Ahead he saw tied to a post a nodding gray donkey.

Physically, Eeyore is described as an "old grey donkey."

In an adjacent pasture, a dozen gray donkeys, some the size of horses, eyed us silently.

It was the priest's gray donkey, placidly pulling at the weeds sticking up through the snow.

"Let me see," Volkmar commanded, and the man moved for- ward and slowly opened his hands, disclosing one gray donkey's hair.

"Then you think there's a chance the foolish priest on the gray donkey may succeed?"

Before he left it he patted the little grey donkey affectionately.

No, it was a donkey, not a horse, small and gray, with a dark muzzle and a bristly mane.

"Oh, we did not mean to be impolite," replied a grey donkey which had not spoken before.

"One who reads your fortune in your hoofs," replied the grey donkey.