an Afternoon, what you said?" 

"A what?" said Christopher Robin lazily, as he listened to something else. 

"On a horse," explained Pooh. 

"A Knight?" 

"Oh, was that it?" said Pooh. "I thought it was a-- Is it as Grand as a King and Factors and all the other things you said?" 

"Well, it's not as grand as a King," said Christopher Robin, and then, as Pooh seemed disappointed, he added quickly, "but it's grander than Factors." 

"Could a Bear be one?" 

"Of course he could!" said Christopher Robin. "I'll make you one." And he took a stick and touched Pooh on the shoulder, and said, "Rise, Sir Pooh de Bear, most faithful of all my Knights." 

So Pooh rose and sat down and said "Thank you," which is a proper thing to say when you have been made a Knight, and he went into a dream again, in which he and Sir Pump and Sir Brazil and Factors lived together with a horse, and were faithful Knights (all except Factors, who looked after the horse) to Good King Christopher Robin . . . and every now and then he shook his head, and said to himself, "I'm not getting it right."

                                                             A.A. Milne: The House at Pooh Corner