The Stories Julian Tells (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) by Ann Cameron

Author:Ann Cameron [Cameron, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780307801197
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-09-28T04:00:00+00:00

My Very Strange Teeth

My mother and Huey were listening. My father and I were talking.

“Well,” my father said, “if you wait long enough, it will fall out.” He was talking about my tooth, my right bottom front tooth.

“How long do I have to wait?” I asked. Because I had two right bottom front teeth—one firm little new one pushing in, and one wiggly old one.

“I can’t say,” my father said. “Maybe a month, maybe two months. Maybe less.”

“I don’t want to wait,” I said. “I want one tooth there, and I don’t want to wait two months!”

“All right!” said my father. “I’ll take care of it!” He jumped out of his chair and ran out the door to the garage. He was back in a minute, carrying something—a pair of pliers!

“Your tooth is a little loose already,” my father said. “So I’ll just put the pliers in your mouth for a second, twist, and the tooth will come out. You won’t feel a thing!”

“I won’t feel a thing?” I looked at the pliers—huge, black-handled pliers with a long pointed tip. I thought I would feel a thing. I thought it would hurt.

“Shall I?” said my dad. He raised the pliers toward my mouth.

“NO!” I said. “Not that way! Don’t you know any other way to take out a tooth?”

“Well,” he answered, “when I was a boy the main way was with a pair of pliers—but there was another way. Just you wait.”

He jumped up again and ran to the closet. When he came back, he had a spool of black thread. Thread didn’t look as painful as pliers.

“This is a simple way,” my father said. “Just let me tie this thread around your old tooth.”

“All right,” I said.

Very carefully my father tied the end of the thread around my old tooth. That didn’t hurt.

“Now,” my father said, “stand here by the door.”

I stood by the kitchen door, and my father tied the other end of the thread to the doorknob.

“Now what?” I said.

“Now,” my father said, “you just close your eyes …”

“What are you going to do?” I asked. I wasn’t going to close my eyes when I didn’t know what was happening.

“This is a good method from the old days,” my father said. “You close your eyes. Then—very suddenly—I shove the kitchen door shut. Snap! The thread pulls the tooth right out!”

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