Do you remember your first tooth fall ? I so much remember it that everytime I think of it I have a good laugh .You may also laugh as you read it .We were a bunch of kids at home and my uncle was a specialized man in that matter .When many of my friends visited the dentist ,we relied on our dear uncle .As soon as he heard that one of us had a loose teeth ,he was ready with his equipment and it was just a piece of thread .Now there was this table where he kept scissors,knives of all sizes and a screwdriver.He starts explaining about all the accessories pretending and telling us that a dentists uses all those stuffs to remove a tooth .We used to hide in those tables with fear and with a big smile he would take out the thread and emphasising it to be a magic thread .And hearing the word magic all our fears would reside .He used to tie that thread in our loose teeth and told us to close our eyes .And within seconds it came out and we used to rush to the water taps to clean our mouth .My uncle showing us the thread with the tooth used to place cotton on the gums to stop the blood .This doesn't end here .He would say, you need a new tooth now in it's place and for that he used to make round balls of cowdung . We had to make a hole on that dung to put that fallen tooth. How we hated that smell of cowdung ? He used to tell us to hold that ball with closed eyes and repeat a sentence along with him .It was "O mice please take this old tooth of mine and replace with a new one" .And after that we threw the ball away .Now near our home there was a stream and usually we used to throw that ball with all our tiny hands satisfied and happy that we would soon get a new tooth . Laughter is the best medicine and Who really does that but our jolly good Uncle?
Jitu Chetry
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